Shakespeare's sublime ethos : matter, stage, form / Jonathan P. A. Sell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sell, Jonathan P. A., author.

Series:

Routledge studies in Shakespeare.

Routledge Studies in Shakespeare

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Criticism and interpretation.

Shakespeare, William.

Sublime, The, in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (279 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2021.

Summary:

"Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answer to basic questions regarding the creation, experience, aesthetics and philosophy of Shakespearean sublimity. This volume explores how Shakespeare generates a sublime mood or ethos which predisposes audiences intellectually and emotionally for the full experience of sublime pathos, explored in Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos. It examines Shakespeare's invention of sublime matter, his exploitation of the special characteristics of the Elizabethan stage, and his dramaturgical and formal simulacra of absolute space and time. In the process, it considers Shakespeare's conception of the universe and man's place in it and uncovers the epistemological and existential implications of key aspects of his art. As the argument unfolds, a case is made for a trans-historically baroque Shakespeare whose "bastard art" enables the dramatic restoration of an original innocence where ignorance really is bliss. Taken together, Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos and Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos show how Shakespearean drama integrates matter and spirit on hierarchical planes of cognition and argue that, ultimately, his is an immanent sublimity of the here-and-now enfolding a transcendence which may be imagined, simulated or evoked, but never achieved"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

On the sublime

"Brightest heaven of invention" : sublime topics

"The fairy way of writing" : sublime matter

"Twixt heaven and earth" : sublime scenography

Divine mechanisms : sublime form and shape

Bastard art, innocent experience

Conclusions: Shakespeare's sublime ethos.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-318017-5

1-003-18017-5

1-000-40783-7

9781003180173

OCLC:

1257076378