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Fictional Shakespeares and portraits of genius /by Annalisa Castaldo.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Leeds : Arc Humanities Press, (c)2022.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781641892452
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PR2935 .F538 2022
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One. "By the art of known and feeling sorrows" -- Chapter Two. "I know not seems" -- Chapter Three. "We are spirits of another sort" -- Chapter Four. "I am not what I am" -- Afterword -- Bibliography
Summary: This study is the first to investigate how cultural interpretations of "genius" influence, and are reflected in, fictional portraits of Shakespeare. It explores the wide range of portraits (including children's books, romance novels, graphic novels, and film) that bring Shakespeare to life, and suggests that different portrayals present different conceptions of genius. How does Shakespeare become a genius? How does being a genius affect his life? In some portraits Shakespeare is a man in love with life, fully immersed in the world around him and therefore able to transform the richness of the world into words. But other portrayals present a man cut off from the world, unable to connect to anyone because his creations are more real to him than people, while others suggest that Shakespeare's genius can only be understood as a supernatural or magical gift. In each portrait, Shakespeare mirrors back to us what we believe about what it means to be a genius.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

This study is the first to investigate how cultural interpretations of "genius" influence, and are reflected in, fictional portraits of Shakespeare. It explores the wide range of portraits (including children's books, romance novels, graphic novels, and film) that bring Shakespeare to life, and suggests that different portrayals present different conceptions of genius. How does Shakespeare become a genius? How does being a genius affect his life? In some portraits Shakespeare is a man in love with life, fully immersed in the world around him and therefore able to transform the richness of the world into words. But other portrayals present a man cut off from the world, unable to connect to anyone because his creations are more real to him than people, while others suggest that Shakespeare's genius can only be understood as a supernatural or magical gift. In each portrait, Shakespeare mirrors back to us what we believe about what it means to be a genius.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter One. "By the art of known and feeling sorrows" -- Chapter Two. "I know not seems" -- Chapter Three. "We are spirits of another sort" -- Chapter Four. "I am not what I am" -- Afterword -- Bibliography

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