Shakespeare In Hindsight

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Shakespeare in Hindsight

Khan Amir Khan
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Author : Khan Amir Khan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474409469

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Shakespeare in Hindsight by Khan Amir Khan Pdf

We know William Shakespeare matters but we cannot pinpoint, precisely, why he matters. Lacking reasons why, we do our best to involve him in others, or involve others in him. He has been branded many times over-as Catholic, Protestant, Materialist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Postcolonial, Popular, Cultural, and, even, Popular-Cultural. In many ways, Shakespeare is overwrought. Why one more 'approach' to Shakespeare? One reason is because whatever these approaches say about tragedy in particular, none of them help us to feel tragedy. Or, rather, they subordinate tragedy to something else-to considerations of, say, class, race, or gender. What these approaches manage to do is explain tragedy away. What this book does is to help us feel tragedy first and foremost-hence to perceive it better. The aim of Amir Khan's counterfactual criticism of Shakespeare's tragedies, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, A Winter's Tale and Othello, then, is precisely to reanimate the tragic effect, long since lost in some deluge of explanation.

Antipodal Shakespeare

Gordon McMullan,Philip Mead,Ailsa Grant Ferguson,Mark Houlahan,Kate Flaherty
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Author : Gordon McMullan,Philip Mead,Ailsa Grant Ferguson,Mark Houlahan,Kate Flaherty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-02-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474271448

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Antipodal Shakespeare by Gordon McMullan,Philip Mead,Ailsa Grant Ferguson,Mark Houlahan,Kate Flaherty Pdf

Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture – much more than has been remembered. This book offers new archival discoveries about, and new interpretations of, the Tercentenary celebrations in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and reflects on the long legacy of those celebrations. This collection gathers together five scholars from Britain, Australia and New Zealand to reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare across the hemispheres in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916. It was at this moment of remembering in 1916 that 'global Shakespeare' first emerged in recognizable form. Each contributor performs their own 'antipodal' reading, assessing in parallel events across two hemispheres, geographically opposite but politically and culturally connected in the wake of empire.

Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics

Thomas P. Anderson
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Author : Thomas P. Anderson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748697359

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Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics by Thomas P. Anderson Pdf

Establishes Shakespeares plays as some of the periods most speculative political literature Shakespeares Fugitive Politics makes the case that Shakespeares plays reveal there is always something more terrifying to the king than rebellion. The book seeks to move beyond the presumption that political evolution leads ineluctably away from autocracy and aristocracy toward republicanism and popular sovereignty. Instead, it argues for affirmative politics in Shakespeare the process of transforming scenes of negative affect into political resistance. Shakespeares Fugitive Politics makes the case that Shakespeares affirmative politics appears not in his dialectical opposition to sovereignty, absolutism, or tyranny; nor is his affirmative politics an inchoate form of republicanism on its way to becoming politically viable. Instead, this study claims that it is in the place of dissensus that the expression of the eventful condition of affirmative politics takes place a fugitive expression that the sovereign order always wishes to shut down. Key FeaturesPromotes a new understanding of 'fugitive democracy'Establishes the presence of a form of alternative politics in early modern drama, articulated through the contours of theories of sovereigntyExplores how the parameters of contemporary radical politics take shape in major Shakespeare plays, including Coriolanus, King John, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, The Winters Tale and Julius Caesar

Shakespeare's Mad Men

Richard van Oort
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Author : Richard van Oort
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781503633582

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Shakespeare's Mad Men by Richard van Oort Pdf

This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the "originary scene," the scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as symbol-using moral and narrative beings. Taking King Lear and Measure for Measure as case studies, van Oort shows how the minimal concept of an anthropological scene of origin—the "originary hypothesis"—provides the basis for a new understanding of every aspect of the plays, from the psychology of the characters to the ethical and dialogical conflicts upon which the drama is based. The result is a gripping commentary on the plays. Why does Lear abdicate and go mad? Why does Edgar torture his father with non-recognition? Why does Lucio accuse the Duke in Measure for Measure of madness and lechery, and why does Isabella remain silent at the end? In approaching these and other questions from the perspective of the originary hypothesis, van Oort helps us to see the ethical predicament of the plays, and, in the process, makes Shakespeare new again.

Shakespeare's Moral Compass

Neema Parvini
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Author : Neema Parvini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474432894

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Shakespeare's Moral Compass by Neema Parvini Pdf

Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images.

