Shakespeare and the mannerist tradition : a reading of five problem plays

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Shakespeare and the mannerist tradition : a reading of five problem plays

Jean-Pierre Maquerlot

Cambridge University Press, 1995

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"Plays reappraised are: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's well that ends well, and Measure for measure" -- t.p. verso

"Based on the author's thesis (doctoral, University of Provence, 1989)" -- t.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

This 1996 book offers an original approach to Shakespeare's so-called 'problem plays' by contending that they can be viewed as experiments in the Mannerist style. The plays reappraised here are Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. How can a term used to define a movement in art history be made relevant to theatrical analysis? Maquerlot shows how famous painters of sixteenth-century Italy cultivated structural ambiguity or dissonance in reaction to the classical canons of the High Renaissance. Close readings of Shakespeare's plays, from the period 1599 to 1604, reveal intriguing analogies with Mannerist art and the dramatist's response to Elizabethan formalism. Maquerlot concludes by examining Othello, which marks the end of Shakespeare's Mannerist experiments, and the less equivocal use of artifice in his late romances.

目次

  • Introduction
  • 1. The problem of Mannerism
  • 2. From art to theatre: towards a definition of Mannerism: illustrations and commentaries
  • 3. Mannerism in reaction to formalism
  • 4. Julius Caesar and dramatic coquetry
  • 5. Hamlet: optical effects
  • 6. When playing is foiling: Troilus and Cressida
  • 7. Mostrar l'arte: All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure
  • 8.The end of the Mannerist moment.

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