Shakespeare's Speculative Art
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Shakespeare's Speculative Art

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Shakespeare's Speculative Art

About this book

This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare s depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and allegorical functions of mirrors in the playwright s art and thought. Adding a new dimension to the plays Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Henry the Fifth, Love s Labor s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream, and All s Well That Ends Well, Maurice A. Hunt also references mirrors in a wide range of external sources, from the Bible to demonic practices. Looking at the concept of speculation through its multiple meanings - cognitive, philosophical, hypothetical, and provisional - this original reading suggests Shakespeare as a craftsman so prescient and careful in his art that he was able to criticize the queen and a former patron with such impunity that he could still live as a gentleman.

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Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2011
Print ISBN
9780230116610
eBook ISBN
9780230339286
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Modern Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Introduction
  7. One Speculative Understanding and Ignorance in Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth
  8. Two Holding Up Drama as an “Ideal” Mirror in Hamlet and The Life of King Henry the Fifth
  9. Three Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in John Lyly’s Comedies
  10. Four Mirroring Queen Elizabeth in Love’s Labor’s Lost
  11. Five A Speculative Political Allegory in A Midsummer Night’s Dream
  12. Six Mirroring the Earl of Southampton in All’s Well That Ends Well
  13. Conclusion
  14. Notes
  15. Works Cited
  16. Index