Applied Shakespeare

Author : Katherine Steele Brokaw
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031332678

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Shakespeare and Community Performance by Katherine Steele Brokaw Pdf

This book explores how productions of Shakespearean plays create meaning in specific communities, with special attention to issues of access, adaptation, and activism. Instead of focusing on large professional companies, it analyzes performances put on by community theatres and grassroots companies, and in applied drama projects. It looks at Shakespearean productions created by marginalized populations in Greater London, Harlem, and Los Angeles, a Hamlet staged in the remote Faroe Islands, and eco-theatre made in California’s Yosemite National Park. The book investigates why different communities perform Shakespeare, and what challenges, opportunities, and triumphs accompany the processes of theatrical production for both the artists and the communities in which they are embedded.

Author : Rowan Mackenzie,Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781805393535

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Shakespeare and Social Engagement by Rowan Mackenzie,Robert Shaughnessy Pdf

Shakespeare’s roots in applied and participatory performance practices have been recently explored within a wide variety of educational, theatrical and community settings. Shakespeare and Social Engagement explores these settings, as well as audiences who have largely been excluded from existing accounts of Shakespeare’s performance history. The contributions in this collected volume explore the complicated and vibrant encounters between a canonical cultural force and work that frequently characterizes itself as inclusive and egalitarian.

Author : Dennis Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666902099

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Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation by Dennis Taylor Pdf

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference explores how Shakespeare’s plays dramatize key issues of the Elizabethan Reformation, the conflict between the sacred, the critical, and the disenchanted; alternatively, the Catholic, the Protestant, and the secular. Each play imagines their reconciliation or the failure of reconcilation. The Catholic sacred is shadowed by its degeneration into superstition, Protestant critique by its unintended (fissaparous) consequences, the secular ordinary by stark disenchantment. Shakespeare shows how all three perspectives are needed if society is to face its intractable problems, thus providing a powerful model for our own ecumenical dialogues. Shakespeare begins with history plays contrasting the saintly but impractical King Henry VI, whose assassination is the ”primal crime,” with the pragmatic and secular Henry IV, until imagining in the later 1590’s how Hal can reconnect with sacred sources. At the same time in his comedies, Shakespeare imagines cooperative ways of resolving the national ”comedy of errors,” of sorting out erotic and marital and contemplative confusions by applying his triple lens. His late Elizabethan comedies achieve a polished balance of wit and devotion, ordinary and the sacred, old and new orders. Hamlet is Shakespeare’s ultimate Elizabethan consideration of these issues, its so-called lack of objective correlation a response to the unsorted trauma of the Reformation.

Author : Adelle Hulsmeier
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031454141

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Applied Shakespeare by Adelle Hulsmeier Pdf

This book speaks to those interested in where and why Shakespeare’s work is used to capture the transformative intentions of different areas of Applied Theatre practice (Prison, Disability, Therapy), representing a foundational study which considers subsequent histories and potential challenges when engaging with Shakespeare’s work. This is grounded in a case study analysis of three salient British Theatre Companies: The Education Shakespeare Company (prison), the Blue Apple Theatre Company (Disability), and the Combat Veteran Players (therapy).

Author : Frederick Gard Fleay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024367869

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Shakespeare Manual by Frederick Gard Fleay Pdf

Author : John Taylor
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789004347564

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Ten Lectures on Applied Cognitive Linguistics by John Taylor Pdf

A series of 10 lectures on various aspects of Cognitive Linguistics as these relate to matters of language teaching and learning.

Author : Suzanne Gossett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350121256

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Shakespeare and Textual Theory by Suzanne Gossett Pdf

There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been revised, augmented and emended since Shakespeare's lifetime. An essential resource for the history of Shakespeare on the page, Shakespeare and Textual Theory traces the explanatory underpinnings of these changes through the centuries. After providing an introduction to early modern printing practices, Suzanne Gossett describes the original quartos and folios as well as the first collected editions. Subsequent sections summarize the work of the 'New Bibliographers' and the radical challenge to their technical analysis posed by poststructuralist theory, which undermined the presumed stability of author and text. Shakespeare and Textual Theory presents a balanced view of the current theoretical debates, which include the nature of the surviving texts we call Shakespeare's; the relationship of the author 'Shakespeare' and of authorial intentions to any of these texts; the extent and nature of Shakespeare's collaboration with others; and the best or most desirable way to present the texts - in editions or performances. The book is illustrated throughout with examples showing how theoretical decisions affect the text of Shakespeare's plays, and case studies of Hamlet and Pericles demonstrate how different theories complicate both text and meaning, whether a play survives in one version or several. The conclusion summarizes the many ways in which beliefs about Shakespeare's texts have changed over the centuries.

Author : George Wyndham
Publisher : Atlantic Publishers & Distri
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8171565875

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The Poetry Of William Shakespeare by George Wyndham Pdf

The Book Includes Shakespeare'S Sonnets In Complete Along With His Longer Poems Venus And Adonis, The Rape Of Lucrece And The Lover'S Complaint. It Includes A Detailed Critical Introduction And Extensive Notes By George Wyndham. The Value Of His Critical Commentary Is Enhanced By His Deep Insight Into Shakespeare'S Life And Times.The Collection Is Of Great Value For The Students Of Shakespeare'S Poetry And Lovers Of Poetry In General. It Throws Light On The Background Of The Writing Of Some Of The Greatest And Most Passionate Verse In The English Language.

Author : Roland Mushat Frye
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136561535

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Shakespeare by Roland Mushat Frye Pdf

This edition first published in 1982. Previous edition published in 1972 by Houghton Mifflin. Outlining methods and techniques for reading Shakespeare's plays, Roland Frye explores and develops a comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare's drama, focussing on the topics which must be kept in mind: the formative influence of the particular genre chosen for telling a story, the way in which the story is narrated and dramatized, the styles used to convey action, character and mood, and the manner in which Shakespeare has constructed his living characterizations. As well as covering textual analysis, the book looks at Shakespeare's life and career, his theatres and the actors for whom he wrote and the process of printing and preserving Shakespeare's plays. Chapters cover: King Lear in the Renaissance; Providence; Kind; Fortune; Anarchy and Order; Reason and Will; Show and Substance; Redemption and Shakespeare's Poetics.

Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134783540

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William Shakespeare by Brian Vickers Pdf

The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

Author : Evelyn Gajowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350093232

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The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism by Evelyn Gajowski Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading and genre studies, through those that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s that challenged the preconceptions on which traditional liberal humanism is based, including feminism, cultural materialism and new historicism. Perspectives drawn from postcolonial, queer studies and critical race studies, besides more recent critical practices including presentism, ecofeminism and cognitive ethology all receive detailed treatment. In addition to its coverage of distinct critical approaches, the handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A–Z glossary of key terms and concepts, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field and a substantial annotated bibliography.

Author : Mireille Ravassat,Jonathan Culpeper
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781441184276

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Stylistics and Shakespeare's Language by Mireille Ravassat,Jonathan Culpeper Pdf

This innovative volume testifies to the current revived interest in Shakespeare's language and style and opens up new and captivating vistas of investigation. Transcending old boundaries between literary and linguistic studies, this engaging collaborative book comes up with an original array of theoretical approaches and new findings. The chapters in the collection capture a rich diversity of points of view and cover such fields as lexicography, versification, dramaturgy, rhetorical analyses, cognitive and computational corpus-based stylistic studies, offering a holistic vision of Shakespeare's uses of language. The perspective is deliberately broad, confronting ideas and visions at the intersection of various techniques of textual investigation. Such novel explorations of Shakespeare's multifarious artistry and amazing inventiveness in his use of language will cater for a broad range of readers, from undergraduates, postgraduates, scholars and researchers, to poetry and theatre lovers alike.

Author : R.R. Khare
Publisher : Mittal Publications
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Greek drama (Tragedy)
ISBN : 8170995582

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Shakespeare, Eugene O'Neill, T.S. Eliot and the Greek Tragedy by R.R. Khare Pdf

Author : Michael Schoenfeldt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405172004

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A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets by Michael Schoenfeldt Pdf

This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare’s sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars. Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context, editing and printing of the sonnets. Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases. Informed by the latest theoretical, cultural and archival work.

Author : Carl Senna
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780544183896

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CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Sonnets by Carl Senna Pdf

Numbering more than 150, Shakespeare's sonnets have contributed significantly to discussions of the elusive character of the Bard. While most of the poems are addressed to a young man, others invoke the renowned Dark Lady. Each sonnet is interpreted, focusing on language particular to the poem, as well as on how the sonnet form furthers meaning. In addition, Shakespeare's major themes of love and beauty; mutability; and time and immortality are explored.