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Shakespearean Representation: Mimesis and Modernity in Elizabethan Tragedy
By (Author) Howard M. Felperin
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800
822.33
Hardback
212
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
454g
We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work as it reflects a culture remote from our own. Beginning with this paradox, Howard Felperin explores the question of modernity in literature. He directs his attention toward several older poets and examines Shakespeare in partic