Shakespeare And The Afterlife

Author : John S. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192521439

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Shakespeare and the Afterlife by John S. Garrison Pdf

The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? Did sinners experience torment after death? Would an individual reunite with loved ones in the afterlife? Could the dead communicate with the world of the living? Could the living affect the state of souls after death? How should the dead be commemorated? Could the dead return to life? Was immortality possible? The wide array of possible answers to these questions across Shakespeare's work can be surprising. Exploring how particular texts and characters answer these questions, Shakespeare and the Afterlife showcases the vitality and originality of the author's language and thinking. We encounter characters with very personal visions of what awaits them after death, and these visions reveal new insights into these individuals' motivations and concerns as they navigate the world of the living. Shakespeare and the Afterlife encourages us to engage with the author's work with new insight and new curiosity. The volume connects some of the best-known speeches, characters, and conflicts to cultural debates and traditions circulating during Shakespeare's time.

Author : Jane Kingsley-Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107170650

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The Afterlife of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Jane Kingsley-Smith Pdf

An original account of the reception and influence of Shakespeare's Sonnets in his own time and in later literary history.

Author : Kaara L. Peterson,Deanne Williams
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230116906

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The Afterlife of Ophelia by Kaara L. Peterson,Deanne Williams Pdf

Although she appears in only a handful of scenes in Hamlet, Ophelia is one of Shakespeare's most enigmatic and unforgettable characters. This collection of new essays is the first to explore the rich afterlife of one of Shakespeare's most recognizable characters. With contributions from an international group of established and emerging scholars, The Afterlife of Ophelia moves beyond the confines of existing scholarship and forges connections among fields that are typically pursued as separate lines of inquiry within Shakespeare studies: film and new media studies, theatre and performance studies, historicist and contextual perspectives, and studies of popular culture.

Author : Katherine West Scheil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781108416696

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Imagining Shakespeare's Wife by Katherine West Scheil Pdf

Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.

Author : Deanne Williams
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137016461

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The Afterlife of Ophelia by Deanne Williams Pdf

This collection of new essays is the first to explore the rich afterlife of one of Shakespeare's most recognizable characters. With contributions from an international group of established and emerging scholars, The Afterlife of Ophelia moves beyond the confines of existing scholarship and forges new lines of inquiry beyond Shakespeare studies.

Author : Jack Lynch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802718679

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Becoming Shakespeare by Jack Lynch Pdf

Becoming Shakespeare begins where most Shakespeare stories end-with his death in 1616-and relates the fascinating story of his unlikely transformation from provincial playwright to universal Bard. Unlike later literary giants, Shakespeare created no stir when he died. Though he'd once had a string of hit plays, he had been retired in the country for six years, and only his family, friends, and business partners seemed to care that he was gone. Within a few years he was nearly forgotten. And when London's theaters were shut down in 1642, he seemed destined for oblivion. With the Restoration in 1660, though, the theaters were open once again, and Shakespeare began his long ascent: No longer merely one playwright among many, he became the transcendent genius at the heart of English culture. Fifty years after the Restoration scholars began taking him seriously. Fifty years after that he was considered England's greatest genius. And by 1800 he was practically divine. Jack Lynch vividly chronicles Shakespeare's afterlife-from the revival of his plays to the decades when his work was co-opted and "improved" by politicians and other playwrights, and culminating with the "Bardolatry" of the Stratford celebration of Shakespeare's three-hundredth birthday in 1864. Becoming Shakespeare is not only essential reading for anyone intrigued by Shakespeare, but it also offers a consideration of the vagaries of fame.

Author : Irena R. Makaryk,Kathryn Prince
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780776624433

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Shakespeare and Canada by Irena R. Makaryk,Kathryn Prince Pdf

Shakespeare in Canada is the result of a collective desire to explore the role that Shakespeare has played in Canada over the past two hundred years, but also to comprehend the way our country’s culture has influenced our interpretation of his literary career and heritage. What function does Shakespeare serve in Canada today? How has he been reconfigured in different ways for particular Canadian contexts? The authors of this book attempt to answer these questions while imagining what the future might hold for William Shakespeare in Canada. Covering the Stratford Festival, the cult CBC television program Slings and Arrows, major Canadian critics such as Northrop Frye and Marshall McLuhan, the influential acting teacher Neil Freiman, the rise of Québécois and First Nation approaches to Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s place in secondary schools today, this collection reflects the diversity and energy of Shakespeare’s afterlife in Canada. Collectively, the authors suggest that Shakespeare continues to offer Canadians “remembrance of ourselves.” This is a refreshingly original and impressive contribution to Shakespeare studies—a considerable achievement in any work on the history of one of the central figures in the western literary canon.

