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Title: Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon ISBN: 0-521-09258-2 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 02 January, 1935 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: shakespeare revealed
Comment: First the author shows that an author's choice of metaphor reflects his life experience. Then she masterfully and convincingly developes what shakespeare's imagery tells us about HIM. Perhaps the most penetrating analysis of this man of genius we will ever have. Charming and moving.
Rating: 4
Summary: Scholarly research at its best
Comment: Caroline Spurgeon's "Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us" is one of the books you'll most definitely find on the Shakespeare students' bookshelf, and for good reason: nobody outlines the visual images, themes, and motifs in Shakespeare's plays as well as Spurgeon does.
Furthermore, Spurgeon doesn't outline themes on a play-by-play basis; instead, she takes a particular image and tells us about ALL of the ways it appears in ANY of the plays. Example: she outlines dream imagery in Richard II, Winter's Tale, Henry VIII, and Romeo and Juliet. This may sound a little confusing, and indeed can be, but it allows a real glimpse into Shakespeare's mind, and allows the reader to see common threads in all of the plays.
Also intriguing are the detailed charts in the back of the book that give a visual reference of how prevalent certain images are in Shakespeare's plays: for instance, one chart shows how prevalent sickness, disease, and medicine are in each of the plays.
Spurgeon did an amazing amount of work in order to complete this book, and it shows--it's one of the most thorough references available, and it is invaluable to the Shakespeare student, teacher, or scholar. Spurgeon didn't cover EVERYTHING--who could?--and a true scholar might find himself noting what's absent at times. Also, the reading can be a bit boring at times, but it always picks back up quickly, and it really highlights the machinations of Shakespeare's mind. Highly recommended!
Rating: 5
Summary: part of the heart of shakespeare...
Comment: This is an innocent book, no scholarly posing (though she is, no doubt, a scholar)... It's a very readable book as well... In fact it's a devourable book... Plays are obviously short on description and description is the most edible part of imaginative writing, so to have all of Shakespeare's imagery for metaphor and symbol and so forth all together right in front of you is very attractive and appetite, if not lust, inducing... She also creatively categorizes everything and compares it all in different ways including comparisons with contemporaries like Marlowe and Jonson and Bacon... A very interesting and delightful Shakespeare (and language) book...
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Title: The Meaning of Shakespeare by Harold Clarke Goddard ISBN: 0226300412 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: June, 1960 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies by Maynard Mack ISBN: 0803282141 Publisher: Univ of Nebraska Pr Pub. Date: December, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Northrop Frye on Shakespeare by Northrop Frye ISBN: 0300042086 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1988 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama by Peter Saccio ISBN: 0195123190 Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear & Macbeth (New Shakespeare Library) by A. C. Bradley ISBN: 0140530193 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: October, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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