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Author : Linda Charnes
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0674627806
Richard III, Antony and Cleopatra, were significant figures before Shakespeare revitalized them on stage. When he did, Charnes argues, he used these legendary figures to explore the emergence of a new kind of fame, "notorious identity".
Author : Darren Dyck
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666738360
Will & Love examines four of Shakespeare’s love plays (Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, and Antony and Cleopatra) in light of the Augustinian psychology at the heart of the theological romance tradition. This tradition, which Shakespeare inherits from medieval theologian-poets such as Boethius, Dante, Petrarch, and Chaucer, issues from the idea, initially expressed by Augustine in his Confessions, that love functions as volitional weight, as a kind of magnetism or almost-gravitational force—that it moves the lover in mysterious ways yet without diminishing his or her agency. Will & Love highlights Shakespeare’s conception of love in terms of motion and explores the metaphysical, ethical, psychological, and dramatic implications of his doing so.
Author : Julia Marciari Alexander,Catharine MacLeod
Publisher : Studies in British Art
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015082692446
This volume brings together ten distinguished scholars of history, literature, music, theatre, and art to explore the political and cultural implications of the court's transgressive new character.
Author : Amy Cook
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780472053766
An illuminating look into the cognitive processes at play when we cast theatrical and political figures--as well as everyday people--as characters
Author : Deborah Fahy Bryceson,Judith Okely,Jonathan Meir Webber
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845451619
Contrary to the negative assessments of the social order that have become prevalent in the media since 9/11, this collection of essays focuses on the enormous social creativity being invested as collective identities are reconfigured. It emphasizes on the reformulation of ethnic and gender relationships and identities in public life.
Author : Toria Johnson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843845744
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 : John Lewis Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civilization, Classical, in literature
ISBN : 0824066979
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Elena Xeni
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848884984
With input from authors with a strong background in the study of play, this volume is a must-read for anyone with an interest in play from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering the areas of sociology, technology, creative arts, history, and philosophy.
Author : Jacqueline Vanhoutte
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496214553
The title Age in Love is taken from Shakespeare’s sonnet 138, a poem about an aging male speaker who, by virtue of his entanglement with the dark lady, “vainly” performs the role of “some untutor’d youth.” Jacqueline Vanhoutte argues that this pattern of “age in love” pervades Shakespeare’s mature works, informing his experiments in all the dramatic genres. Bottom, Malvolio, Claudius, Falstaff, and Antony all share with the sonnet speaker a tendency to flout generational decorum by assuming the role of the lover, normally reserved in Renaissance culture for young men. Hybrids and upstarts, cross-dressers and shape-shifters, comic butts and tragic heroes—Shakespeare’s old-men-in-love turn in boundary-blurring performances that probe the gendered and generational categories by which early modern subjects conceived of identity. In Age in Love Vanhoutte shows that questions we have come to regard as quintessentially Shakespearean—about the limits of social mobility, the nature of political authority, the transformative powers of the theater, the vagaries of human memory, or the possibility of secular immortality—come to indelible expression through Shakespeare’s artful deployment of the “age in love” trope. Age in Love contributes to the ongoing debate about the emergence of a Tudor public sphere, building on the current interest in premodern constructions of aging and ultimately demonstrating that the Elizabethan court shaped Shakespeare’s plays in unexpected and previously undocumented ways.
Author : Valerie Traub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 816 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191019722
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of current debates.
Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199257604
The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negative mode of resistance to power--not, as many recent critics have asserted, its abettor.
Author : Maureen F. Curtin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135373641
Out of Touch investigates how skin has become a crucial but disavowed figure in twentieth-century literature, theory, and cultural criticism. These discourses reveal the extent to which skin figures in the cultural effect of changes in visual technologies, a development argued by critics to be at the heart of the contest between surface and depth and, by extension, Western globalization and identity politics. The skin has a complex history as a metaphorical terrain over which ideological wars are fought, identity is asserted through modification as in tattooing, and meaning is inscribed upon the human being. Yet even as interventions on the skin characterize much of this history, fantasy and science fiction literature and film trumpet skin's passing in the cybernetic age, and feminist theory calls for abandoning the skin as a hostile boundary.
Author : Vernon Guy Dickson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317144090
The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the significance of emulative practices and theories in the period. This work uses the interactions of a range of English Renaissance plays with ancient and Renaissance rhetorics to analyze the conflicted uses of emulation in the period (including the theory and praxis of rhetorical imitatio, humanist notions of exemplarity, and the stage’s purported ability to move spectators to emulate depicted characters). This book emphasizes the need to see emulation not as a solely (or even primarily) literary practice, but rather as a significant aspect of Renaissance culture, giving insight into notions of self, society, and the epistemologies of the period and informed by the period’s own sense of theory and history. Among the individual texts examined here are Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus and Hamlet, Jonson’s Catiline, and Massinger’s The Roman Actor (with its strong relation to Jonson’s Sejanus).
Author : Goran V. Stanivukovic
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0802035159
This collection of original essays uses contemporary theory to examine Renaissance writers' reworking of Ovid's texts in order to analyze the strategies in the construction of the early modern discourses of gender, sexuality, and writing.
Author : Elisabeth Dutton,James McBain
Publisher : Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783823379683
This wide-ranging volume explores relationships between drama and pedagogy in the medieval and early modern periods, with contributions from an international ?eld of scholars including a number of leading authorities. Across the medieval and early modern periods, drama is seen to be a way of dissemi-nating theological and philosophical ideas. In medieval England, when literacy was low and the liturgy in Latin, drama translated and transformed spiritual truths, embodying them for a wider audience than could be reached by books alone. In Tudor England, humanist belief in the validity and potential of drama as a pedagogical tool informs the interlude, and examples of dramatized instruction abound on early modern stages. Academic drama is a particularly preg -nant locus for the exploration of drama and peda-gogy: universities and the Inns of Court trained some of the leading playwrights of the early theatre, but also supplied methods and materials that shaped professional playhouse compositions.