The Actor in History: Studies in Shakespearean Stage Poetry

by David Grene

In this book an eminent scholar considers the relation which Shakespeare establishes between the values of the supreme world of Elizabethan and Jacobean reality, that of the kings and soldiers at the top of the tree, and his own domain, the poetry of the theater. Ostensibly, that poetry emphasizes straightforwardly the values of the plot of the play by his poetry, the king or soldier becomes more visible to us. The rhythms of his voice, the verbal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271006226
• ISBN13: 9780271006222
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 166 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"