The World's a Stage: Shakespeare and the Dramatic View of Life

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Shakespeare's power as a dramatist derives from his seeing the entire world in dramatic terms, claims Crosman, and believing that he was doing on stage nothing more than people do constantly in their daily lives. He finds examples of this conviction in his plays, and documents how the plays are interpretable from that perspective. The topics include what the dream is in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rosalind as player/playwright in As You Like It, Hamlet and the limits of playing, and Shakespeare's goodbye to the ...
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Shakespeare's power as a dramatist derives from his seeing the entire world in dramatic terms, claims Crosman, and believing that he was doing on stage nothing more than people do constantly in their daily lives. He finds examples of this conviction in his plays, and documents how the plays are interpretable from that perspective. The topics include what the dream is in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Rosalind as player/playwright in As You Like It, Hamlet and the limits of playing, and Shakespeare's goodbye to the stage in The Tempest. Distributed in the US by Books International Inc. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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  • ISBN-13: 9781930901926
  • Publisher: Academica Press, LLC
  • Publication date: 3/10/2005
  • Pages: 264

Table of Contents

Ch. 1 Shakespeare and the dramatic view of life 1
Ch. 2 The world as stage in The Taming of the Shrew 23
Ch. 3 What is the dream in A Midsummer Night's Dream? 51
Ch. 4 'I shall henceforth be myself' : Henry V, king of players or royal hypocrite? 67
Ch. 5 Rosalind as player-playwright in As You Like It 101
Ch. 6 Tonight we improvise : Hamlet and the limits of playing 123
Ch. 7 If I ruled the world : Duke Vincentio plays God in Measure for Measure 155
Ch. 8 Shakespeare's goodbye to the stage : The Tempest and Its AfterLife 179
Ch. 9 Shakespeare's final ambiguity : the world is and is not a stage 199
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