Elizabethan Narrative Poems The State Of Play

Author : Lynn Enterline
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350073371

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Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play by Lynn Enterline Pdf

Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this literary conversation and contribute for the current, vigorous reassessment of humanism's intended consequences by drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy and vernacular poetic invention. Key themes and topics include: -Epyllia, masculinity and sexuality -Classicism and commerce -Genre and mimesis -Rhetoric and aesthetics

Author : Sonia Massai,Lucy Munro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350117730

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Hamlet: The State of Play by Sonia Massai,Lucy Munro Pdf

This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history – surviving as it does in three substantially different early versions – means that it offers an especially complex and intriguing case-study for histories of early modern publishing and the relationship between page and stage. Similarly, its long history of stage and screen revival, creative appropriation and critical commentary offer rich materials for various forms of scholarship. The essays in Hamlet: The State of Play explore the play from a variety of different angles, drawing on contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, race, the history of emotions, memory, visual and material cultures, performativity, theories and histories of place, and textual studies. They offer fresh approaches to literary and cultural analysis, offer accessible introductions to some current ways of exploring the relationship between the three early texts, and present analysis of some important recent responses to Hamlet on screen and stage, together with a set of approaches to the study of adaptation.

Author : Gordon McMullan,Kelly Stage
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350174399

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The Changeling: The State of Play by Gordon McMullan,Kelly Stage Pdf

This collection of original essays on Thomas Middleton and William Rowley's unsettling revenge tragedy The Changeling represents key new directions in criticism and research. The 13 chapters fall into six groups focusing on questions of space, theology, collaboration, disability both mental and physical, and performance both early modern and contemporary. The Changeling's critical and theatrical history, and a selected bibliography for the volume helps readers easily find the most frequently cited materials in the volume as a whole, while individual essays detail the full expanse of critical sources to pursue for further analysis. With contributors ranging from highly regarded critics to emerging scholars drawn from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, France and Switzerland, the collection equips readers to engage with a variety of critical approaches to the play, moving a long way beyond the last century's tendency to treat Middleton as 'the early modern Ibsen', to ignore Rowley, and to focus almost wholly on a single aspect of the play's plot. Key themes and topics include: · Performance · Space and affect · Authorial collaboration · Gender and representation · Violence · Disability

Author : M. Lindsay Kaplan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350110236

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The Merchant of Venice: The State of Play by M. Lindsay Kaplan Pdf

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays, whose elements resonate even more profoundly in the current climate of rising racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, queerphobia and right-wing nationalism. This collection of essays offers a 'freeze frame' that showcases a range of current debates and ideas surrounding the play. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to your needs. Essays offer new perspectives that provide an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about the play. Key themes and topics include: · Race and religion · Gender and sexuality · Philosophy · Animal studies · Adaptations and performance history

Author : Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350138209

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The Taming of the Shrew: The State of Play by Jennifer Flaherty,Heather C. Easterling Pdf

The Taming of the Shrew has puzzled, entertained and angered audiences, and it has been reinvented many times throughout its controversial history. Offering a focused overview of key emerging ideas and discourses surrounding Shakespeare's problematic comedy, the volume reveals and debates how contemporary readings and adaptions of the play have sought to reconsider and resolve the play's contentious portrayal of gender, power and identity. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers and researchers. Key themes and issues include: · Gender and Power · History and Early Modern Contexts · Performance and Politics · Adaptation and Afterlife All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about The Taming of the Shrew.

