1st Edition
Shakespeare and the Reason A Study of the Tragedies and the Problem Plays
By Terence Hawkes
Copyright 1964
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
224 Pages
by
Routledge
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'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. One sees how this action-contemplation polarity works, in Hamlet for instance, and Mr Hawkes thinks the... Read more
Chapter 1 Reason and Intuition: Appearance and Reality; Chapter 2 ‘Hamlet’; Chapter 3 The Problem Plays; Chapter 4 ‘Othello’; Chapter 5 ‘Macbeth’; Chapter 6 ‘King Lear’; Chapter 7 Conclusion;
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Terence Hawkes
