TY - BOOK
T1 - Speed and Flight in Shakespeare
AU - Steggle, Matthew
PY - 2022/1/22
Y1 - 2022/1/22
N2 - Shakespeare's plays are fascinated by the problems of speed and flight. They are repeatedly interested in humans, animals, spirits, and objects that move very fast; become airborne; and in some cases even travel into space. In Speed and Flight in Shakespeare, the first study of any kind on the subject, Steggle looks at how Shakespeare's language explores ideas of moving fast and flying, and what theatrical resources his plays use to represent these states. Shakespeare has, this book argues, an aesthetic of speed and flight. Featuring chapters on The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Macbeth, and The Tempest, this study opens up a new field around the "historical phenomenology" of early modern speed.
AB - Shakespeare's plays are fascinated by the problems of speed and flight. They are repeatedly interested in humans, animals, spirits, and objects that move very fast; become airborne; and in some cases even travel into space. In Speed and Flight in Shakespeare, the first study of any kind on the subject, Steggle looks at how Shakespeare's language explores ideas of moving fast and flying, and what theatrical resources his plays use to represent these states. Shakespeare has, this book argues, an aesthetic of speed and flight. Featuring chapters on The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Macbeth, and The Tempest, this study opens up a new field around the "historical phenomenology" of early modern speed.
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-93657-0
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-93657-0
M3 - Authored book
SN - 9783030936587
SN - 9783030936563
T3 - Palgrave Pivot
BT - Speed and Flight in Shakespeare
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -