{"product_id":"reason-diminished-shakespeare-and-the-marvelous-9780803237148","title":"Reason Diminished: Shakespeare and the Marvelous","description":"\u003cp\u003eReason Diminished examines the power that wonder wields over reason in Shakespeares late plays  both philosophically and dramaturgically. Peter Platt posits that  in these famous plays  wonder and the marvelous are assigned preeminent positions over reason and order. In fact  Platt argues that the marvelous played a crucial role in Renaissance culture as a whole. The book opens by surveying theories of wonder from Aristotles Poetics and Metaphysics through the writings of Renaissance theorists. A crucial chapter examines the many ways that the Renaissance attempted to bring the marvelous to bear on the world around it. The next two chapters look at the tension between realism and the marvelous in Elizabethan fiction and the theatrical tradition of the masque. Part of the book examines the role of wonder and the marvelous in Shakespeares romances: Pericles  Cymbeline  The Winters Tale  and The Tempest. Shakespeares romances  writes Platt  represent various experiments with the marvelous. Platt argues that late Shakespeare . . . invites the spectators to engage inand in some cases to shapethe marvels on the stage before them. A persuasive and resourceful study of some of Shakespeares most celebrated works  Reason Diminished will add significantly to the ongoing reassessment of Shakespeares plays and the world in which they took shape.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923546669109,"sku":"ByrdShop_0803237146","price":347.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780803237148.jpg?v=1794107089","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/reason-diminished-shakespeare-and-the-marvelous-9780803237148","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}