Beyond Shakespeare

Author : Caroline Wiesenthal Lion
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000630039

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Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks by Caroline Wiesenthal Lion Pdf

Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount a courageous new reading of a four-hundred-year-old play, The Merchant of Venice. While victimhood and antisemitism have been the understandable focus of the Merchant critical history for decades, Lion urges scholars, performers, and readers to see beyond the racism in Shakespeare's plays by recovering Shakespearean themes of potentiality and human flourishing as they emerge within the Jewish tradition itself. Lion joins the race conversation in Shakespeare studies today by drawing on the intellectual history and oppression of the Jewish people, borrowing from thinkers Franz Rosenzweig and Abraham Joshua Heschel as well as Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and rabbis from the Talmud to today. This volume interweaves post-confessional, Protestant, Catholic, Muslim, Jewish, and mystical ideas with Shakespeare's poetry and opens conversations of prophecy, love, spirituality, care, and community. It concludes with brief critical sketches of Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and Macbeth to demonstrate that Shakespeare when interpreted through Jewish theological frameworks can point to post-credal solutions and transformed societal paradigms of repair that encourage action and the shaping of a finer world.

Author : Paul Edmondson,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107017597

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Shakespeare Beyond Doubt by Paul Edmondson,Stanley Wells Pdf

Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107244825

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Screening Early Modern Drama by Pascale Aebischer Pdf

While film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays captured the popular imagination at the turn of the last century, independent filmmakers began to adapt the plays of Shakespeare's contemporaries. The roots of their films in European avant-garde cinema and the plays' politically subversive, sexually transgressive and violent subject matter challenge Shakespeare's cultural dominance and the conventions of mainstream cinema. In Screening Early Modern Drama, Pascale Aebischer shows how director Derek Jarman constructed an alternative, dissident approach to filming literary heritage in his 'queer' Caravaggio and Edward II, providing models for subsequent filmmakers such as Mike Figgis, Peter Greenaway, Alex Cox and Sarah Harding. Aebischer explains how the advent of digital video has led to an explosion in low-budget screen versions of early modern drama. The only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen to date, this groundbreaking study also includes an extensive annotated filmography listing forty-eight surviving adaptations.

Author : Susan Bennett,Christie Carson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107040557

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Shakespeare Beyond English by Susan Bennett,Christie Carson Pdf

What does it mean to perform Shakespeare in languages other than English and how do audiences respond?

Author : Ewan Fernie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107130852

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Shakespeare for Freedom by Ewan Fernie Pdf

Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Reclaiming Shakespearean Freedom -- 2 Shakespeare Means Freedom -- 3 'Freetown!' (Romeo and Juliet) -- 4 Freetown-upon-Avon -- 5 Freetown-am-Main -- 6 Free Artists of Their Own Selves! -- 7 Freetown Philosopher -- 8 Against Shakespearean Freedom -- 9 The Freedom of Complete Being -- Notes -- Index

Author : Michael A. Anderegg
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0742510921

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Cinematic Shakespeare by Michael A. Anderegg Pdf

Michael Anderegg investigates how Shakespeare films constitute an exciting & ever-changing film genre. He looks closely at films by Olivier, Welles, & Branagh, as well as postmodern Shakespeares & multiple adaptations over the years of 'Romeo and Juliet'.

Author : Naomi Conn Liebler
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0415086574

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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy by Naomi Conn Liebler Pdf

A unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Lear and Coriolanus as `sacrificial victims of the prevailing social order'.

