Drama Within Drama Shakespeare S Art In King Lear The Winter S Tale And The Tempest

Author : Robert Egan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1071179703

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Drama Within Drama by Robert Egan Pdf

Author : Robert Gerard Egan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010450141

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Drama Within Drama: Shakespeare's Art in King Lear, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest by Robert Gerard Egan Pdf

Author : Robert Egan
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0231039190

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Drama Within Drama: Shakespeare's Sense of His Art in King Lear, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest by Robert Egan Pdf

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 1010 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307490810

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Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber Pdf

A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. Supremely readable and engaging, and complete with a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare’s life and times and an extensive bibliography, this magisterial work is an ever-replenishing fount of insight on the most celebrated writer of all time.

Author : Christopher J. Cobb
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874139716

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The Staging of Romance in Late Shakespeare by Christopher J. Cobb Pdf

This book examines Shakespeare's response in his late plays to the challenge of making romance stories believable through theatrical representation and the kind of experience the late plays in performance seek to create for their spectators. Taking The Winter's Tale as a case study, the book's central chapters demonstrate how Shakespeare tests and transforms the techniques to create the sweeping, restorative transformations of individuals and communities that are central to both earlier dramatic romances and Shakespeare's own romance experiments. The book's three other chapters address the methodologies for study of spectator's experience through a dramatic text, the history of dramatic romance to 1610, and Shakespeare's further experiments with the staging of romance after The Winter's Tale.-

Author : Elizabeth Williamson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317024439

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The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama by Elizabeth Williamson Pdf

The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama is the first book to present a detailed examination of early modern theatrical properties informed by the complexity of post-Reformation religious practice. Although English Protestant reformers set out to destroy all vestiges of Catholic idolatry, public theater companies frequently used stage properties to draw attention to the remnants of traditional religion as well as the persistent materiality of post-Reformation worship. The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama explores the relationship between popular culture and theatrical performance by considering the social history and dramatic function of these properties, addressing their role as objects of devotion, idolatry, and remembrance on the professional stage. Rather than being aligned with identifiably Catholic or Protestant values, the author reveals how religious stage properties functioned as fulcrums around which more subtle debates about the status of Christian worship played out. Given the relative lack of existing documentation on stage properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama employs a wide range of source materials-including inventories published in the Records of Early English Drama (REED) volumes-to account for the material presence of these objects on the public stage. By combining historical research on popular religion with detailed readings of the scripts themselves, the book fills a gap in our knowledge about the physical qualities of the stage properties used in early modern productions. Tracing the theater's appropriation of highly charged religious properties, The Materiality of Religion in Early Modern English Drama provides a new framework for understanding the canonization of early modern plays, especially those of Shakespeare.

Author : Silvia Bigliazzi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137333148

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Revisiting The Tempest by Silvia Bigliazzi Pdf

Revisiting The Tempest offers a lively reconsideration of how The Tempest encourages interpretation and creative appropriation. It includes a wide range of essays on theoretical and practical criticism focusing on the play's original dramatic context, on its signifying processes and its present-time screen remediation.

Author : T. McAlindon,Thomas McAlindon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1996-04-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521566053

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Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos by T. McAlindon,Thomas McAlindon Pdf

This study focuses on Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, the four main tragedies and Antony and Cleopatra. Tom McAlindon argues that there were two models of nature in Renaissance culture, one hierarchical, in which everything has an appointed place, and the other contrarious, showing nature as a tense system of interacting opposites, liable to sudden collapse and transformation. This latter model informs Shakespeare's tragedy.

Author : James P. Lusardi,June Schlueter
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838633943

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Reading Shakespeare in Performance by James P. Lusardi,June Schlueter Pdf

This work attempts to bring together the divided commitments of academics and theater people. Its method is threefold: scrutinizing the text for signals that may guide production, identifying and analyzing those moments that represent textual and performance cruces, and looking at ways in which performance interprets text by focusing on King Lear.

