Circumstantial Shakespeare /

Circumstantial Shakespeare /

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Author / Creator:	Hutson, Lorna, author.
Edition:	First edition.
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Description:	x, 190 pages ; 21 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford Wells Shakespeare lectures Oxford Wells Shakespeare lectures.
Subject:	Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Stories, plots, etc. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Characters. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616 -- Criticism and interpretation. Shakespeare, William, -- 1564-1616. Characters and characteristics. Plots (Drama, novel, etc.) Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10394855

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ISBN:	9780199657100 0199657106
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	Shakespeare's characters are thought to be his greatest achievement-imaginatively autonomous, possessed of depth and individuality, while his plots are said to be second-hand and careless of details of time and place. . This view has survived the assaults of various literary theories and has even, surprisingly, been revitalized by the recent emphasis on the collaborative nature of early modern theatre. But belief in the autonomous imaginative life of Shakespeare's characters depends on another unexamined myth: the myth that Shakespeare rejected neoclassicism, playing freely with theatrical time and place. Circumstantial Shakespeare explodes these venerable critical commonplaces. Drawing on sixteenth-century rhetorical pedagogy, it reveals the importance of topics of circumstance (of Time, Place and Motive, etc.) in the conjuring of compelling narratives and vivid mental images. 'Circumstances'-which we now think of as incalculable contingencies-were originally topics of forensic inquiry into human intention or passion. In drawing on the Roman forensic tradition of circumstantial proof, Shakespeare did not ignore time and place.

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