224 Pages
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Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
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Routledge
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Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque focuses mainly on Shakespeare’s late (or later) works, those written from around 1607. It sets both poetry and plays within the emerging culture of the baroque, the term defined not merely by stylistic features but by the underlying ideological ‘structure of feeling’ of baroque culture in early modern England. The book extends the mode of analysis of The... Read more
Introduction and Acknowledgements, Chapter One: Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque, Chapter Two: Hyperbole and Melancholy: the Baroque's Key Structure of Feeling, Chapter Three: Plays, Players, Playing: the Multiple Theatricality of the Baroque, Chapter Four: Shakespeare's Late Writings and the Female Baroque, Chapter Five Towards a Baroque Poetics I: Shake-speares Sonnets, Chapter Six: Towards a Baroque Poetics II: 'The Phoenix and Turtle' and 'A Lover's Complaint', Chapter Seven: Shakespearean Baroque: Tragedy in an Emptying World, Chapter Eight: Shakespearean Baroque: From Tragedy to Tragi-Comedy, Chapter Nine: The Tempest: Plateauing and the Gradual Immanentism of the Baroque: Shakespeare, Montaigne, Bruno, Vermeer, Index
Biography
Gary Waller is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies Emeritus, Purchase College, SUNY. His books include English Poetry in the Sixteenth Century, The Sidney Family Romance, Walsingham and the English Imagination, The Annunciation: A Cultural History, The Virgin Mary in Medieval and Early Modern Literature and Popular Culture, and The Female Baroque in Early Modern English Literary Culture.
