Rethinking Shakespeare's Skepticism : the Aesthetics of Doubt in the Sonnets & Plays /
Places Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, including Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Antony and Cleopatra, within the context of the literary history of praise poetry and explores the underlying influence of early modern skepticism on Shakespeare's writing.
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| Language: | English |
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Pittsburgh :
Duquesne University Press,
[2014]
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| Series: | Medieval and Renaissance literary studies.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Rethinking Shakespeare's skepticism
- The roots of Shakespeare's epideictic skepticism
- Tragic discovery in the Young-man sonnets
- The wonder-wounded hearers in Hamlet
- Comic re-creation in the Dark-lady sonnets and the Taming of the shrew
- Afterword: Cleopatra's epideictic imagination.