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Apocalyptic Shakespeare

Melissa Croteau,Carolyn Jess-Cooke
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Author : Melissa Croteau,Carolyn Jess-Cooke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786453511

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Apocalyptic Shakespeare by Melissa Croteau,Carolyn Jess-Cooke Pdf

This collection of essays examines the ways in which recent Shakespeare films portray anxieties about an impending global wasteland, technological alienation, spiritual destruction, and the effects of globalization. Films covered include Titus, William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet, Almereyda's Hamlet, Revengers Tragedy, Twelfth Night, The Passion of the Christ, Radford's The Merchant of Venice, The Lion King, and Godard's King Lear, among others that directly adapt or reference Shakespeare. Essays chart the apocalyptic mise-en-scenes, disorienting imagery, and topsy-turvy plots of these films, using apocalypse as a theoretical and thematic lens.

Shakespeare and the Apocalypse

R M Christofides
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Author : R M Christofides
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441101303

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Shakespeare and the Apocalypse by R M Christofides Pdf

By connecting Shakespeare's language to the stunning artwork that depicted the end of the world, this study provides not only provides a new reading of Shakespeare but illustrates how apocalyptic art continues to influence popular culture today. Drawing on extant examples of medieval imagery, Roger Christofides uses poststructuralist and psychoanalytic accounts of how language works to shed new light on our understanding of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He then links Shakespeare's dependence on his audience to appreciate the allusions made to the religious paintings to the present day. For instance, popular television series like Battlestar Galactica, seminal horror movies such as An American Werewolf in London and Carrie and recent novels like Cormac McCarthy's The Road. All draw on imagery that can be traced directly back to the depictions of the Doom, an indication of the cultural power these vivid imaginings of the end of the world have in Shakespeare's day and now.

Shakespeare's Apocalypse

Peter Milward
Shakespeare s Apocalypse Book PDF

Author : Peter Milward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029467201

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Shakespeare's Apocalypse by Peter Milward Pdf

Following his recent study, The Catholicism of Shakespeare's Plays, Fr. Peter Milward examines more closely the themes of doomsday and judgement in the great dramas. As recent research establishes ever more securely Shakespeare's own Catholic background, we are invited to consider the symbolism of the plays from the perspective of the Elizabethan and Jacobean recusant community of which the poet was a member. Fr. Milward draws attention to the profound feeling manifest in the treatment of the desolation of England following the destruction of her Catholic culture, and the persecution of the Church by the new Establishment -- long missed in critical studies. At the end of the second Christian millennium, when the popular mind has been preoccupied with strange predictions of doom, we follow Shakespeare's reflections on the real judgement then being visited upon an apostate nation, and see how England's real and only hope lies in a return to her first allegiance to a greater Royal supremacy than that of the Tudors, under a loftier Queen -- not Elizabeth, but Mary who reigns in Heaven.

Shakespeare and the Apocalypse

R M Christofides
Shakespeare and the Apocalypse Book PDF

Author : R M Christofides
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441183224

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Shakespeare and the Apocalypse by R M Christofides Pdf

By connecting Shakespeare's language to the stunning artwork that depicted the end of the world, this study provides not only provides a new reading of Shakespeare but illustrates how apocalyptic art continues to influence popular culture today. Drawing on extant examples of medieval imagery, Roger Christofides uses poststructuralist and psychoanalytic accounts of how language works to shed new light on our understanding of Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and King Lear. He then links Shakespeare's dependence on his audience to appreciate the allusions made to the religious paintings to the present day. For instance, popular television series like Battlestar Galactica, seminal horror movies such as An American Werewolf in London and Carrie and recent novels like Cormac McCarthy's The Road. All draw on imagery that can be traced directly back to the depictions of the Doom, an indication of the cultural power these vivid imaginings of the end of the world have in Shakespeare's day and now.

Shakespeare’s As You Like It

M. Hunt
Shakespeare s As You Like It Book PDF

Author : M. Hunt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2008-02-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230610187

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Shakespeare’s As You Like It by M. Hunt Pdf

This book is a study of As You Like It , which shows how the play represents issues of interest to literate playgoers of its time, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself.

The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature

C. A. Patrides,Joseph Anthony Wittreich
The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature Book PDF

Author : C. A. Patrides,Joseph Anthony Wittreich
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Apocalypse in literature
ISBN : 0719017300

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The Apocalypse in English Renaissance Thought and Literature by C. A. Patrides,Joseph Anthony Wittreich Pdf

This remarkable collection of original essays by a distinguished group of American and English scholars explores attitudes toward apocalyptic thought and the Book of Revelation as they were reflected, over many centuries, in theological discourse, political activity, and artistic and literary endeavors.

Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet

Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Shakespeare on Screen Romeo and Juliet Book PDF

Author : Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009200950

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Shakespeare on Screen: Romeo and Juliet by Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin Pdf

From canonical movies to web series, this volume illuminates myriad forms of Romeo and Juliet on screen around the world.

Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry

Morton D. Paley
Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry Book PDF

Author : Morton D. Paley
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1999-10-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191584688

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Apocalypse and Millennium in English Romantic Poetry by Morton D. Paley Pdf

The interrelationship of the ideas of apocalypse and millennium is a dominant concern of British Romanticism. The Book of Revelation provides a model of history in which apocalypse is followed by millennium, but in their various ways the major Romantic poets - Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, and Shelley - question and even at times undermine the possibility of a successful secularization of this model. No matter how confidently the sequence of apocalypse and millennium seems to be affirmed in some of the major works of the period, the issue is always in doubt: the fear that millennium may not ensue emerges as a significant, if often repressed, theme in the great works of the period. Related to it is the tension in Romantic poetry between conflicting models of history itself: history as teleology, developing towards end time and millennium, and history as purposeless cycle. This subject-matter is traced through a selection of works by the major poets, partly through an exposition of their underlying intellectual traditions, and partly through a close examination of the poems themselves.

Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear

Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Shakespeare on Screen King Lear Book PDF

Author : Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108426923

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Shakespeare on Screen: King Lear by Victoria Bladen,Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin Pdf

An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare's King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.

Childhood in Contemporary Performance of Shakespeare

Gemma Miller
Childhood in Contemporary Performance of Shakespeare Book PDF

Author : Gemma Miller
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350133150

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Childhood in Contemporary Performance of Shakespeare by Gemma Miller Pdf

Child characters feature more numerously and prominently in the Shakespearean canon than in that of any other early modern playwright. Focusing on stage and film productions from the past four decades, this study addresses how Shakespeare's child characters are reflected, refracted and reinterpreted in performance. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates close reading, semiotics, childhood studies, queer theory and performance studies, Gemma Miller explores how a close analysis of Shakespeare's child characters, both in the text and in performance, can reveal often uncomfortable truths about contemporary ideas of childhood, as well as offer fresh insights into the plays. Among the works and productions analysed are stage productions of Richard III by Sean Holmes and Thomas Ostermeier; Jamie Lloyd's and Michael Boyd's stage productions of Macbeth and the films of Roman Polanski and Justin Kurzel; Deborah Warner's stage production of Titus Andronicus and filmed adaptations by Jane Howell and Julie Taymor; and stage productions of The Winter's Tale by Nicholas Hytner, and by Kenneth Branagh and Rob Ashford, and the ballet adaptation by Christopher Wheeldon.

Station Eleven

Emily St. John Mandel
Station Eleven Book PDF

Author : Emily St. John Mandel
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443434881

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Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel Pdf

NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES Finalist for CBC Canada Reads 2023 Winner of the Toronto Book Award and the Arthur C. Clarke Award Finalist for the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, and the Sunburst Award Longlisted for the Baileys Prize and for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A New York Times and Globe and Mail bestseller A Best Book of the Year in The Globe and Mail, The Washington Post, Entertainment Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, and Time magazine An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse Day One The Georgia Flu explodes over the surface of the earth like a neutron bomb. News reports put the mortality rate at over 99%. Week Two Civilization has crumbled. Year Twenty A band of actors and musicians, called the Travelling Symphony, move through the territories of a changed world, performing concerts and Shakespeare at the settlements that have formed. Twenty years after the pandemic, life feels relatively safe. But now a new danger looms, and it threatens the world every hopeful survivor has tried to rebuild. Moving backward and forward in time, from the glittering years just before the collapse to the strange and altered world that exists twenty years after, Station Eleven charts the unexpected twists of fate that connect six people: celebrated actor Arthur Leander; Jeevan, a bystander warned about the flu just in time; Arthur's first wife, Miranda; Arthur's oldest friend, Clark; Kirsten, an actress with the Travelling Symphony; and the mysterious and self-proclaimed "prophet." Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the fragility of life, the relationships that sustain us, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

Shakespeare Films

Peter E.S. Babiak
Shakespeare Films Book PDF

Author : Peter E.S. Babiak
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476623528

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Shakespeare Films by Peter E.S. Babiak Pdf

This study reexamines the recognized "canon" of films based on Shakespeare's plays, and argues that it should be broadened by breaking with two unnecessary standards: the characterization of the director as "auteur" of a play's screen adaptation, and the convention of excluding films with contemporary language or modern or alternative settings or which use the play as a subtext. The emphasis is shifted from the director's contribution to the film's social, cultural and historical contexts. The work of the auteurs is reevaluated within present-day contexts, preserving the established canon while proposing new criteria for inclusion.

Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies

Magdalena Cieslak
Screening Gender in Shakespeare s Comedies Book PDF

Author : Magdalena Cieslak
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781498563758

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Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies by Magdalena Cieslak Pdf

When adapting Shakespeare's comedies, cinema and television have to address the differences and incompatibilities between early modern gender constructs and contemporary cultural, social, and political contexts. Screening Gender in Shakespeare’s Comedies: Film and Television Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century analyzes methods employed by cinema and television in approaching those aspects of Shakespeare's comedies, indicating a range of ways in which adaptations made in the twenty-first century approach the problems of cultural and social normativity, gender politics, stereotypes of femininity and masculinity, the dynamic of power relations between men and women, and social roles of men and women. This book discusses both mainstream cinematic productions, such as Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice or Julie Taymor's The Tempest, and more low-key adaptations, such as Kenneth Branagh's As You Like It and Joss Whedon's Much Ado About Nothing, as well as the three comedies of BBC ShakespeaRe-Told miniseries: Much Ado About Nothing, The Taming of the Shrew, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. This book examines how the analyzed films deal with elements of Shakespeare's comedies that appear subversive, challenging, or offensive to today's culture, and how they interpret or update gender issues to reconcile Shakespeare with contemporary cultural norms. By exploring tensions and negotiations between early modern and present-day gender politics, the book defines the prevailing attitudes of recent adaptations in relation to those issues, and identifies the most popular strategies of accommodating early modern constructs for contemporary audiences.

Religions in Shakespeare's Writings

David V. Urban
Religions in Shakespeare s Writings Book PDF

Author : David V. Urban
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783039281947

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Religions in Shakespeare's Writings by David V. Urban Pdf

Offering a wide range of scholarly perspectives, Religions in Shakespeare’s Writings explores Shakespeare’s depictions, throughout his canon, of various religions and matters related to them. This collection’s fifteen essays explore matters pertaining to Catholic, Anglican, and Puritan Christianity, the Albigensian heresy of the high middle ages, Islam, Judaism, Roman religion, different manifestations of religious paganism, and even the “religion of Shakespeare” practiced by Shakespeare’s nineteenth-century admirers. These essays analyze how Shakespeare depicts both tensions between religions and the syntheses of different religious expressions on topics as diverse as Shakespeare’s varied portrayals of the afterlife, religious experience in Measure for Measure, and Black natural law and The Tempest. This collection also explores the political ramifications of religion within Shakespeare’s works, as well as Shakespeare’s multifaceted uses of the Bible. Additionally, while this collection does not present a Shakespeare whose particular religious beliefs can definitely be known or are displayed uniformly throughout his canon, various essays consider to what extent Shakespeare’s individual works demonstrate a Christian foundation. Contributors include John D. Cox, Cyndia Susan Clegg, Grace Tiffany, Matthew J. Smith, Bethany C. Besteman, Sarah Skwire, Feisal Mohamed, Benedict J. Whalen, Benjamin Lockerd, Bryan Adams Hampton, Debra Johanyak, John E. Curran, Emily E. Stelzer, David V. Urban, and Julia Reinhard Lupton.

Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare

Christy Desmet,Natalie Loper,Jim Casey
Shakespeare Not Shakespeare Book PDF

Author : Christy Desmet,Natalie Loper,Jim Casey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319633008

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Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare by Christy Desmet,Natalie Loper,Jim Casey Pdf

This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once “be” and “not be” Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or have difficulty finding him where he is named. Douglas Lanier’s “Shakespearean rhizome,” which co-opts Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of artistic relations as rhizomes (a spreading, growing network that sprawls horizontally to defy hierarchies of origin and influence) is fundamental to this exploration. Essays discuss the fine line between “Shakespeare” and “not Shakespeare” through a number of critical lenses—networks and pastiches, memes and echoes, texts and paratexts, celebrities and afterlives, accidents and intertexts—and include a wide range of examples: canonical plays by Shakespeare, historical figures, celebrities, television performances and adaptations, comics, anime appropriations, science fiction novels, blockbuster films, gangster films, Shakesploitation and teen films, foreign language films, and non-Shakespearean classic films.