{"product_id":"indirections-9781442639775","title":"Indirections","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe precise relation between the spectator and the work of art was a matter of great interest to late Renaissance and baroque artists, playwrights as well as painters. In Shakespeare's plays the relation between audience and stage life is crucial. The plays constantly remind the audience of the complex fictiveness of their experience yet they also project a reality specifically through illusion. \u003cem\u003eIndirections\u003c\/em\u003e is a study of twelve plays in which Shakespeare sets up situations and relationships between the characters analogous to the relationship established between audience and play.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the varied uses of illusion, deceit, disguise, and manipulation in the plays, both comedies and tragedies, and traces Shakespeare's use of illusion through his career — from the buoyant optimism of the great comedies and the ambiguity of the middle years to the new richness and power in the romances.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDawson suggests that the way characters respond to illusory\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408362021207,"sku":"9781442639775","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442639775.jpg?v=1730502593","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/indirections-9781442639775","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}