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Shakespeare's Originality: Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures

Autor John Kerrigan
en Limba Engleză Hardback – feb 2018

Subliniem, încă de la început, că acest volum nu este doar o analiză literară convențională, ci o investigație metodologică asupra procesului creativ al „Bardului”. Structura lucrării este construită în jurul unor studii de caz riguroase care urmăresc transformarea surselor primare — cronici istorice, poezii elizabetane și romane în proză — în opere dramatice complexe. Remarcăm abordarea inovatoare a lui John Kerrigan, care readuce în discuție studiul surselor, un domeniu neglijat în ultimele decenii, oferindu-i o perspectivă proaspătă prin ancorarea în detalii materiale și istorice surprinzătoare.

Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea de a conecta analiza textuală de realitățile epocii, de la mișcările scenice ale actorilor până la scepticismul filosofic și chiar impactul ecologic al vremii. Cititorii familiarizați cu The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays de Kenneth Muir vor aprecia modul în care Kerrigan depășește simpla identificare a textelor-sursă pentru a explora „originalitatea” ca pe un proces dinamic de reconfigurare artistică. Dacă Muir se concentra pe inventarierea materialelor, Kerrigan propune o interpretare mult mai nuanțată a modului în care Shakespeare „împrumuta” cu geniu.

Poziționăm această lucrare în continuarea cercetărilor autorului din Shakespeare's Binding Language, unde acesta explora angajamentele verbale și contractele sociale în piese. Aici, Kerrigan extinde această rigoare filologică către relația dintre dramaturg și tradiție. Volumul reușește să fie o resursă indispensabilă pentru mediul academic, păstrând în același timp un ton accesibil, specific seriei Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198793755
ISBN-10: 0198793758
Pagini: 182
Ilustrații: 11 Illustrations
Dimensiuni: 137 x 198 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor pasionat de procesul de scriere și de istoria teatrului. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a modului în care Shakespeare nu doar a copiat sursele, ci le-a reinventat complet. Este un instrument esențial pentru studenții la filologie și pentru cei care doresc să descopere mecanismele din spatele unor capodopere precum Richard al III-lea sau Furtuna, explicate de unul dintre cei mai respectați critici contemporani.


Despre autor

John Kerrigan s-a format la Oxford și predă în prezent la Cambridge, fiind considerat unul dintre cei mai importanți critici literari britanici. Opera sa vastă acoperă literatura modernă timpurie, poezia romantică și scrierile contemporane. Recunoașterea sa academică este confirmată de premiul Truman Capote pentru critică literară, obținut pentru volumul Revenge Tragedy. Printre contribuțiile sale majore se numără ediția critică The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint și eseuri publicate frecvent în London Review of Books, consolidându-i reputația de specialist de necontestat în studiile shakespeariene.


Descriere

How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering these questions by putting them in historical context and investigating how the dramatist worked with his sources: plays, poems, chronicles and prose romances. Shakespeare's Originality unlocks its topic with rewarding precision and flair, showing through a series of case studies that range across the output—from the mature comedies to the great tragedies, from Richard III to The Tempest—what can be learned about the artistry of the plays by thinking about these sources (including newly identified ones) after several decades of neglect. Discussion is enriched by such matters as Elizabethan ruffs and feathers, actors' footwork, chronicle history, modern theatre productions, debts to classical tragedy, scepticism, magic and science, the agricultural revolution, and ecological catastrophe. This is authoritative, lively work by one of the world's leading Shakespearians, accessible to the general reader as well as indispensable for students.

Recenzii

... an elegant, far-reaching study ... Shakespeare's Originality is creative, conjectural, and poetic. It can be these things because it is also careful, learned and rigorous.
Lightly edited from the Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures he delivered in 2016, this little collection of Professor Kerrigans thought-provoking essays is as entertaining as it is erudite
John Kerrigan, with Shakespeare's Originality, has demonstrated his own originality with all the brilliance to which we have become accustomed in his writing ... profound in its scholarship across a remarkable breadth of fields, full of provocative new insights into texts we might be forgiven for having considered we knew well enough, and unrelenting in opening up intriguing new vistas for future Shakespeare work by himself and others.
Kerrigan shows, through adroit readings ... that Shakespeare's genius lies in precisely how he adapts and plays with well-known texts and audience expectations, ... his analysis of King Lear ... is a masterclass in intertextual hermeneutics. [This] book is important because it undermines facile notions of Shakespeare's genius, as well as our modern concept of creativity. It shows how cubtly nuanced Shakespeare's use of source material always is, and how, by its transmission through his quill, the commonplace and hackneyed could burst forth with shining originality.
... his analysis of King Lear... is a masterclass in intertextual hermeneutics... Kerrigan's book is important because it undermines facile notions of Shakespeare's genius, as well as our modern concept of creativity.
Based on learning both wide and deep ... It's bracing to watch Kerrigan perform these intellectual gymnastics ... one emerges with a real sense of new understanding. ... He is a highly respected scholar with a welcome ability to uncover fresh approaches to standard texts rather than indulging in the graceful rearrangement of commonplaces that often constitutes Shakespeare studies. Nobody should deny him his own originality.
Kerrigan writes stylishly yet cites sources scrupulously. His fine-grained, punctilious reading conjures a new model of how academic writing can be pleasing.
Read John Kerrigan's intense, condensed account of the playwright's creative borrowing ... Kerrigan, one of the world's leading Shakespeare scholars, ... takes us beyond Shakespeare's primary sources into the deeper texture of his allusions and passages of imitation. ... The reward is a vivid sense of how original it was to borrow. ... The book is unrepentantly erudite, but the erudition is as diverting as it can be daunting. ... the trust in our literary curiosity is intoxicating. Who wants Shakespeare to be made easy when he was so beautifully and originally complex?
John Kerrigan is, to my mind, one of the most incisive and subtle contemporary writers on Shakespeare. [...] Kerrigan is exceptionally good at unpicking how ideas of originality change. [...] In his conclusion, Kerrigan says... "I hope that this book has shown [...] how much light and shade and depth and nuance are needed to comprehend Shakespeare's use of sources [...]". Hurrah to that, and would that each and every university took it as policy.
Kerrigan delves deep into the the question of originality and its historical importance ... a consummate study, in-depth and full of insight.

Notă biografică

John Kerrigan was born and brought up in Liverpool. After Oxford, he went to Cambridge where he is Professor of English 2000 and a Fellow of St John's College. He has lectured all over the world, with visiting positions in Japan, India, New Zealand, and the USA. Among his publications are widely-acclaimed books and essays about tragedy since antiquity, Shakespeare, seventeenth-century literature, and modern poetry.