Shakespearean Perspectives
Essays on poetic negotiation
Author
David Lucking sees Shakespeare’s plays as negotiating tensions between a number of alternative, and sometimes mutually antagonistic perspectives. Some of these perspectives are associated with particular languages, cultures and texts, while others involve philosophical issues such as the nature of personal ontology and distinctions between reality and dream, being and nothingness. In elaborating his insights Lucking draws extensive comparisons with Lucretius’ De Rerum Natura, and between Sophocles’ Theban plays and King Lear, and he also pays close attention to A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Antony and Cleopatra. Re-assessing a wide range of earlier commentary, his nine essays confirm the lasting value of apposite contextualization in tandem with detailed close reading.
[FILLM Studies in Languages and Literatures, 6] 2017. xxii, 192 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Series editor’s preface
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Acknowledgements
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Note on texts
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Prologue
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Chapter 1. Seeing perspectively in Shakespeare | pp. 1–11
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Chapter 2. Translation and metamorphosis in A Midsummer Night’s Dream | pp. 13–31
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Chapter 3. Englishing the French in Henry V | pp. 33–50
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Chapter 4. Medium as message in Antony and Cleopatra | pp. 51–66
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Chapter 5. Becoming every thing in Antony and Cleopatra | pp. 67–81
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Chapter 6. Hamlet and Julius Caesar as tragic diptych | pp. 83–101
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Chapter 7. Lear and the learned Theban | pp. 103–124
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Chapter 8. Shakespeare and Lucretius | pp. 125–149
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Chapter 9. Talking of nothing in Shakespeare | pp. 151–178
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References | pp. 179–187
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Index
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Title Index
Subjects
Literature & Literary Studies
Translation & Interpreting Studies
Main BIC Subject
DSGS: Shakespeare studies & criticism
Main BISAC Subject
LIT015000: LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare