A Feast Of Strange Opinions Classical And Early Modern Paradoxes On The English Renaissance Stage 1 2

Author : Marco Duranti,Emanuel Stelzer
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788846768377

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A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 by Marco Duranti,Emanuel Stelzer Pdf

This volume originates as a continuation of the previous volume in the CEMP series (1.1) and aims at furthering scholarly interest in the nature and function of theatrical paradox in early modern plays, considering how classical paradoxical culture was received in Renaissance England. The book is articulated into three sections: the first, “Paradoxical Culture and Drama”, is devoted to an investigation of classical definitions of paradox and the dramatic uses of paradox in ancient Greek drama; the second, “Paradoxes in/of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama” looks at the functions and uses of paradox in the play-texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; finally, the essays in “Paradoxes in Drama and the Digital” examine how the Digital Humanities can enrich our knowledge of paradoxes in classical and early modern drama.

Author : Emanuel Stelzer,Marco Duranti
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9791221017090

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A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.1 by Emanuel Stelzer,Marco Duranti Pdf

This volume aims at providing a comprehensive view of the performative as well as heuristic potentialities of the theatrical paradox in early modern plays. We are interested in discussing the functions and uses of paradoxes in early modern English drama by investigating how classical paradoxes were received and mediated in the Renaissance and by considering authors’ and playing companies’ purposes in choosing to explore the questions broached by such paradoxes. The book is articulated into three sections: the first, “Paradoxes of the Real”, is devoted to a theoretical investigation of the dramatic uses of paradoxes; the second, “Staging Mock Encomia” looks at the multiple dramatic functions of mock encomia and at the specific situations in which paradoxical praises were inserted in early modern plays; finally, the essays in “Paradoxical Dialogues” examine the connections between a number of early modern mock encomia and ancient or contemporary models.

Author : Fabio Ciambella
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788846767363

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Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 2: The Tempest by Fabio Ciambella Pdf

Is Shakespeare’s The Tempest a Mediterranean play? This volume explores the relationship between The Tempest and the Mediterranean Sea and analyses it from different perspectives. Some essays focus on close readings of the text in order to explore the importance of the Mediterranean Sea for the genesis of the play and the narration of the past and present events in which the Shakespearean characters participate. Other chapters investigate the relationship between the Shakespearean play, its resources from the Mediterranean Graeco-Latin past and its afterlives in twentieth-century poems looking at the Mediterranean dimension of the play. Moreover, influences on and of The Tempest are investigated, looking at how Italian Renaissance music may have influenced some choices concerning Ariel’s song(s) and how The Tempest has shaped the production of twentieth-century Italian directors. Finally, other chapters try to reaffirm the centrality of the Mediterranean Sea in The Tempest, bringing to the fore new textual evidence in support of the Mediterraneity of the play, by adopting and/or criticising recent approaches.

Author : Dr Peter G Platt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781409475156

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Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox by Dr Peter G Platt Pdf

Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.

Author : Isabel Rivers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134844173

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Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry by Isabel Rivers Pdf

Since publication in 1979 Isabel Rivers' sourcebook has established itself as the essential guide to English Renaissance poetry. It: provides an account of the main classical and Christian ideas, outlining their meaning, their origins and their transmission to the Renaissance; illustrates the ways in which Renaissance poetry drew on classical and Christian ideas; contains extracts from key classical and Christian texts and relates these to the extracts of the English poems which draw on them; includes suggestions for further reading, and an invaluable bibliographical appendix.

Author : Janine Riviere
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351744133

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Dreams in Early Modern England by Janine Riviere Pdf

Dreams in Early Modern England offers an in-depth exploration of the variety of different ways in which early modern people understood and interpreted dreams, from medical explanations to political, religious or supernatural associations. Through examining how dreams were discussed and presented in a range of diffrerent texts, including both published works and private notes and diaries, this book highlights the many coexisting strands of thought that surrounded dreams in early modern England. Most significantly, it places early modern perceptions of dreams within the social context of the period through an evaluation of how they were shaped by key events of the time, such as the Reformation and the English Civil Wars. The chapters also explore contemporary experiences and ideas of dreams in relation to dream divination, religious visions, sleep, nightmares and sleep disorders. This book will be of great value to students and academics with an interest in dreams and the understanding of dreams, sleep and nightmares in early modern English society.

