Evans, Edward <br/><br/>
Shakespeare's Mirrors 

 -  Taylor & Francis  Routledge [Imprint]  2024 
 - 1 online resource 
 - Routledge Studies in Shakespeare .
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<br/><br/> 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. 
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<br/><br/><br/>eng 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781032726984 9781032726991 9781032727004 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.4324/9781032726991  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Biography, Literature and Literary studies<br/>Classic and pre-20th century plays<br/>Interest qualifiers<br/>Literary studies: plays and playwrights<br/>Literature: history and criticism<br/>Plays, playscripts<br/>Relating to specific and significant cultural interests<br/>Relating to specific groups and cultures or social and cultural interests
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>early modern literature hamlet metadrama Shakespeare soliloquy