Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition
Subtitle: A Reading of Five Problem Plays
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: November 17, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 209
ISBN-13: 9780521023719
Subjects: Shakespeare studies & criticism; Plays / Drama; History and criticism; Drama; English; Plays; Shakespeare; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Drama / British & Irish; Drama-Shakespeare; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism-English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Shakespeare, William, --1564-1616--Technique; Shakespeare, William,--1564-1616--Technique; Experimental drama, English; Mannerism (Literature)
First sentence: Since Mannerism in painting is not the main subject of my book, I have taken the liberty of excusing myself from two pieces of normal procedure: my argument in not prefaced by any preliminary remarks on the etymology and semantic evolution of the word maniera from which the concept derives.