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Shakespeare's Living Art (Hardcover)
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Shakespeare's Living Art (Hardcover)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking
"forms"--verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions,
genres--to the culture from which a writer springs and to his
selection and organization of materials, we can understand the
processes by which he becomes what he is, and is enabled to do what
he does. She is particularly concerned with uncovering the ways in
which Shakespeare used, misused, criticized, re-created, and
sometimes revolutionized the received topics and devices of his
craft. In this sense, Shakespeare's plays are seen as problem
plays, each exploring the problematics of his craft and revealing
his assessment of what was problematical. The author has chosen for
study topics which connect Shakespeare with the long and rich
continental Renaissance, in the hope that in the future Shakespeare
might be, like Dante and Cervantes, an essential author in a
comparatist's education. Usually a single topic dealing with some
formal aspect of a play--the use of stereotypes to create a
character highly original in stage practice, or the various
manipulations of a mode (the pastoral, for example) rich in
potentialities--is used to try to see in what particular ways
Shakespeare shaped works that are still unique. Originally
published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest
print-on-demand technology to again make available previously
out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton
University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of
these important books while presenting them in durable paperback
and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is
to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in
the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press
since its founding in 1905.
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