Shakespeare's Lyric Stage: Myth, Music, and Poetry in the Last Plays

by Seth Lerer and Professor Seth Lerer

What does it mean to have an emotional response to poetry and music? And, just as important but considered less often, what does it mean not to have such a response? What happens when lyric utterances--which should invite consolation, revelation, and connection--somehow fall short of the listener's expectations?

As Seth Lerer shows in this pioneering book, Shakespeare's late plays invite us to contemplate that very question, offering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022658254X
• ISBN13: 9780226582542
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.4"