Wonder in Shakespeare

by A. Cohen

Overview

In the first part of this book, Adam Max Cohen embraces the many meanings of wonder in order to challenge the generic divides between comedy, tragedy, history, and romance and suggests that Shakespeare's primary goal in crafting each of his playworlds was the evocation of one or more varieties of wonder.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230105416
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	01/17/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

ADAM MAX COHEN earned his PhD from the University of Virginia, USA, and was an Associate Professor at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. His teaching interests included Shakespeare, Renaissance Literature, Early Modern Cultural Studies, History of Science, and Technology. He is the author of Shakespeare and Technology: Dramatizing Early Modern Technological Revolutions and Technology and the Early Modern Self.

Table of Contents

PART I: WONDER IN SHAKESPEARE Wonder, Amazement, and Surprise: Beginning a Stunning Story Resurrections of the Living and the Dead: Natural and Spiritual Bodies and Souls 'Die to live': Various Forms of Empathetic Wonder The Metaphorical Use of the Prodigious Birth Tradition More of a Prodigy than a Prophecy Wonder, Awe, and Admiration: Shakespeare's Cabinets of Curiosity Transalpine Wonders: Shakespeare's Marvelous Aesthetics PART II: SIX RESPONSES TO WONDER IN SHAKESPEARE Embodying Wonder; M.Tarnoff The Aesthetic Resurrection of the 'death-mark'd' lovers in Romeo and Juliet; J.Segal The 'Spectacle of Conversion,' Wonder, and Film in The Merchant of Venice; M.G.Aune God Save the King: Richard IIin Wonder-land; R.Steinberger A World of (No) Wonder, or No Wonder-Wounded Heros Here: Toward a Theory on the Vanishing Mediation of 'No Wonder' in Shakespeare's Theater; K.Keating & B.Reynolds Passing for Truth: Wonder Tales and Their Audiences in Othello; J.B.Fisher

Editorial Reviews

'The final work in a too brief career, Adam Max Cohen's Wonder in Shakespeare is a kind of seminar on Shakespeare's multiple senses of 'wonder': prodigies, resurrections, and Miranda things that should be looked at, including that young castaway in The Tempest. This is also a book about limits the limits of language and the senses and how Shakespeare's plays capture and reflect that precious aspect of human experience." - William Germano, Cooper Union

"Recommended." CHOICE

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