That Shakespeherian Rag

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That Shakespeherian Rag

Essays on a critical process

Literary theory Literary studies: plays and playwrights

Author: Terence Hawkes

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Language: English

Published by: Routledge

Published on: 13th September 2013

Format: LCP-protected ePub

Size: 198 Kb

ISBN: 9781136562440


First published in 1986.

This collection of essays focuses on the ways in which our society processes Shakespeare and the purposes for which this seems to be done. The case is made by examining the work of four highly influential critics: A C Bradley, Walter Raleigh, T S Eliot and John Dover Wilson.

Terence Hawkes

asks whether, beyond the readings to which the plays may be subjected, there lies any final, authoritative or essential meaning to which we can ultimately turn, concluding that jazz music offers the most fruitful model for twentieth-century criticism.

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