Shakespeare's History Plays

Neema Parvini
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Author : Neema Parvini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN : 9781474423540

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Shakespeare's History Plays by Neema Parvini Pdf

Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

John S. Garrison
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Author : John S. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198857716

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The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets by John S. Garrison Pdf

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form of narrative. Drawing together insights from cognitive science, the early modern memory arts, and psychoanalysis, John S. Garrison connects the Sonnets to the larger Renaissance project of conceiving memory as a faculty to be developed and managed through self-discipline and rhetoric. In doing so, he reveals how early modern thought presaged many theories that have emerged in contemporary neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understandings of the self and its longing for pleasure. The Sonnets emerge as a collection that contemplates the affective dimensions and conceptual overlaps that bind anticipation to retrospection in the fraught pursuit of erotic pleasure. Indispensable for students and scholars working on Shakespeare's poetry, this study appeals also to a broader audience of readers interested in affect, memory, and sexuality studies. Shakespeare's most beloved sonnets are discussed, as well as less familiar ones, alongside contemporary adaptations of the poems. Garrison brings the Sonnets further into the present by comparing them with treatments of pleasure and memory by modern authors such as C.P. Cavafy, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and Michael Ondaatje.

Shakespeare and Quotation

Julie Maxwell,Kate Rumbold
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Author : Julie Maxwell,Kate Rumbold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107134249

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Shakespeare and Quotation by Julie Maxwell,Kate Rumbold Pdf

Shakespeare is both the world's most quoted author and a frequent quoter himself. This volume unites these creative practices.

Shakespearean Melancholy

J.F. Bernard
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Author : J.F. Bernard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474417341

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Shakespearean Melancholy by J.F. Bernard Pdf

A new edition of the bestselling textbook for Scottish teacher training courses.

Shakespeare’s Early History Plays

Donald Watson
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Author : Donald Watson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349110353

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Shakespeare’s Early History Plays by Donald Watson Pdf

This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and "King John" - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s.

Shakespeare's Theatre

Hugh Macrae Richmond
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Author : Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0826477763

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Shakespeare's Theatre by Hugh Macrae Richmond Pdf

Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins>

Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy

Paul A. Cantor
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Author : Paul A. Cantor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226462516

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Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy by Paul A. Cantor Pdf

Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare’s Roman plays—Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra—in his landmark Shakespeare’s Rome (1976). With Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an integrated trilogy that portrays the tragedy not simply of their protagonists but of an entire political community. Cantor analyzes the way Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of the Roman Republic and the emergence of the Roman Empire. The transformation of the ancient city into a cosmopolitan empire marks the end of the era of civic virtue in antiquity, but it also opens up new spiritual possibilities that Shakespeare correlates with the rise of Christianity and thus the first stirrings of the medieval and the modern worlds. More broadly, Cantor places Shakespeare’s plays in a long tradition of philosophical speculation about Rome, with special emphasis on Machiavelli and Nietzsche, two thinkers who provide important clues on how to read Shakespeare’s works. In a pathbreaking chapter, he undertakes the first systematic comparison of Shakespeare and Nietzsche on Rome, exploring their central point of contention: Did Christianity corrupt the Roman Empire or was the corruption of the Empire the precondition of the rise of Christianity? Bringing Shakespeare into dialogue with other major thinkers about Rome, Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy reveals the true profundity of the Roman Plays.

Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse

Laurie Johnson
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Author : Laurie Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351578820

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Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse by Laurie Johnson Pdf

The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare’s career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London, and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career in the theatre, this playhouse has been easy to forget. Yet for eleven days in June, 1594, it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres. Thanks to the ledgers of theatre entrepreneur, Philip Henslowe, we have a record of this short venture. Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse is an exploration of a brief moment in time when the focus of the theatrical world in England was on this small playhouse. To write this history, Laurie Johnson draws on archival studies, archaeology, environmental studies, geography, social, political, and cultural studies as well as methods developed within literary and theatre history to expand the scope of our understanding of the theatres, the rise of the playing business, and the formations of the playing companies.

Shakespearean Continuities

John Batchelor,Tom Cain,Claire Lamont
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Author : John Batchelor,Tom Cain,Claire Lamont
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1998-01-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349260034

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Shakespearean Continuities by John Batchelor,Tom Cain,Claire Lamont Pdf

This substantial collection includes contributions from leading international Shakespeare scholars such as Tom Craik, Philip Edwards, IngA-Stina Ewbank, R.A. Foakes, G.K. Hunter, Kenneth Muir, A.D. Nuttall, Brian Vickers and Stanley Wells. The book's twenty five essays range over the whole field of Shakespeare studies and deal especially with Shakespeare and his predecessors, Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Shakespeare in performance (including film) and Shakespeare in relation to later literature. Shakespearean Continuities is published in honour of the distinguished Shakespeare scholar E.A.J. Honigmann, FBA, Joseph Cowen Professor of English Literature at the University of Newcastle, 1970-1989.

Shakespeare

M. C. Bradbrook
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Author : M. C. Bradbrook
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136558245

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Shakespeare by M. C. Bradbrook Pdf

First published in 1978. In this study, Shakespeare's own life story and the development of English theatrical history are placed in the wider context of Elizabethan and Jacobean times, but the works themselves are the final objective of this 'applied biography'. The main contention of the book is that Shakespeare's life was the lure of the stage itself which inspired him to transform what everyday life provided into the worlds of Hamlet, King Lear and Prospero.