Sudden Shakespeare: The Shaping of Shakespeare's Creative Thought'His mind and hand went together' said Hemings and Condell of the speed of Shakespeare. But the conceptual language of literary criticism, be it moralistic or political, has long been too slow to the properly responsive to Shakespeare's meaning. With the help of both Renaissance philosophers and present-day actors, Sudden Shakepeare seeks to locate the underlying secrets of Shakespeare's dynamic power. It offers a technical language wihch, close to Shakespeare's own, is capable of responding suddenly to the speed, transforming shape, and power of Shakespeare's way of thinking as it comes into meaning. |
Contents
From Inconveniency to Individual Separation | 62 |
The Overlap and the Individual Identikit | 71 |
Shapes and Techniques becoming Meanings | 87 |
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Sudden Shakespeare: The Shaping of Shakespeare's Creative Thought Philip Maurice Davis No preview available - 1996 |
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