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Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003755696
Author : Herbert West Seager
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Natural history
ISBN : UOM:39015012098912
Author : Theodore Spencer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110800377X
Analysing Shakespeare's historical background and craft, Spencer's 1943 study investigates the intellectual debates of Shakespeare's age, and the effect these had on the drama of the time. The book outlines the key conflict present in the sixteenth century - the optimistic ideal of man's place in the universe, as presented by the theorists of the time, set against the indisputable and ever-present fact of original sin. This conflict about the nature of man, argues Spencer, is perhaps the deepest underlying cause for the emergence of great Renaissance drama. With detailed reference to Shakespeare's great tragedies, the book demonstrates how Shakespeare presents the fact of evil masked by the appearance of good. Shakespeare's last plays, especially The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, are also analysed in detail to show how they embody a different view from the tragedies, and the discussion is related to the larger perspective of general human experience.
Author : Rosalie Littell Colie
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400867875
In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"—verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres—to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection and organization of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what he is, and is enabled to do what he does. She is particularly concerned with uncovering the ways in which Shakespeare used, misused, criticized, re-created, and sometimes revolutionized the received topics and devices of his craft. In this sense, Shakespeare's plays are seen as problem plays, each exploring the problematics of his craft and revealing his assessment of what was problematical. The author has chosen for study topics which connect Shakespeare with the long and rich continental Renaissance, in the hope that in the future Shakespeare might be, like Dante and Cervantes, an essential author in a comparatist's education. Usually a single topic dealing with some formal aspect of a play—the use of stereotypes to create a character highly original in stage practice, or the various manipulations of a mode (the pastoral, for example) rich in potentialities—is used to try to see in what particular ways Shakespeare shaped works that are still unique. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780195351736
"I love you according to my bond," says Cordelia to her father in King Lear. As the play turns out, Cordelia proves to be an exemplary and loving daughter. A bond is both a legal or financial obligation, and a connection of mutual love. How are these things connected? In As You Like It, Shakespeare describes marriage as a "blessed bond of board and bed": the emotional, religious, and sexual sides of marriage cannot be detached from its status as a legal and economic contract. These examples are the pith of Frederick Turner's fascinating new book. Based on the proven maxim that "money makes the world go round," this engaging study draws from Shakespeare's texts to present a lexicon of common words, as well as a variety of familiar familial and cultural situations, in an economic context. Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, Turner demonstrates that the terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments. His book offers a new, humane, evolutionary economics that fully expresses the moral, spiritual, and aesthetic relationships among persons, and between humans and nature. Playful and incisive, Turner's book offers a way to engage the wisdom of Shakespeare in everyday life in a trenchant prose that is accessible to lovers of Shakespeare at all levels.
Author : Helen Vendler
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674637122
Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.
Author : Angus Fletcher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780674027114
This focused but far-reaching work by the distinguished scholar Angus Fletcher reveals how early modern science and English poetry were in many ways components of one process: discovering the secrets of motion. Beginning with the achievement of Galileo, Time, Space, and Motion identifies the problem of motion as the central cultural issue of the time, pursued through the poetry of the age, from Marlowe and Shakespeare to Ben Jonson and Milton.
Author : Stuart Sillars
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Time in literature
ISBN : 113984203X
Sillars explores how the Victorians saw Shakespeare and the nature of time, as manifested in their performances, painting and photography.
Author : John Lewis Walker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Civilization, Classical, in literature
ISBN : 0824066979
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : H W Seager
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9353807689
This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. We have represented this book in the same form as it was first published. Hence any marks seen are left intentionally to preserve its true nature.
Author : Northrop Frye
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1996-02-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442656239
In the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as "being in time," in which death as "the essential event that gives shape and form to life ... defines the individual, and marks him off from the continuity of life that flows indefinitely between the past and the future." In Dr. Frye's view, three general types can be distinguished in Shakespearean tragedy, the tragedy of order, the tragedy of passion, and the tragedy of isolation, in all of which a pattern of "being in time" shapes the action. In the first type, of which Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and Hamlet are examples, a strong ruler is killed, replaced by a rebel-figure, and avenged by a nemesis-figure; in the second, represented by Romeo and Juliet, Anthony and Cleopatra, and Troilus and Cressida, authority is split and the hero is destroyed by a conflict between social and personal loyalties; and in the third, Othello, King Lear, and Timon of Athens, the central figure is cut off from his world, largely as a result of his failure to comprehend the dynamics of that world. What all these plays show us, Dr. Frye maintains, is "the impact of heroic energy on the human situation" with the result that the "heroic is normally destroyed ... and the human situation goes on surviving." Fools of Time will be welcomed not only by many scholars who are familiar with Dr. Frye's keen critical insight but also by undergraduates, graduates, high-school and university teachers who have long valued his work as a means toward a firmer grasp and deeper understanding of English literature.
Author : Nermin Bastug
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656213093
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics - English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: AA, Middle East Technical University, course: English Literature I , language: English, abstract: Why is Shakespeare so famous? We do we read his plays at school? What is his importance for English literature? Even though William Shakespeare died 1616, even today everybody knows him and his work. He was an actor, a business man, a poet and a playwright. He was born in Stratford-on-Avon in 1564 and was the son of the mayor of the town. Writing comedies, history plays, tragedies and sonnets made him the greatest dramatist and poet in the English language. In this work, I would like to focus on an exemplarily sonnet and excerpts of some plays of Shakespeare, later on his language in order to show his importance in English and moreover in World Literature.
Author : G. F. Waller
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110806434
No detailed description available for "The Strong Necessity of Time".
Author : David Scott Kastan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1982-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349061457
Author : Michael Schoenfeldt
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781405172004
This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare’s sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars. Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context, editing and printing of the sonnets. Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases. Informed by the latest theoretical, cultural and archival work.
