Shakespeare's Freedom

Released on by Stephen Greenblatt
preview-18

  • Shakespeare's Freedom Book Detail

  • Author : Stephen Greenblatt
  • Release Date : 2010-11-15
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Genre : Literary Criticism
  • Pages : 163
  • ISBN 13 : 0226306682
  • File Size : 60,60 MB
DOWNLOAD BOOK

Shakespeare's Freedom by Stephen Greenblatt PDF Summary

Book Description: Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes—of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Stephen Greenblatt, author of the best-selling Will in the World, shows that Shakespeare was strikingly averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Again and again, Shakespeare confounds the designs and pretensions of kings, generals, and churchmen. His aversion to absolutes even leads him to probe the exalted and seemingly limitless passions of his lovers. Greenblatt explores this rich theme by addressing four of Shakespeare’s preoccupations across all the genres in which he worked. He first considers the idea of beauty in Shakespeare’s works, specifically his challenge to the cult of featureless perfection and his interest in distinguishing marks. He then turns to Shakespeare’s interest in murderous hatred, most famously embodied in Shylock but seen also in the character Bernardine in Measure for Measure. Next Greenblatt considers the idea of Shakespearean authority—that is, Shakespeare’s deep sense of the ethical ambiguity of power, including his own. Ultimately, Greenblatt takes up Shakespearean autonomy, in particular the freedom of artists, guided by distinctive forms of perception, to live by their own laws and to claim that their creations are singularly unconstrained. A book that could only have been written by Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare’s Freedom is a wholly original and eloquent meditation by the most acclaimed and influential Shakespearean of our time.

Disclaimer: www.yourbookbest.com does not own Shakespeare's Freedom books pdf, neither created or scanned. We just provide the link that is already available on the internet, public domain and in Google Drive. If any way it violates the law or has any issues, then kindly mail us via contact us page to request the removal of the link.

Shakespeare's Freedom

Shakespeare's Freedom

File Size : 88,88 MB
Total View : 3213 Views
DOWNLOAD

Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes—of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and chi

Shakespeare for Freedom

Shakespeare for Freedom

File Size : 77,77 MB
Total View : 4793 Views
DOWNLOAD

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Reclaiming Shakespearean Freedom

Shakespeare for Freedom

Shakespeare for Freedom

File Size : 6,6 MB
Total View : 6264 Views
DOWNLOAD

Shakespeare for Freedom presents a powerful, plausible and political argument for Shakespeare's meaning and value. It ranges across the breadth of the Shakespea

How to Think Like Shakespeare

How to Think Like Shakespeare

File Size : 40,40 MB
Total View : 6138 Views
DOWNLOAD

"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a

Shakespeare's Individualism

Shakespeare's Individualism

File Size : 50,50 MB
Total View : 6173 Views
DOWNLOAD

Providing a provocative and original perspective on Shakespeare, Peter Holbrook argues that Shakespeare is an author friendly to such essentially modern and unr