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Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference

Author : John Gillies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521458536

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Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference by John Gillies Pdf

In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre, arising from their shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and hubristic expansiveness. Dr Gillies shows that Shakespeare's images of the exotic, the 'barbarous, outlandish or strange', are grounded in concrete historical fact: to be marginalised was not just a matter of social status, but of belonging, quite literally, to the margins of contemporary maps. Through an examination of the icons and emblems of contemporary cartography, Dr Gillies challenges the map-makers' overt intentions, and the attitudes and assumptions that remained below the level of consciousness. His study of map and metaphor raises profound questions about the nature of a map, and of the connections between the semiology of a map and that of the theatre.

Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference

Author : John Gillies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521417198

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Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference by John Gillies Pdf

Shakespeare's images of the exotic are shown to be firmly based on the margins of contemporary maps; and examination of the icons and emblems of maps raises questions about the mapmakers' overt intentions and instinctive assumptions, and reveals connections between the semiology of a map and that of the theater.

The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature

Author : Sean Keilen,Nick Moschovakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317041672

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The Routledge Research Companion to Shakespeare and Classical Literature by Sean Keilen,Nick Moschovakis Pdf

In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; they also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is connected with whatever qualities still make Shakespeare, himself, a classic (arguably the classic) of modern world literature and drama. The first sense of the classic which the volume addresses is the classical culture of Latin and Greek reading, translation, and imitation. Education in the canon of pagan classics bound Shakespeare together with other writers in what was the dominant tradition of English and European poetry and drama, up through the nineteenth and even well into the twentieth century. Second—and no less central—is the idea of classics as such, that of books whose perceived value, exceeding that of most in their era, justifies their protection against historical and cultural change. The volume’s organizing insight is that as Shakespeare was made a classic in this second, antiquarian sense, his work’s reception has more and more come to resemble that of classics in the first sense—of ancient texts subject to labored critical study by masses of professional interpreters who are needed to mediate their meaning, simply because of the texts’ growing remoteness from ordinary life, language, and consciousness. The volume presents overviews and argumentative essays about the presence of Latin and Greek literature in Shakespeare’s writing. They coexist in the volume with thought pieces on the uses of the classical as a historical and pedagogical category, and with practical essays on the place of ancient classics in today’s Shakespearean classrooms.

Shakespeare

Author : David M. Bergeron,Geraldo U. de Sousa
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Reference
ISBN : UOM:39015033995344

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Shakespeare by David M. Bergeron,Geraldo U. de Sousa Pdf

Confronted with the formidable and at times daunting mass of materials on Shakespeare, where does the beginning student - or even a seasoned one - turn for guidance? Answering that question remains the central aim of this guide.

Shakespeare’s Ruins and Myth of Rome

Author : Maria Del Sapio Garbero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000531596

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Shakespeare’s Ruins and Myth of Rome by Maria Del Sapio Garbero Pdf

Rome was tantamount to its ruins, a dismembered body, to the eyes of those – Italians and foreigners – who visited the city in the years prior to or encompassing the lengthy span of the Renaissance. Drawing on the double movement of archaeological exploration and creative reconstruction entailed in the humanist endeavour to ‘resurrect’ the past, ‘ruins’ are seen as taking precedence over ‘myth’, in Shakespeare’s Rome. They are assigned the role of a heuristic model, and discovered in all their epistemic relevance in Shakespeare’s dramatic vision of history and his negotiation of modernity. This is the first book of its kind to address Shakespeare’s relationship with Rome’s authoritative myth, archaeologically, by taking as a point of departure a chronological reversal, namely the vision of the ‘eternal’ city as a ruinous scenario and hence the ways in which such a layered, ‘silent’, and aporetic scenario allows for an archaeo-anatomical approach to Shakespeare’s Roman works.

Shakespeare's Staged Spaces and Playgoers' Perceptions

Author : D. Farabee
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137427151

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Shakespeare's Staged Spaces and Playgoers' Perceptions by D. Farabee Pdf

This engaging study offers fresh readings of canonical Shakespeare plays, illuminating ways stagecraft and language of movement create meaning for playgoers. The discussions engage materials from the period, present revelatory readings of Shakespeare's language, and demonstrate how these continually popular texts engage all of us in making meaning.

Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

Author : Kristen Poole
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139497657

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Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England by Kristen Poole Pdf

Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the deathbed, purgatory, demonic contracts and their spatial surround, Reformation cosmologies and a landscape newly subject to cartographic surveying. It examines the seemingly incongruous coexistence of traditional religious beliefs and new mathematical, geometrical ways of perceiving the environment. Arguing that the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century stage dramatized the phenomenological tension that resulted from this uneasy confluence, this groundbreaking study considers the complex nature of supernatural environments in Marlowe's Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare's Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and The Tempest.

