At Home In Shakespeare S Tragedies

Author : Geraldo U. de Sousa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317177678

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At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies by Geraldo U. de Sousa Pdf

Bringing together methods, assumptions and approaches from a variety of disciplines, Geraldo U. de Sousa's innovative study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, household, and family life in Shakespeare's great tragedies. Concentrating on King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, de Sousa's examination of the home provides a fresh look at material that has been the topic of fierce debate. Through a combination of textual readings and a study of early modern housing conditions, accompanied by analyses that draw on anthropology, architecture, art history, the study of material culture, social history, theater history, phenomenology, and gender studies, this book demonstrates how Shakespeare explores the materiality of the early modern house and evokes domestic space to convey interiority, reflect on the habits of the mind, interrogate everyday life, and register elements of the tragic journey. Specific topics include the function of the disappearance of the castle in King Lear, the juxtaposition of home-centered life in Venice and nomadic, 'unhoused' wandering in Othello, and the use of special lighting effects to reflect this relationship, Hamlet's psyche in response to physical space, and the redistribution of domestic space in Macbeth. Images of the house, home, and household become visually and emotionally vibrant, and thus reflect, define, and support a powerful tragic narrative.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781645171867

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William Shakespeare Tragedies by William Shakespeare Pdf

Twelve of Shakespeare’s most profound and moving dramas in one elegant volume. William Shakespeare’s tragedies introduced the world to some of the most well-known characters in literature, including Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. This handsome Word Cloud volume includes all twelve works from the First Folio that are commonly classified as tragedies—but the feelings that Shakespeare’s words can evoke range across the spectrum of human emotion.

Author : Emma Whipday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108474030

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Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies by Emma Whipday Pdf

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139462433

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The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies by Janette Dillon Pdf

Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this 2007 book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.

Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107019775

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy by Claire McEachern Pdf

This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Author : Gwyn Daniel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429812392

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Family Dramas by Gwyn Daniel Pdf

Most of Shakespeare’s tragedies have a family drama at their heart. This book brings these relationships to life, offering a radical new perspective on the tragic heroes and their dilemmas. Family Dramas: Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies focusses on the interactions and dialogues between people on stage, linking their intimate emotional worlds to wider social and political contexts. Since family relationships absorb and enact social ideologies, their conflicts often expose the conflicts that all ideologies contain. The complexities, contradictions and ambiguities of Shakespeare’s portrayals of individuals and their relationships are brought to life, while wider power structures and social discourses are shown to reach into the heart of intimate relationships and personal identity. Surveying relevant literature from Shakespeare studies, the book introduces the ideas behind the family systems approach to literary criticism. Explorations of gender relationships feature particularly strongly in the analysis since it is within gender that intimacy and power most compellingly intersect and frequently collide. For Shakespeare lovers and psychotherapists alike, this application of systemic theory opens a new perspective on familiar literary territory.

Author : Nicolas Tredell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137404909

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Shakespeare: The Tragedies by Nicolas Tredell Pdf

Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creative and critical minds. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on the tragedies, from the 17th century through to the present day. In this book, Nicolas Tredell: - Introduces essential concepts, themes and debates. - Relates Shakespeare's tragedies to fi elds of study including psychoanalysis, gender, race, ecology and philosophy. - Summarises major critical texts from Dryden and Dr Johnson to Janet Adelman and Julia Reinhard Lupton, and covers influential critical movements such as New Criticism, New Historicism and poststructuralism. - Demonstrates how key critical approaches work in practice, with close reference to Shakespeare's texts. Informed and incisive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in how the category of Shakespeare's tragedies has been constructed, contested and changed over the years.

Author : Sean Benson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441137661

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Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy by Sean Benson Pdf

Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, 'domestic tragedy' was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from 1580-1620. Shakespeare, 'Othello', and Domestic Tragedy is the first book to examine Shakespeare's relationship to the genre by way of the King's and Chamberlain's Men's ownership and production of many of the domestic tragedies, and of the genre's extensive influence on Shakespeare's own tragedy, Othello. Drawing in part upon recent scholarship that identifies Shakespeare as a co-author of Arden of Faversham, Sean Benson demonstrates the extensive-even uncanny-ties between Othello and the domestic tragedies. Benson argues that just as Hamlet employs and adapts the conventions of revenge tragedy, so Othello can only be fully understood in terms of its exploitation of the tropes and conventions of domestic tragedy. This book explores not only the contexts and workings of this popular sub-genre of Renaissance drama but also Othello's secure place within it as the quintessential example of the form.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000350449

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Shakespeare and Tragedy by John Bayley Pdf

Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author of the same calibre was long overdue. In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major tragedies. He shows how Shakespeare’s most successful tragic effects hinge on an opposition between the discourses of character and form, role and context. For example, in Lear the dramatis personae act in the dramatic world of tragedy which demands universality and high rhetoric of them. Yet they are human and have their being in the prosaic world of domesticity and plain speaking. The inevitable intrusion of the human world into the world of tragedy creates the play’s powerful off-key effects. Similarly, the existential crisis in Macbeth can be understood in terms of the tension between accomplished action and the free-ranging domain of consciousness. What is the relation between being and acting? How does an audience become intimate with a protagonist who is alienated from his own play? What did Shakespeare add to the form and traditions of tragedy? Do his masterpieces in the genre disturb and transform it in unexpected ways? These are the issues raised by this lucid and imaginative study. Professor Bayley’s highly original rethinking of the problems will be a challenge to the Shakespearean scholar as well as an illumination to the general reader.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6G2N

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Shakespeare's Tragedy of Othello by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018019794

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Shakespeare's Tragedy of Coriolanus: for the use of Rugby School. Second edition by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,Henry Norman Hudson
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783385452794

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Shakespeare's Tragedy of Coriolanus, with Introduction, and Notes Explanatory and Critical. For Use in Schools and Families by William Shakespeare,Henry Norman Hudson Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015035382558

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Shakespeare's Tragedy of Macbeth by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317895046

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A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies by Michael Mangan Pdf

This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.

Author : Susan Snyder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691196619

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The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies by Susan Snyder Pdf

Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions, structures, and assumptions of comedy in his tragic writing. She argues that Shakespeare's early mastery of romantic comedy deeply influenced his tragedies both in dramaturgy and in the expression and development of his tragic vision. From this perspective she sheds new light on Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. The author shows Shakespeare's tragic vision evolving as he moves through three possibilities: comedy and tragedy functioning first as polar opposites, later as two sides of the same coin, and finally as two elements in a single compound. In the four plays examined here, Professor Snyder finds that traditional comic structures and assumptions operate in several ways to shape the tragedy: they set up expectations which when proven false reinforce the movement into tragic inevitability; they underline tragic awareness by a pointed irrelevance; they establish a point of departure for tragedy when comedy's happy assumptions reveal their paradoxical "shadow" side; and they become part of the tragedy itself when the comic elements threaten the tragic hero with insignificance and absurdity. Susan Snyder is Professor of English at Swarthmore College. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.