Shakespeare's Poetic Styles
Verse into Drama
1st Edition
Published on 11. October 2013
272 pages
978-1-136-55761-3 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1980.
At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. John Baxter analyses the way in which these limits are reached, and also provides a strong argument for the idea that the power of Shakespearean drama depends upon the co-operation of poetic style and dramatic form. Three plays are examined in detail in the text: The Tragedy of Mustapha by Fulke Greville and Richard II and Macbeth by Shakespeare.
At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. John Baxter analyses the way in which these limits are reached, and also provides a strong argument for the idea that the power of Shakespearean drama depends upon the co-operation of poetic style and dramatic form. Three plays are examined in detail in the text: The Tragedy of Mustapha by Fulke Greville and Richard II and Macbeth by Shakespeare.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
File size
3,93 MB
ISBN-13
978-1-136-55761-3 (9781136557613)
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Person
John Baxter
Content
1. Verse into drama 2. Sidney's Defence and Greville's Mustapha 3. Tragedy and history in Richard II 4. The standard: the moral and the golden 5. The standard: the metaphysical and the Shakespearean 6. Reductions: style and the character of Bolingbroke 7. Deflections: style and the character of Richard 8. Tragic doings, political order and the closed couplet 9. Astounding terms: bombast and wonder 10. Macbeth: style and form
