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William Empson: Essays on Shakespeare

Autor William Empson Editat de David Pirie
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 mai 1986
At the time of his death in 1984, the poet and critic William Empson was preparing and revising a collection of his essays on Shakespeare. This collection edited by David Pirie, is a book which the literary world has wanted for over half a century. Here, in a single volume, are major readings of Hamlet and Macbeth; a witty and sometimes impassioned defence of Falstaff, and a new piece on the architecture of the Globe theatre and other Renaissance playhouses, in which Empson explores the problems that the design of contemporary stages posed for a working playwright; there are also essays on the narrative poems, A Midsummer Night's Dream and the last plays. The essays demonstrate the subtlety and agility of Empson's mind, as well as his remarkable breadth of knowledge, while the almost racy wit of his informal prose style argues for a literary criticism which should never become solemn if it is to be truly serious.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521311502
ISBN-10: 0521311500
Pagini: 260
Dimensiuni: 134 x 214 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Ediția:00003
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Preface; Sources and acknowledgements; 1. The narrative poems; 2. Falstaff; 3. Hamlet; 4. Macbeth; 5. The Globe theatre; 6. Fairy flight in A Midsummer Night's Dream; 7. Hunt the symbol; Select bibliography.

Recenzii

'Academic scholars may bar his way, but Empson wheedles past with his charm and common sense.' The Times Literary Supplement
'Empson was a professor, but he had all the qualities that academics are often accused of lacking: he was humane, intense, eccentric, passionately hostile to Christianity, never dull, and very very clever … The blurb calls this book … a book which the literary world has wanted for half a century, and for once I think the publisher is not exaggerating. Today as much as ever, literary criticism needs its William Empsons.' The Spectator

Descriere

A collection of essays on Shakespheare by the late poet and critic William Empson.

Notă biografică

William Empson (1906-1984), poet, critic and essayist, is most famous for his first book, Seven Types of Ambiguity, begun while he was in Cambridge undergraduate. After a stint teaching in Japan and China, he worked for the BBC throughout the Second World War, afterwards returning to China for a longer stay. He was a professor of the University of Sheffield between 1952 and 1971, and was knighted in 1979. His other notable works include The Structure of Complex Words and Milton's God. Collected Poems was published in 1955, and his Complete Poems was published in 2000 by the Penguin Press.Helen Thaventhiran is a University Lecturer in Modern Literature at the University of Cambridge and fellow of Robinson College. In Radical Empiricists (2015), she considered the work of five modernist close readers, including William Empson. Her research concerns the relations between literature, criticism and the philosophy of language, with further interests in dance and the contemporary critical essay.Stefan Collini is Professor Emeritus of Intellectual History and English Literature at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of several books on English literary and intellectual history, including Public Moralists (1991), Matthew Arnold (1994), English Pasts (1999), Absent Minds (2006), Common Reading (2008), Common Writing (2016), and The Nostalgic Imagination (2019). He has also been a prominent contributor to debates about higher education policy and the nature of universities, most notably in What Are Universities For? (2012) and Speaking of Universities (2017). In addition, he is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, The Guardian, and other publications.