What Can be Learnt about Shakespeare from His Plays

John Hardy (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

114 Seiten

2025 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-0364-5749-5 (ISBN)

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There has always been a wish to know more about Shakespeare, but as the world's greatest poet-dramatist, the words of his characters cannot be taken to express his views. Recognized as writing himself out of his plays, he has been seen as a closet Catholic whose writing retains the "secrets of the crypt". But in an age of sectarianism, he arguably sought a greater tolerance for freedom of conscience that would allow people to "be themselves". His English histories reflect pride in his own country and county, support for an ordered succession, and a realization of political conflict resulting not from Providence, but from human ambition and feuding. His great tragedies, in not overtly offering consolation, make certain generalizations about their endings questionable. They invite their audience to cope with the worst that can happen in life, any positives being implicit in their dramatic action. Perhaps of most relevance is Shakespeare's insight into how important the role of women can be, the gender inequality they can suffer in a patriarchal society, and the freedom they should have in being themselves; in being able openly to express themselves and make their love known.

John Hardy completed his doctorate at the University of Oxford, UK, after being elected a "Prize Fellow" of Magdalen College in Oxford. A Queensland Rhodes Scholar, he retired from Bond University (Australia) as Emeritus Professor, where he had been Professor of Humanities, and Foundation Dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Previously he had been Assistant Professor of English at the University of Toronto, Canada, and held chairs at the University of New England, Australia, and the Australian National University. During the 1980s he was Secretary of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He has contributed to or edited more than a dozen books including major works of literary criticism: Reinterpretations: Essays on Poems by Milton, Pope and Johnson; Jane Austen's Heroines: Intimacy in Human Relationships; Shakespeare's Great Tragedies: Experiencing their Impact; Rereading Shakespeare's Prince Hal and Falstaff; Duke Vincentio, Sex and the Law; and In Praise of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.

Erscheinungsdatum	15.10.2025
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-0364-5749-4 / 1036457494
ISBN-13	978-1-0364-5749-5 / 9781036457495
Zustand	Neuware