Drama And The Market In The Age Of Shakespeare

Author : Douglas Bruster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 052160706X

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Drama and the Market in the Age of Shakespeare by Douglas Bruster Pdf

Douglas Bruster's provocative study of English Renaissance drama explores its links with Elizabethan and Jacobean economy and society, looking at the status of playwrights such as Shakespeare and the establishment of commercial theatres. He identifies in the drama a materialist vision which has its origins in the climate of uncertainty engendered by the rapidly expanding economy of London. His examples range from the economic importance of cuckoldry to the role of stage props as commodities, and the commercial significance of the Troy story in Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and he offers new ways of reading English Renaissance drama, by returning the theatre and the plays performed there, to its basis in the material world.

Author : Duncan Salkeld
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015029527325

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Madness and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare by Duncan Salkeld Pdf

Author : Douglas Bruster
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0803213034

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Quoting Shakespeare by Douglas Bruster Pdf

William Shakespeare is perhaps the most frequently quoted author of the English-speaking world. His plays, in turn, "quote" a wide variety of sources, from books and ballads to persons and events. In this dynamic study of Shakespeare's plays, Douglas Bruster demonstrates that such borrowing can illuminate the world in which Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights lived and worked, while also shedding light on later cultures that quote his plays. In contrast to the New Historicism's sometimes arbitrary linkage of literary works with elements drawn from the surrounding culture, Quoting Shakespeare focuses on the resources that writers used in making their works. Bruster shows how this borrowing can give us valuable insight into the cultural, historical, and political positions of writers and their works. Because Shakespeare's plays have often been quoted by other writers, this study also examines what subsequent uses of Shakespeare's plays reveal about the writers and cultures that use them. In this way, Quoting Shakespeare insists that literary production and reception are both integral to a historical approach to literature.

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253042323

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England in the Age of Shakespeare by Jeremy Black Pdf

A social history of Renaissance England that raises the curtain on the cultural influences that inspired Shakespeare’s plays. How did it feel to hear Macbeth’s witches chant of “double, double toil and trouble” at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare's plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare’s audiences would have recognized. These moments of recognition often reflected the audience’s own experiences of what it was to, as Hamlet says, “grunt and sweat under a weary life.” Black’s clear and sweeping approach seeks to reclaim Shakespeare from the ivory tower and make the plays’ histories more accessible to the public for whom the plays were always intended.

Author : Wilhelm Michael Anton Creizenach
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : English drama
ISBN : LCCN:65015878

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The English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare by Wilhelm Michael Anton Creizenach Pdf

Author : A. Hiscock,L. Hopkins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-07-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230593206

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Teaching Shakespeare and Early Modern Dramatists by A. Hiscock,L. Hopkins Pdf

This collection offers practical suggestions for the integration of non-Shakespearean drama into the teaching of Shakespeare. It shows both the ways in which Shakespearean drama is typical of its period and of the ways in which it is distinctive, by looking at Shakespeare and other writers who influenced and developed the genres in which he worked.

Author : Isabel Karremann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316425411

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The Drama of Memory in Shakespeare's History Plays by Isabel Karremann Pdf

This book analyses the drama of memory in Shakespeare's history plays. Situating the plays in relation to the extra-dramatic contexts of early modern print culture, the Reformation and an emergent sense of nationhood, it examines the dramatic devices the theatre developed to engage with the memory crisis triggered by these historical developments. Against the established view that the theatre was a cultural site that served primarily to salvage memories, Isabel Karremann also considers the uses and functions of forgetting on the Shakespearean stage and in early modern culture. Drawing on recent developments in memory studies, new formalism and performance studies, the volume develops an innovative vocabulary and methodology for analysing Shakespeare's mnemonic dramaturgy in terms of the performance of memory that results in innovative readings of the English history plays. Karremann's book is of interest to researchers and upper-level students of Shakespeare studies, early modern drama and memory studies.

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 019813004X

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Shakespeare's Universal Wolf by Hugh Grady Pdf

Shakespeare was neither a Royalist defender of order and hierarchy nor a consistently radical champion of social equality, but rather simultaneously radical and conservative as a critic of emerging forms of modernity. Hugh Grady argues that Shakespeare's social criticism in fact often parallels that of critics of modernity from our own Postmodernist era. Thus the broad analysis of modernity produced by Marx, Horkheimer and Adorno, Foucault, and others can serve to illuminate Shakespeare's own depiction of an emerging modernity - a depiction epitomized by the image in Troilus and Cressida of 'an universal wolf' of appetite, power, and will. The readings of Troilus and Cressida, Othello, King Lear, and As You Like It in Shakespeare's Universal Wolf demonstrate Shakespeare's keen interest in what twentieth-century theory has called 'reification' - a term which designates social systems created by human societies but which confront those societies as operating beyond human control, according to an autonomous 'systems' logic - in nascent mercantile capitalism, in power-oriented Machiavellian politics, and in the scientistic, value-free rationality which Horkheimer and Adorno call 'instrumental reason'.

