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Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Guy Story Brown
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780881461855
The Tragedy of King Lear precedes Cymbeline King of Britain as the earliest of Shakespeare's English history plays in the sense that it represents a primordial age when the "sceptered isle" of "England" was hardly yet even clearly differentiated from "Britain." The decay and fall of the world is visible, i.e., is originally conceivable as a subject, only from a vantage that is in some sense not itself limited to error or fault. This resolution cannot be a thesis that is merely proved from outside but a vantage that emerges in a careful reading of the 1623 Folio text from the beginning that is alert both to the whole of Shakespeare's corpus and its cultural context. The reading shows The Tragedy of King Lear to be a Thomistic portrayal of the problem and reality of kingship, in which there emerges an increasingly explicit and profoundbut unsentimentalChristianity that seems as much Augustinian as Thomistic.
Author : Christopher R. Wilson
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441188472
Music pervades Shakespeare's work. In addition to vocal songs and numerous instrumental cues there are thousands of references to music throughout the plays and many of the poems. This book discusses Shakespeare's musical imagery according to categories defined by occurrence in the plays and poems. In turn, these categories depend on their early modern usage and significance. Thus, instruments such as lute and viol deserve special attention just as Renaissance ideas relating to musical philosophy and pedagogical theory need contextual explanation. The objective is to locate Shakespeare's musical imagery, reference and metaphor in its immediate context in a play or poem and explain its meaning. Discussion and explanation of the musical imagery suggests a range of possible dramatic and poetic purposes these musical references serve.
Author : John Webster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350059955
This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction explains why Webster's interests in complex female lead characters and questions of social tension related to sexuality, gender, race, and law and equity – unusual for the play's time – have led to its increasing relevance for modern audiences and readers. Exploring the challenges of staging this highly melodramatic play, Lara Bovilsky guides you through the most interesting points of its rich performance history, and explores the onslaught of recent productions with race-conscious and regendered casts. Analysing its masterful poetry, she shows how the work can be harnessed to engage debate about the abuse of political and religious authority, the troubling fruits of economic desperation, and personal freedom, and empowers you to do likewise. Supplemented by a plot summary, annotated bibliography, production images, and essential contextual grounding in the court scandals that inspired Webster's tragedy and Webster's unusual composition practices, this edition is the most enlightening and engaging you will find.
Author : Jack Cooper Gray
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1984-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487597832
George Hibbard has always endorsed T.S. Eliot's idea that 'we must know all of Shakespeare's work in order to know any of it,' and this idea, implicit in the first essay in this volume, informs the whole collection, written in honour of one of Canada's leading Shakespearian editors and scholars. The two essays which begin the collection present broad overviews of Elizabethan drama and discuss Shakespeare's first great editor, Theobald. Together with the final essay – on publication and performance in early Stuart drama – these form the frame of the mirror held up to Shakespeare in the other eighteen essays, whether they of general themes running through some or all of Shakespeare's plays or the plays his contemporaries, or whether they treat of specific plays. There is an especially rich concentration on Macbeth and Coriolanus.
Author : Joshua B. Fisher,Rebecca Steinberger
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443864855
This volume addresses two key questions: 1) How can ephemera be understood as a critical category of literary and historical inquiry? and 2) How can ephemera serve pedagogical purposes in the classroom? Each of the essays in Encountering Ephemera 1550-1800: Scholarship, Performance, Classroom addresses these questions by exploring a diverse range of materials as well as periods. The essays collectively work to define ephemera as a complex and multi-faceted critical category in terms of its literary, cultural, and historical significance. Each contributor works to complicate the traditional binary opposition between the ephemeral/transitory and the canonical/enduring, in part by recognizing how attending to the material processes of textual production, transmission, and dissemination highlights the potential instability and mutability of texts (and textual relationships), whether discussing broadside ballads or coterie poetry. By shifting the focus to the processes by which texts are constructed and construed, the prospect of recognizing any text (regardless of its canonical status) as a static and fixed entity becomes difficult and, in turn, the ephemeral qualities that define and constitute the text’s materiality come more sharply into focus. Along these lines, the “ephemeral spaces” across and between discourses – what might be called the “ephemera of cultural poetics” – play a key role in shaping literary texts. Thus, early modern and eighteenth century ephemera constitute both the material (texts not intended to last or designed for limited cultural life) and the process (fleeting and transitory aspects of cultural production). Whether discussing the circulation of cheap print, the performative traces of music and gesture in Shakespeare’s plays, or the diffuse cultural influences that both surround and pervade literary texts, attending to ephemeral matters underscores the dynamic unfixity of early modern and eighteenth century cultural practices.
Author : Thomas Kyd,John Ford,John Webster
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472573582
Francis Bacon described revenge as a 'kind of wild justice'. Then as now, early modern playwrights and their theatre-going public were fascinated by the anarchic energies that a desire for retribution unleashes. Rather than rehearsing familiar conventions, each of these plays presents a unique social and cultural milieu where dark fantasies of revenge are variously played out. In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a grieving father seeks public justice for the murder of his son by envious princelings. When his attempts are thwarted he turns a court spectacle of murder into the 'real' thing. Blackly comic in its tone and style, The Revenger's Tragedy (anon.) presents vengeance as mimetic art, witty and cruel. Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore represents an innovative re-working of the genre as a brother's love for his sister leads to his spectacular revenge on his rival, her husband, in a society in which brutal retaliation for perceived wrong is the norm. In Webster's The White Devil crimes of passion ignite revenge in the courts of the Italian city states. This student edition contains fully annotated, modernized texts of each play together with an introduction discussing the dramatic and poetic style of each play, focusing on its action and play of ideas.
Author : John Webster
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 413 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1975-07-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780141964768
The plays of Jacobean dramatist John Webster are masterpieces of early seventeenth-century English theatre. ‘The White Devil’ depicts a dark, sinister world of duplicity, intrigue and murderous infidelity, while ‘The Duchess of Malfi’ tells the macabre story of a woman who marries beneath herself and sets in motion a terrible cycle of violence. Unlike these revenge tragedies, ‘The Devil’s Law-Case’ asserts social order in a plot filled with twists of fate. Written at a time when the court of King James was rife with instability and corruption, Webster’s disturbing plays reflect this abuse of power and are known for their horrific vision of humanity – yet they are also some of the most rich, sophisticated dramas ever composed.
Author : Jonathan Dollimore,Alan Sinfield
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1983-09-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521249279
The plays of John Webster are read and seen more widely today than at any time since they were written - provoking much disagreement in the process. The continuing debate about his political, religious and philosophical attitudes, his formal skills and the importance of his plays for understanding the changing culture in which they were written, make Webster the most controversial of all Jacobean dramatists. This volume includes freshly collated, fully annotated and cross-referenced texts of his three best-known plays, together with introductions and a useful critical bibliography.
Author : Bloomsbury Publishing
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 755 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408149768
This anthology contains scholarly and annotated editions of six major Elizabethan and Jacobean plays: The Spanish Tragedy Doctor Faustus Sejanus Women Beware Women The White Devil 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Assassination
ISBN : 0192836064
Contains a new, modern-spelling edition of the play, commentary and notes, and production photographs and related art.
Author : Frances Ann Shirley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UOM:39015010749359
Author : Mark Thornton Burnett
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748635245
Explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to artistic practices and activities, past and presentThis substantial reference work explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to cultural processes that take in publishing, exhibiting, performing, reconstructing and disseminating.The 30 newly commissioned chapters are divided into 6 sections: * Shakespeare and the Book* Shakespeare and Music* Shakespeare on Stage and in Performance* Shakespeare and Youth Culture* Shakespeare, Visual and Material Culture* Shakespeare, Media and Culture. Each chapter provides both a synthesis and a discussion of a topic, informed by current thinking and theoretical reflection.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9791041995585
"The Tragedy of Macbeth" by William Shakespeare is a haunting and timeless tale of ambition, betrayal, and the corrupting influence of power. Set in medieval Scotland, the play follows the rise and fall of Macbeth, a brave and loyal general who is driven to murderous lengths by his insatiable desire for the throne. At the outset of the play, Macbeth and his fellow general Banquo encounter three witches who prophesy that Macbeth will become king. Spurred on by ambition and egged on by his ambitious wife, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth murders King Duncan and seizes the throne for himself. However, his actions set off a chain reaction of violence and paranoia as Macbeth's guilt and fear drive him to commit increasingly heinous acts to maintain his grip on power.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681464138
Murder, Mayhem, and Madness-- Collected here are five of William Shakespeare's greatest tragedies Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear. These are the plays that made Shakespeare's reputation. Murder, deceit, treachery, and madness play out on the grand stage. Stories for the ages! Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.