Pity And Identity In The Age Of Shakespeare

Author : Toria Johnson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Emma Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 941 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009392778

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Shakespeare Survey 76 by Emma Smith Pdf

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for Volume 76 is 'Digital and Virtual Shakespeare'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/collections/cambridge-shakespeare. This searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.

Author : Arata Ide
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781843846932

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Localizing Christopher Marlowe by Arata Ide Pdf

This study punctures the stereotyped portrayals of Marlowe, first created by his rival Robert Greene, and, yet, which still colour our view. In doing so, Ide reveals the social and cultural discourses out of which such myths emerged.We know next to nothing about the life of the playwright Christopher Marlowe (b.1564 - d. 1593). Few documents survive other than his birth record in the parish register, a handful of legal cases in court records, Privy Council mandates and reports to the Council, the coroner's examination of his death, and a few hearsay accounts of his atheism. With such a limited collection of biographical documents available, it is impossible to retrieve from history a complete sense of Marlowe. However, this does not mean that biography cannot play a significant role in Marlowe studies. By observing the details of the specific places and communities to which Marlowe belonged, this book highlights the collective experiences and concerns of the social groups and communities with which we know he was personally and financially involved. Specifically, Localizing Christopher Marlowe reveals the political and cultural dynamics in the community of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, into which Marlowe was deeply integrated and through which he became affiliated with the circle of Sir Francis Walsingham, mapping these influences in both his life and works.e was personally and financially involved. Specifically, Localizing Christopher Marlowe reveals the political and cultural dynamics in the community of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, into which Marlowe was deeply integrated and through which he became affiliated with the circle of Sir Francis Walsingham, mapping these influences in both his life and works.e was personally and financially involved. Specifically, Localizing Christopher Marlowe reveals the political and cultural dynamics in the community of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, into which Marlowe was deeply integrated and through which he became affiliated with the circle of Sir Francis Walsingham, mapping these influences in both his life and works.e was personally and financially involved. Specifically, Localizing Christopher Marlowe reveals the political and cultural dynamics in the community of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, into which Marlowe was deeply integrated and through which he became affiliated with the circle of Sir Francis Walsingham, mapping these influences in both his life and works.

Author : Toria Johnson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Dennis McCarthy,June Schlueter
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781843844884

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"A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North by Dennis McCarthy,June Schlueter Pdf

A new source for Shakespeare's plays, only recently uncovered, is investigated here with a full edition and facsimile of the text.

Author : Ezra Horbury
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781843845423

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Prodigality in Early Modern Drama by Ezra Horbury Pdf

Examination of the motif of the prodigal son as treated in early modern drama, from Shakespeare to Beaumont and Fletcher.

Author : John Casson,William D. Rubinstein
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781445654676

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Sir Henry Neville Was Shakespeare by John Casson,William D. Rubinstein Pdf

Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare?

Author : Gary Schmidgall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990-09-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0813117062

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Shakespeare and the Poet's Life by Gary Schmidgall Pdf

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of contemplating the professional reasons Shakespeare -- or any poet of the time -- ceased being an Elizabethan court poet and focused his efforts on drama and the Globe. Students of Shakespeare and of Renaissance poetry will find Schmidgall's approach and conclusions both challenging and illuminating.

Author : Lindsay Ann Reid
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781843845188

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Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval by Lindsay Ann Reid Pdf

A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet.

Author : Philip C Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351984034

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Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) by Philip C Kolin Pdf

First published in 1991, this book is the first annotated bibliography of feminist Shakespeare criticism from 1975 to 1988 — a period that saw a remarkable amount of ground-breaking work. While the primary focus is on feminist studies of Shakespeare, it also includes wide-ranging works on language, desire, role-playing, theatre conventions, marriage, and Elizabethan and Jacobean culture — shedding light on Shakespeare’s views on and representation of women, sex and gender. Accompanying the 439 entries are extensive, informative annotations that strive to maintain the original author’s perspective, supplying a careful and thorough account of the main points of an article.

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474442541

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Shakespeare's Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment by Sophie Chiari Pdf

The first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century.

Author : Janet Adelman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136607370

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Suffocating Mothers by Janet Adelman Pdf

An original reading of Shakespeare's plays illuminating his negotiations with mothers, present and absent, and tracing the genesis of Shakespearean tragedy and romance to a psychologized version of the Fall.

Author : Algernon Charles Swinburne
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781465588272

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A Study of Shakespeare by Algernon Charles Swinburne Pdf

Author : James P. Driscoll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015005556041

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Identity in Shakespearean Drama by James P. Driscoll Pdf

This work critically investigates Shake speare's fascination with the problem of character identity and draws on the analytical methods of Jungian psychology to help reveal his solution to them. It examines the ways in which Shakespeare defines his metastance and ideal identity through dream and stage metaphors.

Author : Ira Clark
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813162416

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Professional Playwrights by Ira Clark Pdf

The most neglected of the English Renaissance playwrights are the major Carolines -- Philip Massinger, John Ford, James Shirley, and Richard Brome. Writing in the 1620s and 1630s, always in the shadow of their great precursors, Shakespeare and Jonson, they have often been dubbed mere purveyors of slick, escapist sensationalism who avoided the great issues of their day and turned away from the impending breakdown of English society. Ira Clark's revisionist book shows us these dramatists and their time whole, particularly through analysis of their treatment of sociopolitical issues -- issues that find echoes in twentieth-century concerns. For each of these playwrights, Clark sketches his known social circle, describes characteristic social and political stances and dramatic techniques, and provides a detailed reading of an exemplary play. In considering their artistry, he notes their variations on traditional dramatic characters, situations, and styles. Where their predecessors had offered deep psychological portrayals, the Carolines, he finds, present characters whose roles grow out of their social relations. The issues they engage range from the sovereignty of King or Parliament and the criteria for social mobility to parental dominion and the rights of women and children. Their presentations range from conservatism -- Ford's distilled and Shirley's playful -- through Massinger's accommodation, to Brome's extemporaneous experimentation. The Carolines' theatrical world, Clark argues, is accessible to modern readers through the social theories of our time, which depend on their "world as a stage" trope for such concepts as symbolic interactionism and the ritual inculcation of social cohesion. This important book sheds new light on both the artistic and the political climate of seventeenth-century England.