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Author : Sophie Chiari,John Mucciolo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108486675
A fascinating insight into court entertainment - encompassing dance, music and performance - in the age of Shakespeare.
Author : Jacqueline Vanhoutte
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496214539
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 : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135032654
Elizabethan Popular Theatre surveys the Golden Age of English popular theatre: the 1590s, the age of Marlowe and the young Shakespeare. The book describes the staging practices, performance conditions and acting techniques of the period, focusing on five popular dramas: The Spanish Tragedy, Mucedorus, Edward II, Doctor Faustus and Titus Andronicus, as well as providing a comprehensive history of a variety of contemporary playhouse stages, performances, and players.
Author : Frank Kermode
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004-02-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781588363480
In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare’s England, vividly portraying London’s society, its early capitalism, its court, its bursting population, and its epidemics, as well as its arts—including, of course, its theater. Then Kermode focuses on Shakespeare himself and his career, all in the context of the time in which he lived. Kermode reads each play against the backdrop of its probable year of composition, providing new historical insights into Shakspeare’s characters, themes, and sources. The result is an important, lasting, and concise companion guide to the works of Shakespeare by one of our most eminent literary scholars.
Author : Daniel Blank
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192886118
Dramatic performances at the universities in early modern England have usually been regarded as insular events, completely removed from the plays of the London stage. Shakespeare and University Drama in Early Modern England challenges that long-held notion, illuminating how an apparently secluded theatrical culture became a major source of inspiration for Shakespeare and his contemporaries. While many university plays featured classical themes, others reflected upon the academic environments in which they were produced, allowing a window into the universities themselves. This window proved especially fruitful for Shakespeare, who, as this book reveals, had a sustained fascination with the universities and their inhabitants. Daniel Blank provides groundbreaking new readings of plays from throughout Shakespeare's career, illustrating how depictions of academic culture in Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, and Macbeth were shaped by university plays. Shakespeare was not unique, however. This book also discusses the impact of university drama on professional plays by Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, and Ben Jonson, all of whom in various ways facilitated the connection between the university stage and the London commercial stage. Yet this connection, perhaps counterintuitively, is most significant in the works of a playwright who had no formal attachment to Oxford or Cambridge. Shakespeare, this study shows, was at the center of a rich exchange between two seemingly disparate theatrical worlds.
Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253042323
A social history of Renaissance England that raises the curtain on the cultural influences that inspired Shakespeare’s plays. How did it feel to hear Macbeth’s witches chant of “double, double toil and trouble” at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare's plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare’s audiences would have recognized. These moments of recognition often reflected the audience’s own experiences of what it was to, as Hamlet says, “grunt and sweat under a weary life.” Black’s clear and sweeping approach seeks to reclaim Shakespeare from the ivory tower and make the plays’ histories more accessible to the public for whom the plays were always intended.
Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191083327
Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's creative life than is usually appreciated. Richard Dutton argues that many, perhaps most, of Shakespeare's plays have survived in versions adapted for court presentation, where length was no object (and indeed encouraged) and rhetorical virtuosity was appreciated. The first half of the study examines the court's patronage of the theatre during Shakespeare's lifetime and the crucial role of its Masters of the Revels, who supervised all performances there (as well as censoring plays for public performance). Dutton examines the emergence of the Lord Chamberlain's Men and the King's Men, to whom Shakespeare was attached as their 'ordinary poet', and reviews what is known about the revision of plays in the early modern period. The second half of the study focuses in detail on six of Shakespeare's plays which exist in shorter, less polished texts as well as longer, more familiar ones: Henry VI Part II and III, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Hamlet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. Shakespeare, Court Dramatist argues that they are not cut down from those familiar versions, but poorly-reported originals which Shakespeare revised for court performance into what we know best today. More localised revisions in such plays as Titus Andronicus, Richard II, and Henry IV Part II can also best be explained in this context. The court, Richard Dutton argues, is what made Shakespeare Shakespeare.
Author : Frank Kermode
Publisher : Modern Library
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780812974331
In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on a tour of Shakespeare’s England, vividly portraying London’s society, its early capitalism, its court, its bursting population, and its epidemics, as well as its arts—including, of course, its theater. Then Kermode focuses on Shakespeare himself and his career, all in the context of the time in which he lived. Kermode reads each play against the backdrop of its probable year of composition, providing new historical insights into Shakspeare’s characters, themes, and sources. The result is an important, lasting, and concise companion guide to the works of Shakespeare by one of our most eminent literary scholars.
