| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 233 pages) |
| Series |
Costerus ; new ser., 193 |
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Costerus ; new ser., v. 193.
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Cause of Thunder:Why Things Happen in Shakespeare; Chapter 2"Patterned by that the poet here describes":Literary Lives in Titus Andronicus; Chapter 3Bringing Deformed Forth:Engendering Meaning in Much Ado About Nothing; Chapter 4Causes Why and Wherefore:The Enigma of History in King Henry V; Chapter 5"The reason of our Caesar's death":Mystifying Motive in Julius Caesar; Chapter 6Snakes and Ladders:Killing Metaphors in Julius Caesar; Chapter 7"A short tale to make":Narrating Hamlet |
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Chapter 8"After your way his tale pronounc'd":The Appropriation of Story in ShakespeareChapter 9A Sound of Thunder:The Shakespearean Cause; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Etymologically speaking, the words "know" and "narrate" share a common ancestry. Making Sense in Shakespeare examines some of the ways in which this distant kinship comes into play in Shakespearean drama. The argument of the book is that at a time in European cultural history in which the problem of knowledge was a matter of intensifying philosophical concern, Shakespeare too was in his own way exploring the possibilities and shortcomings of the various interpretative models that can be applied to experience so as to make it intelligible. While modes of understanding based upon such notions as |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Language.
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| SUBJECT |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 fast |
| Subject |
DRAMA -- Shakespeare.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Shakespeare.
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Language and languages
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9789401207782 |
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940120778X |
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1283542951 |
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9781283542951 |
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