Hugh Grady

Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Examines Shakespeare's aesthetic practice in four central plays A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and Timon of Athens.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 147mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780521514750
• ISBN-10: 0521514754
• Artikelnr.: 26526028

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Introduction: impure aesthetics
Part I. A Shakespearean Aesthetic: Into the Woods outside Athens: 2. A Midsummer Night's Dream - eros and the aesthetic
3. Modernity, usury, and art in Timon of Athens
Part II. The Aesthetics of Death and Mourning: 4. Hamlet as mourning play
5. Beautiful death in Romeo and Juliet
Conclusion: the critical present
Bibliography
Index.