This book was first published in 2009. Shakespeare and Impure
Aesthetics explores ideas about art implicit in Shakespeare's plays
and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use
of desire, death and mourning as resources for art. Hugh Grady
draws on a tradition of aesthetic theorists who understand art as
always formed in a specific historical moment but as also distanced
from its context through its form and Utopian projections. Grady
sees A Midsummer Night's Dream, Timon of Athens, Hamlet, and Romeo
and Juliet as displaying these qualities, showing aesthetic
theory's usefulness for close readings of the plays. The book
argues that such social-minded 'impure aesthetics' can revitalize
the political impulses of the new historicism while opening up a
new aesthetic dimension in the current discussion of Shakespeare.
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