Shakespeare and emotional expression : finding Feeling through colour / Bríd Phillips.
Shakespeare and Emotional Expression offers an exciting new way of considering emotional transactions in Shakespearean drama. The book is significant in its scope and originality as it uses the innovative medium of colour terms and references to interrogate the early modern emotional register. By ex...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
[2022]
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Shakespeare.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | Shakespeare and Emotional Expression offers an exciting new way of considering emotional transactions in Shakespearean drama. The book is significant in its scope and originality as it uses the innovative medium of colour terms and references to interrogate the early modern emotional register. By examining contextual and cultural influences, this work explores the impact these influences have on the relationship between colour and emotion and argues for the importance of considering chromatic references as a means to uncover emotional significances. Using a broad range of documents, it offers a wider understanding of affective expression in the early modern period through a detailed examination of several dramatic works. Although colour meanings fluctuate, by paying particular attention to contextual clues and the historically specific cultural situations of Shakespeare's plays, this book uncovers emotional significances that are not always apparent to modern audiences and readers. Through its examination of the nexus between the history of emotions and the social and cultural uses of colour in early modern drama, Shakespeare and Emotional Expression adds to our understanding of the expressive and affective possibilities in Shakespearean drama. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vii, 176 pages). |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1000556395 9781000556391 |