Shakespeare and the Confines of Art

by Philip Edwards

Overview

First published in 1968.

By selective study of certain of the comedies, tragedies and sonnets, Philip Edwards views Shakespeare's work as a whole and explains why his art developed as it did. The work which the author sees Shakespeare striving to create is the perfect fusion of comedy and tragedy and he suggests that we are watching the progress of a mind as acutely conscious as anyone today of the disorder and lack of meaning in the world. Nevertheless, it remains faithful to the possibility that within the imaginable forms of drama there exists that play which will satisfy the basic human need for reassurance, order and control.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415352826
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/23/2004
Series:	Routledge Library Editions: Shakespeare
Pages:	178
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 The Contrary Valuations; Chapter 2 The Sonnets to the Dark Woman; Chapter 3 Love's Labour's Lost; Chapter 4 The Abandon'd Cave; Chapter 5 Romeo and Juliet; Chapter 6 Hamlet; Chapter 7 The Problem Plays (i); Chapter 8 The Problem Plays (ii); Chapter 9 The Jacobean Tragedies; Chapter 10 Last Plays; Conclusion;