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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Haley, David, 1936- Shakespeare's courtly mirror. Newark : University of Delaware Press ; London ; Cranbury, NJ : Associated University Presses, ©1993 (OCoLC)622587892 |
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Named Person: | William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare; William Shakespeare |
Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Haley |
ISBN: | 0874134439 9780874134438 |
OCLC Number: | 25048223 |
Description: | 314 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | 1. Bertram at Court -- Proud, Scornful Boy -- Fashioning the Courtier -- The Courtier's Mirror and the Mirror of the Play -- Vile Misprision -- By Reflection -- 2. Providence -- End Ere l Do Begin -- Honor and Alchemy -- An Equivocal Companion -- The Fine's the Crown -- The Luckiest Stars in Heaven -- 3. Helena's Love -- The Melancholy Heroine -- Inspired Merit -- Eros versus Providence -- Too Dear for My Possessing -- 4. Shakespeare and the Book of Kings -- Avvedimento -- Ahab -- The Happy Few -- 5. "Merely Our Own Traitors" -- This Even-Handed Justice -- Self-Betrayal and Shame -- Reflexivity or Revenge? -- 6. The Clown -- A Shrewd Knave and an Unhappy -- One Flesh -- Clown versus Court -- Wisdom and Foolish Words -- 7. The Courtly Mirror -- Bertram's Great Compt -- The Tinct and Multiplying Medicine -- Doubly Won -- All Yet Seems Well -- Appendix: The Date of All's Well. |
Responsibility: | David Haley. |
Abstract:
A leading premise of this book is that modern psychological constructs are inadequate for understanding the courtly humanism dramatized by Shakespeare down to 1604. In Ali's Well, Shakespeare contrasts heroic prudence with Divine Providence, but he does so obliquely. Illustrated.
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