Sachgebiete

Beschreibung:

XVIII; 267 S., Gebundene Ausgabe mit Schutzumschlag.

Bemerkung:

Vorsatz gestempelt, sonst sehr gutes Ex. - Prologue Characters -- LOVE AND HATRED Courtly Love Romance -- Men and Men, Women and Women The Family -- WARFARE -- The Stage The Cause The Soldiers Henry V -- MADNESS AND MELANCHOLY Madness -- Feigned Madness Melancholy Hamlet -- THE PRINCE -- Gaining Power Keeping Power Losing Power Love versus Duty Kingship -- ELUSION The Stage The Play Within a Play -- Masks -- Disguises -- Mistaken Identities -- "Strange Shapes" -- UNIVERSAL ORDER -- The Chain as One The Chain as Links Political Order -- THE SUPERNATURAL -- Ghosts -- Witches and Soothsayers -- Clerics -- Deus ex Machina -- Magicians and Fairies -- EVIL (AND GOOD) Evil by Nature Villains for Cause Shylock Evil Women Comic Villains The Good -- THE HERO -- The Martial Hero The Antihero The Tragic Hero -- THE COMIC MUSE -- Court Fops and Nincompoops -- Fools and Clowns -- Insults -- Double Meanings, Puns, and Malaprops -- Falstaff THE CHORIC VOICE -- Commoners as Chorus Characters as Chorus Choruses as Chorus -- Epilogue Index -- Following on the success of his Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare, Robert Fai Ion now examines the themes in Shakespeare's plays?those revelations about human nature that give the dramas substance and weight and such an enduring quality. Again Mr. Fallon sets aside academic jargon and the machinery of scholarship. He writes for intelligent playgoers who are seeking to enhance their enjoyment of a performance. Of course, casual readers too will find his explanations and interpretations absorbing. The book surveys the most pervasive of Shakespeare's themes: love and hatred, warfare, madness and melancholy, kingship and power, illusion, universal order, the supernatural, good and evil, heroism, and the comic. In chapters devoted to each of these themes, Mr. Fallon explains how these patterns of meaning were viewed in Shakespeare's time, what history the poet draws upon in presenting them on the stage, and how he suggests them through his pageant of men and women engaged in the business of living. He offers a wealth of illustrative examples from all thirty-eight plays attributed to the Bard. And his lively narrative provides ample detail, ensuring that the examples are accessible to readers who may not be familiar with some of the less frequently staged works. As in A Theatergoer's Guide to Shakespeare, Mr. Fallon succeeds in capturing Shakespeare's endless appeal: his ability to place before us figures with whom we are familiar?the ardent lover, the swaggering soldier, the tyrant, villain, and clown, as well as mothers, fathers, and children, both treacherous and devoted?all of them confronting the experiences that define the eternal themes of the human condition. ISBN 1566634571