Rethinking Shakespeare's Skepticism: The Aesthetics of Doubt in the Sonnets and Plays (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)

Places Shakespeare's Sonnets And Plays, Including Hamlet, The Taming Of The Shrew, And Antony And Cleopatra, Within The Context Of The Literary History Of Praise Poetry And Explores The Underlying Influence Of Early Modern Skepticism On Shakespeare's Writing-- Introduction: Rethinking Shakespeare's Skepticism -- The Roots Of Shakespeare's Epideictic Skepticism -- Tragic Discovery In The Young-man Sonnets -- The Wonder-wounded Hearers In Hamlet -- Comic Re-creation In The Dark-lady Sonnets And The Taming Of The Shrew -- Afterword: Cleopatra's Epideictic Imagination. Suzanne M. Tartamella. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Mode Of Access: World Wide Web. x, 293 pages ; 24 cm "Places Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, including Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Antony and Cleopatra, within the context of the literary history of praise poetry and explores the underlying influence of early modern skepticism on Shakespeare's writing"-- Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-279) and index Introduction: Rethinking Shakespeare's skepticism -- The roots of Shakespeare's epideictic skepticism -- Tragic discovery in the Young-man sonnets -- The wonder-wounded hearers in Hamlet -- Comic re-creation in the Dark-lady sonnets and the Taming of the shrew -- Afterword: Cleopatra's epideictic imagination Tartamella casts new light on seemingly quite familiar material--Shakespeare's Sonnets and a number of his plays, including Hamlet , The Taming of the Shrew , and Antony and Cleopatra . By placing the Sonnets within the context of the literary history of praise poetry, and exploring the underlying influence of early modern skepticism on Shakespeare's writing, this book truly enhances our understanding of the subtleties and complexities in all of Shakespeare's work. "Places Shakespeare's sonnets and plays, including Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Antony and Cleopatra, within the context of the literary history of praise poetry and explores the underlying influence of early modern skepticism on Shakespeare's writing"-- Provided by publisher