Shakespeare's Light: or Desdemona's Dream

by Rugger Burke

While the interplay of light and dark is familiar in literature, Shakespeare employed the contrast in remarkable ways--to describe atmosphere, emotions, and even transcendent states. Consider this scene from Romeo and Juliet, so widely reproduced, one could be forgiven for skimming past it. However, slowing to take in the words, who could be unmoved?

But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?

It is the east, and Juliet is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990975320
• ISBN13: 9780990975328
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Tjikko Publishing
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"