Late Shakespeare

A New World of Words

By:

Simon Palfrey

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Paperback / softback

Series:

Oxford English Monographs

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Shakespeare's late plays are usually seen in terms of courtliness and escapism. But the critical tradition has been too decorous. Neither neo-Christian pieties nor high-political allegory can account for the works' audacity and surprise, or the popular investment in both their form and meaning. Post-structuralist and historicist approaches show the indeterminacy and materiality of language, but rarely identify how particular figures (words and characters) capture and energize contested history. Recent criticism tends to put a pre-emptive 'master-paradigm' above all else; a more sinuous, minutely attentive critical vocabulary is needed to apprehend Shakespeare's turbulent, precise, teeming metaphorical discourse.

Author Biography:

Simon Palfrey is Lecturer in English at the University of Melbourne.

Release date NZ

January 6th, 2000

Author

Simon Palfrey

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

310

Series

Oxford English Monographs

Dimensions

139x216x19

ISBN-13

9780198186892

Product ID

2834124

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