History Play

Author : Rodney Bolt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596917200

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History Play by Rodney Bolt Pdf

Rodney Bolt's delightful life of Marlowe plays out a surprising solution to an enduring literary mystery, bringing the spirit of Shakespeare alive as we've never seen it before. Rodney Bolt's book is not an attempt to prove that, rather than dying at 29 in a tavern brawl, Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to Europe, and went on to write the work attributed to Shakespeare. Instead, it takes that as the starting point for a playful and brilliantly written "fake biography" of Marlowe, which turns out to be a life of the Bard as well. Using real historical sources (as well as the occasional red herring) plus a generous dose of speculation, Bolt paints a rich and rollicking picture of Elizabethan life. As we accompany Marlowe into the halls of academia, the society of the popular English players traveling Europe, and the dangerous underworld of Elizabethan espionage, a fascinating and almost plausible life story emerges, along with a startlingly fresh look at the plays and poetry we know as Shakespeare's. Tapping into centuries of speculation about the man behind the work, about whom so few facts are known for sure, Rodney Bolt slyly winds the lives of two beloved playwrights into one.

Author : Niloufer Harben
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0389207349

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Twentieth-century English History Plays by Niloufer Harben Pdf

The book offers the clearest definition yet of the history play, its scope and its limits. Historical drama is an extremely popular genre among 20th-century English playwrights. Yet the sheer size and complexity of the subject has, until now, prevented critics from attempting a clear definition. Dr. Harben provides a new and original perspective, taking into account modern ideas of and attitudes to history. The author examines the varying approaches to history taken by modern historians and playwrights, and provides a detailed analysis of the historical source material of selected plays. The study is supported with a wealth of vivid and provocative illustrations. Historical and dramatic criticism is related to theatrical interpretation and experience. This book therefore should prove valuable and interesting to the reader with a specialist interest in the field as well as to the more general reader.

Author : Ralf Hertel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317050797

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Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play by Ralf Hertel Pdf

Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe in the context of non-fictional texts (such as historiographies, chorographies, political treatises, or dictionary entries) and cultural artefacts (such as maps or portraits), and thus highlights the circulation, and mutation, of national thought in late sixteenth-century culture. At the same time, it goes beyond a New Historicist approach by foregrounding the performative surplus of the theatre event that is so essential for the shaping of collective identity. How, this study crucially asks, does the performative art of theatre contribute to the dynamics of the formation of national identity? Although theories about the nature of nationalism vary, a majority of theorists agree that notions of a shared territory and history, as well as questions of religion, class and gender play crucial roles in the shaping of national identity. These factors inform the structure of this book, and each is examined individually. In contrast to existing publications, this inquiry does not take for granted a pre-existing national identity that simply manifested itself in the literary works of the period; nor does it proceed from preconceived notions of the playwrights’ political views. Instead, it understands the early modern stage as an essentially contested space in which conflicting political positions are played off against each other, and it inquires into how the imaginative work of negotiating these stances eventually contributed to a rising national self-awareness in the spectators.

Author : Hailey Bachrach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009356152

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Staging Female Characters in Shakespeare's English History Plays by Hailey Bachrach Pdf

Hailey Bachrach reveals how Shakespeare used female characters in deliberate and consistent ways across his history plays. Illuminating these patterns, she helps us understand these characters not as incidental or marginal presences, but as a key lens through which to understand Shakespeare's process for transforming history into drama. Shakespeare uses female characters to draw deliberate attention to the blurry line between history and fiction onstage, bringing to life the constrained but complex position of women not only in the past itself, but as characters in depictions of said past. In Shakespeare's historical landscape, female characters represent the impossibility of fully recovering voices the record has excluded, and the empowering potential of standing outside history that Shakespeare can only envision by drawing upon the theatre's material conditions. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Author : Amy Lidster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781316517253

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Publishing the History Play in the Time of Shakespeare by Amy Lidster Pdf

Showing how overlooked publication agents constructed and read early modern history plays, this book fundamentally re-evaluates the genre.

Author : Joe L. Frost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135251666

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A History of Children's Play and Play Environments by Joe L. Frost Pdf

Children’s play throughout history has been free, spontaneous, and intertwined with work, set in the playgrounds of the fields, streams, and barnyards. Children in cities enjoyed similar forms of play but their playgrounds were the vacant lands and parks. Today, children have become increasingly inactive, abandoning traditional outdoor play for sedentary, indoor cyber play and poor diets. The consequences of play deprivation, the elimination and diminution of recess, and the abandonment of outdoor play are fundamental issues in a growing crisis that threatens the health, development, and welfare of children. This valuable book traces the history of children’s play and play environments from their roots in ancient Greece and Rome to the present time in the high stakes testing environment. Through this exploration, scholar Dr. Joe Frost shows how this history informs where we are today and why we need to re-establish play as a priority. Ultimately, the author proposes active solutions to play deprivation. This book is a must-read for scholars, researchers, and students in the fields of early childhood education and child development.

