Narrating The Visual In Shakespeare

Author : Richard Meek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351915946

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Narrating the Visual in Shakespeare by Richard Meek Pdf

This book examines Shakespeare's fascination with the art of narrative and the visuality of language. Richard Meek complicates our conception of Shakespeare as either a 'man of the theatre' or a 'literary dramatist', suggesting ways in which his works themselves debate the question of text versus performance. Beginning with an exploration of the pictorialism of Shakespeare's narrative poems, the book goes on to examine several moments in Shakespeare's dramatic works when characters break off the action to describe an absent, 'offstage' event, place or work of art. Meek argues that Shakespeare does not simply prioritise drama over other forms of representation, but rather that he repeatedly exploits the interplay between different types of mimesis - narrative, dramatic and pictorial - in order to beguile his audiences and readers. Setting Shakespeare's works in their literary and rhetorical contexts, and engaging with contemporary literary theory, the book offers new readings of Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, Hamlet, King Lear and The Winter's Tale. The book will be of particular relevance to readers interested in the relationship between verbal and visual art, theories of representation and mimesis, Renaissance literary and rhetorical culture, and debates regarding Shakespeare's status as a literary dramatist.

Author : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781107029958

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Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination by Stuart Sillars Pdf

A fully illustrated study of Shakespeare's awareness of traditions in visual art and their presence in his plays and poems.

Author : Michele Marrapodi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781351815130

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Shakespeare and the Visual Arts by Michele Marrapodi Pdf

Critical investigation into the rubric of 'Shakespeare and the visual arts' has generally focused on the influence exerted by the works of Shakespeare on a number of artists, painters, and sculptors in the course of the centuries. Drawing on the poetics of intertextuality and profiting from the more recent concepts of cultural mobility and permeability between cultures in the early modern period, this volume’s tripartite structure considers instead the relationship between Renaissance material arts, theatre, and emblems as an integrated and intermedial genre, explores the use and function of Italian visual culture in Shakespeare’s oeuvre, and questions the appropriation of the arts in the production of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. By studying the intermediality between theatre and the visual arts, the volume extols drama as a hybrid genre, combining the figurative power of imagery with the plasticity of the acting process, and explains the tri-dimensional quality of the dramatic discourse in the verbal-visual interaction, the stagecraft of the performance, and the natural legacy of the iconographical topoi of painting’s cognitive structures. This methodolical approach opens up a new perspective in the intermedial construction of Shakespearean and early modern drama, extending the concept of theatrical intertextuality to the field of pictorial arts and their social-cultural resonance. An afterword written by an expert in the field, a rich bibliography of primary and secondary literature, and a detailed Index round off the volume.

Author : Armelle Sabatier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472568069

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Shakespeare and Visual Culture by Armelle Sabatier Pdf

Statues coming to life and lively portraits ready to breathe in Shakespeare? This new volume re-assesses the key role played by visual culture in his drama and poetry by providing readers with an up-to-date guide to the main publications on the subject as well as offering a synthesis on the main literary and historical sources for inspiration. While scrutinising the complex issue of image on an Elizabethan stage and exploring the codification of colours in Shakespeare's poetry, this dictionary highlights the fierce rivalry between the poet, the dramatist and the visual artist. This volume will be of great interest and value to students of Shakespeare, students of art history or anyone working on the interdisciplinary subject of literature and art.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521769150

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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 63, Shakespeare's English Histories and Their Afterlives by Peter Holland Pdf

The theme for Shakespeare Survey 63 is 'Shakespeare's English Histories and their Afterlives'.

Author : Nandini Das,Nick Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317290674

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Enchantment and Dis-enchantment in Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama by Nandini Das,Nick Davis Pdf

This volume addresses dealings with the wondrous, magical, holy, sacred, sainted, numinous, uncanny, auratic, and sacral in the plays of Shakespeare and contemporaries, produced in an era often associated with the irresistible rise of a thinned-out secular rationalism. By starting from the literary text and looking outwards to social, cultural, and historical aspects, it comes to grips with the instabilities of ‘enchanted’ and ‘disenchanted’ practices of thinking and knowledge-making in the early modern period. If what marvelously stands apart from conceptions of the world’s ordinary functioning might be said to be ‘enchanted’, is the enchantedness weakened, empowered, or modally altered by its translation to theatre? We have a received historical narrative of disenchantment as a large-scale early modern cultural process, inexorable in character, consisting of the substitution of a rationally understood and controllable world for one containing substantial areas of mystery. Early modern cultural change, however, involves transpositions, recreations, or fresh inventions of the enchanted, and not only its replacement in diminished or denatured form. This collection is centrally concerned with what happens in theatre, as a medium which can give power to experiences of wonder as well as circumscribe and curtail them, addressing plays written for the popular stage that contribute to and reflect significant contemporary reorientations of vision, awareness, and cognitive practice. The volume uses the idea of dis-enchantment/re-enchantment as a central hub to bring multiple perspectives to bear on early modern conceptualizations and theatricalizations of wonder, the sacred, and the supernatural from different vantage points, marking a significant contribution to studies of magic, witchcraft, enchantment, and natural philosophy in Shakespeare and early modern drama.

Author : Keir Elam
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408179772

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Shakespeare's Pictures by Keir Elam Pdf

Shakespeare's Pictures is the first full-length study of visual objects in Shakespearean drama. In several plays (Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, among others) pictures are brought on stage - in the form of portraits or other images - as part of the dramatic action. Shakespeare's characters show, exchange and describe them. The pictures arouse in their beholders strong feelings, of desire, nostalgia or contempt, and sometimes even taking the place of the people they depict. The pictures presented in Shakespeare's work are part of the language of the drama, and they have a significant impact on theatrical performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own. Keir Elam pays close attention to the iconographic and literary contexts of Shakespeare's pictures while also exploring their role in performance history. Highly illustrated with 46 images, this volume examines the conflicted cooperation between the visual and the verbal.

