The Living Image: Shakespearean Essays - Brossura

Henn, T. R.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0415845696 ISBN 13: 9780415845694

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2013

Riassunto

First published in 1972.

The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare are a striking feature in Shakespeare's plays. The Living Image examines the nature of this imagery, considering it first in the light of the practices and techniques of Elizabethan field sports and weaponry and then its broader metaphoric significance in relation to the themes of the plays.

The contemporary associations of the imagery - the inferences of female sexuality and waywardness from hawking imagery, for example, and the ideals of nobility and courage attached to images of hunting and war are all discussed.

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Contenuti:

1. The Book of Sport

2. The Hawk and the Handsaw

3. The Ritual of the Hunt

4. 'The pleasant'st angling'

5. 'Incorps'd and demi-natur'd'

6. A Review of Bowmen

7. A Note on Shakespeare's Army

8. The Images of Antony and Cleopatra

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0415845696
• ISBN 13: 9780415845694
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 164