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Shakespeare's Mad Men

Autor Richard van Oort
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 oct 2022
This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the "originary scene," the scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as symbol-using moral and narrative beings. Taking King Lear and Measure for Measure as case studies, van Oort shows how the minimal concept of an anthropological scene of origin¿the "originary hypothesis"¿provides the basis for a new understanding of every aspect of the plays, from the psychology of the characters to the ethical and dialogical conflicts upon which the drama is based. The result is a gripping commentary on the plays. Why does Lear abdicate and go mad? Why does Edgar torture his father with non-recognition? Why does Lucio accuse the Duke in Measure for Measure of madness and lechery, and why does Isabella remain silent at the end? In approaching these and other questions from the perspective of the originary hypothesis, van Oort helps us to see the ethical predicament of the plays, and, in the process, makes Shakespeare new again.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781503632905
ISBN-10: 1503632903
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 155 x 231 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.58 kg
Editura: Stanford University Press

Notă biografică

Richard van Oort is Professor of English at the University of Victoria in Canada. He is author of Shakespeare's Big Men (2016).

Cuprins

Introduction
1. The King's Last Potlatch
2. The Judge, the Duke, His Wife, and Her Lover
Conclusion