Author : Barbara Hardy,Barbara Nathan Hardy
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015041541718

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Shakespeare's Storytellers by Barbara Hardy,Barbara Nathan Hardy Pdf

The noted British literary scholar turns her attention to the rarely examined topic of narrative in the plays and offers some new insight into the playwright's craft. Shakespeare makes narrative theatrical and it is as prominent in his craft and language as characterization and imagery. Hardy analyzes key structures, including reflexive narrative and the narrative compoundings used to begin and end plays. She also examines narrative subtleties in the works of Plutarch, Holinshed, Brooke, and Sidney that Shakespeare read. Finally, she explores common narrative techniques -- memory, forecast, and gendered story -- and extensively analyzes these issues in three plays: Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth.

Author : Toria Johnson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845744

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Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare by Toria Johnson Pdf

Exploring a wide range of material including dramatic works, medieval morality drama, and lyric poetry this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the history of emotions. Early modern English writing about pity evidences a social culture built specifically around emotion, one (at least partially) defined by worries about who deserves compassion and what it might cost an individual to offer it. Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare positions early modern England as a place that sustains messy and contradictory views about pity all at once, bringing together attraction, fear, anxiety, positivity, and condemnation to paint a picture of an emotion that is simultaneously unstable and essential, dangerous and vital, deceptive and seductive. The impact of this emotional burden on individual subjects played a major role in early modern English identity formation, centrally shaping the ways in which people thought about themselves and their communities. Taking in a wide range of material - including dramatic works by William Shakespeare, Thomas Heywood, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley; medieval morality drama; and lyric poetry by Philip Sidney, Thomas Wyatt, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Lodge, Barnabe Barnes, George Rodney and Frances Howard - this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the broader history of emotions, a field which has thus far remained largely the concern of social and cultural historians. Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare shows that both literary materials and literary criticism can offer new insights into the experience and expression of emotional humanity.

Author : Walter Melion,Bart Ramakers
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 787 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9789004310438

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Personification by Walter Melion,Bart Ramakers Pdf

The aim of this volume is to formulate an alternative account of personification, to demonstrate the ingenuity with which this multifaceted device was utilized by late medieval and early modern authors and artists in Italy, England, Scotland, and the Low Countries

Author : Holger Schott Syme
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139503402

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Theatre and Testimony in Shakespeare's England by Holger Schott Syme Pdf

Holger Syme presents a radically new explanation for the theatre's importance in Shakespeare's time. He portrays early modern England as a culture of mediation, dominated by transactions in which one person stood in for another, giving voice to absent speakers or bringing past events to life. No art form related more immediately to this culture than the theatre. Arguing against the influential view that the period underwent a crisis of representation, Syme draws upon extensive archival research in the fields of law, demonology, historiography and science to trace a pervasive conviction that testimony and report, delivered by properly authorised figures, provided access to truth. Through detailed close readings of plays by Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare - in particular Volpone, Richard II and The Winter's Tale - and analyses of criminal trial procedures, the book constructs a revisionist account of the nature of representation on the early modern stage.

Author : R. Rawdon Wilson
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874135257

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Shakespearean Narrative by R. Rawdon Wilson Pdf

"In Shakespearean Narrative, Rawdon Wilson explores the variety and purposes of narrative in Shakespeare's plays. He does this by placing Shakespeare's use of narrative within a context of Renaissance narrative theory and practice, often citing analogous strategies from such other writers as Spenser and Cervantes, and exploring in depth the fruitfulness of contemporary narrative theory to an understanding of Shakespeare's practice. Thus Shakespearean Narrative undertakes a double task: it tries to understand Shakespeare's narrative strategies, which has never been done before in any comparable depth, and it also attempts to test the usefulness of contemporary narrative theory." "The book also relates Shakespeare's understanding of the narrative in the plays to the brilliant narrative poems that he wrote in the early 1590s. It also examines the narrative conventions that are used in the embedded, or inset, narratives in the plays. Particular attention is paid to the way Shakespeare creates fictional entities, such as worlds and characters, in the plays. A great deal of emphasis is placed on Shakespeare's innovative transformations of traditional narrative conventions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Armelle Sabatier
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472568076

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Shakespeare and Visual Culture by Armelle Sabatier Pdf

Statues coming to life and lively portraits ready to breathe in Shakespeare? This new volume re-assesses the key role played by visual culture in his drama and poetry by providing readers with an up-to-date guide to the main publications on the subject as well as offering a synthesis on the main literary and historical sources for inspiration. While scrutinising the complex issue of image on an Elizabethan stage and exploring the codification of colours in Shakespeare's poetry, this dictionary highlights the fierce rivalry between the poet, the dramatist and the visual artist. This volume will be of great interest and value to students of Shakespeare, students of art history or anyone working on the interdisciplinary subject of literature and art.

Author : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Art and literature
ISBN : 1316384608

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Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination by Stuart Sillars Pdf

Author : A. Guneratne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780230613737

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Shakespeare, Film Studies, and the Visual Cultures of Modernity by A. Guneratne Pdf

This book is the first in-depth cultural history of cinema's polyvalent and often contradictory appropriations of Shakespearean drama and performance traditions. The author argues that these adapatations have helped shape multiple aspects of film, from cinematic style to genre and narrative construction.