Shakespeare and the Reason: A Study of the Tragedies and the Problem Plays

by Terence Hawkes

'Mr Hawkes is a good critic, oriented towards history of ideas. He operates on the formula that Shakespeare was interested in the available distinctions between discursive and intuitive reason, and disliked a growing tendency for the first to be thought of as manly and the second effeminate. One sees how this action-contemplation polarity works, in Hamlet for instance, and Mr Hawkes thinks the kind of choices forced on tragic heroes can be...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415850568
• ISBN13: 9780415850568
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"