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<br> This survey of past and present controversies about Shakespearian drama asks about the question: Do the plays hold a mirror up to nature? If so, what is the nature of the "nature" reflected in plays as different as <em>Hamlet</em> and <em>As You Like It?K</em> Is the poet on the side of the angels or, in fact, "of the devil's party" in a play like <em>Richard III?</em> Are Hamlet and Cleopatra more to be morally censured than pitied or admired? How seriously should we take the comedies? Rather than attempting to answer these questions, the author here explains why it is that the plays remain open to critical debate. She concludes that Shakespearian drama provides us with the most artistic challenges to <em>any</em> one-sided account of the ways of the wold it reflects and for this reason, for students and teachers, and for actors and audiences alike, its impact is ultimately liberating.

Author

Hawkins, Harriett

Publisher

Oxford [Oxfordshire]: Clarendon Press ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198128144

Subjects

Literary Fiction, History, Humanities