Author : Michael Black
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0993561209
Elizabethan and Jacobean Court plays and the First Folio 1623 authorship deception. This new book sheds light on doubts about Shakespeare's First Folio authorship "Shakespeare Unravelled" delves into the rich history and controversy surrounding William Shakespeare's First Folio of 1623. The book argues that the plays in this publication were brought together because of their significance for the Sidney-Herbert family, patrons of poets and playwrights over many generations. Pauline Black, researcher and co-author says: A key point here is that these plays were produced for Elizabethan and Jacobean court entertainment not the popular stage. These thought-provoking dramas were written for the intelligentsia by well-educated writers --certainly not by the attributed author, Shakespeare. Playwrights commissioned by aristocratic patrons. The book launch coincides with William Shakespeare's 400-year Anniversary throwing new light on a highly contentious issue subject and opens up new avenues for debate. The book looks into the reasons which prompted the concealed authorship, principally the fear of Spanish domination at the time because of the impending royal marriage of Crown Prince Charles and a Spanish Princess. This outcome could incur severe repression of English freedom of expression. The Protestant aristocracy, led by William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke, were determined to preserve their literary and historical heritage. This included the Tudor royal legitimacy dramatized in the history plays and the continuance of the royal line rested upon this version of history. The deceased Shakespeare was chosen to avoid potential punishment of writers and editors (the duty of patrons) since he was beyond retribution for heresy or unorthodox writing by a tyrannical power. "Shakespeare Unravelled" presents a detailed portrait of William Shakespeare and the period. Shakespeare's parents were illiterate, so were his children. The Bard had limited local schooling and no higher education. Yet Shakespeare, a tradesman's son, wrote almost entirely about royalty and the courts of Europe.He also displayed detailed knowledge of aristocratic life, the law and without visiting Italy was aware of the country's history, geography and language. Shakespeare's comprehension of classical texts is another mystery. For centuries there has been doubt about the true authorship of the First Folio of 1623. Alongside the profile of Shakespeare, the play-broker, money lender and theatre shareholder this book throws a new spotlight upon popular theatre and its unruly audience.
Author : Charles Jasper Sisson
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780714620800
First Published in 1971. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Alan Brissenden
Publisher : Dance Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Dance
ISBN : 1852730838
Dancing was an essential part of life in Shakespeare's England. Town and country folk danced at weddings, Maydays and other festivities. Queen Elizabeth prided herself on her skill (and danced galliards in the morning to keep fit), and dancing was the soul of the extravagant masques which so delighted King James. Puritans might furiously denounce it but it was part of the ceremonial of the Inns of Court and a necessary accomplishment for a gentleman. At the same time, as Alan Brissenden shows in this book, the dance was an accepted symbol of harmony, and it was in this way that Shakespeare used it to express one of his major themes: the attempt to achieve order in a discordant world. He included it in at least a dozen of his plays and referred to it in thirty. A valuable source for his imagery, it also illuminates character and action and in some plays helps to forward the plot. In the history plays allusions to country dance, (especially the morris, and court dances like the lavolta) support ideas of conflict and the presentation of characters, especially Henry V. While there is no dancing itself in the histories there is plenty to be found in the comedies and two chapters of the book closely examine the relation of dance to dialogue, character and plot, particularly in "Love's Labour's Lost", "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Much Ado About Nothing". In the tragedies dancing becomes a powerful ironic visual symbol, especially in Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and Timon of Athens. After 1607 dance occurs in almost all of Shakespeare's plays, in such a way that it reflects and expresses the fusion of tragic and comic elements which characterize most of them. The closing chapters show how the dance relates to the cosmic ideas and imagery of these last plays from Perides to Henry VIII and suggest certain influences from the spectacular court masques of the time. In presenting his argument the author, who is a dance critic as well as an Elizabethan scholar, has drawn on manuscript sources, a wide range of contemporary writing, including dance manuals, and his own ideas in dance and theatre. This is a book for students and scholars, for editors, for theatre directors and for those interested in Renaissance dance. It is a book for everyone who delights in the riches of Shakespeare and the age in which he lived.
Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198777748
'Shakespeare, Court Dramatist' outlines the symbiotic relationship between Shakespeare and the court and shows how it affected his writing, forging plays like 'Romeo and Juliet' and 'Hamlet' into the versions we know best today.
Author : W. Reginald Rampone Jr.
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313343766
This book examines the important themes of sexuality, gender, love, and marriage in stage, literary, and film treatments of Shakespeare's plays. The theme of sexuality is often integral to Shakespeare's works and therefore merits a thorough exploration. Sexuality in the Age of Shakespeare begins with descriptions of sexuality in ancient Greece and Rome, medieval England, and early-modern Europe and England, then segues into examinations of the role of sexuality in Shakespeare's plays and poetry, and also in film and stage productions of his plays. The author employs various theoretical approaches to establish detailed interpretations of Shakespeare's plays and provides excerpts from several early-modern marriage manuals to illustrate the typical gender roles of the time. The book concludes with bibliographies that students of Shakespeare will find invaluable for further study.
Author : David Bevington
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780226044798
This study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
Author : Tarnya Cooper
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300116113
Investigates the authenticity of the Chandos portrait and five others as true likenesses of playwright William Shakespeare, and explores Shakespeare's life and world, presenting and describing individual costumes, theater models, manuscripts, and maps from his time as well as portraits of his contemporaries.