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The startling central idea behind this study is that the
rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century
ultimately had a profound impact on almost every aspect of
Shakespeare's late plays"their sources, subject matter and thematic
concerns. Shakespeare's Poetics reveals the generic complexity of
Shakespeare's late plays to be informed by contemporary debates
about the tonal and structural composition of tragicomedy. Author
Sarah Dewar-Watson re-examines such plays as The Winter's Tale,
Pericles and The Tempest in light of the important work of
reception which was undertaken in Italy by pioneering theorists
such as Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio (1504-73) and Giambattista
Guarini (1538-1612). The author demonstrates ways in which these
theoretical developments filtered from their intellectual base in
Italy to the playhouses of early modern England via the work of
dramatists such as Jonson and Fletcher. Dewar-Watson argues that
the effect of this widespread revaluation of genre not only extends
as far as Shakespeare, but that he takes a leading role in
developing its possibilities on the English stage. In the course of
pursuing this topic, Dewar-Watson also engages with several areas
of current scholarly debate: the nature of Shakespeare's
authorship; recent interest in and work on Shakespeare's later
plays; and new critical work on Italian language-learning in
Renaissance England. Finally, Shakespeare's Poetics develops
current critical thinking about the place of Greek literature in
Renaissance England, particularly in relation to Shakespeare.
The startling central idea behind this study is that the
rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century
ultimately had a profound impact on almost every aspect of
Shakespeare's late plays"their sources, subject matter and thematic
concerns. Shakespeare's Poetics reveals the generic complexity of
Shakespeare's late plays to be informed by contemporary debates
about the tonal and structural composition of tragicomedy. Author
Sarah Dewar-Watson re-examines such plays as The Winter's Tale,
Pericles and The Tempest in light of the important work of
reception which was undertaken in Italy by pioneering theorists
such as Giambattista Giraldi Cinthio (1504-73) and Giambattista
Guarini (1538-1612). The author demonstrates ways in which these
theoretical developments filtered from their intellectual base in
Italy to the playhouses of early modern England via the work of
dramatists such as Jonson and Fletcher. Dewar-Watson argues that
the effect of this widespread revaluation of genre not only extends
as far as Shakespeare, but that he takes a leading role in
developing its possibilities on the English stage. In the course of
pursuing this topic, Dewar-Watson also engages with several areas
of current scholarly debate: the nature of Shakespeare's
authorship; recent interest in and work on Shakespeare's later
plays; and new critical work on Italian language-learning in
Renaissance England. Finally, Shakespeare's Poetics develops
current critical thinking about the place of Greek literature in
Renaissance England, particularly in relation to Shakespeare.
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