Shakespeare's Storytellers - Hardcover

Hardy, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0720609631 ISBN 13: 9780720609639

Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and offers some new insight into the playwright's craft. Shakespeare makes narrative theatrical and it is as prominent in his craft and language as characterization and imagery. Hardy analyzes key structures, including reflexive narrative and the narrative compoundings used to begin and end plays. She also examines narrative subtleties in the works of Plutarch, Holinshed, Brooke, and Sidney that Shakespeare read. Finally, she explores common narrative techniquesmemory, forecast, and gendered story. She extensively analyzes these issues in three playsHamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth.

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Review

'It is satisfying to find literary criticism moving into the playfulness of fiction ... imaginatively appealing.' -- Times Literary Supplement

About the Author

Professor Hardy is Professor Emeritus at Birkbeck College, University of London, and Honorary Professor at the University College of Swansea. She is well known for her critical analyses of George Eliot, Thackeray, Austen and others. She is also the author of a volume of memoirs and an award-winning novel, London Lovers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0720609631
• ISBN 13: 9780720609639
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224