Author : Elizabeth Sandis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-30
Category : College and school drama, English
ISBN : 9780192857132

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Early Modern Drama at the Universities by Elizabeth Sandis Pdf

This is the first history of Oxford and Cambridge drama during the Tudor and Stuart period. It guides the reader through the theatrical worlds of England's universities in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Early Modern Drama at the Universities opens up an exciting and challenging body of evidence and offers the reader a choice of three inroads into the corpus: institutions, intertexts, and individuals. How to get noticed at university? How to get into university in the first place, or a job afterwards? Sandis pinpoints the skills that were required for success and the role of playwriting and performance in the development of those skills. We follow Oxford and Cambridge students along their educational journey--from schoolboys to scholars to graduates in the workplace. For the first time, we see the extent to which institutional culture made the drama what it was: pedagogically-inspired, homosocial, and self-reflexive. It was primarily on a college level that students lived, worked, and proved themselves to the community. Therefore, this study argues, to understand university drama as a whole we must recreate it from the building blocks of individual college histories. The hundreds of plays that we have inherited from Oxford and Cambridge are steeped in Classical culture; many are written in Latin. Manuscript, not print, was the accepted medium for keeping records of student plays, and these handwritten copies were unique and personal. It is time to recognize these plays in the context of early modern English drama, to uncover the culture of drama at the universities where many leading playwrights of the age were trained.

Author : Claudio Baraldi,Erica Joslyn,Federico Farini,Chiara Ballestri,Luisa Conti,Vittorio Iervese,Angela Scollan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781350217799

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Promoting Children's Rights in European Schools by Claudio Baraldi,Erica Joslyn,Federico Farini,Chiara Ballestri,Luisa Conti,Vittorio Iervese,Angela Scollan Pdf

Promoting Children's Rights in European Schools explores how facilitators, teachers and educators can adopt and use a dialogic methodology to solicit children's active participation in classroom communication. The book draws on a research project, funded by the European Commission (Erasmus +, Key-action 3, innovative education), coordinated by the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy, with the partnership of the University of Suffolk, UK, and the University of Jena, Germany. The author team bring together the analysis of activities in 48 classes involving at least 1000 children across England, Germany and Italy. These activities have been analysed in relation to the sociocultural context of the involved schools and children, a facilitative methodology and the use of visual materials in the classroom, and engaging children in active participation and the production of their own narratives. Each chapter looks at reflection on practice, outcomes, and reaction to facilitation of both teachers and children, drawing out the complex comparative lessons within and between classrooms across the three countries.

Author : Ted Tregear
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192868497

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Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603 by Ted Tregear Pdf

Between 1599 and 1601, no fewer than five anthologies appeared in print with extracts from Shakespeare's works. Some featured whole poems, while others chose short passages from his poems and plays, gathered alongside lines on similar topics by his rivals and contemporaries. Appearing midway through his career, these anthologies marked a critical moment in Shakespeare's life. They testify to the reputation he had established as a poet and playwright by the end of the sixteenth century. In extracting passages from their contexts, though, they also read Shakespeare in ways that he might have imagined being read. After all, this was how early modern readers were taught to treat the texts they read, selecting choice excerpts and copying them into their notebooks. Taking its cue from these anthologies, Anthologizing Shakespeare, 1593-1603 offers new readings of the formative works of Shakespeare's first decade in print, from Venus and Adonis (1593) to Hamlet (1603). It illuminates a previously neglected period in Shakespeare's career, what it calls his 'anthology period'. It investigates what these anthologies made of Shakespeare, and what he made of being anthologized. And it shows how, from the early 1590s, his works were inflected by the culture of commonplacing and anthologizing in which they were written, and in which Shakespeare, no less than his readers, was schooled. In this book, Ted Tregear explores how Shakespeare appealed to the reading habits of his contemporaries, inviting and frustrating them in turn. Shakespeare, he argues, used the practice of anthologizing to open up questions at the heart of his poems and plays: questions of classical literature and the schoolrooms in which it was taught; of English poetry and its literary inheritance; of poetry's relationship with drama; and of the afterlife he and his works might win--at least in parts.