Author : Ros King
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350317024

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The Winter's Tale by Ros King Pdf

This Handbook provides an introductory guide to The Winter's Tale offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.

Author : Richard Meek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351915946

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Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare by Richard Meek Pdf

This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'literary dramatist', suggesting ways in which his works themselves debate the question of text versus performance. Beginning with an exploration of the pictorialism of Shakespeare's narrative poems, the book goes on to examine several moments in Shakespeare's dramatic works when characters break off the action to describe an absent, 'offstage' event, place or work of art. Meek argues that Shakespeare does not simply prioritise drama over other forms of representation, but rather that he repeatedly exploits the interplay between different types of mimesis - narrative, dramatic and pictorial - in order to beguile his audiences and readers. Setting Shakespeare's works in their literary and rhetorical contexts, and engaging with contemporary literary theory, the book offers new readings of Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Hamlet, King Lear and The Winter's Tale. The book will be of particular relevance to readers interested in the relationship between verbal and visual art, theories of representation and mimesis, Renaissance literary and rhetorical culture, and debates regarding Shakespeare's status as a literary dramatist.

Author : Pauline Kiernan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1998-07-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521633583

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Shakespeare's Theory of Drama by Pauline Kiernan Pdf

Why did Shakespeare write drama? Did he have specific reasons for his choice of this art form? Did he have clearly defined aesthetic aims in what he wanted drama to do - and why? Pauline Kiernan opens up a new area of debate for Shakespearean criticism in showing that a radical, complex defence of drama which challenged the Renaissance orthodox view of poetry, history and art can be traced in Shakespeare's plays and poems. This study, first published in 1996, examines different stages in the canon to show that far from being restricted by the 'limitations' of drama, Shakespeare consciously exploits its capacity to accommodate temporality and change, and its reliance on the physical presence of the actor. This lively, readable book offers an original and scholarly insight into what Shakespeare wanted his drama to do and why.

Author : Sidney Homan
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000893038

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Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others by Sidney Homan Pdf

Sidney Homan defines a pivotal line as “a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play ... a magnet to which the rest of the play, scenes before and after, adheres.” He offers his personal choices of such lines in five plays by Shakespeare and works by Beckett, Brecht, Pinter, Shepard, and Stoppard. Drawing on his own experience in the theatre as actor and director and on campus as a teacher and scholar, he pairs a Shakespearean play with one by a modern playwright as mirrors for each other. One reviewer calls his approach “ground-breaking.” Another observes that his “experience with the particular plays he has chosen is invaluable” since it allows us to find “a wedge into such iconic texts.” Academics and students alike will find this volume particularly useful in aiding their own discovery of a pivotal line or moment in the experience of reading about, watching, or performing in a play.

Author : John D. Cox
Publisher : Baylor University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781932792959

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Seeming Knowledge by John D. Cox Pdf

Seeming Knowledge revisits the question of Shakespeare and religion by focusing on the conjunction of faith and skepticism in his writing. Cox argues that the relationship between faith and skepticism is not an invented conjunction. The recognition of the history of faith and skepticism in the sixteenth century illuminates a tradition that Shakespeare inherited and represented more subtly and effectively than any other writer of his generation.

Author : P. Murray
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1996-05-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230376755

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Shakespeare’s Imagined Persons by P. Murray Pdf

Challenging our understanding of ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, Shakespeare's Imagined Persons proposes we should view his characters as imagined persons. A new reading of B.F. Skinner's radical behaviourism brings out how - contrary to the impression he created - Skinner ascribes an important role in human behaviour to cognitive activity. Using this analysis, Peter Murray demonstrates the consistency of radical behaviourism with the psychology of character formation and acting in writers from Plato to Shakespeare - an approach little explored in the current debates about subjectivity in Elizabethan culture. Murray also shows that radical behaviourism can explain the phenomena observed in modern studies of acting and social role-playing. Drawing on these analyses of earlier and modern psychology, Murray goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal, Rosalind, and Perdita in a fascinating new light.