Almost Shakespeare

Author : James R. Keller,Leslie Stratyner
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 078648103X

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Almost Shakespeare by James R. Keller,Leslie Stratyner Pdf

In the past two decades, Othello has tried out for the basketball team, Macbeth has taken over a fast food joint and King Lear has moved to an Iowa farm--Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. This collection of essays addresses the use of Shakespearean narratives, themes, imagery and characterizations in non-Shakespearian cinema. The essays explore how Shakespeare and his work are manipulated within the popular media and explore topics such as racism, jealousy, misogyny and nationality. The submissions concentrate on film and television programs that are adaptations of Shakespearean plays, including My Own Private Idaho, CSI-Miami, A Thousand Acres, Prospero's Books, O, 10 Things I Hate About You, Withnail and I, Get Over It, and The West Wing. Each chapter includes notes and a list of works cited. A full bibliography completes the work; it is divided into bibliographies and filmographies, general studies and essays, derivatives based on a single play, derivatives based on several, and derivatives based on Shakespeare as a character. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Author : Kate Emery Pogue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313065514

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Shakespeare's Friends by Kate Emery Pogue Pdf

Taking seriously the commonplace that a man is known by the company he keeps—and particularly by the company he keeps over his lifetime—one can learn more about just about anyone by learning more about his friends. By applying this notion to Shakespeare, this book offers insight into the life of the most famous playwright in history, and one of the most elusive figures in literature. The book consists of sketches of Shakespeare's contact and relationships with the people known to have been close friends or acquaintances, revealing aspects of the poet's life by emphasizing ways in which his life was intertwined with theirs. Though it is difficult to get to know this most famous of playwrights, through this work readers can gain insight into aspects of his life and personality that may otherwise have been hidden. Shakespeare, more than any other writer in the western world, based much of his work on the consequences of friendship. Given the value placed on friends in his writing, many readers have wondered about the role friendship played in his own life. This work gives readers the chance to learn more about Shakespeare's friends, who they were and what they can tell us about Shakespeare and his times. For instance, Richard Field was a boyhood friend with whom Shakespeare went to school in Stratford. Field became a well-known London printer. The details of Field's life illuminate both the details of Shakespeare's boyhood education and the poet's relationship with the printing, publishing, and book-selling world in London. Francis Collins, a lawyer who represented Shakespeare in a number of legal dealings, drafted both versions of Shakespeare's will. This life-long friend was one of the last men eve to see Shakespeare pick up a pen to write. Through these vivid and animated sketches, readers will come to know about Shakespeare's life and times. While the book has a lively, accessible narrative tone within chapters, its organization and features make it highly useful to the school library market as well as the academic world. It contains cross references, a detailed Table of Contents and a highly organized structure with uniformity across sections and chapters. The writing is accessible and could be easily used by upper-level high school students looking to augment school assignments.

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781586174132

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Through Shakespeare's Eyes by Joseph Pearce Pdf

Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs.

Author : Thomas Fairman Ordish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : London (England)
ISBN : HARVARD:HNLE8B

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Shakespeare's London by Thomas Fairman Ordish Pdf

Author : Fred Sedgwick
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-18
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781441180773

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Resources for Teaching Shakespeare: 11-16 by Fred Sedgwick Pdf

Despite being dead for nearly 400 years, Shakespeare's plays and plots are very much alive in the modern curriculum. For many of those required to study him, however, their enthusiasm is dead and buried. Aimed at those teaching Shakespeare to students aged from 11-16, Fred Sedgwick provides tried-and-tested lessons accompanied by photocopiable and downloadable resources to enable teachers to develop their practice and inspire their students. This fantastic resource provides lessons to engage and enlighten students and features activities, teaching strategies and schemes informed by current ideas about teaching and learning and the curriculum. It's user-friendly layout is designed to assist busy teachers, and the photocopiable material accompanying each activity is also available for download from the companion website.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521850746

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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare by Peter Holland Pdf

Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of the play 'Macbeth'.

Author : John Lennard
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 87 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781847600844

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William Shakespeare: Richard II by John Lennard Pdf

Professor Hattaway's study places Richard II within the contexts of Shakespeare's life and of the strenuous political debates that were taking place at the end of the reign of Elizabeth I. It offers a commentary upon the unfolding action of the play, stressing possible alternative readings of the text, and noting how directors have made particular decisions about these. It ends with two shorter linked chapters on aspects of the play's critical traditions and on selected stage productions.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11665164

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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Professor Marina Tarlinskaja
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472430281

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Shakespeare and the Versification of English Drama, 1561-1642 by Professor Marina Tarlinskaja Pdf

Surveying the development and varieties of blank verse in the English playhouses, this book is a natural history of iambic pentameter in English. Marina Tarlinskaja’s statistical analysis of versification focuses on Shakespeare, but places his work in the literary context of the times. Her results offer new ways to think about the dating of plays, the attribution of anonymous texts, and how collaborators divided their task in co-authored dramas.

Author : Bertram Leon Joseph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317646242

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Acting Shakespeare by Bertram Leon Joseph Pdf

How did the actors for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays make his characters come to life, how did they convey his words? Can modern directors, actors, and even library readers of Shakespeare learn from them? Creating character and making the Elizabethan playwright’s poetry compelling for the audience is a problem which has seldom been resolved in modern times. This book demonstrates the hard course a modern actor must follow to make real and truthful the words he speaks, and the action and emotion underlying them. With examples and simple exercises, this book helps with the preparation for the great task – providing the actor with a combination that unlocks the Bard's English. Starting with how theatrical speech was understood in Renaissance England, it looks at figures of speech, the powers of persuasion, and the passion and rhythm inherent in the language.

Author : David Bevington
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781444302745

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Shakespeare's Ideas by David Bevington Pdf

An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of thephilosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a"great mind". Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender,politics and political theory, writing and acting, religiouscontroversy and issues of faith, skepticism and misanthropy, andclosure Explores Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a"great mind"

Author : James Russell Lowell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CORNELL:31924022026763

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Latest literary essays and addresses by James Russell Lowell Pdf

Author : Michael Blanding
Publisher : Hachette Books
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780316493284

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In Shakespeare's Shadow by Michael Blanding Pdf

The true story of a self-taught sleuth's quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world's most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives. What if Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare . . . but someone else wrote him first? Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy and Elizabethan courtier Sir Thomas North. Unlike those who believe someone else secretly wrote Shakespeare, McCarthy argues that Shakespeare wrote the plays, but he adapted them from source plays written by North decades before. In Shakespeare's Shadow alternates between the enigmatic life of North, the intrigues of the Tudor court, the rivalries of English Renaissance theater, and academic outsider McCarthy's attempts to air his provocative ideas in the clubby world of Shakespearean scholarship. Through it all, Blanding employs his keen journalistic eye to craft a captivating drama, upending our understanding of the beloved playwright and his "singular genius." Winner of the 2021 International Book Award in Narrative Non-Fiction

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWNS7Q

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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Hamlet. 1877 by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : John M. Rollett
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476619002

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William Stanley as Shakespeare by John M. Rollett Pdf

Presenting striking new evidence, this book shows that “William Shakespeare” was the pen name of William Stanley, son of the Earl of Derby. Born in 1561, he was educated at Oxford, travelled for three years abroad, and studied law in London, mixing with poets and playwrights. In 1592 Spenser recorded that Stanley had written several plays. In 1594 he unexpectedly inherited the earldom—hence the pen name. He became a Knight of the Garter in 1601, eligible to help bear the canopy over King James at his coronation, likely prompting Sonnet 125’s “Wer’t ought to me I bore the canopy?”—he is the only authorship candidate ever in a position to “bear the canopy” (which was only ever borne over royalty). Love’s Labour’s Lost parodies an obscure poem by Stanley’s tutor, which few others would have read. Hamlet’s situation closely mirrors Stanley’s in 1602. His name is concealed in the list of actors’ names in the First Folio. His writing habits match Shakespeare’s as deduced from the early printed plays. He was a patron of players who performed several times at court, and financed the troupe known as Paul’s Boys. No other member of the upper class was so thoroughly immersed in the theatrical world.