Greeks And Trojans On The Early Modern English Stage

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501514623

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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.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 51,5 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.

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501514159

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The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage by Lisa Hopkins Pdf

Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christianity itself might seem alien, so the book also considers the interface between traditional Catholicism, new forms of Protestantism, and Greek and Russian orthodoxy. But it also finds that the concept of Christendom was under threat in other places, some much nearer to home. Edges of Christendom could be found in areas that were or had been pagan, such as Rome itself and the Danelaw, which once covered northern England; they could even be found in English homes and gardens, where imported foreign flowers and exotic new ingredients challenged the concept of what was native and natural.

Author : Marco Duranti
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9791220061889

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“Ecclesiae et Rei Publicae”: Greek Drama and the Education of the Ruling Class in Elizabethan England by Marco Duranti Pdf

In sixteenth-century England only two Greek plays in Greek were published: Euripides’ Troades (1575) and Aristophanes’ Equites (1593). This book raises questions on the scarceness of editions of Greek dramas and their late appearance in the English Renaissance, compared to continental editorial practices. It also seeks to reconstruct the intellectual and political context in which these two dramas were published. To this end, it examines the paratexts, especially the prefatory letters addressed either to patrons or to the readers, contained in contemporary Greek grammars and catechisms. Troades and Equites were probably published for educational purposes and their lack of paratexts invites further investigation as to the status of knowledge of Greek and how these editions were to be used in teaching. Against this backdrop, Troades and Equites appear as part and parcel of a humanistic programme connected with the education of the ruling class. The book shows that the Elizabethan age witnessed a growing interest in Greek as part of an overall project of consolidation of the Church of England and the monarchy, inspired by Protestant nationalism. In this context, reading and staging Greek dramas was regarded as a means to acquire rhetorical, ethical, philosophical, and political knowledge. These paratexts help us to understand the role of Greek and Greek literature held in the making of modern England.

Author : Betine van Zyl Smit
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118347775

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A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama by Betine van Zyl Smit Pdf

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film

Author : Glynne Wickham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136288326

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Part I - Early English Stages 1576-1600 by Glynne Wickham Pdf

This volume forms part of the 5 volume set Early English Stages 1300-1660. This set examines the history of the development of dramatic spectacle and stage convention in England from the beginning of the fourteenth century to 1660.

Author : Margreta de Grazia
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226785363

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Four Shakespearean Period Pieces by Margreta de Grazia Pdf

In the study of Shakespeare since the eighteenth century, four key concepts have served to situate Shakespeare in history: chronology, periodization, secularization, and anachronism. Yet recent theoretical work has called for their reappraisal. Anachronisms, previously condemned as errors in the order of time, are being hailed as alternatives to that order. Conversely chronology and periods, its mainstays, are now charged with having distorted the past they have been entrusted to represent, and secularization, once considered the driving force of the modern era, no longer holds sway over the past or the present. In light of this reappraisal, can Shakespeare studies continue unshaken? This is the question Four Shakespearean Period Pieces takes up, devoting a chapter to each term: on the rise of anachronism, the chronologizing of the canon, the staging of plays “in period,” and the use of Shakespeare in modernity’s secularizing project. To read these chapters is to come away newly alert to how these fraught concepts have served to regulate the canon’s afterlife. Margreta de Grazia does not entirely abandon them but deftly works around and against them to offer fresh insights on the reading, editing, and staging of the author at the heart of our literary canon.

Author : Efterpi Mitsi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350014183

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Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader by Efterpi Mitsi Pdf

Troilus and Cressida: A Critical Reader offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this complex problem play, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. Considering its generic ambiguity and experimentalism, it also provides a uniquely detailed and up-to-date history of the play's stage performance from Dryden's rewriting up to Mark Ravenhill and Elizabeth LeCompte's controversial 2012 production for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Wooster Group. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives on the play's iconoclastic nature and its key themes, ranging from issues of gender and sexuality to Elizabethan politics, from the uses of antiquity to questions of cultural translation, with particular attention paid on Troilus' “Greekness”. The volume finishes with a helpful guide to critical and web-based resources. Discussing the ways in which this challenging and acerbic play can be brought to life in the classroom, it suggests performance-based strategies, designed to engage with the dramaturgical and theatrical dimensions of the text; close-reading exercises with an emphasis on rhetoric, metaphor and the practice of “troping”; and a series of tools designed to situate the play in a range of contexts, including its classical and critical frameworks.

