Shakespeare Beyond Science, Volume 74 - (Essential Essays) by Sky Gilbert (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Shakespeare wrote at a unique historical turning point: the world was understood through poetry -- rather than through the science of observing it. In <i>Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World</i>, Sky Gilbert's radical new research locates Shakespeare as a disciple of the Greek rhetorician Hermogenes, and a student of the Neo-Platonist Johannes Sturm. No, not just another 'interpretation' of the meaning of Shakespeare's work. Instead, a radical approach to Shakespeare as magician and rhetorician, as a post-structuralist, more concerned with form than content, and confident of the dangerous magical power of words not only to persuade but to construct our consciousness.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><i>Shakespeare Beyond Science: When Poetry Was the World</i> approaches Shakespeare as rhetorician. This means jettisoning the yearning to find the true meaning of Shakespeare's texts ? as Shakespeare wrote at a time when poetry was not meant to be interpreted, but experienced as a window on the world. Sky Gilbert looks at Shakespeare in the context of the style wars that obsessed the early modern period, placing Shakespeare on the side of Lyly, Nashe, Sturm and the Greek rhetorician Hermogenes, against the new forward-looking more scientific approach to literature, as expressed by early modern philosopher Petrus Ramus (whose followers in England were Sydney and Gabriel Harvey). In the end Shakespeare was a post-structuralist, more concerned with form than content, and confident of the dangerous magical power of words not only to persuade but to construct our consciousness.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Gilbert has a real gift for explaining complicated intellectual ideas with conviction and clarity, and for keeping his prose cheerful - however deep he burrows. Frances Yates had that too.</p>--Alexander Waugh, author of The House of Wittgenstein<br><br><p>Gilbert has spoken eloquently about society's persecution and misunderstanding of non-conformity- and that's a theme that goes beyond the specifics of homosexuality.</p>-- "The Toronto Star"<br><br><p>It is the best book I've read this year, one of the most interesting books I've ever encountered.</p>-- "Barcza"<br><br><p>Sky Gilbert's second feature is a step up the professional ladder from his first</p>-- "Variety"<br><br><p>The truth is, Sky Gilbert has more theatrical flair in his little finger than anybody else in the Toronto scene....It is a measure of Sky Gilbert's theatrical genius</p>-- "The Globe and Mail"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Sky Gilbert is a poet, novelist, playwright, filmmaker, theatre director, and drag queen extraordinaire, and one of Canada's most controversial artistic forces. He was co-founder and artistic director of Toronto's Buddies in Bad Times Theatre -- one of the world's largest gay and lesbian theatres -- from 1979 to 1997. He has had more than 40 plays produced, and written 7 critically acclaimed novels and three award winning poetry collections. He has received three Dora Mavor Moore Awards (<i>The Whore's Revenge, Suzie Goo, Private Secretary, The Situationists</i>) as well as the Pauline McGibbon Award, and The Silver Ticket Award. There is a street in Toronto named after him: 'Sky Gilbert Lane.' His play about the criminalization of AIDS ?<i>It's All Tru</i> ? will be published by Playwrights Canada Press in 2020. The workshop of his one act opera about Shakespeare: <i>Shakespeare's Criminal</i> (with music by Dustin Peters) was performed in April 2019 to critical acclaim https: //barczablog.com/2019/04/27/workshop-of-shakespeares-criminal/ . Dr. Gilbert is a professor of creative writing and theatre at the University of Guelph.
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