The Refusal to Paint: Shakespeare's Poetry of Place

Authors

Judith Dundas, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Abstract

In lieu of an abstract, the first paragraph of the essay follows:

Much of the interest in "place" or locality in discussions of Shakespeare's plays has centered on Elizabethan staging and how place references are to be interpreted.¹ When he refers to a prison or a tavern, for example, how were these shown on the open stage? But there is another aspect of these allusions to place, and that has to do solely with Shakespeare's poetic mimesis: what does he wish us to see and how does he make us see it? I am therefore going to disregard the requirements of staging and will pay attention, instead, to his use of language to evoke place.

Recommended Citation

Dundas, Judith (1989) "The Refusal to Paint: Shakespeare's Poetry of Place," Comparative Drama: Vol. 23: Iss. 4, Article 3.
Available at: https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/compdr/vol23/iss4/3