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Shakespeare's Poetics: Aristotle and Anglo-Italian Renaissance Genres book cover

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Shakespeare's Poetics Aristotle and Anglo-Italian Renaissance Genres

By Sarah Dewar-Watson Copyright 2018
172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge

172 Pages
by Routledge
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The startling central idea behind this study is that the rediscovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the sixteenth century ultimately had a profound impact on almost every aspect of Shakespeare's late plays”their sources, subject matter and thematic concerns. Shakespeare's Poetics reveals the generic complexity of Shakespeare's late plays to be informed by contemporary debates about the tonal and... Read more

Introduction



1. The Late Plays and their Genre



1.1 The First Folio, Shakespeare and Genre



1.2 Audiences and ‘Dramatic Competence’



1.3 Shakespeare and the Classics



2. Shakespeare and the Reception of the Poetics



2.1 Aristotle’s Poetics: A Brief Reception History



2.2 Cinthio



2.3 Fletcher and Guarini



3. Happy-Ending Tragedy



3.1 Tranquilla ultima



3.2 Tragicomedy: A Hybrid Genre



3.3 The Statue Scene and the Alcestis



4. Wonder and Empathy



4.1 Wonder and Spectacle



4.2 Wonder: Some Contemporary Contexts



4.3 Empathy and Audience Response



5. Shakespeare and Catharsis



5.1 Aristotle and the Critical Background



5.2 Catharsis and the English Stage



5.3 Purgation: Politics, Law, Penance



5.4 Cathartic Endings



6. The Odyssey and Island Romance



6.1 The Odyssey as Tragicomic Model



6.2 Shakespeare and the Odyssey



6.3 Literary Nostalgia and Textual Genealogies



Epilogue

Biography

Sarah Dewar-Watson is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Sheffield, UK.

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