Chapter 4 “The Mirror up to Nature”
Proposal review
Hamlet’s Metaphysical Revolution in the Purpose of Playing
| dc.contributor.author | Evans, Edward | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-05-21T13:22:28Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-05-21T13:22:28Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/102211 | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 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. | en_US |
| dc.language | English | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DD Plays, playscripts::DDA Classic and pre-20th century plays | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::5 Interest qualifiers::5P Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests::5PX Relating to specific and significant cultural interests | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism | en_US |
| dc.subject.classification | thema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DS Literature: history and criticism::DSG Literary studies: plays and playwrights | en_US |
| dc.subject.other | Shakespeare,hamlet,early modern literature,metadrama,soliloquy | en_US |
| dc.title | Chapter 4 “The Mirror up to Nature” | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Hamlet’s Metaphysical Revolution in the Purpose of Playing | en_US |
| dc.type | chapter | |
| oapen.identifier.doi | 10.4324/9781032726991-6 | en_US |
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| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781032726984 | en_US |
| oapen.relation.isbn | 9781032727004 | en_US |
| oapen.imprint | Routledge | en_US |
| oapen.pages | 47 | en_US |
| peerreview.anonymity | Single-anonymised | |
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| peerreview.open.review | No | |
| peerreview.publish.responsibility | Publisher | |
| peerreview.review.stage | Pre-publication | |
| peerreview.review.type | Proposal | |
| peerreview.reviewer.type | Internal editor | |
| peerreview.reviewer.type | External peer reviewer | |
| peerreview.title | Proposal review | |
| oapen.review.comments | Taylor & Francis open access titles are reviewed as a minimum at proposal stage by at least two external peer reviewers and an internal editor (additional reviews may be sought and additional content reviewed as required). |
