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Thinking About Shakespeare

Thinking About Shakespeare

Paperback

Literary CriticismShakespeare

ISBN10: 1119059011
ISBN13: 9781119059011
Publisher: Wiley
Published: Sep 24 2018
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.70
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Explores the challenges of maintaining bonds, living up to ideals, and fulfilling desire in Shakespeare's plays

In Thinking About Shakespeare, Kay Stockholder reveals the rich inner lives of some of Shakespeare's most enigmatic characters and the ways in which their emotions and actions shape and are shaped by the social and political world around them. In addressing all genres in the Shakespeare canon, the authors explore the possibility of people being constant to each other in many different kinds of relationships: those of lovers, kings and subjects, friends, and business partners. While some bonds are irrevocably broken, many are reaffirmed. In all cases, the authors offer insight into what drives Shakespeare's characters to do what they do, what draws them together or pulls them apart, and the extent to which bonds can ever be eternal. Ultimately, the most durable bond may be between the playwright and the audience, whereby the playwright pleases and the audience approves.

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