Foreword
In his famous generic enumeration of dramatic genres, Polonius ends on an intriguing ‘scene individable’ (2.2.365). Harold Jenkins was the first to reject the meaning of this enthralling term as referring to the unity of place, preferring to understand it as part of other ‘unclassifiable’ genres (2...
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Arrêt sur scène / Scene Focus
2024
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| Online dostop: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Izvleček: | In his famous generic enumeration of dramatic genres, Polonius ends on an intriguing ‘scene individable’ (2.2.365). Harold Jenkins was the first to reject the meaning of this enthralling term as referring to the unity of place, preferring to understand it as part of other ‘unclassifiable’ genres (259). G. R. Hibbard offers a more inspiring reading as ‘plays with no breaks of the performance’ (224). Although the Oxford English Dictionary favours the Aristotelian reading with a mention of Jenk... |
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