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<p>Beginning with distinctions between rhetoric and poetry, Harold Toliver examines the interplay of functional speech, assigned the task of moving plots, and poetry's sublime transport to hypothetical or second worlds and their implicit criticism of the worldly possible. The dramatist who works toward a conservative reinstatement of social order is sometimes at odds with the poetic visionary. Juxtaposing Shakespeare and Milton on that matter helps situate them within their respective Elizabethan and Puritan outlooks. In "Comus," with its numerous echoes of <em>A Midsummer Night's Dream</em> and <em>The Tempest</em>, Milton establishes significant differences between himself and Shakespeare.</p> <p>In developing the details of the poetry-drama tension, Toliver treats the matter of eloquence in both poetic and rhetorical excess. Othello's seeking of magnitude is half to blame for this tragedy, since it escalates the deviltry that Iago promotes. King Lear finds poetry flourishing only in helpless personal relations deprived of political authority. Failing in affairs of empire, both Antony and Cleopatra look to an alternative realm where love can proceed unhindered. <em>Winter's Tale<

Author

Harold E. Toliver

Publisher

THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780271006468

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities