Shakespeare And Modern Culture

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2009-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780307390967

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Shakespeare and Modern Culture by Marjorie Garber Pdf

From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare." Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, from James Joyce's Ulysses to George W. Bush's reading list. From the persistence of difference in Othello to the matter of character in Hamlet to the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet, Garber discusses how these ideas have been re-imagined in modern fiction, theater, film, and the news, and in the literature of psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law. Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a brilliant recasting of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted through the prism of the protean Shakespeare.

Author : Douglas Lanier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198187068

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Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture by Douglas Lanier Pdf

Shakespeare and Superman? Shakespeare and The Twilight Zone? Shakespeare and romance novels? What is Shakespeare doing in modern popular culture? In the first book-length study to consider the modern 'Shakespop' phenomenon broadly, Douglas Lanier examines how our conceptions of Shakespeare's works and his cultural status have been profoundly shapes by Shakespeare's diffuse presence in such popular forms as films, comic books, TV shows, mass-market fiction, children's books, kitsch, and advertising. Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture offers an overview of issues raised in Shakespeare's appropriation in twentieth-century popular culture, amd argues that Shakespeare's appearances in these media can be seen as a form of cultural theorizing, a means by which popular culture thinks through its relationship to high culture. Through a series of case studies, the book examines how popular culture actively constructs, contests, uses, and perpetuates Shakespeare's cultural authority.

Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107495029

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture by Robert Shaughnessy Pdf

This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.

Author : Margreta De Grazia,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521886321

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The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare by Margreta De Grazia,Stanley Wells Pdf

Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.

Author : Catherine Belsey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0415252881

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Culture and the Real by Catherine Belsey Pdf

Professor Belsey explains the views of recent theorists, including Jean-François Lyotard, Judith Butler and Slavoj Zizek, in order to take issue with their accounts of what it is to be human.

Author : Mary Ellen Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134441105

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The Popular Culture of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson by Mary Ellen Lamb Pdf

Breaking new ground by considering productions of popular culture from above, rather than from below, this book draws on theorists of cultural studies, such as Pierre Bourdieu, Roger Chartier and John Fiske to synthesize work from disparate fields and present new readings of well-known literary works. Using the literature of Shakespeare, Spenser and Jonson, Mary Ellen Lamb investigates the social narratives of several social groups – an urban, middling group; an elite at the court of James; and an aristocratic faction from the countryside. She states that under the pressure of increasing economic stratification, these social fractions created cultural identities to distinguish themselves from each other – particularly from lower status groups. Focusing on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night's Dream and Merry Wives of Windsor, Spenser's Faerie Queene, and Jonson's Masque of Oberon, she explores the ways in which early modern literature formed a particularly productive site of contest for deep social changes, and how these changes in turn, played a large role in shaping some of the most well-known works of the period.

Author : Natália Pikli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000431612

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Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture by Natália Pikli Pdf

This book explores the ways in which the early modern hobby-horse featured in different productions of popular culture between the 1580s and 1630s. Natália Pikli approaches this study with a thorough and interdisciplinary examination of hobby-horse references, with commentary on the polysemous uses of the word, offers an informative background to reconsider well-known texts by Shakespeare and others, and provides an overview on the workings of cultural memory regarding popular culture in early modern England. The book will appeal to those with interest in early modern drama and theatre, dramaturgy, popular culture, cultural memory, and iconography.

Author : Marjorie B. Garber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:969556655

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Shakespeare and Modern Culture by Marjorie B. Garber Pdf

Author : Dr Peter G Platt
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781409475156

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Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox by Dr Peter G Platt Pdf

Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.

Author : Paul Yachnin,Patricia Badir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056492

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Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance by Paul Yachnin,Patricia Badir Pdf

Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional or cultural event. The essays collected here use the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, yet they are also careful to consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. Thus contributors combine a formalist interest in the affective and aesthetic dimensions of language and spectacle with an investment in the material cultures that both produced and received Shakespeare's plays. Six of the chapters focus on early modern cultures of performance, looking specifically at such topics as the performance of rusticity; the culture of credit; contract and performance; the cultivation of Englishness; religious ritual; and mourning and memory. Building upon and interrelating with the preceding essays, the last three chapters deal with Shakespeare and performance culture in modernity. They focus on themes including literary and theatrical performance anxiety; cultural iconicity; and the performance of Shakespearean lateness. This collection strives to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.

Author : Carol Thomas Neely
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0801489245

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Distracted Subjects by Carol Thomas Neely Pdf

'Distracted Subjects' offers a feminist analysis of early modern madness. Carol Neely reveals the mobility & heterogeneity of discourses of 'distraction', the most common term for the condition in late 16th & early 17th century England.

Author : Brian Cummings
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780199677719

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Mortal Thoughts by Brian Cummings Pdf

Mortal Thoughts is a study of the question of human identity in the early modern period. It examines literature alongside emerging forms of life writing and life drawing and self-portraits and considers portrayals of mortality and the moment of death.

Author : D. Cohen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1992-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230379442

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Shakespeare's Culture of Violence by D. Cohen Pdf

In this book, Derek Cohen studies the relationship of Shakespearean drama to the Western culture of violence. He argues that violence is an inherent feature and form of patriarchy and that its production and control is one of the dominant motives of the political system. Shakespeare's plays supply examples of the way in which the patriarchy of his plays - and hence, perhaps, of modern Western culture - absorbs, naturalizes, and legitimizes violence in its attempts to maintain political control over its subjects.

Author : Sid Ray
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1575910810

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Holy Estates by Sid Ray Pdf

This volume examines analogies between marital and political ideology in early modern culture, analyzing sixteenth- and seventeenth-century marriage tracts and the appropriation of their rhetoric by Shakespeare, Mary Wroth, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, and John Webster. Just as the marriage tracts draw explicitly on political metaphors to prescribe marital decorum, early modern political treatises adopt the language of the marriage tracts, using their construction of the family unit as a model for exercising power. on important, often subversive, meanings when they are redeployed in prose fiction and drama. The woman's place within these marital and political discourses and how she fares within early modern domestic and political hierarchies are the book's primary concerns. Included here are detailed discussions of Wroth's Urania, Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, Othello, and The Tempest, Beaumont and Fletcher's The Maid's Tragedy, and Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. Sid Ray is Associate Professor of English at Pace University in New York.

Author : N. Selleck
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2008-05-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230582132

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The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne, and Early Modern Culture by N. Selleck Pdf

The Interpersonal Idiom offers a timely reformulation of identity in the age of Shakespeare, recovering a rich and now obsolete language that casts selfhood not as subjective experience but as the experience of others.