Shakespeare the Thinker
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (945 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300136293 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 448 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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From The New Yorker Nuttall, who died earlier this year, and who trained in both philosophy and literature, here traces ideas about motivation, identity, speech, and symbol in Shakespeare’s plays. The Shakespeare who emerges here is a "systematically elusive" intelligence, whose brilliance lay in his ability to join "verisimilitude to wonder." Copyright © 2007 Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker. For example, he observes, Shakespeare often uses minor characters who form "islands" in the drama to think through philosophical ideas. His study is rich in unexpected juxtapositions: H
This book challenges us to reconsider the relation of great literature to its social and historical matrix. A. It is also, perhaps, the best guide to Shakespeare’s plays available in English.. Nuttall allows us to hear and appreciate the emergent cathedral choir of play speaking to play. By the later stages of Nuttall’s book this choir is nearly overwhelming in its power and dimensions. The author does not limit discussion to moments of crucial intellection but gives himself ample space in which to get at the distinctive essence of each work.Much recent historicist criticism has tended to flatten” Shakespeare by confining him to the thought-clichés of his time, and this in its turn has led to an implicitly patronizing view of him as unthinkingly racist, sexist, and so on. D. Certain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late romances: the nature of motive, cause, personal identity and relation, the proper status of imagination, ethics and subjectivity, language and its capacity to occlude and to communicate. Yet Shakespeare’s thought, Nuttall demonstrates, is anything but static. The plays keep returning to, modifying, and complicating his creative preoccupations. Nuttall shows us that, on the contrary, Shakespe