The Dramatic Unities of Shakespeare, 1849 : In a Letter Addressed to the Editor of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (Classic Reprint)

Nicholas John Halpin

ISBN 10: 1330746589 / ISBN 13: 9781330746585

Published by Forgotten Books, 2015

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Zustand: Hervorragend | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher | Keine Beschreibung verfügbar.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Dramatic Unities of Shakespeare, 1849 : In a Letter Addressed to the Editor of Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (Classic Reprint)
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330746589
• ISBN 13: 9781330746585
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Hervorragend
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Explore how Shakespeare’s plays bend time on stage—and why that illusion matters to understanding the drama.

This scholarly work presents a system for analyzing the dramatic unities and the artificial sense of time in Shakespeare’s plays. It argues that dramatic time is a constructed illusion, not a direct mirror of real hours, and that the poet’s craft preserves a continuous, watchable progression for the audience. The analysis centers on The Merchant of Venice, showing how timing, delays, and pacing shape action and meaning.

- Learn the idea that stage time is designed to keep spectators engaged, not to reproduce calendar time.
- See how a single night can carry the action across multiple scenes and characters.
- Understand how contemporaries and editors weighed these laws and their implications for authorship and authenticity.
- Access historical notes and correspondence that illuminate the development and reception of the time-analysis theory.

Ideal for readers of Shakespearean criticism, stage history, and the long tradition of examining how time and illusion work in drama.