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Meaning and Shakespeare
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Rabkin, Norman |
| Copyright Year | 2015 |
| Description | Shakespeare criticism is in trouble. One might not guess that from the ever-increasing rate at which it is produced, or from the obvious success its practitioners have had in reaching the goals they set for themselves, or from the substantial agreement on crucial plays and problems and methods. But a good deal of our agreement is based on a tacit understanding that the object of our search is the principle of a play's unity, that that principle is the play's meaning, and that meaning is therefore the umbrella under which we properly locate discussions of character, imagery, structure, dramaturgy, language, and intellectual and theatrical history. We have learned how to do very well in such explorations, and I do not want to deny their unmistakable value. But I am going to argue that the better our criticism becomes, and the more sharply it is focussed on explaining what plays are about, the farther it gets from the actuality of our experience in responding to them, so that if we do not change our critical habits we are likely to betray Shakespeare as badly as did critics who wrote about the girlhood of his heroines. Book Name: The Merchant of Venice |
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| Ending Page | 125 |
| Page Count | 23 |
| Starting Page | 103 |
| DOI | 10.4324/9781315709208-6 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2015-04-10 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: The Merchant of Venice Literary Studies Intellectual Unmistakable |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
