Research Catalog

Title

Mutability and division on Shakespeare's stage / Yu Jin Ko.

Author

Ko, Yu Jin, 1961-

Publication

Newark : University of Delaware Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Description

223 pages; 25 cm

Summary

"This book brings new insight to how the struggle with mortality enters Shakespeare's plays and generates intractable divisions within characters and their playworlds. Yu Jin Ko illuminates how different plays uniquely illustrate the convergence in human affairs of political conflict and conflicting ways of answering life's finitude." "The book is at the same time rooted in the theater, and thus relates the theatrical conventions of Shakespeare's time to the thematic matter of the book. In particular, Ko demonstrates how the divisions explored in the plays are related to stage practices like the use of boy-actors and the volatile interplay of illusionistic and non-illusionistic modes of acting. In this context, Ko introduces a new term - charactor - that combines the fictional character and the stage actor and enables a new, nuanced exploration of stage personae."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Change in literature
• Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 > Criticism and interpretation
• Death in literature
• Separation (Psychology) in literature
• Mortality in literature

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-220) and index.

Contents

1. The comic close of Twelfth night and Viola's Noli me tangere : an excursus on mutability and desire -- 2. Rosalind-as-Ganymede : Charactor of contingency -- 3. Play and the absolute sublime : the worlds of Antony and Cleopatra -- 4. The rejection of love and the staging of necessity -- 5. The mousetrap of Hamlet's mystery -- 6. Art and paternity in The winter's tale and The tempest : or, how many children had the Duke of Milan?

ISBN

0874138841 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2004007405

OCLC

• ocm54929554
• SCSB-5109742

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries