Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both
characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and
doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's
plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which
opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one
that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be
reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender,
knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to
situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins
by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the
classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays
in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in
Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of
Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the
paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to
Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the
boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the
Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and
Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that
Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox,
Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of
Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.
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