Groundlings of Divine Will - Softcover

Staniforth, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908011661 ISBN 13: 9781908011664

Publisher: Skylight Press, 2013

Synopsis

From the author of Weaver in the Sluices and Diddle comes this controversial, self-reflexive, ironic and humorous response to the way that Shakespeare is so often taught in contemporary academia. The works of 'Divine Will,' as he is referred to throughout, have been confined to a vacuum, and almost biblically so in how the scripts have become wilfully detached from their moorings of time and place. In this hybridised long 'Proem,' Staniforth goes to absurd lengths of reattachment, gladly playing havoc with the swirling dictums and counter-dictums of his time, gleefully seeking to subvert the tautological authority of the neck-frilled academicians over the historical groundlings of the pit. Elements of satire, parody and burlesque are interposed as hagiographical substitutions made for the purposes of irony and deconstruction. The reader will be initiated into the amalgamated and timeless world of the Groundlings to see how their invective gospel simply illustrates how discourse, rhetoric and that grandiloquent power of oration serves as the strongest definition for our collective place in history.

Edition details

• Publisher: Skylight Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908011661
• ISBN 13: 9781908011664
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 104