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Shakespeare in French Theory

Richard Wilson
Shakespeare in French Theory Book PDF

Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317724001

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Shakespeare in French Theory by Richard Wilson Pdf

At a time when the relevance of literary theory itself is frequently being questioned, Richard Wilson makes a compelling case for French Theory in Shakespeare Studies. Written in two parts, the first half looks at how French theorists such as Bourdieu, Cixous, Deleuze, Derrida and Foucault were themselves shaped by reading Shakespeare; while the second part applies their theories to the plays, highlighting the importance of both for current debates about borders, terrorism, toleration and a multi-cultural Europe. Contrasting French and Anglo-Saxon attitudes, Wilson shows how in France, Shakespeare has been seen not as a man for the monarchy, but a man of the mob. French Theory thus helps us understand why Shakepeare’s plays swing between violence and hope. Highlighting the recent religious turn in theory, Wilson encourages a reading of plays like Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelth Night as models for a future peace. Examining both the violent history and promising future of the plays, Shakespeare in French Theory is a timely reminder of the relevance of Shakespeare and the lasting value of French thinking for the democracy to come.

Shakespeare and Literary Theory

Jonathan Gil Harris
Shakespeare and Literary Theory Book PDF

Author : Jonathan Gil Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191614415

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Shakespeare and Literary Theory by Jonathan Gil Harris Pdf

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. How is it that the British literary critic Terry Eagleton can say that 'it is difficult to read Shakespeare without feeling that he was almost certainly familiar with the writings of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein and Derrida', or that the Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist Slavoj Žižek can observe that 'Shakespeare without doubt had read Lacan'? Shakespeare and Literary Theory argues that literary theory is less an external set of ideas anachronistically imposed on Shakespeare's texts than a mode - or several modes - of critical reflection inspired by, and emerging from, his writing. These modes together constitute what we might call 'Shakespearian theory': theory that is not just about Shakespeare but also derives its energy from Shakespeare. To name just a few examples: Karl Marx was an avid reader of Shakespeare and used Timon of Athens to illustrate aspects of his economic theory; psychoanalytic theorists from Sigmund Freud to Jacques Lacan have explained some of their most axiomatic positions with reference to Hamlet; Michel Foucault's early theoretical writing on dreams and madness returns repeatedly to Macbeth; Jacques Derrida's deconstructive philosophy is articulated in dialogue with Shakespeare's plays, including Romeo and Juliet; French feminism's best-known essay is Hélène Cixous's meditation on Antony and Cleopatra; certain strands of queer theory derive their impetus from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's reading of the Sonnets; Gilles Deleuze alights on Richard III as an exemplary instance of his theory of the war machine; and postcolonial theory owes a large debt to Aimé Césaire's revision of The Tempest. By reading what theoretical movements from formalism and structuralism to cultural materialism and actor-network theory have had to say about and in concert with Shakespeare, we can begin to get a sense of how much the DNA of contemporary literary theory contains a startling abundance of chromosomes - concepts, preoccupations, ways of using language - that are of Shakespearian provenance.

Shakespeare Studies

Susan Zimmerman,Garrett A. Sullivan
Shakespeare Studies Book PDF

Author : Susan Zimmerman,Garrett A. Sullivan
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780838642535

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Shakespeare Studies by Susan Zimmerman,Garrett A. Sullivan Pdf

Shakespeare Studies is an international volume published every year in hard cover that contains essays and studies by scholars and cultural historians from both hemispheres. Although the journal maintains a focus on the theatrical milieu of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, it is also concerned with Britain's intellectual and cultural connections to the continent, its sociopolitical history, and its place in the emerging globalism of the period. The journal also includes substantial reviews of significant publications dealing with these issues, as well as theoretical studies relevant to scholars of early modern culture. This issue features another Forum, entitled "The Universities and the Theater." Organized and introduced by John H. Astington, the Forum includes commentary considering the relationship between theater in the universities and the Renaissance public stage. Volume XXXVII also features articles on the Fortune contract, and Titus Andronicus and the New World, as well as a review article on women and the early modern stage. There are nineteen reviews in this volume on such varying topics as angels in the early modern world, Shakespeare and the nature of love, and Shakespeare in French theory. Susan Zimmerman is Professor of English at Queens College, City University of New York. Garrett Sullivan is Professor of English at Pennsylvania State University.