Worldly Shakespeare

Author : Wilson Richard Wilson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474411332

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Worldly Shakespeare by Wilson Richard Wilson Pdf

In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage', then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'. Situating this playacting in the context of current concerns about the difference between globalization and mondialisation, the book considers how this drama offers itself as a model for a planet governed not according to universal toleration, but the right to offend: 'But with good will'. For when he asks us to think we 'have but slumbered' throughout his offensive plays, Wilson suggests, Shakespeare is presenting a drama without catharsis, which anticipates post-structuralist thinkers like Jacques Rancire and Slavoj A iA ek, who insist the essence of democracy is dissent, and 'the presence of two worlds in one'.Living out his scenario of the guest who destroys the host, by welcoming the religious terrorist, paranoid queen, veiled woman, papist diehard, or puritan fundamentalist into his play-world, Worldly Shakespeare concludes, the dramatist instead provides a pretext for our globalized communities in a time of Facebook and fatwa, as we also come to depend on the right to offend 'with our good will'.

Shakespeare in Our Time

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472520432

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Shakespeare in Our Time by Anonim Pdf

This volume marks the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death by reflecting on the unrivalled work of the Shakespeare Association of America and offering a unique collection of leading Shakespeare scholars outlining key developments in Shakespeare studies over the last two decades. These essays are complemented by younger scholars who respond and look forward to new fields of study and debate. As such the book offers a "state of the nation" look at Shakespeare criticism, covering all the key areas of research and study including gender, text, performance, the body, history, religion and biography. This is a must-read, comprehensive introduction to the key critical ideas surrounding Shakespeare's work and a stimulating exploration of where Shakespeare studies will go next.

Shakespeare on Screen: Othello

Author : Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107109735

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Shakespeare on Screen: Othello by Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin Pdf

An up-to-date survey of the key themes and debates surrounding screen adaptations and productions of Shakespeare's Othello.

Political Shakespeare

Author : Stephen Orgel,Sean Keilen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0815329695

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Political Shakespeare by Stephen Orgel,Sean Keilen Pdf

Shakespeare has never been more ubiquitous, not only on the stage and in academic writing, but in film, video and the popular press. On television, he advertises everything from cars to fast food. His birthplace, the tiny Warwickshire village of Stratford-Upon-Avon, has been transformed into a theme park of staggering commercialism, and the New Globe, in its second season, is already a far bigger business than the old Globe could ever have hoped to be. If popular culture cannot do without Shakespeare, continually reinventing him and reimagining his drama and his life, neither can the critical and scholarly world, for which Shakespeare has, for more than two centuries, served as the central text for analysis and explication, the foundation of the western literary canon and the measure of literary excellence.The Shakespeare the essays collected in these volumes reveal is fully as multifarious as the Shakespeare of theme parks, movies and television. Indeed, it is part of the continuing reinvention of Shakespeare. The essays are drawn for the most part from work done in the past three decades, though a few essential, enabling essays from an earlier period have been included. They not only chart the directions taken by Shakespeare studies in the recent past, but they serve to indicate the enormous and continuing vitality of the enterprise, and the extent to which Shakespeare has become a metonym for literary and artistic endeavor generally.

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds

Author : Ambereen Dadabhoy
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000999716

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Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds by Ambereen Dadabhoy Pdf

Shakespeare through Islamic Worlds investigates the peculiar absence of Islam and Muslims from Shakespeare’s canon. While many of Shakespeare’s plays were set in the Mediterranean, a geography occupied by Muslim empires and cultures, his work eschews direct engagement with the religion and its people. This erasure is striking given the popularity of this topic in the plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. By exploring the limited ways in which Shakespeare uses Islamic and Muslim tropes and topoi, Ambereen Dadabhoy argues that Islam and Muslim cultures function as an alternate or shadow text in his works, ranging from his staged Mediterranean plays to his histories and comedies. By consigning the diverse cultures of the Islamic regimes that occupied and populated the early modern Mediterranean, Shakespeare constructs a Europe and Mediterranean freed from the presence of non-white, non-European, and non-Christian Others, which belied the reality of the world in which he lived. Focusing on the Muslims at the margins of Shakespeare’s works, Dadabhoy reveals that Islam and its cultures informed the plots, themes, and intellectual investments of Shakespeare’s plays. She puts Islam and Muslims back into the geographies and stories from which Shakespeare had evacuated them. This innovative book will be of interest to all those working on race, religion, global and cultural exchange within Shakespeare, as well as people working on Islamic, Mediterranean, and Asian studies in literature and the early modern period.

Shakespearean Territories

Author : Stuart Elden
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226559223

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Shakespearean Territories by Stuart Elden Pdf

Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare’s unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare’s plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, Shakespearean Territories will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike.

Shakespeare's Workplace

Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781107167841

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Shakespeare's Workplace by Andrew Gurr Pdf

Andrew Gurr's work offers the best access to the original Shakespearean theatre. This is a selection of his key essays.

A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III

Author : Richard Dutton,Jean E. Howard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470997291

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A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume III by Richard Dutton,Jean E. Howard Pdf

This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century. This companion to Shakespeare’s comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night as well as twelve additional articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeare’s comedies on film, Shakespeare’s relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeare’s cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.