'What May Words Say . . . ?': A Reading of the The Merchant of Venice - Couverture rigide

Leimberg, Inge

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1611470005 ISBN 13 : 9781611470000

Editeur : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2011

Synopsis

"What May Words Say.?" A Reading of The Merchant of Venice contains, in a form resembling a running commentary, a comprehensive and in many respects unconventional interpretation of The Merchant of Venice. The play's development of ideas is unfolded in a literary analysis that focuses on the poet's words in their philological, historical, and philosophical contexts. What the words say is that the play is dominated by the three Delphic maxims, Know thyself, Nothing too much, and Give surety and harm is at hand. Within the intellectual and ethical compass of these tenets the two-stranded action of the play is developed, and the question why Shakespeare added the story of the caskets to the story of the bond is answered by the words law and choice, which are as closely connected semantically as the two stories are interrelated in the dramatic structure. The self-knowledge achieved in the musical cadence of the play is everyone's seeing God's image in the other person, and the law finally chosen is forgiveness.

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À propos de l'auteur

Inge Leimberg is professor emerita of English at the University of Münster. Her special fields of interest are Shakespeare, literary theory of the Renaissance, and Metaphysical Poetry.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1611470005
• ISBN 13: 9781611470000
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 286
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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