Shakespeare and the Future of Theory

François-Xavier Gleyzon,Johann Gregory
Shakespeare and the Future of Theory Book PDF

Author : François-Xavier Gleyzon,Johann Gregory
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317396413

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Shakespeare and the Future of Theory by François-Xavier Gleyzon,Johann Gregory Pdf

Shakespeare and the Future of Theory convenes internationally renowned Shakespeare scholars, and scholars of the Early Modern period, and presents, discusses, and evaluates the most recent research and information concerning the future of theory in relation to Shakespeare’s corpus. Original in its aim and scope, the book argues for the critical importance of thinking Shakespeare now, and provides extensive reflections and profound insights into the dialogues between Shakespeare and Theory. Contributions explore Shakespeare through the lens of design theory, queer theory, psychoanalysis, Derrida and Foucault, amongst others, and offer an innovative interdisciplinary analysis of Shakespeare’s work. This book was originally published as two special issues of English Studies.

Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox

Peter G. Platt
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Author : Peter G. Platt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 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.

Shakespeare’s Politics

Robin Headlam Wells
Shakespeare s Politics Book PDF

Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826463142

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Shakespeare’s Politics by Robin Headlam Wells Pdf

Shakespeare's Politics is an invaluable introduction to the political world of Shakespeare's plays. It includes passages from the plays together with extracts from contemporary historical and political documents. The clear, jargon-free narrative introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England. The introduction outlines the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote and explains the intellectual principles that informed early modern thinking about politics. By reading Shakespeare alongside contemporary documents students will be able to develop their own informed critical interpretations of the plays. Shakespeare's Politics is essential for anyone studying Shakespeare while tutors and postgraduate students will find the book's up-to-date survey of modern Shakespeare criticism useful and provocative.

Worldly Shakespeare

Wilson Richard Wilson
Worldly Shakespeare Book PDF

Author : Wilson Richard Wilson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,9 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 Goes to Paris

John Pemble
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Author : John Pemble
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2005-02-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780826436269

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Shakespeare Goes to Paris by John Pemble Pdf

It has sometimes been assumed that the difficulty of translating Shakespeare into French has meant that he has had little influence in France. Shakespeare Goes to Paris proves the opposite. Virtually unknown in France in his lifetime, and for well over a hundred years after his death, Shakespeare was discovered in the first half of the eighteenth century, as part of a growing French interest in England. Since then, Shakespeare's impact in France has been enormous. Writers, from Voltaire to Gide, found themsleves baffled, frustrated, mesmerised but overawed by a playwright who broke all the rules of French classical theatre and challenged the primacy of French culture. Attempts to tame and translate him alternated with uncritical idolisation, such as that of Berlioz and Hugo. Changing attitudes to Shakespeare have also been an index of French self-esteem, as John Pemble shows in his sparkingly written book

Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances

Martin Procházka,Andreas Höfele,Hanna Scolnicov,Michael Dobson
Renaissance Shakespeare Shakespeare Renaissances Book PDF

Author : Martin Procházka,Andreas Höfele,Hanna Scolnicov,Michael Dobson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 471 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611494617

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Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances by Martin Procházka,Andreas Höfele,Hanna Scolnicov,Michael Dobson Pdf

Selected contributions to the most prestigious international event in Shakespeare studies, the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress (2011), represent major trends in the field in historical and present-day contexts. Special attention is given to the impact of Shakespeare on diverse cultures, from the Native Americans to China and Japan.

Unphenomenal Shakespeare

Julián Jiménez Heffernan
Unphenomenal Shakespeare Book PDF

Author : Julián Jiménez Heffernan
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 637 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004526631

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Unphenomenal Shakespeare by Julián Jiménez Heffernan Pdf

The times when abstaining from cakes and ale was seen as a sign of critical virtue are over. Phenomenal Shakespeare is at your back lawn with a picnic-basket jammed with intersubjectivity, embodiment, immediacy, representation. If you feel like passing, read this book.

