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Hamlet versus Lear

Name: Hamlet versus Lear
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 02028023
Price: 137.89 EUR
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Author: R. A. Foakes
ISBN: 9780521342926

Cultural Politics and Shakespeare's Art

R. A. Foakes

Language

English

Book Hardback

Libristo code: 02028023

Publishers Cambridge University Press, January 1993

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This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of 'greatest' among his works. Hamlet remained a focal point of reference until about 1960, when it was displaced by King Lear, a play which at the same time ceased to be perceived as a play of redemption and became a play of despair. Foakes attempts to explain these shifts by analysing the reception of the plays since about 1800, an analysis which necessarily engages with the politics of the plays and the politics of criticism. Recent critical theorising has destabilised the texts and undermined the notion of 'greatness' or any consideration of the plays as works of art. Foakes takes issue with such theories and reconsiders textual revisions, in order to argue for the integrity of the plays as reading texts, and to recover a flexible sense of their artistry in relation to meaning. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of Shakespeare and to theatre-goers.