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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Hutson, Lorna (1958-....)
Titre(s) : Circumstantial Shakespeare [Texte imprimé] / Lorna Hutson
Publication : Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-190 p.) ; 20 cm
Collection : Oxford Wells Shakespeare lectures
Lien à la collection : Oxford Wells Shakespeare lectures
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Shakespeare's characters are thought to be his greatest achievement - imaginatively
autonomous, possessed of depth and individuality, while his plots are said to be second-hand
and careless of details of time and place. This view has survived the assaults of
various literary theories and has even, surprisingly, been revitalized by the recent
emphasis on the collaborative nature of early modern theatre. But belief in the autonomous
imaginative life of Shakespeare's characters depends on another unexamined myth: the
myth that Shakespeare rejected neoclassicism, playing freely with theatrical time
and place. [This book] explodes these venerable critical commonplaces. Drawing on
sixteenth-century rhetorical pedagogy, it reveals the importance of topics of circumstance
(of Time, Place, and Motive, etc.) in the conjuring of compelling narratives and vivid
mental images. 'Circumstances' - which we now think of as incaculable contingencies
- were originally topics of forensic inquiry intio human intention or passion. In
drawing out the Roman forensic tradition of circumstantial proof, Shakespeare did
not ignore time and place. His brilliant innovation was to use the topics of circumstance
to imply offsage actions, times and places in terms of the motive and desires we attribute
to the characters. His plays this create both their own vivid and coherent dramatic
worlds and a sense of the unconscious feelings of characters inhabiting them."
Sujet(s) : Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) -- Critique et interprétation
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) -- Personnages
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) -- Intrigues (narration)
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 0198816391. - ISBN 9780198816393
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45648792c
Notice n° :
FRBNF45648792
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction (Causa, tempus, locus: motive, time, and place ; Neoclassical 'reported
action' and the fabula / sjuzhet distinction ; Inferring the fabula in Shakespeare
criticism ; 'Thsi accident is not unlike my dreams': arguments and episodes ; 'Many
days and many places, inartificially imagined')
1. "Quando"? (When?) in Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare in parts / Shakespeare is pants?
; 'It was the nightingale, and not the larke' ; 'The very same book which Shakespeare
consulted' ; 'The true ground of all these piteous woes' ; Juliet's unconscious)
2. 'Imaginary work': opportunity in Lucrece and in King Lear ('This weaues it selfe
perforce into my business' ; Circumstances before the emergence of statistical probability
; Circumstances as sources of emotion and imagination ; Lucrece's circumstances ;
Timing is everything: the death of Cordelia)
3. Where and how? Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Maid's Tragedy ('Tant d'actes particuliers'
; Where should a gentleman spend his time? ; 'How did thy master part with Madam Iulia?'
; Marlowe, Lyly, Jonson ; 'About how & where debate arose': The Maid's Tragedy)
4. 'The innocent sleepe': motive in Macbeth (Inwardness and politics ; Revisionist
readings of Macbeth: a tale told by an idiot ; Actus secundus, scena secunda: 'Alacke,
I am afraid thaey have awak'd' ; Comedy, justice and the Commonwealth ; English and
Scottish constitutional discourses ; 'The enquirie of the kingis slaughter was quite
omittit' ; Hearken who lyes ith' second chamber?) ; Conclusion.
