Shakespeare In The Spotlight

Author : Islam Issa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000459357

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Shakespeare and Terrorism by Islam Issa Pdf

Shakespeare and Terrorism delves into how extremists have responded to Shakespeare – whether they’ve attacked him or been inspired by him – and investigates what the playwright and his works can tell us about the nature, psychology, and consequences of terror. Literary critic and historian Islam Issa takes readers on a journey from Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon and London to a variety of locations: from Western Europe to the Balkans to the US, from North Africa to the Persian Gulf to Central Asia, and from the theatre to the digital world. Considering incidents from Shakespeare’s time through today, including the Gunpowder Plot and 9/ 11, as well as pivotal figures from Hamlet and Macbeth to Hitler and Bin Laden, this book brings to light new ideas about key characters, events, and themes both in Shakespeare’s plays and the world around them. A thrilling and accessible read, this ground-breaking book will enlighten and engage students, researchers, and general readers interested in Shakespeare, social sciences, history, and the complex relationships between life and art.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1245755564

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Shakespeare in the Spotlight by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Sandy Brownjohn,Gareth Gwyn-Jones
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1992-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 034052846X

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Spotlight on Shakespeare by Sandy Brownjohn,Gareth Gwyn-Jones Pdf

Presents the life and times of William Shakespeare and provides guidelines on staging scenes from three of his plays.

Author : Kyle Pivetti,John S. Garrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 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 : Sandy Brownjohn,Gareth Gwyn-Jones
Publisher : Hodder Education
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Educational institutions - Curriculum - English drama
ISBN : 0340528451

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Spotlight on Shakespeare by Sandy Brownjohn,Gareth Gwyn-Jones Pdf

Designed to accompany the student's book of the same name, this resource book gives teachers advice on how to incorporate a project on Shakespeare into their curriculum planning, guidance on mounting a performance of Shakespeare and additional material in the form of photocopiable resource sheets containing documentary evidence and activity sheets, for further work with the pupils. The photocopiable material includes documentary evidence and quizzes, crosswords and puzzles, and detailed guidance on fitting a project on Shakespeare into the curriculum. This resource book is designed for all teachers of English at primary, middle and lower secondary school level.

Author : Ian Doescher
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781594749865

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William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken by Ian Doescher Pdf

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 Rey to Chewbacca. As the noble Resistance clashes with the vile First Order, Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Kylo Ren, and BB-8 are pulled into a galaxy-wide drama. The romance of Han Solo and Leia Organa takes a tragic turn that Shakespeare would approve of. 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.

Author : Indira Ghose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000432633

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Shakespeare in Jest by Indira Ghose Pdf

Shakespeare in Jest draws fascinating parallels between Shakespeare's humour and contemporary humour. Indira Ghose argues that while many of Shakespeare's jokes no longer work for us, his humour was crucial in shaping comedy in today's entertainment industry. The book looks at a wide variety of plays and reads them in conjunction with examples from contemporary culture, from stand-up comedy to late night shows. Ghose shows the importance of jokes, the functions of which are remarkably similar in Shakespeare’s time and ours. Shakespeare's wittiest characters are mostly women, who use wit to puncture male pretensions and to acquire cultural capital. Clowns and wise fools use humour to mock their betters, while black humour trains the spotlight on the audience, exposing our collusion in the world it skewers. In a discussion of the ethics of humour, the book uncovers striking affinities between Puritan attacks on the theatre and contemporary attacks on comedy. An enjoyable and accessible read, this lively book will enlighten and entertain students, researchers, and general readers interested in Shakespeare, humour, and popular culture.

Author : Stephen Guy-Bray
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429753091

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Shakespeare and Queer Representation by Stephen Guy-Bray Pdf

In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare’s works representation itself becomes queer. Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. Shakespeare and Queer Representation includes a thorough introduction that discusses how we can define queer representation, with each chapter developing these theories to examine works that span the entire career of Shakespeare, including his sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, King John, Macbeth, and Cymbeline. The book highlights the extent to which Shakespeare’s works can be seen to anticipate, and even to extend, many of the insights of the latest developments in queer theory. This thought-provoking and evocative book is an essential guide for students studying Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, gender studies, and queer literary theory.

Author : David Barnaby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:873098334

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Spotlight on Shakespeare by David Barnaby Pdf

Author : Ruben Espinosa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780429595349

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Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism by Ruben Espinosa Pdf

Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism examines Shakespeare in relation to ongoing conversations that interrogate the vulnerability of Black and brown people amid oppressive structures that aim to devalue their worth. By focusing on the way these individuals are racialized, politicized, policed, and often violated in our contemporary world, it casts light on dimensions of Shakespeare’s work that afford us a better understanding of our ethical responsibilities in the face of such brutal racism. Shakespeare on the Shades of Racism is divided into seven short chapters that cast light on contemporary issues regarding racism in our day. Some salient topics that these chapters address include the murder of unarmed Black men and women, the militarization of the U.S. Mexico border, anti-immigrant laws, exclusionary measures aimed at Syrian refugees, inequities in healthcare and safety for women of color, international trends that promote white nationalism, and the dangers of complicity when it comes to racist paradigms. By bringing these contemporary issues into conversation with a wide range of plays that span the many genres in which Shakespeare wrote throughout his career, these chapters demonstrate how the widespread racism and discord within our present moment stands to infuse with urgent meaning Shakespeare’s attention to the (in)humanity of strangers, the ethics of hospitality, the perils of insularity, abuses of power, and the vulnerability of the political state and its subjects. The book puts into conversation Shakespeare with present-day events and cultural products surrounding topics of race, ethnicity, xenophobia, immigration, asylum, assimilation, and nationalism as a means of illuminating Shakespeare’s cultural and literary significance in relation to these issues. It should be an essential read for all students of literary studies and Shakespeare.

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061983658

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Shakespeare by Bill Bryson Pdf

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.

Author : David Barnaby
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 0304305979

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Spotlight on Shakespeare by David Barnaby Pdf

Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780822237723

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The Book of Will by Lauren Gunderson Pdf

Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780241361641

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This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith Pdf

A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. It takes us into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and technological change. The Shakespeare in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.

Author : Islam Issa
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781000459319

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Shakespeare and Terrorism by Islam Issa Pdf

Shakespeare and Terrorism delves into how extremists have responded to Shakespeare – whether they’ve attacked him or been inspired by him – and investigates what the playwright and his works can tell us about the nature, psychology, and consequences of terror. Literary critic and historian Islam Issa takes readers on a journey from Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon and London to a variety of locations: from Western Europe to the Balkans to the US, from North Africa to the Persian Gulf to Central Asia, and from the theatre to the digital world. Considering incidents from Shakespeare’s time through today, including the Gunpowder Plot and 9/ 11, as well as pivotal figures from Hamlet and Macbeth to Hitler and Bin Laden, this book brings to light new ideas about key characters, events, and themes both in Shakespeare’s plays and the world around them. A thrilling and accessible read, this ground-breaking book will enlighten and engage students, researchers, and general readers interested in Shakespeare, social sciences, history, and the complex relationships between life and art.