Shakespeare And The Culture Of Paradox

Author : Peter G. Platt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056522

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Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox by 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 : BRADD. SHORE
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032017171

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Shakespeare and Social Theory by BRADD. SHORE Pdf

This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare Studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a 'great thinker' and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare's plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays - Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and King Lear - engage with the plays in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how "the new astronomy" of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of "perspective," and shaped Shakespeare's approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies, but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,6 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 : Laura Tosi,Shaul Bassi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317001300

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Visions of Venice in Shakespeare by Laura Tosi,Shaul Bassi Pdf

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer new perspectives to a traditional topic, this timely collection fills a gap in the literature, addressing the new historical, political and economic questions that have been raised in the last few years. The essays in this volume consider Venice a real as well as symbolic landscape that needs to be explored in its multiple resonances, both in Shakespeare's historical context and in the later tradition of reconfiguring one of the most represented cities in Western culture. Shylock and Othello are there to remind us of the dark sides of the myth of Venice, and of the inescapable fact that the issues raised in the Venetian plays are tremendously topical; we are still haunted by these theatrical casualties of early modern multiculturalism.

Author : Bradd Shore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000429787

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Shakespeare and Social Theory by Bradd Shore Pdf

This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a “great thinker” and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare’s plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays—Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, and King Lear—engage with the texts in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions, and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory, and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how “the new astronomy” of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of “perspective,” and shaped Shakespeare’s approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.

Author : Edward Berry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001-04-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521800706

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Shakespeare and the Hunt by Edward Berry Pdf

A book-length 2001 study of Shakespeare's works in relation to the culture of the hunt in Elizabethan and Jacobean society.

Author : J. Bednarz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230393325

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Shakespeare and the Truth of Love by J. Bednarz Pdf

A comprehensive study of Shakespeare's forgotten masterpiece The Phoenix and Turtle . Bednarz confronts the question of why one of the greatest poems in the English language is customarily ignored or misconstrued by Shakespeare biographers, literary historians, and critics.

Author : Marco Duranti,Emanuel Stelzer
Publisher : Skenè. Texts and Studies
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9788846768377

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A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 by Marco Duranti,Emanuel Stelzer Pdf

This volume originates as a continuation of the previous volume in the CEMP series (1.1) and aims at furthering scholarly interest in the nature and function of theatrical paradox in early modern plays, considering how classical paradoxical culture was received in Renaissance England. The book is articulated into three sections: the first, “Paradoxical Culture and Drama”, is devoted to an investigation of classical definitions of paradox and the dramatic uses of paradox in ancient Greek drama; the second, “Paradoxes in/of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama” looks at the functions and uses of paradox in the play-texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; finally, the essays in “Paradoxes in Drama and the Digital” examine how the Digital Humanities can enrich our knowledge of paradoxes in classical and early modern drama.

Author : Thomas Fulton,Thomas Chandler Fulton,Kristen Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107194236

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The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage by Thomas Fulton,Thomas Chandler Fulton,Kristen Poole Pdf

The first volume to consider how the context of early modern biblical interpretation shaped Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Kim C. Sturgess
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004-06-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521835852

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Shakespeare and the American Nation by Kim C. Sturgess Pdf

Why do so many Americans celebrate Shakespeare, a long-dead English poet and playwright? By the nineteenth century newly-independent America had chosen to reject the British monarchy and Parliament, class structure and traditions, yet their citizens still made William Shakespeare a naturalized American hero. Today the largest group of overseas visitors to Stratford-upon-Avon, the Royal Shakespeare Company and Bankside's Shakespeare's Globe Theatre come from America. Why? Is there more to Shakespeare's American popularity than just a love of men in doublet and hose speaking soliloquies? This book tells the story of America's relationship with Shakespeare. The story of how and why Shakespeare became a hero within American popular culture. Sturgess provides evidence of a comprehensive nineteenth-century appropriation of Shakespeare to the cause of the American Nation and shows that, as America entered the twentieth century a new world power, for many Americans Shakespeare had become as American as George Washington.

Author : Leah Sinanoglou Marcus
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0520071913

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Puzzling Shakespeare by Leah Sinanoglou Marcus Pdf

Author : Kent Cartwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198868897

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Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment by Kent Cartwright Pdf

Introduction -- Clowns, fools, and folly -- Structural doubleness and repetition -- Place, being, and agency -- The manifestation of desire -- The return from the dead -- Ending and wondering.

Author : Paola Pugliatti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056409

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Shakespeare and the Just War Tradition by Paola Pugliatti Pdf

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's time. The book re-reads Shakespeare's representations of war in light of both the changing historical and political contexts in which they were produced and of Shakespeare's possible connection with the culture and ideology of the European just war tradition. But to discuss Shakespeare's representations of war means, for Pugliatti, not simply to examine his work from a literary point of view or to historicize those representations in connection with the discourses (and the practice) of war which were produced in his time; it also means to consider or re-consider present-day debates for or against war and the kind of war ideology which is trying to assert itself in our time in light of the tradition which shaped those discourses and representations and which still substantiates our 'moral' view of war.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408179710

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Shakespeare and the Language of Translation by Anonim Pdf

Shakespeare's international status as a literary icon is largely based on his masterful use of the English language, yet beyond Britain his plays and poems are read and performed mainly in translation. Shakespeare and the Language of Translation addresses this apparent contradiction and is the first major survey of its kind. Covering the many ways in which the translation of Shakespeare's works is practised and studied from Bulgaria to Japan, South Africa to Germany, it also discusses the translation of Macbeth into Scots and of Romeo and Juliet into British Sign Language. The collection places renderings of Shakespeare's works aimed at the page and the stage in their multiple cultural contexts, including gender, race and nation, as well as personal and postcolonial politics. Shakespeare's impact on nations and cultures all around the world is increasingly a focus for study and debate. As a result, the international performance of Shakespeare and Shakespeare in translation have become areas of growing popularity for both under- and post-graduate study, for which this book provides a valuable companion.

Author : Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky
Publisher : Perspectives on the Non-Human in Literature and Culture
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367429071

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Shakespeare's Things by Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky Pdf

Severed heads, floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare's readers and audiences for centuries. Shakespeare's Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance invites new critical attention to non-human agents and influences, while aiming to revolutionize the interpretations of the uncanny, the supernatural, and the fantastic in Shakespeare's plays.