Author : Mark Thornton Burnett
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403919359

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Constructing Monsters in Shakespeare's Drama and Early Modern Culture by Mark Thornton Burnett Pdf

Constructing 'Monsters' in Shakespearean Drama and Early Modern Culture argues for the crucial place of the 'monster' in the early modern imagination. Burnett traces the metaphorical significance of 'monstrous' forms across a range of early modern exhibition spaces - fairground displays, 'cabinets of curiosity' and court entertainments - to contend that the 'monster' finds its most intriguing manifestation in the investments and practices of contemporary theatre. The study's new readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson make a powerful case for the drama's contribution to debates about the 'extraordinary body'.

Author : E. Sheen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230234529

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Shakespeare and the Institution of Theatre by E. Sheen Pdf

This innovative book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespearean theatre, presented in a series of imaginative readings of plays from every period of the playwright's career, from Two Gentlemen of Verona and The Taming of the Shrew to King Lear and The Tempest , mapping a new approach to ideas of the theatre as an institution.

Author : Michelle M. Dowd,Tom Rutter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350161870

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The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama by Michelle M. Dowd,Tom Rutter Pdf

How does our understanding of early modern performance, culture and identity change when we decentre Shakespeare? And how might a more inclusive approach to early modern drama help enable students to discuss a range of issues, including race and gender, in more productive ways? Underpinned by these questions, this collection offers a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on drama in Shakespeare's England, mapping the variety of approaches to the context and work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By paying attention to repertory, performance in and beyond playhouses, modes of performance, and lost and less-studied plays, the handbook reshapes our critical narratives about early modern drama. Chapters explore early modern drama through a range of cultural contexts and approaches, from material culture and emotion studies to early modern race work and new directions in disability and trans studies, as well as contemporary performance. Running through the collection is a shared focus on contemporary concerns, with contributors exploring how race, religion, environment, gender and sexuality animate 16th- and 17th-century drama and, crucially, the questions we bring to our study, teaching and research of it. The volume includes a ground-breaking assessment of the chronology of early modern drama, a survey of resources and an annotated bibliography to assist researchers as they pursue their own avenues of inquiry. Combining original research with an account of the current state of play, The Arden Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama will be an invaluable resource both for experienced scholars and for those beginning work in the field.

Author : Matteo A. Pangallo
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812294255

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Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater by Matteo A. Pangallo Pdf

Among the dramatists who wrote for the professional playhouses of early modern London was a small group of writers who were neither members of the commercial theater industry writing to make a living nor aristocratic amateurs dipping their toes in theatrical waters for social or political prestige. Instead, they were largely working- and middle-class amateurs who had learned most of what they knew about drama from being members of the audience. Using a range of familiar and lesser-known print and manuscript plays, as well as literary accounts and documentary evidence, Playwriting Playgoers in Shakespeare's Theater shows how these playgoers wrote and revised to address what they assumed to be the needs of actors, readers, and the Master of the Revels; how they understood playhouse materials and practices; and how they crafted poetry for theatrical effects. The book also situates them in the context of the period's concepts of, and attitudes toward, playgoers' participation in the activity of playmaking. Plays by playgoers such as the rogue East India Company clerk Walter Mountfort or the highwayman John Clavell invite us into the creative imaginations of spectators, revealing what certain audience members wanted to see and how they thought actors might stage it. By reading Shakespeare's theater through these playgoers' works, Matteo Pangallo contributes a new category of evidence to our understanding of the relationships between the early modern stage, its plays, and its audiences. More broadly, he shows how the rise of England's first commercialized culture industry also gave rise to the first generation of participatory consumers and their attempts to engage with mainstream culture by writing early modern "fan fiction."

Author : Stephannie Gearhart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351603461

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Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare's England by Stephannie Gearhart Pdf

Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare’s England examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in early modern England. Stephannie Gearhart illustrates how a variety of texts – including drama by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton – placed elders’ and youths’ voices in dialogue with one another to construct the period’s ideology of age and shape elder-youth relations.

Author : Michael M. Wagoner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350238336

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Interruptions in Early Modern English Drama by Michael M. Wagoner Pdf

To interrupt, both on stage and off, is to wrest power. From the Ghost's appearance in Hamlet to Celia's frightful speech in Volpone, interruptions are an overlooked linguistic and dramatic form that delineates the balance of power within a scene. This book analyses interruptions as a specific form in dramatic literature, arguing that these everyday occurrences, when transformed into aesthetic phenomena, reveal illuminating connections: between characters, between actor and audience, and between text and reader. Focusing on the works of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and John Fletcher, Michael M. Wagoner examines interruptions that occur through the use of punctuation and stage directions, as well as through larger forms, such as conventions and dramaturgy. He demonstrates how studying interruptions may indicate aspects of authorial style – emphasizing a playwright's use and control of a text – and how exploring relative power dynamics pushes readers and audiences to reconsider key plays and characters, providing new considerations of the relationships between Othello and Iago, or Macbeth and the Ghost of Banquo.

Author : Thomas Seccombe,John William Allen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : English literature
ISBN : OCLC:74455152

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The Age of Shakespeare, 1579-1631 by Thomas Seccombe,John William Allen Pdf