Shakespeare's Mirrors
eBook - ePub

Shakespeare's Mirrors

  1. 212 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Shakespeare's Mirrors

About this book

Clear mirrors and The Geneva Bible, revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare's drive towards a new purpose for drama. Shakespeare reversed the conventional mirror metaphor for drama, implying drama cannot reflect the substance of human nature, and developed a method of characterization, through metadrama, self-awareness and soliloquy, to project St. Paul's idea of conscience onto the Elizabethan stage. This revolutionary method of characterization, aesthetic existence beyond performance, has long been sensed but remains frustratingly uncategorized. Shakespeare's Mirrors charts the invention of a drama that staged the unstageable: St. Paul's metaphysical conception of human nature glimpsed through a looking glass darkly.

Chapters 4 and 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781040128220
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Shakespeare Drama
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. Introduction: Shakespeare’s Mirror Metaphors
  11. Prologue: “Mirror of All Martial Men”
  12. 1 “Amorous Looking-Glass”: The Self-Infatuation of the Regal Performer in the Early Histories
  13. 2 “Dissembling Glass of Mine”: Female Self-Evaluation within the Patriarchal Genre of Courtship Comedy
  14. 3 “The Mirror of All Christian Kings”: Increasing Tension between Dramatic Action and Christian Morality
  15. 4 “The Mirror up to Nature”: Hamlet’s Metaphysical Revolution in the Purpose of Playing
  16. 5 “Glassy Essence”: The Fraudulent Hypocrisy of Impious Authority
  17. 6 “Spacious Mirror”: The Epic Futility of Political Activity in a World without Redemption
  18. 7 “My Glass, Mine Own”: Human Play and Redemption Reconciled through Speculative Faith
  19. Epilogue: “Through a Glass, Darkly”
  20. Cited Works
  21. Index