Shakespeare's Professional Skills
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
What does it truly mean to be a master of the dramatic craft? Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, argues with authoritative precision that William Shakespeare's genius was not merely poetic inspiration but a rigorously developed, deliberate set of professional skills — skills that transformed the Elizabethan stage into a mirror of the human condition. Shakespeare's Professional Skills presents a meticulous examination of the playwright's technical command, dissecting his stagecraft, dramatic construction, and rhetorical strategies to reveal the consummate artisan behind the immortal verse. Coghill's scholarship is at once rigorous and deeply readable, drawing on close textual analysis to illuminate how Shakespeare orchestrated character, plot, and language with the precision of a seasoned theatrical professional. Writing in the grand tradition of Oxford literary criticism, Coghill champions a view of Shakespeare not as a naive natural genius, but as a conscious, calculating craftsman whose every dramatic choice was made in service of the stage. For anyone who has ever wondered what truly lies beneath the surface of the world's most celebrated plays, this landmark work offers a compelling and revelatory answer.
Author: Nevill Coghill
Format: Hardback
Published: 1964, Cambridge University Press
Genre: Literary theory
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
What does it truly mean to be a master of the dramatic craft? Nevill Coghill, Merton Professor of English Literature at the University of Oxford, argues with authoritative precision that William Shakespeare's genius was not merely poetic inspiration but a rigorously developed, deliberate set of professional skills — skills that transformed the Elizabethan stage into a mirror of the human condition. Shakespeare's Professional Skills presents a meticulous examination of the playwright's technical command, dissecting his stagecraft, dramatic construction, and rhetorical strategies to reveal the consummate artisan behind the immortal verse. Coghill's scholarship is at once rigorous and deeply readable, drawing on close textual analysis to illuminate how Shakespeare orchestrated character, plot, and language with the precision of a seasoned theatrical professional. Writing in the grand tradition of Oxford literary criticism, Coghill champions a view of Shakespeare not as a naive natural genius, but as a conscious, calculating craftsman whose every dramatic choice was made in service of the stage. For anyone who has ever wondered what truly lies beneath the surface of the world's most celebrated plays, this landmark work offers a compelling and revelatory answer.