Shakespeare's enactment : the dynamics of Renaissance theatre
"The masterly playwrights of all traditions tend to bring their plays thematically to a unity of tone and presentation. But Shakespeare, who works in a panoramic tradition, expands this tradition most powerfully by preserving the heterogeneity of its elements in the complex unity of each of his plays. In commenting on the whole of Shakespeare's works, Albert Cook attempts to account for Shakespeare's power to master and harmonize the widest divergencies. With important insights, Cook reexamines the 'revenge theme,' dramatic irony, and the use of 'plays-within-plays' in Shakespeare. He then discusses style, the structure of time in the plays, and the way Shakespeare's concept of justice was an attempt to synthesize all that hebrought forth from his Protean universe." -Publisher
xi, 257 pages ; 22 cm
9780804006958, 0804006954
3054435
The mastery of divergences
The sounding of the theme
Dramatic irony
Play
Style
Endings
Justice