Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World
Sep 2020 · Guernica Editions
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Explore Shakespeare's world through the lens of rhetoric and language, challenging traditional interpretations.
Shakespeare Beyond Science delves into Shakespeare's plays, viewing them not as sources of hidden meanings, but as rhetorical experiences. Sky Gilbert examines Shakespeare within the context of early modern style debates, positioning him alongside figures like Lyly and Hermogenes, who valued language and form over scientific interpretation. This book challenges the notion of Shakespeare as a moral guide, instead presenting him as a master of language, deeply aware of its power to shape our understanding.
Discover how Shakespeare's plays reflect a world where poetry and language held sway, influencing consciousness and perception. This book is for readers interested in:
- Shakespearean analysis
- Rhetorical theory
- History of ideas
Explore Shakespeare's world through the lens of rhetoric and language, challenging traditional interpretations.
Shakespeare Beyond Science delves into Shakespeare's plays, viewing them not as sources of hidden meanings, but as rhetorical experiences. Sky Gilbert examines Shakespeare within the c...
About the author
Sky Gilbert is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, theatre director, and drag queen extraordinaire, and one of Canada's most controversial artistic forces. He was co-founder and artistic director of Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times Theatre -- one of the world's largest gay and lesbian theatres -- from 1979 to 1997. He has had more than 40 plays produced, and written 7 critically acclaimed novels and three award winning poetry collections. He has received three Dora Mavor Moore Awards (The Whore's Revenge, Suzie Goo, Private Secretary, The Situationists) as well as the Pauline McGibbon Award, and The Silver Ticket Award. There is a street in Toronto named after him: 'Sky Gilbert Lane.' His play about the criminalization of AIDS — It's All Tru — will be published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2020. The workshop of his one act opera about Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Criminal (with music by Dustin Peters) was performed in April 2019 to critical acclaim https://barczablog.com/2019/04/27/workshop-of-shakespeares-criminal/ . Dr. Gilbert is a professor of creative writing and theatre at the University of Guelph.
Sky Gilbert is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, theatre director, and drag queen extraordinaire, and one of Canada's most controversial artistic forces. He was co-founder and artistic director of Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times Theatre -- one of the world's largest gay and lesbian theatres...
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