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Shakespeare and This «Imperfect» World: Dramatic Form and the Nature of Knowing

Shakespeare and This «Imperfect» World: Dramatic Form and the Nature of Knowing

Marra, Giulio
Willson Jr, Robert F.

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Series: Studies in Shakespeare, Book 5

Literary CriticismPlaysShakespeare

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ISBN10: 0820433888
ISBN13: 9780820433882
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Apr 1 1997
Pages: 290
Language: English
This study on Shakespearean theatre attempts to correlate the cognitive impulse animating the character with the ensuing dramatic form. A Shakespearean character determines the play's structure through the intrinsic need to resolve the problem he is brought up against. He does this by utilizing theatrical means, metadramatic elements, which themselves become an integral part of the concept of theatre. Any external moral framework constricting the character within traditional dramatic forms appears, therefore, to impose perspectival limits on the text. Rather, The Tempest provides the reader with intrinsic and general guidelines through the skepticism of Prospero. Through concepts of wonder and limitation he defines the boundaries of action thus determining the idea of self-knowledge. General aesthetic and philosophical problems are embedded within the texture of the play's structure.

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