Perspective in Shakespeare's English Histories - Brossura

Champion, Larry S.

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ISBN 10: 082033846X ISBN 13: 9780820338460

Casa editrice: Univ of Georgia Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare’s English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience’s angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play—one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare’s dramaturgy after Richard II. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare continues to focus on the psychological analysis and internalized protagonist which lead to his major tragic achievements. In King John and Henry IV, the playwright develops a middle ground between the polarities of Henry VI, in which the flat, onedimensional characters essentially serve the purposes of the narrative, and the tragedies, in which the spectator’s consuming interest is in the developing centralfigure whose critical moments they share. Champion sees Henry V as the culmination of Shakespeare’s e fforts in the English history play.

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L'autore:

Larry S. Champion is a professor emeritus and former head of the English department at North Carolina State University. He is the author of numerous other books and editor of Quick Springs of Sense: Studies in the Eighteenth Century and Shakespeare’s Tragic Perspective: The Development of His Dramatic Technique (both Georgia).

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Georgia Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 082033846X
• ISBN 13: 9780820338460
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 232