Author : Michel Foucault
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780307833105

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Madness and Civilization by Michel Foucault Pdf

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such people began to be considered a threat, asylums were first built, and walls were erected between the "insane" and the rest of humanity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1512 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Arts
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119279698

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Arts & Humanities Citation Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bosiljka Raditsa
Publisher : Metropolitan Museum of Art
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art, Renaissance
ISBN : 9780870999536

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The Art of Renaissance Europe by Bosiljka Raditsa Pdf

Works in the Museum's collection that embody the Renaissance interest in classical learning, fame, and beautiful objects are illustrated and discussed in this resource and will help educators introduce the richness and diversity of Renaissance art to their students. Primary source texts explore the great cities and powerful personalities of the age. By studying gesture and narrative, students can work as Renaissance artists did when they created paintings and drawings. Learning about perspective, students explore the era's interest in science and mathematics. Through projects based on poetic forms of the time, students write about their responses to art. The activities and lesson plans are designed for a variety of classroom needs and can be adapted to a specific curriculum as well as used for independent study. The resource also includes a bibliography and glossary.

Author : Beatrice Groves
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107533856

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The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature by Beatrice Groves Pdf

This book explores the fall of Jerusalem and restores to its rightful place one of the key explanatory tropes of early modern English culture. Showing the importance of Jerusalem's destruction in sermons, ballads, puppet shows and provincial drama of the period, Beatrice Groves brings a new perspective to works by canonical authors such as Marlowe, Nashe, Shakespeare, Dekker and Milton. The volume also offers a historically compelling and wide-ranging account of major shifts in cultural attitudes towards Judaism by situating texts in their wider cultural and theological context. Groves examines the continuities and differences between medieval and early modern theatre, London as an imagined community and the way that narratives about Jerusalem and Judaism informed notions of English identity in the wake of the Reformation. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, this volume will interest researchers and upper-level students of early modern literature, religious studies and theatre.

Author : Simon Smith,Jacqueline Watson,Amy Kenny
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781526146465

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The senses in early modern England, 1558–1660 by Simon Smith,Jacqueline Watson,Amy Kenny Pdf

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Considering a wide range of early modern texts, performances and artworks, the essays in this collection demonstrate how attention to the senses illuminates the literature, art and culture of early modern England. Examining canonical and less familiar literary works alongside early modern texts ranging from medical treatises to conduct manuals via puritan polemic and popular ballads, the collection offers a new view of the senses in early modern England. The volume offers dedicated essays on each of the five senses, each relating works of art to their cultural moments, whilst elsewhere the volume considers the senses collectively in particular cultural contexts. It also pursues the sensory experiences that early modern subjects encountered through the very acts of engaging with texts, performances and artworks. This book will appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, to those working in sensory studies, and to anyone interested in the art and life of early modern England.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Books
ISBN : UCD:31175019729063

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T・L・S, the Times Literary Supplement by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barbara A. Kaminska
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004408401

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Pieter Bruegel the Elder by Barbara A. Kaminska Pdf

In Pieter Bruegel the Elder: Religious Art for the Urban Community Barbara Kaminska offers the first book-length study of Bruegel’s biblical paintings, and argues that they were inherently linked to Antwerp’s religious, socio-economic, and cultural transformation.

Author : Martha Moulsworth
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015032846134

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My Name was Martha by Martha Moulsworth Pdf

The poem offers a complicated mixture of self-assertion and deference, of shrewdness and wisdom, of self-respect and selfless love. Essays placing the "Memorandum" in its historical, literary, and theoretical contexts follow the text of the poem itself.

Author : Paul Fussell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780671792251

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Class by Paul Fussell Pdf

This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.