Author : Jenny C. Mann
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691219233

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The Trials of Orpheus by Jenny C. Mann Pdf

A revealing look at how the Orpheus myth helped Renaissance writers and thinkers understand the force of eloquence In ancient Greek mythology, the lyrical songs of Orpheus charmed the gods, and compelled animals, rocks, and trees to obey his commands. This mythic power inspired Renaissance philosophers and poets as they attempted to discover the hidden powers of verbal eloquence. They wanted to know: How do words produce action? In The Trials of Orpheus, Jenny Mann examines the key role the Orpheus story played in helping early modern writers and thinkers understand the mechanisms of rhetorical force. Mann demonstrates that the forms and figures of ancient poetry indelibly shaped the principles of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scientific knowledge. Mann explores how Ovid’s version of the Orpheus myth gave English poets and natural philosophers the lexicon with which to explain language’s ability to move individuals without physical contact. These writers and thinkers came to see eloquence as an aesthetic force capable of binding, drawing, softening, and scattering audiences. Bringing together a range of examples from drama, poetry, and philosophy by Bacon, Lodge, Marlowe, Montaigne, Shakespeare, and others, Mann demonstrates that the fascination with Orpheus produced some of the most canonical literature of the age. Delving into the impact of ancient Greek thought and poetry in the early modern era, The Trials of Orpheus sheds light on how the powers of rhetoric became a focus of English thought and literature.

Author : Sarah C. E. Ross,Rosalind Smith
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030429461

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Early Modern Women's Complaint by Sarah C. E. Ross,Rosalind Smith Pdf

This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored, yet, as this collection shows, early modern women used complaint across a surprising variety of forms from the early-Tudor period to the late-seventeenth century. They were some of the mode’s first writers, most influential patrons, and most innovative contributors. Together, these new essays illuminate early modern women’s participation in one of the most powerful rhetorical modes in the English Renaissance, one which gave voice to political, religious and erotic protest and loss across a diverse range of texts. This volume interrogates new texts (closet drama, song, manuscript-based religious and political lyrics), new authors (Dorothy Shirley, Scots satirical writers, Hester Pulter, Mary Rowlandson), and new versions of complaint (biblical, satirical, legal, and vernacular). Its essays pay specific attention to politics, form, and transmission from complaint’s first circulation up to recent digital representations of its texts. Bringing together an international group of experts in early modern women’s writing and in complaint literature more broadly, this collection explores women’s role in the formation of the mode and in doing so reconfigures our understanding of complaint in Renaissance culture and thought.

Author : Louis Ralph Zocca
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : English poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015063861119

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Elizabethan Narrative Poetry by Louis Ralph Zocca Pdf

Author : John S. Garrison,Goran Stanivukovic
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228004547

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Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature by John S. Garrison,Goran Stanivukovic Pdf

Ovid transformed English Renaissance literary ideas about love, erotic desire, embodiment, and gender more than any other classical poet. Ovidian concepts of femininity have been well served by modern criticism, but Ovid's impact on masculinity in Renaissance literature remains underexamined. This volume explores how English Renaissance writers shifted away from Virgilian heroic figures to embrace romantic ideals of courtship, civility, and friendship. Ovid's writing about masculinity, love, and desire shaped discourses of masculinity across a wide range of literary texts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including poetry, prose fiction, and drama. The book covers all major works by Ovid, in addition to Italian humanists Angelo Poliziano and Natale Conti, canonical writers such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, and John Milton, and lesser-known writers such as Wynkyn de Worde, Michael Drayton, Thomas Lodge, Richard Johnson, Robert Greene, John Marston, Thomas Heywood, and Francis Beaumont. Individual essays examine emasculation, abjection, pacifism, female masculinity, boys' masculinity, parody, hospitality, and protean Jewish masculinity. Ovid and Masculinity in English Renaissance Literature demonstrates how Ovid's poetry gave vigour and vitality to male voices in English literature - how his works inspired English writers to reimagine the male authorial voice, the male body, desire, and love in fresh terms.

Author : George Lathom Browne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:600021124

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Narratives of State Trials in the Nineteenth Century by George Lathom Browne Pdf

Author : Robert W. Maslen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015040571146

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Elizabethan Fictions by Robert W. Maslen Pdf

English fiction writers of the 1570s worked at a time when the censorship system was growing increasingly rigorous in response to the perceived threat of infiltration from Catholic Europe. Maslen reappraises their achievements.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119278401

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Comprehensive Dissertation Index by Anonim Pdf