Author : John Shahan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1537005669

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Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? by John Shahan Pdf

The Book the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Doesn't Want You to Read: Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? Never has the case against the Stratford man been made so clear and compelling. Unsettled by the growing success of the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition and its online Declaration of Reasonable Doubt About the Identity of William Shakespeare, the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon has published a book insisting that the identity of the author William Shakespeare is "beyond doubt." In this withering reply a dozen scholars expose the bankruptcy of this claim and challenge the Birthplace Trust to stand and defend its position under cross-examination in a televised mock trial. "Authorities tell us there is no doubt that Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare. Should we trust them? This book comes at a critical time, with defenders of orthodoxy deceiving the public about how weak their case really is. It is time for a serious re-examination of the evidence. This book does just that." - Richard Waugaman, M.D., Clinical Professor of Psychiatry; Faculty Expert on Shakespeare for Media Contacts, Georgetown University, Washington, D. C.

Author : Eva C. Karpinski,Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-09-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000956252

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Adaptation and Beyond by Eva C. Karpinski,Ewa Kębłowska-Ławniczak Pdf

This interdisciplinary collection focuses on recent adaptations, both experimental and popular, that put hybridity, transtextuality, and transmediality at play. It reframes adaptation in terms of the transmedia concept of "world-building," which accurately captures the complexity and multidirectionality of contemporary scattered and ubiquitous practices of adaptation. The Editors argue that the process of moving stories or their elements across different media platforms and repurposing them for new uses results in the production of hybrid transtextualities. The book demonstrate how hybrid textualities augment narrative and literary forms as goals of their world-building, finding unexpected sites of cross-pollination, expansion, and appropriation in spoken-word and dance performance, (auto)biographical comics, advertising, Chinese Kun opera, and popular song lyrics. This yoking of hybridity and transmediality yields not only diversified and often commercialized aesthetic forms but also enables the emergence a unique cultural space in-between, a mezzaterra capable of addressing current political issues and mobilizing broader audiences

Author : Pascale Aebischer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107024939

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Screening Early Modern Drama by Pascale Aebischer Pdf

Pascale Aebischer provides the only comprehensive analysis of early modern drama on screen, expanding the scope of Shakespearean performance studies.

Author : Phyllis Frus,Christy Williams
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786455782

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Beyond Adaptation by Phyllis Frus,Christy Williams Pdf

Some film and novel revisions go so far beyond adaptation that they demand a new designation. This critical collection explores movies, plays, essays, comics and video games that supersede adaptation to radically transform their original sources. Fifteen essays investigate a variety of texts that rework everything from literary classics to popular children's books, demonstrating how these new, stand-alone creations critically engage their sources and contexts. Particular attention is paid to parody, intertextuality, and fairy-tale transformations in the examination of these works, which occupy a unique narrative and creative space.

Author : Thomas Fairman Ordish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : London (England)
ISBN : HARVARD:HNLE8B

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Shakespeare's London by Thomas Fairman Ordish Pdf

Author : Gabriel Egan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748630165

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Shakespeare by Gabriel Egan Pdf

This book helps the reader make sense of the most commonly studied writer in the world. It starts with a brief explanation of how Shakespeare's writings have come down to us as a series of scripts for actors in the early modern theatre industry of London. The main chapters of the book approach the texts through a series of questions: 'what's changed since Shakespeare's time?', 'to what uses has Shakespeare been put?', and 'what value is there in Shakespeare?' These questions go to the heart of why we study Shakespeare at all, which question the book encourages the readers to answer for themselves in relation to their own critical writing.

Author : Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00053085

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A Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals Explained in Their Different Meanings by Johnson Pdf

Author : Howard Marchitello
Publisher : Springer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030228378

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Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries by Howard Marchitello Pdf

Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries analyzes literary remediations of Shakespeare’s works, particularly those written for young readers. This book explores adaptations, revisions, and reimaginings by Lewis Theobald, the Bowdlers, the Lambs, and Mary Cowden Clarke, among others, to provide a theoretical account of the poetics and practices of remediating literary texts. Considering the interplay between the historical fascination with Shakespeare and these practices of adaptation, this book examines the endless attempt to mediate our relationship to Shakespeare. Howard Marchitello investigates the motivations behind various forms of remediation, ultimately expanding theories of literary adaptation and appropriation.