Literary Criticism - General & Miscellaneous, Playwriting & Screenwriting, Playwriting, English Drama - 16th-17th Century - Elizabethan & Jacobean Eras - Shakespeare - Literary Criticism, Philosophy & Literature, Miscellaneous Genres & Literary Forms - Li
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Overview
This study on Shakespearean theatre attempts to correlate the cognitive impulse animating the character with the ensuing dramatic form. A Shakespearean character determines the play's structure through the intrinsic need to resolve the problem he is brought up against. He does this by utilizing theatrical means, metadramatic elements, which themselves become an integral part of the concept of theatre. Any external moral framework constricting the character within traditional dramatic forms appears, therefore, to impose perspectival limits on the text. Rather, The Tempest provides the reader with intrinsic and general guidelines through the skepticism of Prospero. Through concepts of "wonder" and "limitation" he defines the boundaries of action thus determining the idea of self-knowledge. General aesthetic and philosophical problems are embedded within the texture of the play's structure.Editorials
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This study on Shakespearean theater attempts to correlate the cognitive impulse animating characters with the ensuing dramatic form. Contains sections on the fictions of comedy and the enquiring self, figures of authority and dramatic form in the problem play, and the forms of tragedy and the nature of knowing. Discusses works including , , and . Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
April 28, 1997
Publisher
New York : P. Lang, c1997.
Pages
290
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780820433882