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The adventures of a Shakespeare scholar : to discover Shakespeare's art

Rarely does a scholar single-handedly point Shakespeare study in a new direction. But in the 1950s, when brilliant insights were being achieved in Shakespeare's language, and a few theatre historians were recording stagings and stage business, Marvin Rosenberg led the way to a wider perspective of the poet-playwright's genius. He insisted that Shakespeare's art fused poetry-of-the-word with poetry-of-the-theatre, each illuminating the other inseparably
Print Book, English, ©1997
University of Delaware Press ; Associated University Presses, Newark, Del., London, ©1997
Criticism, interpretation, etc
365 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780874135985, 0874135982
34285091
1. Part 1: Character as Mainspring in Shakespeare
1. A Metaphor for the Identity of Tragic Heroes
2. The Two Kinds of Hamlet
3. The Universal Hamlets
4. Hamlet's Subversive Gravedigger
5. Hamlet's Spiritual Crisis
6. In Defense of Iago
7. Shakespeare's Fantastic Trick: Measure for Measure
8. Poor Richard III
9. Characterizations of King Lear
10. Lady Macbeth's Indispensable Child
11. The German Lady Macbeth and Two Hamlets
12. Visualizing Complex Character
13. Experimental Studies of King Lear
14. King Lear and His Fool
Part 2: Shakespeare's Mastery of Dramatic Poetry
15. The Languages of Drama
16. Lear's Theater Poetry
17. Sign Theory and Shakespeare
18. Shakespeare's Visual Compositions
19. Subtext in Shakespeare
20. Shakespeare's Tragic World of If
21. Substructures in Shakespeare's Language
22. Paul Scofield's Macbeth: Macbeth in Rehearsal-A Journal
23. The Lear Myth
24. The "Refinement" of Othellos in the Eighteenth-Century Theater
25. Shame on You, David Garrick-or, What the Victorian Theater Did to Shakespeare's Tragedies
26. Translations of Erotic Nuances in Hamlet
Part 3: An Old Critical Battle Fought
27. Elizabethan Actors: Men or Marionettes?
28. A Metaphor for Dramatic Form
29. Drama is Arousal
30. The Mind of a Critic