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Title: SHAKESPEARE AND THE GODDESS OF COMPLETE BEING
By: Ted Hughes
Format: Hardback

List price: £50.00


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ISBN 10: 0571166040
ISBN 13: 9780571166046
Publisher: FABER & FABER
Pub. date: 13 April, 1992
Edition: Main
Pages: 464
Description: Attempts to show Shakespeare's complete works - dramatic and poetic - as a single, tightly-integrated, evolving organism. Identifying Shakespeare's use in two poems of two religious myths, Hughes argues that they provided Shakespeare with templates for every play from "All's Well" to "The Tempest".
Synopsis: This critical work on Shakespeare attempts to show his complete works - dramatic and poetic - as a single, tightly-integrated, evolving organism. Identifying Shakespeare's use in the poems "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece", of the two most significant religious myths of the archaic world, Hughes argues that these myths later provided Shakespeare with templates for the construction of every play from "All's Well that Ends Well" to "The Tempest". He also argues that this development, in turn, represented his poetic exploration of conflicts within the "living myth" of the English Reformation. The claim is a large one, but Hughes supports his thesis with a painstakingly close analysis of language, plots and characters.
Illustrations: illustrations
Publication: UK
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Returns: Returnable
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