| Shakespearean Representation: Mimesis and Modernity in Elizabethan Tragedy: Mimesis and Modernity in Elizabethan Tragedy Subjects: Shakespeare William 1564-1616 -- Tragedies; English drama -- 17th century -- History and criticism; Mimesis in literature; Influence (Literary artistic etc.); We are often told that Shakespeare is our contemporary, yet we insist just as often on the Elizabethan quality of his work as it reflects a culture remote from our own. Beginning with this paradox, Howard Felperin explores the question of modernity in literature. He directs his attention toward several older poets and examines Shakespeare in particular to show how literary modernity depends, not on chronological considerations, but on the process of mimesis, or imitation, that art has traditionally claimed for itself. |