Empson Wilson Knight Barber Kott

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1472554914

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Empson, Wilson Knight, Barber, Kott by Hugh Grady Pdf

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of G. Wilson Knight, William Empson, C.L. Barber and Jan Kott to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of the.

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472578617

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Empson, Wilson Knight, Barber, Kott by Hugh Grady Pdf

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of William Empson, G. Wilson Knight, C.L. Barber and Jan Kott to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provides a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Author : Amy Lidster,Sonia Massai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009050791

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Shakespeare at War by Amy Lidster,Sonia Massai Pdf

Presenting engaging, thought-provoking stories across centuries of military activity, this book demonstrates just how extensively Shakespeare's cultural capital has been deployed at times of national conflict. Drawing upon scholarly expertise in Shakespeare and War Studies, first-hand experience from public military figures and insights from world-renowned theatre directors, this is the first material history of how Shakespeare has been used in wartime. Addressing home fronts and battle fronts, the collection's broad chronological coverage encompasses the Seven Years' War, the American War of Independence, the Napoleonic Wars, the Russian War, the First and Second World Wars, and the Iraq War. Each chapter reveals an archival object that tells us something about who 'recruited' Shakespeare, what they did with him, and to what effect. Richly illustrated throughout, the collection uniquely uncovers the agendas that Shakespeare has been enlisted to support (and critique) at times of great national crisis and loss.

Author : Adrian Poole,Peter Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 968 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472578631

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Great Shakespeareans Set III by Adrian Poole,Peter Holland Pdf

Great Shakespeareans presents a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. This major project offers an unprecedented scholarly analysis of the contribution made by the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers, and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. An essential resource for students and scholars in Shakespeare studies.

Author : Evelyn Gajowski
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350093249

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The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism by Evelyn Gajowski Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading and genre studies, through those that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s that challenged the preconceptions on which traditional liberal humanism is based, including feminism, cultural materialism and new historicism. Perspectives drawn from postcolonial, queer studies and critical race studies, besides more recent critical practices including presentism, ecofeminism and cognitive ethology all receive detailed treatment. In addition to its coverage of distinct critical approaches, the handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A–Z glossary of key terms and concepts, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field and a substantial annotated bibliography.

Author : Frances Stonor Saunders
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595589422

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The Cultural Cold War by Frances Stonor Saunders Pdf

During the Cold War, freedom of expression was vaunted as liberal democracy's most cherished possession—but such freedom was put in service of a hidden agenda. In The Cultural Cold War, Frances Stonor Saunders reveals the extraordinary efforts of a secret campaign in which some of the most vocal exponents of intellectual freedom in the West were working for or subsidized by the CIA—whether they knew it or not. Called "the most comprehensive account yet of the [CIA's] activities between 1947 and 1967" by the New York Times, the book presents shocking evidence of the CIA's undercover program of cultural interventions in Western Europe and at home, drawing together declassified documents and exclusive interviews to expose the CIA's astonishing campaign to deploy the likes of Hannah Arendt, Isaiah Berlin, Leonard Bernstein, Robert Lowell, George Orwell, and Jackson Pollock as weapons in the Cold War. Translated into ten languages, this classic work—now with a new preface by the author—is "a real contribution to popular understanding of the postwar period" (The Wall Street Journal), and its story of covert cultural efforts to win hearts and minds continues to be relevant today.

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521514750

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Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics by Hugh Grady Pdf

This book examines Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning.

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 48,5 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 : Bruce R. Smith,Katherine Rowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 1107057256

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The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare by Bruce R. Smith,Katherine Rowe Pdf

This transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary work will be of interest to students, theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0791041379

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare Pdf

Includes a brief biography of the author, thematic and structural analysis of the work, critical views, and an index of themes and ideas.

Author : Guy A. Marco,Frank Andrews
Publisher : New York : Garland Pub.
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Music
ISBN : UOM:39015029735563

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Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound in the United States by Guy A. Marco,Frank Andrews Pdf

This alphabetical reference covers the entire spectrum of the recording of sound, from Edison's experimental cylinders to contemporary high technology. The major focus is on the recorded sound industry in the US, with additional material on Canada, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand. The coverage is particularly strong on the earliest periods of recorded sound history--1877-1948, the 78 rpm era and 1949-1982, the LP era. In addition to performers and their work, entries also cover important commercial organizations, individuals who made significant technical contributions, societies and associations, sound archives and libraries, magazines, catalogs, award winners, technical topics, special and foreign terms, copyright laws, and other areas of interest. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Steven Berkoff
Publisher : Grove Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802132243

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I Am Hamlet by Steven Berkoff Pdf

What goes through a man's mind when he is playing Hamlet? How does Shakespeare's best-known play actually work, from the inside? Steven Berkoff is an actor, playwright, and director with an extraordinary talent for conveying powerful ideas and emotions. His production of Hamlet, in which he took the title role, began in Edinburgh in 1979, went on to the Round House in London, and toured throughout Europe for the next two years. The company completed its final performance as guests of Jean-Louis Barrault at his Rond Point Theater, where the audience gave the production a tempestuous ovation. During the tour Berkoff kept a journal and recorded the workings of the play from the director/actor's point of view. On the basis of that diary Berkoff has created an intensely personal analysis of the play with a line-by-line examination of the text and the way he approached it in his production. His detailed observations show how his imagination covers a wide range of human experience--from love and death to the nature of marriage and the messianic fervor of Hamlet. I Am Hamlet not only reveals the mind of a fascinating actor and director at work, it is also a singular encounter with a part that "touches the complete alphabet of human experience" and that every actor feels he is born to play.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780007292844

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Shakespeare by Harold Bloom Pdf

Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.

Author : Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz,Gayle Greene,Carol Thomas Neely
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Feminism and literature
ISBN : 0252010167

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The Woman's Part by Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz,Gayle Greene,Carol Thomas Neely Pdf

Author : Anne Marie Hacht
Publisher : Gale Cengage
Page : 3 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1414429371

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Shakespeare for Students by Anne Marie Hacht Pdf

Collection of essays by Shakespeare scholars that have been selected for students at the high school or undergraduate college level. Each entry includes an introduction; a plot synopsis; a character list; a discussion of the work's principal themes; information about the style and literary devices used; a conversation about the work's historical context; and a critical overview.