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Author
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Date published
1996
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Publisher
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Subject
English drama Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600 History and criticism Theory, etc
English drama 17th century History and criticism Theory, etc
Aesthetics, Modern 16th century
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Accession number
83320318
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Class
65.19/KIE
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ISBN
0521633583
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Language
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Physical description
xii, 218 p. ; 22 cm.
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Bibliography, etc. note: Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-215) and index. Formatted contents note: Contents: Shakespeare and Sidney. Two worlds: the brazen and the golden -- Shakespeare and Ovid. "What strained touches rhetoric can lend": poetry metamorphosed in Venus and Adonis and the sonnets -- "In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life": exposing art's sterility. The rape of Lucrece, The winter's tale and The tempest -- "O'er-wrested seeming": dramatic illusion and the repudiation of mimesis. Love's labour's lost, A midsummer night's dream and Hamlet -- "Thy registers and thee I both defy": history challenged. Richard III, Henry VIII, Henry V and Richard II -- Antony and Cleopatra as "a defence of drama". Uk-SuSCL.