Shakespeare’s Speculative Art

M. Hunt
Shakespeare s Speculative Art Book PDF

Author : M. Hunt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230339286

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Shakespeare’s Speculative Art by M. Hunt Pdf

This is the first book-length analysis of Shakespeare s depiction of specula (mirrors) to reveal the literal and allegorical functions of mirrors in the playwright s art and thought. Adding a new dimension to the plays Troilus and Cressida, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Henry the Fifth, Love s Labor s Lost, A Midsummer Night s Dream, and All s Well That Ends Well, Maurice A. Hunt also references mirrors in a wide range of external sources, from the Bible to demonic practices. Looking at the concept of speculation through its multiple meanings - cognitive, philosophical, hypothetical, and provisional - this original reading suggests Shakespeare as a craftsman so prescient and careful in his art that he was able to criticize the queen and a former patron with such impunity that he could still live as a gentleman.

Thinking with Shakespeare

Julia Reinhard Lupton
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Author : Julia Reinhard Lupton
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226711034

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Thinking with Shakespeare by Julia Reinhard Lupton Pdf

What is a person? What company do people keep with animals, plants, and things? Such questions—bearing fundamentally on the shared meaning of politics and life—animate Shakespearean drama, yet their urgency has often been obscured. Julia Reinhard Lupton gently dislodges Shakespeare’s plays from their historical confines to pursue their universal implications. From Petruchio’s animals and Kate’s laundry to Hamlet’s friends and Caliban’s childhood, Lupton restages thinking in Shakespeare as an embodied act of consent, cure, and care. Thinking with Shakespeare encourages readers to ponder matters of shared concern with the playwright by their side. Taking her cue from Hannah Arendt, Lupton reads Shakespeare for fresh insights into everything from housekeeping and animal husbandry to biopower and political theology.

Shakespeare and Textual Theory

Suzanne Gossett
Shakespeare and Textual Theory Book PDF

Author : Suzanne Gossett
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350121263

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Shakespeare and Textual Theory by Suzanne Gossett Pdf

There is no Shakespeare without text. Yet readers often do not realize that the words in the book they hold, like the dialogue they hear from the stage, has been revised, augmented and emended since Shakespeare's lifetime. An essential resource for the history of Shakespeare on the page, Shakespeare and Textual Theory traces the explanatory underpinnings of these changes through the centuries. After providing an introduction to early modern printing practices, Suzanne Gossett describes the original quartos and folios as well as the first collected editions. Subsequent sections summarize the work of the 'New Bibliographers' and the radical challenge to their technical analysis posed by poststructuralist theory, which undermined the presumed stability of author and text. Shakespeare and Textual Theory presents a balanced view of the current theoretical debates, which include the nature of the surviving texts we call Shakespeare's; the relationship of the author 'Shakespeare' and of authorial intentions to any of these texts; the extent and nature of Shakespeare's collaboration with others; and the best or most desirable way to present the texts - in editions or performances. The book is illustrated throughout with examples showing how theoretical decisions affect the text of Shakespeare's plays, and case studies of Hamlet and Pericles demonstrate how different theories complicate both text and meaning, whether a play survives in one version or several. The conclusion summarizes the many ways in which beliefs about Shakespeare's texts have changed over the centuries.

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire

S. Ryle
Shakespeare Cinema and Desire Book PDF

Author : S. Ryle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137332066

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Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire by S. Ryle Pdf

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender.

Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

Tom McAlindon
Shakespeare Minus Theory Book PDF

Author : Tom McAlindon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351900737

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Shakespeare Minus 'Theory' by Tom McAlindon Pdf

Demonstrating and defending a method of close reading and historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, this collection of essays by Tom McAlindon combines a number of previously published pieces with original studies. The volume includes six interpretative studies, all but one of which involve challenges to radical readings of the plays involved, including Henry V, Coriolanus, The Tempest, and Doctor Faustus. The other three essays are critiques of the claims and methods of radical, postmodernist criticism (new historicism and cultural materialism especially); they illustrate the author's conviction that some leading scholars in the field of Renaissance literature and drama, who deserve credit for shifting attention to new areas of interest, must also be charged with responsibility for a marked decline in standards of analysis, interpretation, and argument. Likely to provoke considerable debate, this stimulating collection is an important contribution to Shakespeare studies.