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The Living Image : Shakespearean Essays

By T. R. Henn

Book information

Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Year
2005
ISBN
9781136562655, 9780415352932
LCC
PR3067 .H4 2013
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
498 kB (509657 bytes)
Pages
165\0
Time added
2023-08-05 20:22:29
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Description

First published in 1972. The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare are a striking feature in Shakespeare's plays. The Living Image examines the nature of this imagery, considering it first in the light of the practices and techniques of Elizabethan field sports and weaponry and then its broader metaphoric significance in relation to the themes of the plays. The contemporary associations of the imagery - the inferences of female sexuality and waywardness from hawking imagery, for example, and the ideals of nobility and courage attached to images of hunting and war are all discussed.

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