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Shakespeare’s Mirrors

dc.contributor.authorEvans, Edward
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-26T11:10:12Z
dc.date.available2025-01-26T11:10:12Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.date.submitted2024-12-19T15:15:17Z
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96032
dc.identifier.urihttps://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/150048
dc.description.abstractClear mirrors and The Geneva Bible revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare’s drive towards a new purpose for drama. Shakespeare reversed the conventional mirror metaphor for drama, implying drama cannot reflect the substance of human nature, and developed a method of characterization, through metadrama, self-awareness and soliloquy, to project St. Paul’s idea of conscience onto the Elizabethan stage. This revolutionary method of characterization, aesthetic existence beyond performance, has long been sensed but remains frustratingly uncategorized. Shakespeare’s Mirrors charts the invention of a drama that staged the unstageable: St. Paul’s metaphysical conception of human nature glimpsed through a looking glass darkly.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesRoutledge Studies in Shakespeare
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.otherShakespeare,hamlet,early modern literature,metadrama,soliloquy
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts::DDA Classic and pre-20th century plays
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PX Relating to specific and significant cultural interests
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism
dc.subject.otherthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights
dc.titleShakespeare’s Mirrors
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.4324/9781032726991
oapen.relation.isPublishedByfa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0
oapen.relation.hasChapterChapter 6 “Spacious Mirror”
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oapen.relation.isbn9781032726984
oapen.relation.isbn9781032727004
oapen.relation.isbn9781032726991
oapen.imprintRoutledge


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  • Chapter 6 “Spacious Mirror”
    Evans, Edward (2025)
    Clear mirrors and The Geneva Bible revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare’s drive towards a new purpose for drama. Shakespeare reversed the conventional mirror metaphor for drama, implying ...
  • Chapter 6 “Spacious Mirror”Peer Reviewed
    Evans, Edward (2025)
    Clear mirrors and The Geneva Bible revolutionary innovations of the Elizabethan age, inspired Shakespeare’s drive towards a new purpose for drama. Shakespeare reversed the conventional mirror metaphor for drama, implying ...