Green Shakespeare

Author : Gabriel Egan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134351220

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Green Shakespeare by Gabriel Egan Pdf

Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. Gabriel Egan's Green Shakespeare presents: an overview of the concept of ecocriticism detailed ecocritical readings of Henry V, Macbeth, As You Like It, Antony & Cleopatra, King Lear, Coriolanus, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest analysis of themes such as nature and human society; food and biological nature; the supernatural and the weather a bold argument for a contemporary ‘EcoShakespeare’, taking into account the environmental and political implications of globalization and intellectual property laws. Crossing the boundaries of literary and cultural studies to draw in politics, philosophy and ecology, this volume not only introduces one of the most lively areas of contemporary Shakespeare studies, but also puts forward a convincing case for Shakespeare’s continuing relevance to contemporary theory.

Author : Alan William Green
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Logic puzzles
ISBN : 1480077801

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Dee-Coding Shakespeare by Alan William Green Pdf

Revolutionary new discoveries reveal the actual location where (according to coded information embedded in the poet's church) the great Bard himself has left physical evidence that promises to finally end the persistent controversy concerning his identity. What is hidden at Stratford could well be the greatest story Shakespeare ever wrote! Unlike anything you've ever read about him, 'Dee-Coding Shakespeare' is an exquisite cryptographic maze and includes over 20 gorgeous, full-page photographs of Holy Trinity Church, Stratford. The reader is taken on a breath-taking journey of discovery and invited to be part of history by solving the mystery themselves. Forty puzzles take just a couple of minutes each to work out and result in a stunning conclusion that will shake the halls of academia and bring new life to our appreciation of the most enduring literary genius the world has ever known. The Bard will never be the same ... to-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow.

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350110489

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Shakespeare and the Environment: A Dictionary by Sophie Chiari Pdf

While our physical surroundings fashion our identities, we, in turn, fashion the natural elements in which or with which we live. This complex interaction between the human and the non-human already resonated in Shakespeare's plays and poems. As details of the early modern supra- and infra-celestial landscape feature in his works, this dictionary brings to the fore Shakespeare's responsiveness to and acute perception of his 'environment' and it covers the most significant uses of words related to this concept. In doing so, it also examines the epistemological changes that were taking place at the turn of the 17th century in a society which increasingly tried to master nature and its elements. For this reason, the intersections between the natural and the supernatural receive special emphasis. All in all, this dictionary offers a wide variety of resources that takes stock of the 'green criticism' that recently emerged in Shakespeare studies and provides a clear and complete overview of the idea, imagery and language of environment in the canon.

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139479691

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Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics by Hugh Grady Pdf

Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics explores ideas about art implicit in Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning as resources for art. Hugh Grady draws on a tradition of aesthetic theorists who understand art as always formed in a specific historical moment but as also distanced from its context through its form and Utopian projections. Grady sees A Midsummer Night's Dream, Timon of Athens, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet as displaying these qualities, showing aesthetic theory's usefulness for close readings of the plays. The book argues that such social-minded 'impure aesthetics' can revitalize the political impulses of the new historicism while opening up a new aesthetic dimension in the current discussion of Shakespeare.

Author : Robert E. Burkhart
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110878561

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Shakespeare's Bad Quartos by Robert E. Burkhart Pdf

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Author : John Green,Paul Negri
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0486409600

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Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays by John Green,Paul Negri Pdf

Well-known scenes from "Hamlet," "King Lear," "Macbeth," "Romeo and Juliet," "Julius Caesar," and 15 other popular plays. Summaries, selections from the appropriate text, and captions accompany the illustrations. 30 black-and-white illustrations.

Author : A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838634311

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Images of Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries by A. J. Hoenselaars Pdf

The connection between Renaissance ideas about the character of individual nations and the presentation of stage characters of various nationalities in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries is examined in this volume.

Author : Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1809
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00053085

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A Dictionary of the English Language, in which the Words are Deduced from Their Originals Explained in Their Different Meanings by Johnson Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,Edith Nesbit
Publisher : Laughing Elephant
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 1595833625

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Green Tiger's Illustrated Stories from Shakespeare by William Shakespeare,Edith Nesbit Pdf

Prose retellings of some of Shakespeare's famous plays, for children.

Author : Helen Hackett
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400830541

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Shakespeare and Elizabeth by Helen Hackett Pdf

Did William Shakespeare ever meet Queen Elizabeth I? There is no evidence of such a meeting, yet for three centuries writers and artists have been provoked and inspired to imagine it. Shakespeare and Elizabeth is the first book to explore the rich history of invented encounters between the poet and the Queen, and examines how and why the mythology of these two charismatic and enduring cultural icons has been intertwined in British and American culture. Helen Hackett follows the history of meetings between Shakespeare and Elizabeth through historical novels, plays, paintings, and films, ranging from well-known works such as Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth and the film Shakespeare in Love to lesser known but equally fascinating examples. Raising intriguing questions about the boundaries separating scholarship and fiction, Hackett looks at biographers and critics who continue to delve into links between the queen and the poet. In the Shakespeare authorship controversy there have even been claims that Shakespeare was Elizabeth's secret son or lover, or that Elizabeth herself was the genius Shakespeare. Hackett uncovers the reasons behind the lasting appeal of their combined reputations, and she locates this interest in their enigmatic sexual identities, as well as in the ways they represent political tensions and national aspirations. Considering a wealth of examples, Shakespeare and Elizabeth shows how central this double myth is to both elite and popular culture in Britain and the United States, and how vibrantly it is reshaped in different eras.

Author : Helen Kate Rogers Furness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030029544345

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A concordance to Shakespeare's poems: an index to every word therin contained by Helen Kate Rogers Furness Pdf

Author : Steve Mentz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847064929

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At the Bottom of Shakespeare's Ocean by Steve Mentz Pdf

Fascinating study revealing Shakespeare's career-long engagement with the sea and his frequent use of maritime imagery.

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317895046

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A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies by Michael Mangan Pdf

This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.

Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192661418

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The Private Life of William Shakespeare by Lena Cowen Orlin Pdf

A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close readings of key documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables. It also shows how the histories of some of Shakespeare's neighbours illuminate aspects of his own life. Throughout, we encounter a Shakespeare who consciously and with purpose designed his life. Having witnessed the business failures of his merchant father, he determined not to follow his father's model. His early wedding freed him from craft training to pursue a literary career. His wife's work, and probably the assistance of his parents and brothers, enabled him to make the first of the property purchases that grounded his life as a gentleman. With his will, he provided for both his daughters in ways that were suitable to their circumstances; Anne Shakespeare was already protected by dower rights in the houses and lands he had acquired. His funerary monument suggests that the man of 'small Latin and less Greek' in fact had some experience of an Oxford education. Evidences are that he commissioned the monument himself.

Author : Gordon Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1650 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780485113938

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A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature by Gordon Williams Pdf

Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.