Meaning by Shakespeare / Terence Hawkes.
Material type: TextPublisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1992Description: x,173 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0415074509 (cased)
- 0415074517 (pbk)
- 9780415074513
- 822.33 HAW 22
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Book - Borrowing | Central Library Second Floor | Baccah | 822.33 HAW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 000048024 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We traditionally assume that the `meaning' of each of Shakespeares plays is bequeathed to it by the Bard. It is as if, to the information which used to be given in theatrical programmes, `Cigarettes by Abdullah, Costumes by Motley, Music by Mendelssohn', we should add `Meaning by Shakespeare'. These essays rest on a different, almost opposite, principle. Developing the arguments of the same author's That Shakespearean Rag (1986), they put the case that Shakespeare's plays have no essential meanings, but function as resources which we use to generate meaning. A Midsummer Night'.
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