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Shakespeare and Multiplicity

By Brian Gibbons

Book information

Year
1993
ISBN
9780511553103, 0521444063, 0521031249, 0511553102, 9780521031240, 9780521444064
LCC
PR2976 .G48 1993
Open Library ID
OL1737565M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1243262 bytes)
Pages
255\255
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Brian Gibbons presents the idea of multiplicity as a way of understanding the form and style of Shakespeare's plays: composed of many different codes, woven together in a unique pattern for each play, rather than variations on fixed notions of comedy or tragedy. Selecting from different phases of Shakespeare's career, the book's method is comparison, using an imaginative range of texts and new approaches; there is also lively discussion of modern staging. Comparison with major works by Spenser, Sidney and Marlowe is complemented by a demonstration of Shakespeare's re-use of his own previous plays and poems. Far from reducing the plays to a formula, Brian Gibbons shows how criticism articulates what popular audiences have always known, that the plays' sheer abundance and variety is their strength. This is an original book, scholarly yet straightforward, on an issue of central interest.

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