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Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611

Author : Jane Pettegree
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230307797

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Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611 by Jane Pettegree Pdf

This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays – Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline – to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies.

Shakespeare’s Foreign Queens

Author : Sandra Logan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-05-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137534842

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Shakespeare’s Foreign Queens by Sandra Logan Pdf

This book examines Shakespeare’s depiction of foreign queens as he uses them to reveal and embody tensions within early modern English politics. Linking early modern and contemporary political theory and concerns through the concepts of fragmented identity, hospitality, citizenship, and banishment, Sandra Logan takes up a set of questions not widely addressed by scholars of early modern queenship. How does Shakespeare’s representation of these queens challenge the opposition between friend and enemy that ostensibly defines the context of the political? And how do these queens expose the abusive potential of the sovereign? Focusing on Katherine of Aragon in Henry VIII, Hermione in The Winter’s Tale, Tamora in Titus Andronicus, and Margaret in the first history tetralogy, Logan considers them as means for exploring conditions of vulnerability, alienation, and exclusion common to subjects of every social position, exposing the sovereign himself as the true enemy of the state.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Author : Brett Hirsch,Hugh Craig
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351963404

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The Shakespearean International Yearbook by Brett Hirsch,Hugh Craig Pdf

This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare' throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece, France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance, issues of character, and other topics.

Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501514500

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Greeks and Trojans on the Early Modern English Stage by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

No story was more interesting to Shakespeare and his contemporaries than that of Troy, partly because the story of Troy was in a sense the story of England, since the Trojan prince Aeneas was supposedly the ancestor of the Tudors. This book explores the wide range of allusions to Greece and Troy in plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, looking not only at plays actually set in Greece or Troy but also those which draw on characters and motifs from Greek mythology and the Trojan War. Texts covered include Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles and The Tempest as well as plays by other authors of the period including Marlowe, Chettle, Ford and Beaumont and Fletcher.

From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Medieval Institute Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781580442800

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From the Romans to the Normans on the English Renaissance Stage by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

This book examines the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century engagement with a crucial part of Britain's past, the period between the withdrawal of the Roman legions and the Norman Conquest. A number of early modern plays suggest an underlying continuity, an essential English identity linked to the land and impervious to change. This book considers the extent to which ideas about early modern English and British national, religious, and political identities were rooted in cultural constructions of the pre-Conquest past.

Renaissance Drama on the Edge

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317066576

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Renaissance Drama on the Edge by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

Recurring to the governing idea of her 2005 study Shakespeare on the Edge, Lisa Hopkins expands the parameters of her investigation beyond England to include the Continent, and beyond Shakespeare to include a number of dramatists ranging from Christopher Marlowe to John Ford. Hopkins also expands her notion of liminality to explore not only geographical borders, but also the intersection of the material and the spiritual more generally, tracing the contours of the edge which each inhabits. Making a journey of its own by starting from the most literally liminal of physical structures, walls, and ending with the wholly invisible and intangible, the idea of the divine, this book plots the many and various ways in which, for the Renaissance imagination, metaphysical overtones accrued to the physically liminal.

Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama

Author : Adrian Streete
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108416146

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Apocalypse and Anti-Catholicism in Seventeenth-Century English Drama by Adrian Streete Pdf

Streete studies the political uses of apocalyptic and anti-Catholic rhetoric in a wide range of seventeenth-century English drama, focusing on the plays of Marston, Middleton, Massinger, and Dryden. Drawing on recent work in religious and political history, he rethinks how religion is debated in the early modern theatre.

Shakespeare and the French Borders of English

Author : Michael Saenger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137357397

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Shakespeare and the French Borders of English by Michael Saenger Pdf

This study emerges from an interdisciplinary conversation about the theory of translation and the role of foreign language in fiction and society. By analyzing Shakespeare's treatment of France, Saenger interrogates the cognitive borders of England - a border that was more dependent on languages and ideas than it was on governments and shorelines.

Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England

Author : Marie-Alice Belle,Line Cottegnies
Publisher : MHRA
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781781886328

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Robert Garnier in Elizabethan England by Marie-Alice Belle,Line Cottegnies Pdf

This volume gathers together, for the first time, Mary Sidney Herbert’s Antonius (1592) and Thomas Kyd’s Cornelia (1594), two significant and inter-related responses to Robert Garnier’s Roman plays, Marc Antoine (1578) and Cornélie (1574). As a unique diptych the translated plays offer invaluable insight into the often ghostly presence of French literature in Elizabethan culture. They also mark an important chapter in the development of early modern neoclassical drama, with Sidney Herbert and Kyd creatively engaging, each in their own way, with Garnier’s learned, Senecan tragedies. This edition offers a critical introduction situating the plays in the rapidly shifting context of the 1590s and discussing their critical reception as translations. The footnotes aim to illuminate Sidney Herbert’s and Kyd’s distinctive translation practices by signaling significant amendments to Garnier’s text and by tracing the web of intertextual allusions that connects each translation, not only with Elizabethan practices of patronage, readership, and text circulation, but also with the wider intellectual and political debates of the late European Renaissance. Also featuring textual notes, a list of neologisms, and a glossary, this edition documents each text’s material and editorial history, as well as their joint contribution to the linguistic creativity of the Elizabethan age. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Times; color: #ffffff}

Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature

Author : Paul D. Stegner,Teichmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137558619

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Confession and Memory in Early Modern English Literature by Paul D. Stegner,Teichmann Pdf

This is the first study to consider the relationship between private confessional rituals and memory across a range of early modern writers, including Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and Robert Southwell.

Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680

Author : John M. Adrian
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230307216

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Local Negotiations of English Nationhood, 1570-1680 by John M. Adrian Pdf

Even in an age of emerging nationhood, English men and women still thought very much in terms of their parishes, towns, and counties. This book examines the vitality of early modern local consciousness and its deployment by writers to mediate the larger political, religious, and cultural changes of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama

Author : M. Matei-Chesnoiu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012-07-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137029331

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Re-imagining Western European Geography in English Renaissance Drama by M. Matei-Chesnoiu Pdf

Matei-Chesnoiu examines the changing understanding of world geography in sixteenth-century England and the concomitant involvement of the London theatre in shaping a new perception of Western European space. Fresh readings are offered of Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, Middleton, Dekker, Massinger, Marston, and others.

Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England

Author : Helen Vella Bonavita
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317118923

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Illegitimacy and the National Family in Early Modern England by Helen Vella Bonavita Pdf

This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more than being simply a narrative or character-driven issue, is a vital component in the evolving construction and representation of British national identity in prose and drama of the sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Through close reading of a range of plays and prose texts, the book offers readers new insight into the semiotics of bastardy and concepts of national identity in early modern England, and reflects on contemporary issues of citizenship and identity. The author examines play texts of the period including Bale's King Johan, Peele's The Troublesome Reign of John, and Shakespeare's King John, Richard II, and King Lear in the context of a selection of legal, religious, and polemical texts. In so doing, she illuminates the extent to which the figure of the bastard and, more generally the trope of illegitimacy, existed as a distinct discourse within the wider discursive framework of family and nation.

The Material Letter in Early Modern England

Author : J. Daybell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137006066

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The Material Letter in Early Modern England by J. Daybell Pdf

The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.

Early Modern Constructions of Europe

Author : Florian Kläger,Gerd Bayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317394921

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Early Modern Constructions of Europe by Florian Kläger,Gerd Bayer Pdf

Between the medieval conception of Christendom and the political visions of modernity, ideas of Europe underwent a transformative and catalytic period that saw a cultural process of renewed self-definition or self-Europeanization. The contributors to this volume address this process, analyzing how Europe was imagined between 1450 and 1750. By whom, in which contexts, and for what purposes was Europe made into a subject of discourse? Which forms did early modern ‘Europes’ take, and what functions did they serve? Essays examine the role of factors such as religion, history, space and geography, ethnicity and alterity, patronage and dynasty, migration and education, language, translation, and narration for the ways in which Europe turned into an ‘imagined community.’ The thematic range of the volume comprises early modern texts in Arabic, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Spanish, including plays, poems, and narrative fiction, as well as cartography, historiography, iconography, travelogues, periodicals, and political polemics. Literary negotiations in particular foreground the creative potential, versatility, and agency that inhere in the process of Europeanization, as well as a specifically early modern attitude towards the past and tradition emblematized in the poetics of the period. There is a clear continuity between the collection’s approach to European identities and the focus of cultural and postcolonial studies on the constructed nature of collective identities at large: the chapters build on the insights produced by these fields over the past decades and apply them, from various angles, to a subject that has so far largely eluded critical attention. This volume examines what existing and well-established work on identity and alterity, hybridity and margins has to contribute to an understanding of the largely un-examined and under-theorized ‘pre-formative’ period of European identity.