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Genre/Form: | Criticism, interpretation, etc |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Rosenberg, Marvin. Adventures of a Shakespeare scholar. Newark, Del. : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©1997 (OCoLC)644103068 |
Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Marvin Rosenberg |
ISBN: | 0874135982 9780874135985 |
OCLC Number: | 34285091 |
Description: | 365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
Contents: | 1. Part 1: Character as Mainspring in Shakespeare -- 1. A Metaphor for the Identity of Tragic Heroes -- 2. The Two Kinds of Hamlet -- 3. The Universal Hamlets -- 4. Hamlet's Subversive Gravedigger -- 5. Hamlet's Spiritual Crisis -- 6. In Defense of Iago -- 7. Shakespeare's Fantastic Trick: Measure for Measure -- 8. Poor Richard III -- 9. Characterizations of King Lear -- 10. Lady Macbeth's Indispensable Child -- 11. The German Lady Macbeth and Two Hamlets -- 12. Visualizing Complex Character -- 13. Experimental Studies of King Lear -- 14. King Lear and His Fool -- Part 2: Shakespeare's Mastery of Dramatic Poetry -- 15. The Languages of Drama -- 16. Lear's Theater Poetry -- 17. Sign Theory and Shakespeare -- 18. Shakespeare's Visual Compositions -- 19. Subtext in Shakespeare -- 20. Shakespeare's Tragic World of If -- 21. Substructures in Shakespeare's Language -- 22. Paul Scofield's Macbeth: Macbeth in Rehearsal-A Journal -- 23. The Lear Myth -- 24. The "Refinement" of Othellos in the Eighteenth-Century Theater -- 25. Shame on You, David Garrick-or, What the Victorian Theater Did to Shakespeare's Tragedies -- 26. Translations of Erotic Nuances in Hamlet -- Part 3: An Old Critical Battle Fought -- 27. Elizabethan Actors: Men or Marionettes? -- 28. A Metaphor for Dramatic Form -- 29. Drama is Arousal -- 30. The Mind of a Critic. |
Responsibility: | Marvin Rosenberg. |
Abstract:
Rarely does a scholar single-handedly point Shakespeare study in a new direction. But in the 1950s, when brilliant insights were being achieved in Shakespeare's language, and a few theatre historians were recording stagings and stage business, Marvin Rosenberg led the way to a wider perspective of the poet-playwright's genius. He insisted that Shakespeare's art fused poetry-of-the-word with poetry-of-the-theatre, each illuminating the other inseparably.
The essays in this collection reflect the remarkable diversity of Rosenberg's pursuit of his vision; his theoretical grounding in the aesthetics of the dramatic form; his absorption of the cultural contexts in which Shakespeare's plays were created and perceived; his immersion in the language and characters of the plays, and in how critics and theatres of the world interpreted them.
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