Shakespeare and This «Imperfect» World: Dramatic Form and the Nature of Knowing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780820433882)

This study on Shakespearean theatre attempts to correlate the cognitive impulse animating the character with the ensuing dramatic form. A Shakespearean character determines the play's structure through the intrinsic need to resolve the problem he is brought up against. He does this by utilizing theatrical means, metadramatic elements, which themselves become an integral part of the concept of theatre. Any external moral framework constricting the character within traditional dramatic forms appears, therefore, to impose perspectival limits on the text. Rather, The Tempest provides the reader with intrinsic and general guidelines through the skepticism of Prospero. Through concepts of wonder and limitation he defines the boundaries of action thus determining the idea of self-knowledge. General aesthetic and philosophical problems are embedded within the texture of the play's structure.

Author: Robert F. Willson Jr,Giulio Marra
ISBN-10: 0820433888
ISBN-13: 9780820433882
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 04/01/1997
Pages: 290
Format: Paperback