Shakespeare At War

Author : Patrick Gray
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789202632

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Shakespeare and the Ethics of War by Patrick Gray Pdf

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the past. Through his haunting depiction of historical bloodshed, including the Trojan War, the fall of the Roman Republic, and the Wars of the Roses, Shakespeare illuminates more recent political violence, ranging from the British occupation of Ireland to the Spanish Civil War, the Balkans War, and the past several decades of U. S. military engagement in Iraq and Afghanistan. Can a war be just? What is the relation between the ruler and the ruled? What motivates ethnic violence? Shakespeare’s plays serve as the frame for careful explorations of perennial problems of human co-existence: the politics of honor, the ethics of diplomacy, the responsibility of non-combatants, and the tension between idealism and Realpolitik.

Author : R. King,P. Franssen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230228276

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Shakespeare and War by R. King,P. Franssen Pdf

A lively collection of essays from scholars from across Europe, North America and Australia. The book ranges from Shakespeare's use of manuals on war written for the sixteenth-century English public by an English mercenary, to reflections on the ways in which Shakespeare has been represented in Nazi Germany, wartime Denmark, or cold war Romania.

Author : David Loewenstein,Paul Stevens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108464963

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War by David Loewenstein,Paul Stevens Pdf

Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provide a rich and imaginative resource for thinking about the topic of war. Contributors explore the multiplicity of conflicting perspectives his dramas offer: war depicted from chivalric, masculine, nationalistic, and imperial perspectives; war depicted as a source of great excitement and as a theater of honor; war depicted from realistic or skeptical perspectives that expose the butchery, suffering, illness, famine, degradation, and havoc it causes. The essays in this volume examine the representations and rhetoric of war throughout Shakespeare's plays, as well as the modern history of the war plays on stage, in film, and in propaganda. This book offers fresh perspectives on Shakespeare's multifaceted representations of the complexities of early modern warfare, while at the same time illuminating why his perspectives on war and its consequences continue to matter now and in the future.

Author : Irena Makaryk,Marissa McHugh
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781442698383

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Shakespeare and the Second World War by Irena Makaryk,Marissa McHugh Pdf

Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society’s self-image. In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this ‘universal’ author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939–1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.

Author : James Bednarz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2001-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231504268

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Shakespeare and the Poets' War by James Bednarz Pdf

In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar James Bednarz traces the Bard's legendary wit-combats with Ben Jonson to their source during the Poets' War. Bednarz offers the most thorough reevaluation of this "War of the Theaters" since Harbage's Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, revealing a new vision of Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. Rather than viewing Shakespeare as an anonymous creator, Shakespeare and the Poets' War re-creates the contentious entertainment industry that fostered his genius when he first began to write at the Globe in 1599. Bednarz redraws the Poets' War as a debate on the social function of drama and the status of the dramatist that involved not only Shakespeare and Jonson but also the lesser known John Marston and Thomas Dekker. He shows how this controversy, triggered by Jonson's bold new dramatic experiments, directly influenced the writing of As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Troilus and Cressida, and Hamlet, gave rise to the first modern drama criticism in English, and shaped the way we still perceive Shakespeare today.

Author : Keith Dockray
Publisher : Fonthill Media
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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William Shakespeare, the Wars of the Roses and the Historians by Keith Dockray Pdf

Author : Ian Doescher
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594746550

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William Shakespeare's Star Wars by Ian Doescher Pdf

The New York Times Best Seller Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2. Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.

Author : Nicholas de Somogyi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351900706

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Shakespeare’s Theatre of War by Nicholas de Somogyi Pdf

The period between 1585 (when Elizabeth formally committed her military support to the Dutch wars against Spain) and 1604 (when James at last brought it to an end) was one in which English life was preoccupied by the menace and actuality of war. The same period spans English drama’s coming of age, from Tamburlaine to Hamlet. In this thought-provoking book, Nick de Somogyi draws on a wide range of contemporary military literature (news-letters and war-treatises, maps and manuals), to demonstrate how deeply wartime experience influenced the production and reception of Elizabethan theatre. In a series of vivid parallels, the roles of soldier and actor, the setting of battlefield and stage, and the context of playhouse and muster are shown to have been rooted in the common experience of war. The local armoury served as a props department; the stage as a military lecture-hall. News from the front line has always been shrouded in the fog of war. Shakespeare’s Rumour is here seen as kindred to such equally dubious messengers as his Armado, Falstaff or Pistol; soldiers have always told tall tales, military ghost-stories that are here shown to have seeped into such narratives as The Spanish Tragedy and Henry V. This book concludes with a sustained account of Hamlet, a play which both dramatises the Elizabethan context of war-fever, and embodies in its three variant texts the war and peace that shaped its production. By affording scrutiny to each of its title’s components, Shakespeare’s Theatre of War provides a compelling argument for reassessing the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries within the enduring context of the military culture and wartime experience of his age.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 157 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : World War, 1914-1918
ISBN : OCLC:1080668308

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Shakespeare in Time of War by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Amy Lidster,Sonia Massai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316517482

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Shakespeare at War by Amy Lidster,Sonia Massai Pdf

The first material history of how Shakespeare has been 'recruited' in wartime.

Author : Theodor Meron
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Chivalry in literature
ISBN : 9780195144062

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Bloody Constraint by Theodor Meron Pdf

Chivalry, one of Shakespeare's central themes, retains its pertinence and topicality in our rules for international humanitarian law and the conduct of war. Against a background of Medieval and Renaissance sources as well as Shakespeare's historical and dramatic realms, Professor Meron considers the ways in which law, chivalry, morality, conscience, and state necessity are deployed in Shakespeare to promote a society in which soldiers behave humanely and leaders are held to high standards of civilized behavior. In doing so, he illustrates the literary genealogy of such contemporary international humanitarian concerns as the treatment of prisoners and of women and accountability for war crimes.

Author : Kyle Pivetti,John S. Garrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315316581

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Shakespeare at Peace by Kyle Pivetti,John S. Garrison Pdf

In the current climate of global military conflict and terrorism, Shakespeare at Peace offers new readings of Shakespeare’s plays, illuminating a discourse of peace previously shadowed by war and violence. Using contemporary examples such as speeches, popular music, and science fiction adaptations of the plays, Shakespeare at Peace reads Shakespeare’s work to illuminate current debates and rhetoric around conflict and peace. In this challenging and evocative book, Garrison and Pivetti re-frame Shakespeare as a proponent of peace, rather than war, and suggest new ways of exploring the vitality of Shakespeare’s work for politics today.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082147102

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The Life of King Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:954974629

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Shakespeare in Time of War by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Simon Barker
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748631629

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War and Nation in the Theatre of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries by Simon Barker Pdf

This original study explores a vital aspect of early modern cultural history: the way that warfare is represented in the theatre of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The book contrasts the Tudor and Stuart prose that called for the establishment of a standing army in the name of nation, discipline and subjectivity, and the drama of the period that invited critique of this imperative. Barker examines contemporary dramatic texts both for their radical position on war and, in the case of the later drama, for their subversive commentary on an emerging idealisation of Shakespeare and his work.The book argues that the early modern period saw the establishment of political, social and theological attitudes to war that were to become accepted as natural in succeeding centuries. Barker's reading of the drama of the period reveals the discontinuities in this project as a way of commenting on the use of the past within modern warfare. The book is also a survey and analysis of literary theory over the last tw