Not Shakespeare

Author : Christy Desmet,Natalie Loper,Jim Casey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319633008

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Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare by Christy Desmet,Natalie Loper,Jim Casey Pdf

This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once “be” and “not be” Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or have difficulty finding him where he is named. Douglas Lanier’s “Shakespearean rhizome,” which co-opts Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of artistic relations as rhizomes (a spreading, growing network that sprawls horizontally to defy hierarchies of origin and influence) is fundamental to this exploration. Essays discuss the fine line between “Shakespeare” and “not Shakespeare” through a number of critical lenses—networks and pastiches, memes and echoes, texts and paratexts, celebrities and afterlives, accidents and intertexts—and include a wide range of examples: canonical plays by Shakespeare, historical figures, celebrities, television performances and adaptations, comics, anime appropriations, science fiction novels, blockbuster films, gangster films, Shakesploitation and teen films, foreign language films, and non-Shakespearean classic films.

Author : Christy Desmet,Natalie Loper,Jim Casey
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 331963299X

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Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare by Christy Desmet,Natalie Loper,Jim Casey Pdf

This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once “be” and “not be” Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or have difficulty finding him where he is named. Douglas Lanier’s “Shakespearean rhizome,” which co-opts Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of artistic relations as rhizomes (a spreading, growing network that sprawls horizontally to defy hierarchies of origin and influence) is fundamental to this exploration. Essays discuss the fine line between “Shakespeare” and “not Shakespeare” through a number of critical lenses—networks and pastiches, memes and echoes, texts and paratexts, celebrities and afterlives, accidents and intertexts—and include a wide range of examples: canonical plays by Shakespeare, historical figures, celebrities, television performances and adaptations, comics, anime appropriations, science fiction novels, blockbuster films, gangster films, Shakesploitation and teen films, foreign language films, and non-Shakespearean classic films.

Author : William Shakespeare,Richard Grant White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1863
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:aba6862:0003.001

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The Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare,Richard Grant White Pdf

Author : Robert Bearman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198759249

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Shakespeare's Money by Robert Bearman Pdf

'Shakespeare's Money' explores what archival records can reveal about Shakespeare's economic and social success, shedding light on how he elevated his family from lowly status to minor gentry and how economic concerns were ever present in his daily life.

Author : Lois Leveen
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062107916

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The Secrets of Mary Bowser by Lois Leveen Pdf

“Masterfully written, The Secrets of Mary Bowser shines a new light onto our country’s darkest history.” —Brunonia Barry, bestselling author of The Lace Reader “Packed with drama, intrigue, love, loss, and most of all, the resilience of a remarkable heroine….What a treat!” —Kelly O'Connor McNees, author of The Lost Summer of Louisa May Alcott Based on the remarkable true story of a freed African American slave who returned to Virginia at the onset of the Civil War to spy on the Confederates, The Secrets of Mary Bowser is a masterful debut by an exciting new novelist. Author Lois Leveen combines fascinating facts and ingenious speculation to craft a historical novel that will enthrall readers of women’s fiction, historical fiction, and acclaimed works like Cane River and Cold Mountain that offer intimate looks at the twin nightmares of slavery and Civil War. A powerful and unforgettable story of a woman who risked her own freedom to bring freedom to millions of others, The Secrets of Mary Bowser celebrates the courageous achievements of a little known but truly inspirational American heroine.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWDWF6

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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: As you like it. 1890 by William Shakespeare Pdf

[V.23] The second part of Henry the Fourth. 1940.--[v.24-25] The sonnets. 1924.--[v.26] Troilus and Cressida. 1953.--[v.27] The life and death of King Richard the Second. 1955.

