The Problem Plays of Shakespeare Double Vision in Character and Action

The present book is a pioneering work in the interpretation of Shakespeare's problem plays. It strikes a new line of approach developing the concept of double vision to explain the contradictions and enigmas in all the recognized problem plays of Shakespeare. The controversial issues in the three Problem Comedies, Hamlet, Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar are resolved by a plausible analysis of their characters and situations. In a detailed analysis of each play, all those baffling problems which have been attributed to deficiency of creative power or imperfect transmutation, or otherwise treated as insoluble mysteries, have been shown to be quite intelligible in the light of Shakespeare's double vision. Each play emerges as a stage in the dramatist's progressive illumination of the human condition.

Dr. Seema Raizada (b. 1965) has had an exceptionally brilliant academic career with a uniform first. A Post Graduate in English Literature from Jiwaji University, Gwalior, she was awarded Ph.D. degree on 'A Study of Double Vision in Shakespeare's Problem Plays'. Presently, she is working for D.Litt. taking the entire Shakespeare canon for a fresh exploration.

Dr. Seema Raizada is an Assistant Professor in Government Hamidia Post Graduate Arts and Commerce College, Bhopal.

Shakespeare's plays have always been not only a rich source of entertainment and pleasure but also a wide field for the student and the critic to explore further in whatever part they wish. Apparently, all parts of the field bear the marks of the toil of critics and, upto a certain point, the whole of Shakespeare has been explained and significances brought out. Different schools of Shakespeare criticism have laboured according to their lights to interpret all his plays. But it is as good as a lark can soar up to the sun. It is taking wing and the upward flight that invariably results in a new perspective. It is also true that one's insights may reveal an altogether new way of discerning what lies yet beyond and forge an instrument to make it intelligible.

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