Shakespeare wrote at a unique historical turning point: the world was understood through poetry -- rather than through the science of observing it. In Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World, Sky Gilbert's radical new research locates Shakespeare as a disciple of the Greek rhetorician Hermogenes, and a student of the Neo-Platonist Johannes Sturm. No, not just another 'interpretation' of the meaning of Shakespeare's work. Instead, a radical approach to Shakespeare as magician and rhetorician, as a post-structuralist, more concerned with form than content, and confident of the dangerous magical power of words not only to persuade but to construct our consciousness.
ISBN: | 9781771835039 |
Publication date: | 1st September 2020 |
Author: | Sky Gilbert |
Publisher: | Guernica Editions,Canada |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 200 pages |
Series: | Essential Essays Series |
Genres: |
Classic and pre-20th century plays Literature: history and criticism |