{"product_id":"the-dramatist-and-the-received-idea-paperback-9780521298001","title":"The Dramatist and the Received Idea (Paperback) 9780521298001","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Dramatist and the Received Idea\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA critical account of seven plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare, and he takes pains to analyse the context in which the plays were written.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eSanders (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521298001, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 15 May 1980\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e400 pages\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm, 0.51 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eReview of the hardback: 'Mr Sanders writes intelligently, and his aim, to reconcile historical and purely critical approaches to the drama, is splendid.' Review of English Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eDr Sanders' book grew out of uneasiness over commonly accepted ways of talking about Elizabethan literature. Phrases like 'world picture', 'received ideas' are so easily used that we bypass important questions: A picture of whose word? Ideas received by whom? and in what way? The heart of Dr Sanders' book is a critical account of seven plays by Marlowe and Shakespeare (The Massacre at Paris, The Jew of Malta, Edward II, Dr Faustus, Richard II, Richard III and Macbeth). In his examination, Dr Sanders is at pains to analyse the nature of the intellectual and cultural environment in which the plays were written, to define the ways in which this environment influenced Marlowe and Shakespeare and thus to come to a full understanding of the manner in which a work of art can be simultaneously 'of an age' and 'for all time'.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA note on editions\u003cbr\u003e Preface\u003cbr\u003e 1. Literature as history: with some questions about 'historical imagination'\u003cbr\u003e 2. Dramatist as jingoist: The Massacre at Paris\u003cbr\u003e 3. Dramatist as realist: the Jew of Malta\u003cbr\u003e 4. Machiavelli and the crisis of Renaissance political consciousness\u003cbr\u003e 5. Providence and policy in Richard III\u003cbr\u003e 6. Providence and history in Elizabethan thought\u003cbr\u003e 7. History without morality: Edward II\u003cbr\u003e 8. Shakespearean history: critique of 'Elizabethan policy'\u003cbr\u003e 9. Shakespeare's political agnosticism: Richard II\u003cbr\u003e 10. Supernature and demonism in Elizabethan thought\u003cbr\u003e 11. The new wine and the old bottles: Doctor Faustus\u003cbr\u003e 12. Marlowe and the Calvinist doctrine of reprobation\u003cbr\u003e 13. 'An unknown fear': The Tragedie of Macbeth\u003cbr\u003e 14. Macbeth and the theology of evil\u003cbr\u003e 15. Artist and ethos\u003cbr\u003e Appendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index.\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":46005088780568,"sku":"9780521298001","price":42.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521298001i_66fdf10c-ce97-48d9-ad01-279238096db6.jpg?v=1691374912","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-dramatist-and-the-received-idea-paperback-9780521298001","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}