Author : John T. Lynch
Publisher : Walker Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015069309030

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Becoming Shakespeare by John T. Lynch Pdf

Beginning with the death of William Shakespeare in 1616, a study of the bard explores his evolution from provincial playwright to universally acclaimed, literary giant, beginning with his growing popularity during the late-seventeenth-century Restoration and ranging to the Stratford celebration of the tricentennial of Shakespeare's birth in 1864.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195160932

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Shakespeare by Stanley Wells Pdf

From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly illustrated book tells the story of Shakespeare's life, his writings, and his afterlife. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of studying, teaching, editing, and writing about Shakespeare, Stanley Wells combines scholarly authority with authorial flair in a book that will appeal equally to the specialist and the untutored enthusiast. Chapters on Shakespeare's life in Stratford and in London offer a fresh view of the development of the writer's career and personality. At the core of the book lies a magisterial study of the writings themselves--how Shakespeare set about writing a play, his relationships with the company of actors with whom he worked, his developing mastery of the literary and rhetorical skills that he learned at the Stratford grammar school, the essentially theatrical quality of the structure and language of his plays. Subsequent chapters trace the fluctuating fortunes of his reputation and influence. Here are accounts of adaptations, productions, and individual performances in England and, increasingly, overseas; of great occasions such as the Garrick Jubilee and the tercentenary celebrations of 1864; of the spread of Shakespeare's reputation in France and Germany, Russia and America, and, more recently, the Far East; of Shakespearian discoveries and forgeries; of critical reactions, favorable and otherwise, and of scholarly activity; of paintings, music, films and other works of art inspired by the plays; of the plays' use in education and the political arena, and of the pleasure and intellectual stimulus that they have given to an increasingly international public. Shakespeare, said Ben Jonson, was not of an age but for all time. This is a book about him for our time.

Author : Rodney Bolt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-12-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781596917200

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History Play by Rodney Bolt Pdf

Rodney Bolt's delightful life of Marlowe plays out a surprising solution to an enduring literary mystery, bringing the spirit of Shakespeare alive as we've never seen it before. Rodney Bolt's book is not an attempt to prove that, rather than dying at 29 in a tavern brawl, Christopher Marlowe staged his own death, fled to Europe, and went on to write the work attributed to Shakespeare. Instead, it takes that as the starting point for a playful and brilliantly written "fake biography" of Marlowe, which turns out to be a life of the Bard as well. Using real historical sources (as well as the occasional red herring) plus a generous dose of speculation, Bolt paints a rich and rollicking picture of Elizabethan life. As we accompany Marlowe into the halls of academia, the society of the popular English players traveling Europe, and the dangerous underworld of Elizabethan espionage, a fascinating and almost plausible life story emerges, along with a startlingly fresh look at the plays and poetry we know as Shakespeare's. Tapping into centuries of speculation about the man behind the work, about whom so few facts are known for sure, Rodney Bolt slyly winds the lives of two beloved playwrights into one.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-31
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521050006

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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 57, Macbeth and Its Afterlife by Peter Holland 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 books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. The virtues of accessible scholarship and a keen interest in performance, from Shakespeare's time to our own, have characterised the journal from the start. Most volumes of Survey have long been out of print. Backnumbers are gradually being reissued in paperback.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002-10-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521815878

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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 55, King Lear and Its Afterlife by Peter Holland Pdf

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of criticism and performance. For the first time, numbers 1-50 are being reissued in paperback.

Author : Jack Lynch,John T. Lynch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780802715661

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Becoming Shakespeare by Jack Lynch,John T. Lynch Pdf

Beginning with the death of William Shakespeare in 1616, a study of the bard explores his evolution from provincial playwright to universally acclaimed, literary giant, beginning with his growing popularity during the late-seventeenth-century Restoration and ranging to the Stratford celebration of the tricentennial of Shakespeare's birth in 1864.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0521523958

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Shakespeare Survey by Stanley Wells Pdf

Author : R. Burt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137092779

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Shakespeare After Mass Media by R. Burt Pdf

Shakespeare in mass media - particularly film, video, and television - is arguably the hottest, fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies. Shakespeare after Mass Media provides students and scholars with the most comprehensive resource available on the market for studying the pop cultural afterlife of The Bard. From marketing to electronic Shakespeare, comics to romance novels, Star Trek to Branagh, radio and popular music to Bartlett's Quotations , the volume explores the contemporary cultural significance of Shakespeare in an unprecedently broad array of mass media contexts. With theoretical sophistication and accessible writing, it will be the ideal text for courses on Shakespeare and mass media.