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The time is out of joint : Shakespeare as philosopher of history / Agnes Heller.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR3014 .H45 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heller, Ágnes.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Literature and history--England--History--16th century.
- Literature and history.
- History--Philosophy.
- England.
- History.
- Literature and history--England--History--17th century.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Knowledge and learning--History.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Philosophy.
- Philosophy.
- History--Philosophy--16th century.
- History--Philosophy--17th century.
- Philosophy in literature.
- History in literature.
- Time in literature.
- Philosophy--History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 375 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, [2002]
- Summary:
- The Time Is Out of Joint handles the Shakespearean oeuvre from a philosophical perspective, finding that Shakespeare's historical dramas reflect on issues and reveal puzzles which were taken up by philosophy proper only in the centuries following them. Shakespeare's extraordinary handling of time and temporality, the difference between truth and fact, that of theory, and that of interpretation and revelatory truth are evaluated in terms of Shakespeare's own conjectural endeavors, and are compared with early modern, modern, and postmodern thought. Heller shows that modernity, which recognized itself in Shakespeare only from the time of Romanticism, found in Shakespeare's work a revelatory character which marked the end of both metaphysical system-building and a tragic reckoning with the inaccessibility of an absolute, timeless truth.
- Contents:
- Part I The Time Is Out of Joint
- 1 What Is Nature? What Is Natural? 15
- 2 Who Am I? Dressing Up, Stripping Naked 33
- 3 Acting, Playing, Pretending, Disguising 57
- 4 The Absolute Strangers 75
- 5 Judgment of Human Character: To Betray and to Be Betrayed 89
- 6 Love, Sex, Subversion: Political Drama, Family Drama 99
- 7 The Sphinx Called Time 117
- 8 Virtues and Vices: Guilt, Good, and Evil 143
- Part II The History Plays
- 9 Richard II 163
- 10 1, 2, and 3 Henry VI 191
- 11 The Tragedy of King Richard III 253
- Part III Three Roman Plays
- 12 Coriolanus 281
- 13 Julius Caesar 311
- 14 Antony and Cleopatra 337
- Postscript: Historical Truth and Poetic Truth 367.
- ISBN:
- 0742512509
- 0742512517
- OCLC:
- 46564852
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