Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World - Couverture souple

Gilbert, Sky

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1771835036 ISBN 13 : 9781771835039

Editeur : Guernica Editions,Canada, 2021

Synopsis

Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World approaches Shakespeare as rhetorician. This means jettisoning the yearning to find the true meaning of Shakespeares texts as Shakespeare wrote at a time when poetry was not meant to be interpreted, but experienced as a window on the world. Sky Gilbert looks at Shakespeare in the context of the style wars that obsessed the early modern period, placing Shakespeare on the side of Lyly, Nashe, Sturm and the Greek rhetorician Hermogenes, against the new forward-looking more scientific approach to literature, as expressed by early modern philosopher Petrus Ramus (whose followers in England were Sydney and Gabriel Harvey). In the end Shakespeare was a post-structuralist, more concerned with form than content, and confident of the dangerous magical power of words not only to persuade but to construct our consciousness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Sky Gilbert is a teacher, writer, director, filmmaker, and he was co-founder and artistic director of Buddies in Bad Times Theatre for 18 years. He is one of Canada's most controversial artistic forces. His many critically acclaimed plays have been performed in theatres worldwide. He is the author of numerous books, including seven acclaimed novels, a theatre memoir, a book of essays, and three collections of poetry. He has received three Dora Mavor Moore Awards and the Pauline McGibbon Award for theatre directing, and he was the recipient of The Margo Bindhardt Award and The Silver Ticket Award. Sky Gilbert continues to produce plays with his experimental theatre in Toronto, and in Hamilton, Ontario where he lives.

In 2007 Gilbert received a SSHRC Research Creation Grant and launched The Shakespeare Experiment, a three-year theatrical and academic project involving research into constructs of masculinity and femininity in the context of the cultural conditions of Shakespeare production in performance. He teaches both practical and academic subjects in graduate and undergraduate courses at Guelph university and serves as a reader and thesis supervisor for graduate students, including those taking their MFA in Creative Writing at Guelph-Humber.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Guernica Editions,Canada
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1771835036
• ISBN 13: 9781771835039
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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