Shakespeare's Mannerist Canon: UT Picturae Poemata (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820408910)

Myers uses a new and theoretically provocative comparative approach to bring into view and then to question the pervasive but often unsuspected influence of the classical conception of Shakespeare's canon dominant since Dowden first suggested it in the middle of the nineteenth century. As an alternative, he argues for a mannerist conception of the canon that is more persuasive than the outmoded conception in the light of artistic possibilities in the Renaissance and more useful to the continuing reinterpretation of Shakespeare's plays.

Author: Ernest B. Gilman
ISBN-10: 0820408913
ISBN-13: 9780820408910
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 07/01/1989
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover