{"id":317,"date":"2022-02-05T11:53:08","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T11:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/?p=317"},"modified":"2022-02-05T22:42:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T22:42:13","slug":"shakespeares-poetics-263pp-cambridge-university-press-paperback-re-issue-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare\u2019s Poetics<\/em> (263pp) Cambridge University Press, Paperback Re-Issue 2010 of the 1986 hardcover."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u201cThis is a thoroughly documented compendium of Shakespeare\u2019s implied views on his own art \u2026 genuinely illuminating comparisons with Montaigne and Bacon \u2026\u201d (Year\u2019s Work in English Studies<\/i>, 67, 1986)<\/p>\n

\u201cProf. Faas has provided a scholarly and fascinating piece of research. As he admits, the task he has set himself is a near-impossible one \u2013 but it is nonetheless well worth the effort of research and study.
His approach is threefold: Each of the characters\u2019 statements is interpreted: \u20181. within the context of the work in which it occurs, 2. within the context of the Shakespeare\u2019s oeuvre in general, and 3. against the background of comparable non-Shakespearean writing of the period.\u2019\u201d
The author places Shakespeare\u2019s thought in the context of contemporary philosophy and criticism, especially that of Bacon and Montaigne. His analysis will interest both Shakespeare scholars and students of literary creativity.\u201d (Margaret Hallissy,\u00a0Book Review<\/i>, 1986)<\/p>\n

\u201cMr Faas\u2019s work is the first full-length study of Shakespeare\u2019s poetics and its scope is comprehensive \u2026 Mr Faas shows that Shakespeare\u2019s small agreement with the common traditional Renaissance critical theories is the product of his affinity whether or not he knew their writings directly with ideas propounded by Bacon and Montaigne. Their \u2018radical new view of life\u2019 (p. 80) which Shakespeare shared may be called \u2018anti-essentialism\u2019 \u2026 In short, even though Mr Faas does not describe it in these terms, Shakespeare\u2019s poetic was radical, subversive, and existentialist. In subsequent persuasive pages we learn of \u2018Shakespeare\u2019s inverted Platonism\u2019 (p. 126) and discover that Shakespeare\u2019s \u2018fine frenzy\u2019 was crucially different from the traditional\u00a0furor poeticus<\/i>\u00a0(p. 139). Finally, in a discussion of the comprehensive theme of art and nature based on\u00a0The Winter\u2019s Tale<\/i>, Mr Faas concludes that \u2018to the anti-essentialist … there is only one nature, the world of flux and cyclical return, of which human artistic endeavour is as much a part as any \u2018natural process\u2019 (p. 196). Mr Faas\u2019s learned, humane book should be read and re-read by everyone interested in poetics, Shakespeare, or the Renaissance.\u201d (T.H. Howard-Hill,\u00a0Review of English Studies<\/i>, 38, 151, 1987, 386-87)<\/p>\n

\u201cThe book is learned, clearly written, with many references, footnotes and an extensive bibliography. It has many fascinating insights into other writers as well as into some major Shakespeare texts. It is probably not for the general reader but is of very special interest to anyone concerned with drama and poetry or anyone who studies Renaissance thought in general.\u201d (Margaret Penman,\u00a0Toronto Star<\/i>, October 1986)<\/p>\n

\u201cFaas demonstrates that Shakespeare, like Montaigne and Bacon, espouses an anti-essentialist poetic, rejecting the orthodoxies of his day and dissolving the traditional dichotomy between art and nature. For Shakespeare, Faas argues, imagination dictates to reason throughout the creative process, celebrating not the truth behind things, but the final, mysterious reality of a nature forever in flux \u2026 thoroughly researched, massively documented and painstakingly indexed \u2026 serious students (i.e.: graduate and upper division undergraduate) will want to review the evidence Faas amasses.\u201d (D.O. Dickerson,\u00a0Choice<\/i>, November 1986)<\/p>\n

\u201c[Shakespeare] refuses the rigid categories of Renaissance theoreticians, being willing to use whatever ideas suit his needs of the moment. This is because, counter to the usual assumptions of contemporary criticism and practice, he has a high regard for the imaginative powers of his audience; he consistently disrupts the stage illusion while trying to make his spectators lose themselves in the spectacle\u2026Shakespeare\u2019s Poetics<\/i>\u00a0is very thorough in examining everything that can be used in reconstructing a Shakespearian poetic theory.\u201d (Peter Hyland,\u00a0Theatre Research International<\/i>, 12, Summer 1987, 171-72)<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThis is a thoroughly documented compendium of Shakespeare\u2019s implied views on his own art \u2026 genuinely illuminating comparisons with Montaigne and Bacon \u2026\u201d (Year\u2019s Work in English Studies, 67, 1986) \u201cProf. Faas has provided a scholarly and fascinating piece of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ekbertfaas.net\/majorworks\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}