Shakespeare's Poetic Styles: Verse into DramaRoutledge, 2013 M10 11 - 272 pages First published in 1980. At their most successful, Shakespeare's styles are strategies to make plain the limits of thought and feeling which define the significance of human actions. John Baxter analyses the way in which these limits are reached, and also provides a strong argument for the idea that the power of Shakespearean drama depends upon the co-operation of poetic style and dramatic form. Three plays are examined in detail in the text: The Tragedy of Mustapha by Fulke Greville and Richard II and Macbeth by Shakespeare. |
Contents
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Tragedy and history in Richard II | 46 |
the moral and the golden | 56 |
the metaphysical and | 77 |
style and the character | 106 |
style and the character | 114 |
Tragic doings political order | 144 |
bombast and wonder | 168 |
style and form | 196 |
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