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Author : J. Paul McRoberts
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015012193085
Author : J. P. MacRoberts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:634950436
Author : Kurt A. Schreyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801455094
In Shakespeare's Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage.As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.
Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319902180
Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the Tudor-Stuart state. In examining Shakespeare’s Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Winter’s Tale, the text explores how Shakespeare repossessed the medieval past to articulate political and religious dissent. By comparing these and other plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries with their medieval analogues, Alfred Thomas argues that Shakespeare was an ecumenical writer concerned with promoting tolerance in a highly intolerant and partisan age.
Author : Curtis Perry,John Watkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199558179
Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity. Shakespeare provides them with the perfect focus, since his works turn back to the Middle Ages as decisively as they anticipate the modern world: almost all of the histories depict events during the Hundred Years War, and King John glances even further back to the thirteenth-century Angevins; several of the comedies, tragedies, and romances rest on medieval sources; and there are important medieval antecedents for some of the poetic modes in which he worked as well. Several of the essays reread Shakespeare by recovering aspects of his works that are derived from medieval traditions and whose significance has been obscured by the desire to read Shakespeare as the origin of the modern. These essays, taken cumulatively, challenge the idea of any decisive break between the medieval period and early modernity by demonstrating continuities of form and imagination that clearly bridge the gap. Other essays explore the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries constructed or imagined relationships between past and present. Attending to the way these writers thought about their relationship to the past makes it possible, in turn, to read against the grain of our own teleological investment in the idea of early modernity. A third group of essays reads texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as documents participating in social-cultural transformation from within. This means attending to the way they themselves grapples with the problem of change, attempting to respond to new conditions and pressures while holding onto customary habits of thought and imagination. Taken together, the essays in this volume revisit the very idea of transition in a refreshingly non-teleological way.
Author : Robert Hornback
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781843843566
From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed "license" of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks both at their history, and reveals their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has far-reaching implications not only for our general understanding of English clown types, but also their considerable role in defining social, religious and racial boundaries. It begins with an exploration of previously un-noted early representations of blackness in medieval psalters, cycle plays, and Tudor interludes, arguing that they are emblematic of folly and ignorance rather than of evil. Subsequent chapters show how protestants at Cambridge and at court, during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward, patronised a clownish, iconoclastic Lord of Misrule; look at the Elizabethan puritan stage clown; and move on to a provocative reconsideration of the Fool in King Lear, drawing completely fresh conclusions. Finally, the epilogue points to the satirical clowning which took place surreptitiously in the Interregnum, and the (sometimes violent) end of "licensed" folly. Professor ROBERT HORNBACK teaches in the Departments of Literature and Theatre at Oglethorpe University.
Author : Helen Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408138991
Helen Cooper's unique study examines how continuations of medieval culture into the early modern period, forged Shakespeare's development as a dramatist and poet. Medieval culture pervaded his life and work, from his childhood, spent within reach of the last performances of the Coventry Corpus Christi plays, to his dramatisation of Chaucer in The Two Noble Kinsmen three years before his death. The world he lived in was still largely a medieval one, in its topography and its institutions. The language he spoke had been forged over the centuries since the Norman Conquest. The genres in which he wrote, not least historical tragedy, love-comedy and romance, were medieval inventions. A high proportion of his plays have medieval origins and he kept returning to Chaucer, acknowledged as the greatest poet in the English language. Above all, he grew up with an English tradition of drama developed during the Middle Ages that assumed that it was possible to stage anything - all time, all space. Shakespeare and the Medieval World provides a panoramic overview that opens up new vistas within his work and uncovers the richness of his inheritance.
Author : Martha W. Driver,Sid Ray
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786491650
Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright's medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.
Author : Peter Milward
Publisher : Lewiston/Queenston : E. Mellen Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Civilization, Medieval, in literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105034408919
This collection of essays covers such topics as: Shakespeare's medieval inheritance; the Homiletic tradition in Hamlet; and a theology of grace in the Winter's Tale.
Author : Lindsay Ann Reid
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781843845188
A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet.
Author : Ruth Morse,Helen Cooper,Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-07
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107016279
This book gives readers the opportunity to appreciate Shakespeare from the perspectives of the late-medieval European traditions that surrounded him.
Author : William G. Meader
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258015293
Author : Larisa Kocic-Zámbó,Ágnes Matuska
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781527522909
This collection brings together extended versions of papers delivered at the 2015 meeting of the Hungarian Society for the Study of English (HUSSE). The timeframe the papers deal with, starting with 15th century devotional texts, including Tudor interludes, Shakespearean plays and their adaptations, and ending in Milton, embraces three centuries of the history of English literature. As such, the contributions offer not only a variety of methodological approaches and disciplinary perspectives, but also highlight converging problems within this broad field, crystallized around three main topics of scholarship and constituting the three thematic parts of the volume, each containing three to four chapters. The first part, entitled “Medieval and Early Modern Experiments with Genre”, offers a set of readings that interpret texts in the light of their generic and thematic innovativeness. Attesting to the multiple ways in which Shakespeare is made our contemporary, the second part, “Shakespearean Texts and Adaptations—Our Contemporaries”, is comprised of essays on contemporary adaptations of Shakespeare and Renaissance theatre, taking the term “adaptation” in a broad sense. The contributions in the third part of the volume, “Perspectives on Milton”, all focus on John Milton, highlighting debates or underrepresented discourses in Milton studies. What connects the papers of the volume as a whole is the reinterpretation of traditional critical assumptions through innovative methods, including viewpoints integrated from other disciplines and discourses, such as theatre studies, digital humanities and social sciences, addressing the relevance of both traditional and innovative topics within English studies in a contemporary academic context.
Author : E. C. Pettet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Drama
ISBN : UVA:X000133219
Author : Robert Weimann
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1987-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801835062
Internationally hailed upon its original publication Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater was revised and updated for this English translation.