Author : Fiona Macintosh,Justine McConnell,Stephen Harrison,Claire Kenward
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198804215

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Epic Performances from the Middle Ages Into the Twenty-First Century by Fiona Macintosh,Justine McConnell,Stephen Harrison,Claire Kenward Pdf

Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes: this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre, and academic and creative disciplines.--Publisher description.

Author : Glynne William Gladstone Wickham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Theater
ISBN : UCSC:32106006044413

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Early English Stages, 1300 to 1660 by Glynne William Gladstone Wickham Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,Sidney Lee
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 1055 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9788026805014

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Troilus and Cressida (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare,Sidney Lee Pdf

This carefully crafted ebook: “Troilus and Cressida (The Unabridged Play) + The Classic Biography: The Life of William Shakespeare” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The work was published as a quarto in 1609. Troilus and Cressida is Shakespeare's "problem" play about the Trojan War. As the opening Chorus tells us, the play begins in the middle of the epic conflict, and counterpoints the drama of battle with the romance of the title characters. Just as Agamemnon and his Greek forces attempt to woo the invincible Achilles to resume fighting on their side, the Trojan go between Pandarus tries to bring together Troilus, a son of King Priam, with his niece, the lovely Cressida. Life of William Shakespeare is a biography of William Shakespeare by the eminent critic Sidney Lee. This book was one of the first major biographies of the Bard of Avon. It was published in 1898, based on the article contributed to the Dictionary of National Biography. William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, the authorship of some of which is uncertain. Sir Sidney Lee (1859 – 1926) was an English biographer and critic. He was a lifelong scholar and enthusiast of Shakespeare. His article on Shakespeare in the fifty-first volume of the Dictionary of National Biography formed the basis of his Life of William Shakespeare. This full-length life is often credited as the first modern biography of the poet.

Author : Paul Raffield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509929863

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Shakespeare's Strangers and English Law by Paul Raffield Pdf

Through analysis of 5 plays by Shakespeare, Paul Raffield examines what it meant to be a 'stranger' to English law in the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period. The numbers of strangers increased dramatically in the late sixteenth century, as refugees fled religious persecution in continental Europe and sought sanctuary in Protestant England. In the context of this book, strangers are not only persons ethnically or racially different from their English counterparts, be they immigrants, refugees, or visitors. The term also includes those who transgress or are simply excluded by their status from established legal norms by virtue of their faith, sexuality, or mode of employment. Each chapter investigates a particular category of 'stranger'. Topics include the treatment of actors in late Elizabethan England and the punishment of 'counterfeits' (Measure for Measure); the standing of refugees under English law and the reception of these people by the indigenous population (The Comedy of Errors); the establishment of 'Troynovant' as an international trading centre on the banks of the Thames (Troilus and Cressida); the role of law and the state in determining the rights of citizens and aliens (The Merchant of Venice); and the disenfranchised, estranged position of the citizen in a dysfunctional society and an acephalous realm (King Lear). This is the third sole-authored book by Paul Raffield on the subject of Shakespeare and the Law. The others are Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution: Late Elizabethan Politics and the Theatre of Law (2010) and The Art of Law in Shakespeare (2017), both published by Hart/Bloomsbury.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Cressida (Fictitious character)
ISBN : UOM:39015066295562

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Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,William Smith,Sir John Murray IV,Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle),George Walter Prothero
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : English literature
ISBN : UOM:39015039439453

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The Quarterly Review by William Gifford,Sir John Taylor Coleridge,John Gibson Lockhart,Whitwell Elwin,William Macpherson,William Smith,Sir John Murray IV,Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle),George Walter Prothero Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z314049906

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“The” Quarterly Review by Anonim Pdf