Author : Kate Emery Pogue
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-01-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313065514

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Shakespeare's Friends by Kate Emery Pogue Pdf

Taking seriously the commonplace that a man is known by the company he keeps—and particularly by the company he keeps over his lifetime—one can learn more about just about anyone by learning more about his friends. By applying this notion to Shakespeare, this book offers insight into the life of the most famous playwright in history, and one of the most elusive figures in literature. The book consists of sketches of Shakespeare's contact and relationships with the people known to have been close friends or acquaintances, revealing aspects of the poet's life by emphasizing ways in which his life was intertwined with theirs. Though it is difficult to get to know this most famous of playwrights, through this work readers can gain insight into aspects of his life and personality that may otherwise have been hidden. Shakespeare, more than any other writer in the western world, based much of his work on the consequences of friendship. Given the value placed on friends in his writing, many readers have wondered about the role friendship played in his own life. This work gives readers the chance to learn more about Shakespeare's friends, who they were and what they can tell us about Shakespeare and his times. For instance, Richard Field was a boyhood friend with whom Shakespeare went to school in Stratford. Field became a well-known London printer. The details of Field's life illuminate both the details of Shakespeare's boyhood education and the poet's relationship with the printing, publishing, and book-selling world in London. Francis Collins, a lawyer who represented Shakespeare in a number of legal dealings, drafted both versions of Shakespeare's will. This life-long friend was one of the last men eve to see Shakespeare pick up a pen to write. Through these vivid and animated sketches, readers will come to know about Shakespeare's life and times. While the book has a lively, accessible narrative tone within chapters, its organization and features make it highly useful to the school library market as well as the academic world. It contains cross references, a detailed Table of Contents and a highly organized structure with uniformity across sections and chapters. The writing is accessible and could be easily used by upper-level high school students looking to augment school assignments.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780241361641

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This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith Pdf

A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. It takes us into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and technological change. The Shakespeare in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.

Author : Keith Gregor
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443867702

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Shakespeare and Tyranny by Keith Gregor Pdf

This book brings together a selection of essays on the reception and dissemination of Shakespeare’s plays in England and beyond from the 17th century to the present. Written from the perspective of a nation or cluster of nations in which Shakespeare has been used either to reflect, legitimize or challenge different versions of authoritarian rule, each of the chapters offers a picture of Shakespeare as unwitting commentator on some of the most significant and unsettling political events in Europe and elsewhere. Illustrating and analyzing changing attitudes to Shakespeare and his work in various tyrannical and post-tyrannical contexts in both Western and Eastern Europe, North Africa and South America, the volume provides insights into issues like the role of censorship and self-censorship in the revision and production of Shakespearean material; institutional controls on the dissemination and publication of Shakespeare’s work; assumptions and techniques in the staging of his plays; state intervention in the elaboration of a Shakespeare “canon”; the role of Shakespeare in the construction of identity under tyranny; and the pertinence or otherwise of the subversion/containment paradigm following events such as the collapse of communism and the so-called “Arab Spring”.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000306581

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Shakespeare's Comedy of Measure for Measure by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191090103

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Shakespeare on Page and Stage by Stanley Wells Pdf

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare, and over his lifetime he has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland, and its thirty chapters are divided into themed sections: 'Shakespearian Influences', 'Essays on Particular Works', 'Shakespeare in the Theatre', and 'Shakespeare's Text'. An afterword by Margreta de Grazia concludes the volume.

Author : Georg Brandes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKC67

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William Shakespeare by Georg Brandes Pdf

Author : Edward James Castle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : English drama
ISBN : HARVARD:HWKC1Y

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Shakespeare, Bacon, Jonson and Greene by Edward James Castle Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN6GF2

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Tragedy of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Stuart Gillespie
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474216067

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Shakespeare's Books by Stuart Gillespie Pdf

Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. The dictionary covers works whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged more clearly in recent years due to new research, as well as explaining current thinking on long-recognized sources such as Plutarch, Ovid, Holinshed, Ariosto and Montaigne. Entries for all major sources include surveys of the writer's place in Shakespeare's time, detailed discussion of their relation to his work, and full bibliography. These are enhanced by sample passages from early modern England writers, together with reproductions of pages from the original texts. Now available in paperback with a new preface bringing the book up to date, this is an invaluable reference tool.