{"product_id":"9789027201331","title":"Shakespearean Perspectives: Essays on poetic negotiation","description":"David Lucking sees Shakespeare’s plays as negotiating tensions between a number of alternative, and sometimes mutually antagonistic perspectives. Some of these perspectives are associated with particular languages, cultures and texts, while others involve philosophical issues such as the nature of personal ontology and distinctions between reality and dream, being and nothingness. In elaborating his insights Lucking draws extensive comparisons with Lucretius’ \u003ci\u003eDe Rerum Natura\u003c\/i\u003e, and between Sophocles’ Theban plays and \u003ci\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/i\u003e, and he also pays close attention to \u003ci\u003eA Midsummer Night’s Dream\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHenry V\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eJulius Caesar\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHamlet\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eAntony and Cleopatra\u003c\/i\u003e. Re-assessing a wide range of earlier commentary, his nine essays confirm the lasting value of apposite contextualization in tandem with detailed close reading.","brand":"John Benjamins Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022468366576,"sku":"9789027201331","price":143.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9789027201331_p0.jpg?v=1763669766","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9789027201331","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}