{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-the-mannerist-tradition-a-reading-of-five-problem-plays-hardback-9780521410830","title":"Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition; A Reading of Five Problem Plays (Hardback) 9780521410830","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eShakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Reading of Five Problem Plays\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn this 2005 book, Shakespeare's so-called 'problem plays' are examined as experiments in the Mannerist style.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJean-Pierre Maquerlot (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521410830, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 18 January 1996\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e212 pages, 9 b\/w illus.  1 table\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 15.7 x 1.8 cm, 0.538 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"...his interpretation of the poetry Shakespeare has given her reveals his own deep respect for the integrity of her charater.\"   Studies in English Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 1996 book offers an original approach to Shakespeare's so-called 'problem plays' by contending that they can be viewed as experiments in the Mannerist style. The plays reappraised here are Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. How can a term used to define a movement in art history be made relevant to theatrical analysis? Maquerlot shows how famous painters of sixteenth-century Italy cultivated structural ambiguity or dissonance in reaction to the classical canons of the High Renaissance. Close readings of Shakespeare's plays, from the period 1599 to 1604, reveal intriguing analogies with Mannerist art and the dramatist's response to Elizabethan formalism. Maquerlot concludes by examining Othello, which marks the end of Shakespeare's Mannerist experiments, and the less equivocal use of artifice in his late romances.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. The problem of Mannerism\u003cbr\u003e 2. From art to theatre: towards a definition of Mannerism: illustrations and commentaries\u003cbr\u003e 3. Mannerism in reaction to formalism\u003cbr\u003e 4. Julius Caesar and dramatic coquetry\u003cbr\u003e 5. Hamlet: optical effects\u003cbr\u003e 6. When playing is foiling: Troilus and Cressida\u003cbr\u003e 7. Mostrar l'arte: All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure\u003cbr\u003e 8.The end of the Mannerist moment.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Shakespeare studies \u0026amp; criticism\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Shakespeare%20studies%20\u0026amp;%20criticism%20%5BDSGS%5D%22\"\u003eDSGS\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":46007246061848,"sku":"9780521410830","price":70.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521410830i_db5caa17-1b3a-4fe3-82ae-f2c5d400c54d.jpg?v=1691381279","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/shakespeare-and-the-mannerist-tradition-a-reading-of-five-problem-plays-hardback-9780521410830","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}