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Shakespeare's Symmetries: The Mirrored Structure of Action in the Plays

Shakespeare's Symmetries: The Mirrored Structure of Action in the Plays

Ryan, James E.

Paperback

Literary FiguresLiterary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 147666370X
ISBN13: 9781476663708
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Published: Apr 29 2016
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.90 Depth: 9.90
Language: English

The organization of Shakespeare's plays has challenged, even baffled audiences and critics since the 17th century. Cymbeline has been dismissed as incoherent. Hamlet is of no clear shape. And Antony and Cleopatra bewilders the mind.

These judgments result from an incomplete understanding of Shakespeare's constructive practice. It is not the narrative arc alone that organizes the plays but a complex structure of interwoven narrative and thematic actions. While the narrative varies from play to play, thematic actions are invariably created in mirroring pairs around the central scene: A-B-C-B-A.

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