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Author : Rory Loughnane,Andrew J. Power
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108495240
Re-appraises Shakespeare's early career, situating his writings and activities in their time, place, and cultural moment.
Author : Terri Bourus
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781800735552
The first edition of Hamlet – often called ‘Q1’, shorthand for ‘first quarto’ – was published in 1603, in what we might regard as the early modern equivalent of a cheap paperback. Yet this early version of Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is becoming increasingly canonical, not because there is universal agreement about what it is or what it means, but because more and more Shakespearians agree that it is worth arguing about. The essays in this collected volume explore the ways in which we might approach Q1’s Hamlet, from performance to book history, from Shakespeare’s relationships with his contemporaries to the shape of his whole career.
Author : Joan Fitzpatrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317134329
A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays, this is the first book to explore early modern English dietary literature to understand better the significance of food in Shakespearean drama. Food in Shakespeare provides for modern readers and audiences an historically accurate account of the range of, and conflicts between, contemporary ideas that informed the representations of food in the plays. It also focuses on the social and moral implications of familiar and strange foodstuff in Shakespeare's works. This new approach provides substantial fresh readings of Hamlet, Macbeth, As you Like It, The Winter's Tale, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus, Pericles, Timon of Athens, and the co-authored Sir Thomas More. Among the dietaries explored are Andrew Boorde's A Compendyous Regyment or a Dyetary of Healthe (1547), William Bullein's The Gouernement of Healthe (1595), Thomas Elyot's The Castle of Helthe (1595) and Thomas Cogan's The Hauen of Health (1636). These dieteries were republished several times in the early modern period; together they typify the genre's condemnation of surfeit and the tendency to blame human disease on feeding practices. This study directs scholarly attention to the importance of early modern dietaries, analyzing their role in wider culture as well as their intersection with dramatic art. In the dietaries food and drink are indices of one's position in relation to complex ideas about rank, nationality, and spiritual well-being; careful consumption might correct moral as well as physical shortcomings. The dietaries are an eclectic genre: some contain recipes for the reader to try, others give tips on more general lifestyle choices, but all offer advice on how to maintain good health via diet. Although some are more stern and humourless than others, the overwhelming impression is that of food as an ally in the battle against disease and ill-health as well as a potential enemy.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9791041995578
"The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : English drama
ISBN : CHI:22976734
Author : Nicholas Brooke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136567414
First published in 1968. Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. The emphasis is on the variety of the plays, and the themes, a variety which has been too often obscured by the belief in a single 'tragic experience'. The kind of experience the plays create and their quality as dramatic works for the stage are also examined. These essays develop an understanding of Shakespeare's use of the stage picture in relation to the emblematic imagery of Elizabethan poetry.
Author : Paul Werstine
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139851671
Early Modern Playhouse Manuscripts and the Editing of Shakespeare argues for editing Shakespeare's plays in a new way, without pretending to distinguish authorial from theatrical versions. Drawing on the work of the influential scholars A. W. Pollard and W. W. Greg, Werstine tackles the difficult issues surrounding 'foul papers' and 'promptbooks' to redefine these fundamental categories of current Shakespeare editing. In an extensive and detailed analysis, this book offers insight into the methods of theatrical personnel and a reconstruction of backstage practices in playhouses of Shakespeare's time. The book also includes a detailed analysis of nineteen manuscripts and three quartos marked up for performance - documents that together provide precious insight into how plays were put into production. Using these surviving manuscripts as a framework, Werstine goes on to explore editorial choices about what to give today's readers as 'Shakespeare'.
Author : David B. Goldstein,Amy L. Tigner
Publisher : Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : COOKING
ISBN : 0820704954
"Essays discuss food and drink in Shakespeare's plays, reframing questions about cuisine, eating, and meals in early modern drama and emphasizing the aesthetic, communal, and philosophical aspects of food; many issues in Shakespeare studies are thus considered in terms of the cultural marker of culinary dynamics"--
Author : Jean-Christophe Mayer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107138339
This is the first dedicated account of the ways in which Shakespeare's texts were read in the two centuries after they were produced. A close examination of rare, often unpublished material offers a reconsideration of the role of readers in the history of Shakespeare's rise to fame.
Author : Louis B. Wright
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1978-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 091801655X
Author : David Armitage,Conal Condren,Andrew Fitzmaurice
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521768085
Leading literary scholars and historians examine Shakespeare's engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought.
Author : Folger Shakespeare Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Libraries
ISBN : UOM:39015033945034
Author : Patricia Akhimie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351125024
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading Shakespeare’s plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature - how-to books on self-improvement - this book demonstrates the ways that the pursuit of personal improvement was accomplished by the simultaneous stigmatization of particular kinds of difference. The widespread belief that one could better, or cultivate, oneself through proper conduct was coupled with an equally widespread belief that certain markers (including but not limited to "blackness"), indicated an inability to conduct oneself properly, laying the foundation for what we now call "racism." A careful reading of Shakespeare’s plays reveals a recurring critique of the conduct system voiced, for example, by malcontents and social climbers like Iago and Caliban, and embodied in the struggles of earnest strivers like Othello, Bottom, Dromio of Ephesus, and Dromio of Syracuse, whose bodies are bruised, pinched, blackened, and otherwise indelibly marked as uncultivatable. By approaching race through the discourse of conduct, this volume not only exposes the epistemic violence toward stigmatized others that lies at the heart of self-cultivation, but also contributes to the broader definition of race that has emerged in recent studies of cross-cultural encounter, colonialism, and the global early modern world.
Author : Natália Pikli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000431612
This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography.
Author : A. Guneratne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137010353
Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the volume proposes to read Shakespeare through genre and, just as importantly, read genre through Shakespeare.