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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139958203321

Autore

Smith Bruce R. <1946->

Titolo

Phenomenal Shakespeare [[electronic resource] /] / Bruce R. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, MA, : Wiley-Blackwell, c2010

ISBN

1-282-38255-1

9786612382550

1-4443-1795-4

1-4443-1796-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Blackwell manifestos

Disciplina

822.3/3

822.33

Soggetti

English literature - Criticism, Textual

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Phenomenal Shakespeare; Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: The Argument; 1 As It Likes You; 2 How Should One Read a Shakespeare Sonnet?; 3 Carnal Knowledge; 4 Touching Moments; Epilogue: What Shakespeare Proves; Works Cited; Picture Credits; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In Phenomenal Shakespeare, leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith presents an original account for the ways in which Shakespeare's poems and plays continue to resonate with audiences, readers and scholars because of their engagement with the whole body, not just the reading mind.  An original examination of Shakespeare's appeal written by leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. SmithContains insightful examinations of a single Shakespeare sonnet, Venus and Adonis, and King Lear to model the possibilities of historical phenomenology as a better strategy for cri