The Devil's Party: Critical Counter-Interpretations of Shakespearean Drama

by Harriet Hawkins

This survey of past and present controversies about Shakespearian drama asks about the question: Do the plays hold a mirror up to nature? If so, what is the nature of the "nature" reflected in plays as different as Hamlet and As You Like It?K Is the poet on the side of the angels or, in fact, "of the devil's party" in a play like Richard III? Are Hamlet and Cleopatra more to be morally censured than pitied or admired? How seriously should we take...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198128142
• ISBN13: 9780198128144
• Release Date: July 1985
• Publisher: OUP Oxford
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"