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  title info:
    title: Four Shakespearean period pieces
  name:
    name part: De Grazia, Margreta
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ilu
    date issued: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  abstract: Margreta de Grazia continues to change the course of Shakespeare studies in this book, where she focuses on four key terms, anachronism, chronology, periods and the grand secular narrative. These "unassailable" terms, once considered the bedrock of what we "know" and how we study Shakespeare, are now under debate in our particular moment in the study of the past. Anachronism in Shakespeare's plays (e.g., how Homeric-era Trojan and Greek characters could possibly know Aristotle), once an embarrassment, is now enabling new ways of understanding the plays. Or the accepted chronological composition of the plays, however well documented they may be in performance, drifts further into the murky past as evidence of collaboration, revision and multiple authorship continues to mount and cast doubt on how the plays relate to one another, and, ultimately how they all eventually relate to the Bard himself. How is it that it took until the nineteenth century for the plays to be performed with costumes and sets appropriate to the era in which a given play's action takes place? And why do we persist in assuming that the godlessness of King Lear's BC Albion necessarily prefigures the modern secularity to come, and not apprehend the tragedy in its own terms, as a pre-Christian drama exercising its own prerogative and worldview? In successive chapters, de Grazia slowly but steadily accumulates seemingly small historical and textual details, whose cumulative effect, as one of our readers says, will be like "a bomb thrown into one of the central rooms of the grand house of literary criticism." And while the book's archive is Shakespearean, its patient, painstaking method has lessons to teach literary scholars well beyond specialists of early modern England.
  table of contents: Introduction -- Shakespeare's first anachronism -- Shakespeare in chronological order -- Period drama in the age of world pictures -- Secularity before revelation.
  note: Margreta de Grazia.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Shakespeare, William
      name part: 1564-1616
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  classification: PR2976 .D36 2021
  classification: 822.3/3
  identifier: 9780226785196
  identifier: 022678519X
  identifier: 9780226785226
  identifier: 022678522X
  identifier: 9780226785363
  identifier: 2020051720
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 201113
    record change date: 20210623093407.0
    record identifier: in00004450711