William Shakespeare and John Donne : stages of the soul in early modern English poetry /
'This study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. During the early modern period, the soul is often presented as an actor on the stage of the poem, and the soul often becomes a stage by itself when conflicts within it are being en...
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| Materialtyp: | Licensed eBooks |
| Språk: | engelska |
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Manchester, UK :
Manchester University Press,
2019.
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| Serie: | Manchester Spenser.
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| Länkar: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.21996029 |
Innehållsförteckning:
- Introduction: Stages of the soul and drama in poetry
- Part I: William Shakespeare's <i>The Rape of Lucrece</i> and the drama of the soul
- 1. Motivating the myth: Allegory and psychology
- 2. 'Thou art not what thou seem'st': Tarquin's inner stage and outer action
- 3. 'But with my body my poor soul's pollution': Lucrece, her body and soul
- 4. Lust-breathed Tarquin
- Lucrece, the name of chaste: Antagonism, parallelism and chiasmus
- Part II: John Donne's <i>Holy Sonnets</i> and the so(u)le-talk of the soul
- 5. Divine comedies: The speaker, his soul, and the poem as stage
- 6. The sonnet as miniature drama: Donne's Holy Sonnet 'Oh my black Soule'
- 7. Sole-talk and soul-talk: Donne's so(u)liloquies in the <i>Holy Sonnets</i>
- 8. The Speaker on the Stage of the Poem: Holy Sonnet 'This is my Playes last Scene'
- 9. Dialogue and antagonism in Donne's theatre of the soul
- Part III: Conclusion
- 10. So(u)le-talk, self, and stages of the soul
- Bibliography
- Index.