Author : Howard P. Chudacoff
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814716656

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Children at Play by Howard P. Chudacoff Pdf

Explores the history of play in the U.S. from the point of view of children between six and twelve.

Author : Charity Jordan,McKenzie Jordan,Morgan Jordan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 30 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1733437029

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Play with Your History Vol. 1 by Charity Jordan,McKenzie Jordan,Morgan Jordan Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082518336

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Shakspeare's Historical Plays by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Neema Parvini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474423540

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Shakespeare's History Plays by Neema Parvini Pdf

Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays

Author : Brad Tolinski,Alan di Perna
Publisher : Doubleday Canada
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780385685832

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Play It Loud by Brad Tolinski,Alan di Perna Pdf

By the longtime editor-in-chief of Guitar World and a veteran rock journalist, an unprecedented history of the electric guitar, its explosive impact on music and culture, and the people who brought it to life. Spanning a century and encompassing some of guitar's greatest builders and players, from Les Paul to Keith Richards to Eddie Van Halen, Brad Tolinski and Alan di Perna bring the evolution of the guitar to roaring life. This is a story of inventors and iconoclasts, of scam artists, prodigies and mythologizers, as varied and original as the music they spawned. Play It Loud uses twelve landmark instruments, each of them a milestone in the progress of the electric guitar, to illustrate the chaos, conflict and passion it has inspired. It introduces Leo Fender, a man who couldn't play a note, but whose innovation helped transform the classical guitar into the explosive sound machine it is today. Some of the most significant social movements of the 20th century are indebted to the guitar: it was an essential part of Beatlemania and Woodstock; a mirror to the rise of the teenager as a social force; a linchpin of the punk movement's sound and ethos. And today the guitar has come full circle, with contemporary titans such as Jack White of The White Stripes and Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys bringing some of those earliest electric guitar forms back to the limelight. For generations, the electric guitar has been an international symbol of freedom, danger and hedonism. Play It Loud is the story of how a band of innovators transformed a simple notion into a singular cultural force.

Author : Ronojoy Sen
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231539937

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Nation at Play by Ronojoy Sen Pdf

Reaching as far back as ancient times, Ronojoy Sen pairs a novel history of India's engagement with sport and a probing analysis of its cultural and political development under monarchy and colonialism, and as an independent nation. Some sports that originated in India have fallen out of favor, while others, such as cricket, have been adopted and made wholly India's own. Sen's innovative project casts sport less as a natural expression of human competition than as an instructive practice reflecting a unique play with power, morality, aesthetics, identity, and money. Sen follows the transformation of sport from an elite, kingly pastime to a national obsession tied to colonialism, nationalism, and free market liberalization. He pays special attention to two modern phenomena: the dominance of cricket in the Indian consciousness and the chronic failure of a billion-strong nation to compete successfully in international sporting competitions, such as the Olympics. Innovatively incorporating examples from popular media and other unconventional sources, Sen not only captures the political nature of sport in India but also reveals the patterns of patronage, clientage, and institutionalization that have bound this diverse nation together for centuries.

Author : Ronald A. Smith
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780252035876

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Pay for Play by Ronald A. Smith Pdf

In an era when college football coaches frequently command higher salaries than university presidents, many call for reform to restore the balance between amateur athletics and the educational mission of schools. This book traces attempts at college athletics reform from 1855 through the early twenty-first century while analyzing the different roles played by students, faculty, conferences, university presidents, the NCAA, legislatures, and the Supreme Court. Pay for Play: A History of Big-Time College Athletic Reform also tackles critically important questions about eligibility, compensation, recruiting, sponsorship, and rules enforcement. Discussing reasons for reform--to combat corruption, to level the playing field, and to make sports more accessible to minorities and women--Ronald A. Smith candidly explains why attempts at change have often failed. Of interest to historians, athletic reformers, college administrators, NCAA officials, and sports journalists, this thoughtful book considers the difficulty in balancing the principles of amateurism with the need to draw income from sporting events.

Author : Cindy Sondik Aron
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0195142349

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Working at Play by Cindy Sondik Aron Pdf

This text chronicles the history of vacationing in America since the early 19th century. It is concerned with how, when, and why vacationing came to be part of life, charting this social and cultural institution as it grew from the custom of a small elite in to a mass phenomenon

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1990-02-23
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139835138

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King Henry VIII by William Shakespeare Pdf

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. Edited and introduced by John Margeson, King Henry VIII appears here for the first time in a New Cambridge Shakespeare edition. In his introduction Margeson explores the political and religious background to the play, its pageant-like structure and visual effects, and its varied ironies. He also discusses its stage history, from the famous occasion in 1613 when the Globe theatre burned down during a performance of King Henry VIII to important theatrical productions of the late twentieth century. A balanced account is provided of the authorship controversy that arose in the nineteenth century, when John Fletcher's name was first put forward as a likely collaborator.