The Living Image

Shakespearean Essays
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-84569-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 164 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 218 g

First published in 1972.

The imagery of field sports - of hawking, hunting, shooting and fishing - and the associated imagery of warfare are a striking feature in Shakespeare's plays. The Living Image examines the nature of this imagery, considering it first in the light of the practices and techniques of Elizabethan field sports and weaponry and then its broader metaphoric significance in relation to the themes of the plays.

The contemporary associations of the imagery - the inferences of female sexuality and waywardness from hawking imagery, for example, and the ideals of nobility and courage attached to images of hunting and war are all discussed.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henn, T. R.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Enzyklopädien, Nachschlagewerke, Wörterbücher
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Book of Sport 2. The Hawk and the Handsaw 3. The Ritual of the Hunt 4. 'The pleasant'st angling' 5. 'Incorps'd and demi-natur'd' 6. A Review of Bowmen 7. A Note on Shakespeare's Army 8. The Images of Antony and Cleopatra

Über Autor(innen)

T.R Henn