A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality

by A.D. Nuttall

Book Overview

In pursuit of a powerful, commonsense argument about realism, renowned scholar A. D. Nuttall discusses English eighteenth-century and French neoclassical conceptions of realism and considers Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and both parts of King Henry IV as a prolonged feat of mimesis, with particular emphasis on Shakespeare's perception of society and culture as subject to historical change. Shakespeare is chosen as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0416358705
• ISBN13: 9780416358704
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: Methuen Publishing
• Length: 209 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.