{"product_id":"hamlet-and-other-shakespearean-essays-paperback-9780521296427","title":"Hamlet and Other Shakespearean Essays (Paperback) 9780521296427","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHamlet and Other Shakespearean Essays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn these essays the author explores the ways in which an understanding of Shakespeare's work can enrich other areas of knowledge, from politics to emotional experience.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eL. C. Knights (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521296427, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 4 October 1979\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.8 cm, 0.4 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn these Shakespearean essays originally published together in 1979, the distinguished literary critic L. C. Knights offers the fruits of his long-term thinking about individual plays (notably, Hamlet, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Lear) and explores the ways in which a deep and imaginative understanding of Shakespeare's work can relate to and enrich other areas of knowledge - politics, history, social and emotional relationships, the nature of theatrical experience … Certain critical assumptions are of course implicit here: that great works of art have a continuing life which is renewed through perception; that the vitality generated by such works is for all men and that the critic's function is to encourage all readers to see as much as they can for themselves, not to dogmatize or try to impose a particular reading. L. C. Knights admirably fulfils this function in these essays most of which have been gathered from the three volumes entitled Explorations, Further Explorations and Explorations 3.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e 1. An approach to Hamlet\u003cbr\u003e 22. personality and politics in Julius Caesar\u003cbr\u003e 3. Timon of Athens\u003cbr\u003e 4. Integration in The Winter's Tale\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Tempest\u003cbr\u003e 6. Shakespeare's politics: with some reflections on the nature of tradition\u003cbr\u003e 7. The thought of Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e 8. Shakespeare's Tragedies and the question of moral judgement\u003cbr\u003e 9. The question of character in Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e 10. Historical scholarship and the interpretation of Shakespeare\u003cbr\u003e 11. King Lear as metaphor\u003cbr\u003e 12. Shakespeare and history\u003cbr\u003e 13. How many children had Lady Macbeth?\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46003460145432,"sku":"9780521296427","price":29.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521296427i_cf17975c-3c2a-4e23-ab95-256bff065703.jpg?v=1691374874","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/hamlet-and-other-shakespearean-essays-paperback-9780521296427","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}