Design And Closure In Shakespeare S Major Plays

Author : William B. Bache
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015062420800

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Design and Closure in Shakespeare's Major Plays by William B. Bache Pdf

Shakespeare must be studied in order to be understood: explication precedes appreciation. This incisive study of Shakespeare's greatest plays concentrates on those strategies of design and closure that serve Shakespeare's intention and meaning. The examination of recapitulation, the quintessential feature of Shakespeare's art, reveals Shakespeare's dramatic thought in all its complexity. The ultimate value of this study is that it enables us to appreciate, not just the individual plays, but the shape and significance of the Shakespeare canon.

Author : E.L. Risden
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786472437

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Shakespeare and the Problem Play by E.L. Risden Pdf

Shakespeare's plays provide a rich source of genre variation as well as moral or ethical issues that invite deep study. The genre issue often proves the very moral crux where Shakespeare raises the most complex questions. He aimed to build good plays, not simple fulfillments of genre demands. To him "good plays" meant leaving his audience with problems to consider. This book begins with those works most commonly appearing in studies of problem plays, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure; moves to some comedic problem plays, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Twelfth Night; and then to tragic problem plays, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. It concludes with some problems in the history and romance genres for the issues they raise in love, adventure, and governance: Henry IV, Part 1, Henry V, Cymbeline, The Tempest, and Love's Labor's Lost.

Author : Marga Munkelt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-04
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350321441

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Antony and Cleopatra by Marga Munkelt Pdf

This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume provides, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, and the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. This volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.

Author : Lewis Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317943372

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Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition by Lewis Walker Pdf

This bibliography will give comprehensive coverage to published commentary in English on Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition during the period from 1961-1985. Doctoral dissertations will also be included. Each entry will provide a clear and detailed summary of an item's contents. For pomes and plays based directly on classical sources like Antony and Cleopatra and The Rape of Lucrece, virtually all significant scholarly work during the period covered will be annotated. For other works such as Hamlet, any scholarship that deals with classical connotations will be annotated. Any other bibliographies used in the compiling of this volume will be described with emphasis on their value to a student of Shakespeare and the Classics.

Author : Margo Anderson
Publisher : Untreed Reads
Page : 667 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611871784

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Shakespeare by Another Name by Margo Anderson Pdf

The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakespeare, the actor and businessman from Stratford-upon-Avon, was the author. Legendary figures such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Sigmund Freud have all expressed grave doubts that an uneducated man who apparently owned no books and never left England wrote plays and poems that consistently reflect a learned and well-traveled insider's perspective on royal courts and the ancient feudal nobility. Recent scholarship has turned to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford-an Elizabethan court playwright known to have written in secret and who had ample means, motive and opportunity to in fact have assumed the "Shakespeare" disguise. "Shakespeare" by Another Name is the literary biography of Edward de Vere as "Shakespeare." This groundbreaking book tells the story of de Vere's action-packed life-as Renaissance man, spendthrift, courtier, wit, student, scoundrel, patron, military adventurer, and, above all, prolific ghostwriter-finding in it the background material for all of The Bard's works. Biographer Mark Anderson incorporates a wealth of new evidence, including de Vere's personal copy of the Bible (in which de Vere underlines scores of passages that are also prominent Shakespearean biblical references).

Author : Clayton G. MacKenzie
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0761816607

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Emblems of Mortality by Clayton G. MacKenzie Pdf

In our own age, the engagement with death has been discretely narrowed into a brief process of formal commemoration and burial, but in Shakespeare's time it was ritualized into the very fabric of everyday life, where the reminders of death, the journey to the grave, and the moment of expiry were all central to the cultural engagement with mortality in post-Reformation England. Inevitably, this way of seeing the world impacted the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, not only in relation to the intellectual content of the drama but with regard to its visual impressions as well. Emblems of Mortality explores the relationship between Shakespeare's theatre and popular memento mori and funereal iconography of the Renaissance, combining cultural studies and historicism with semiotic analysis of period iconography. Through close reading of Elizabethan signs and sign systems with attention to historical context, the work seeks to demonstrate the quality and intention of some of Shakespeare's theatrical designs in a way that will appeal to scholars of drama and students of Shakespeare's work.

