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Shakespeare's Individualism
Peter Holbrook
出版Cambridge University Press, 2010-01-21
主題Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / GeneralDrama / ShakespeareLiterary Criticism / Shakespeare
ISBN11394849589781139484954
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PPYfAwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Providing a provocative and original perspective on Shakespeare, Peter Holbrook argues that Shakespeare is an author friendly to such essentially modern and unruly notions as individuality, freedom, self-realization and authenticity. These expressive values vivify Shakespeare's own writing; they also form a continuous, and a central, part of the Shakespearean tradition. Engaging with the theme of the individual will in specific plays and poems, and examining a range of libertarian-minded scholarly and literary responses to Shakespeare over time, Shakespeare's Individualism advances the proposition that one of the key reasons for reading Shakespeare today is his commitment to individual liberty - even as we recognize that freedom is not just an indispensable ideal but also, potentially, a dangerous one. Engagingly written and jargon free, this book demonstrates that Shakespeare has important things to say about fundamental issues of human existence.