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Shakespeare and the Reason: A Study of the Tragedies and the Problem Plays - Softcover

Hawkes, Terence

 
9780415850568: Shakespeare and the Reason: A Study of the Tragedies and the Problem Plays
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0415850568 ISBN 13: 9780415850568
Publisher: Routledge, 2013

Synopsis

'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. One sees how this action-contemplation polarity works, in Hamlet for instance, and Mr Hawkes thinks the kind of choices forced on tragic heroes can be better understood in terms of it.'Frank Kermode, New Statesman.

In the seven plays on which the book concentrates, Terence Hawkes finds Shakespeare investigating the operation of two opposed forms of reason, and constructing dramatic metaphors such as the opposition between appearance and reality, or that between true 'manliness' and its false counterpart, which express to the full the tragic nature of the situation.

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Terence Hawkes

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2013
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415850568
ISBN 13 
9780415850568
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
224