1982
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-06145-7
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Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time

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“…. a concept realized by mental action," see Kastan (1982). Although Kastan leaves Augustine's clear debt to Aristotle unmentioned here, he nonetheless helpfully recalls the theologian's conception of time as dependent upon a kind of mental "extension" by which "movement is measured" (10-11).…”
Section: Notesmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…. a concept realized by mental action," see Kastan (1982). Although Kastan leaves Augustine's clear debt to Aristotle unmentioned here, he nonetheless helpfully recalls the theologian's conception of time as dependent upon a kind of mental "extension" by which "movement is measured" (10-11).…”
Section: Notesmentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Using dramatic genre to categorise Shakespeare's negotiation of time is something that David Kastan returns to nearly 20 years after the publication of Toliver's article. In his book‐length study, Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time , Kastan outlines: the time of the histories, which are “linear and open”; the time of the tragedies, which are “linear and terrifyingly closed”; and the time of the romances, which are linear and decisively, yet somewhat ambiguously, concluded by “pregnant moments” (26, 31).…”
Section: Schemes and Themes: Shakespeare And Time With A Capital ‘T’mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This is hardly surprising, given that both Althusser's and Foucault's theoretical projects rest on static, closed, discontinuous, synchronic and essentially deterministic models of history, whereas Shakespeare's humanist historical model, which is opposed to determinism, is dynamic, diachronic, contingent and, as Kastan argues, 'open-ended'. 126 In other words, cultural historicism is fundamentally opposed to Shakespeare's own project of humanising history, so it follows that the majority of its practitioners tend to produce readings of the history plays that emphasise their supposed advocacy of the Elizabethan ideological state apparatus while neglecting Shakespeare's close attention to individual characters.…”
Section: Shakespeare's Humanist Historiographymentioning
confidence: 99%