Author : Philip C. Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136017902

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Othello by Philip C. Kolin Pdf

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : William B. Bache
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-05
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781678122393

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On the Road to Innsbruck and Back: A 103rd Division Infantryman's World War 2 Memoir by William B. Bache Pdf

Merriam Press World War 2 Memoir. On the Road to Innsbruck and Back is a product of the author�s long obsession with serving in Europe during World War II as a member of the 103rd Infantry Division. Too often he was given a responsibility that he neither deserved nor desired. But then he was in an Intelligence and Reconnaissance platoon, at the service of a regimental headquarters. The chief model for On the Road is Stephen Crane�s The Red Badge of Courage, the best short novel about war that he knows. Like Crane, he wanted, above all, to demonstrate the moral cost of some months in combat upon a not-insensitive young man.

Author : William B. Bache
Publisher : Merriam Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 9781576382165

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On the Road to Innsbruck and Back by William B. Bache Pdf

Author : Vernon P. Loggins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015025390850

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The Life of Our Design by Vernon P. Loggins Pdf

This book identifies the patterns, strategies, and systems that determine the organization of Troilus and Cressida. It argues that Shakespeare renders meaning through these features; thus, the book is a discussion of how meaning is rendered in the play and what meanings the play suggests. Some of the strategies identified are Shakepeare's system of qualifying tropes, the recapitulative scene, the prologue-epilogue system, and the re-written scene. In essence, The Life of Our Design seeks to provide evidence for a revision of criticism's assessment of Troilus and Cressida. The play is not so unique as it is difficult; it is not so ambiguous as it is complex. Contents: The Apple of Discord and the Prologue; Recapitulation in the First Two Scenes and III; Character and Theme in the First Five Scenes; The Pandarus Scene; The Troilus and Cressida Scenes; The Achilles Scene; The Ulysses Scene; The Hector-Troilus Scene; Thersites and the Battlefield Scenes.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521523842

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Shakespeare Survey by Stanley Wells Pdf

The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Best Books Incorporated
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : PSU:000049826531

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The Best Books for Academic Libraries by Anonim Pdf

Books recommended for undergraduate and college libraries listed by Library of Congress Classification Numbers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015068939142

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The Shakespeare Newsletter by Anonim Pdf

Author : James E. Ryan
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476624167

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Shakespeareäó»s Symmetries by James E. Ryan Pdf

The organization of Shakespeare’s plays has challenged, even baffled audiences and critics since the 17th century. Cymbeline has been dismissed as “incoherent.” Hamlet “is of no clear shape.” And Antony and Cleopatra “bewilders the mind.” These judgments result from an incomplete understanding of Shakespeare’s constructive practice. It is not the narrative arc alone that organizes the plays but a complex structure of interwoven narrative and thematic actions. While the narrative varies from play to play, thematic actions are invariably created in mirroring pairs around the central scene: A-B-C-B-A. This symmetrical pattern, which can be visualized as an arch with a focal keystone, is the foundation of all of Shakespeare’s mature work, as shown through an analysis of the 26 plays in this book. This arch illuminates the structure of plays that have long been puzzling, demonstrating that they are thematically organized and rigorously crafted. It also reveals subtleties otherwise invisible.

Author : June Schlueter
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838635830

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Dramatic Closure by June Schlueter Pdf

Examples of plays from Oedipus to the present appear throughout the book, and individual chapters are dedicated to sustained discussions of William Shakespeare's King Lear, Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Arthur Miller's The Ride Down Mount Morgan, and Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire. The author emphasizes Shakespeare and, especially, modern drama in the belief that these plays provide salient models of the theoretical principles of reading toward closure.