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LATE SHAKESPEARE
A NEW WORLD OF WORDS |
| By: |
Simon Palfrey |
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Hardback |
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£76.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198186193 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198186199 |
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| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
21 August, 1997 |
| Series: |
Oxford English Monographs |
| Pages: |
312 |
| Description: |
Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words presents a new vision of character, metaphor, and politics in late Shakespeare. It closely analyses Shakespeare's use of language and genre. The plays revamp theatrical decorums. These plays are not courtly, sober, and escapist, as their reputation suggests. They are peculiarly sensitive to the turbulent, unfinished quality of his historical moment. In both court and wilderness, Shakespeare analyses the violence ofauthority, the tensions in language, and the origin and prospects of both. |
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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 energise 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. Late Shakespeare: A New World of Words reappraises the origins of authority, language, and decorum, and the prospects for each. Through his portrayal of 'popular' desire--in his rustics, clowns, rogues, slaves, women--Shakespeare presents worlds which explore the meaning of the 'subject', and the potential for effective transformatory agency.Rather than a Jonsonian (or perhaps earlier Shakespearian) verisimilitude, with each person discrete and verifiable, Shakespeare's characters embody metaphor-in-process; like the revamped romance genre itself, they 'take on' surrounding turbulence. The plays show the stormy consequences of hegemonic violence. The subsequent exile to wilderness allows for contingent novelty: new liberties are tested amid the wreckage or recapitulation of old forms. The plays pit possible sources of regeneration (romantic pastoral, semi-populist humanism) against more primal violence and rebelliousness. Finally, the book argues against a conventional sense of the plays' movement towards divinely sanctioned closure; mischief, irony, polysemy remain; romance's political problems are competitive, multiple, and tumescently unpredictable. |
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UK |
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Clarendon Press |
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