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Author : Lloyd Davis
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 087413790X
In each area, the authors discuss a range of issues by applying and debating key critical approaches to Shakespeare including new historicism, cultural materialism, feminism, and postcolonialism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ewan Fernie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107130852
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Reclaiming Shakespearean Freedom -- 2 Shakespeare Means Freedom -- 3 'Freetown!' (Romeo and Juliet) -- 4 Freetown-upon-Avon -- 5 Freetown-am-Main -- 6 Free Artists of Their Own Selves! -- 7 Freetown Philosopher -- 8 Against Shakespearean Freedom -- 9 The Freedom of Complete Being -- Notes -- Index
Author : Annalisa Castaldo,Rhonda Knight
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683931508
This collection features nine essays that explore how the material conditions of the early modern English stage shaped the theater. Topics range from the simulation of pregnant bodies by boy actors (and the effects of those simulations) to how bruises created by make-up might have been used on stage
Author : Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000750928
Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416541639
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780763699956
Originally published as: Shakespeare: his work and his world / illustrated by Robert Ingpen. 2001.
Author : Marlena Tronicke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351213172
Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare’s dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to Antony and Cleopatra, thus establishing that suicide becomes increasingly pronounced as a vital means of dramatic characterisation. In particular, the book approaches suicide as a gendered phenomenon. By taking into account parameters such as onstage versus offstage deaths, suicide speeches or the explicit denial of final words, as well as settings and weapons, the study scrutinises the ways in which Shakespeare appropriates the convention of suicide and subverts traditional notions of masculine versus feminine deaths. It shows to what extent a gendered approach towards suicide opens up a more nuanced understanding of the correlation between gender and Shakespeare’s genres and how, eventually, through their dramatisation of suicide the tragedies query normative gender discourse.
Author : Paul Prescott,Erin Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472520340
Long held as Britain's 'national poet', Shakespeare's role in the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad confirmed his status as a global icon in the modern world. From his prominent positioning in the Olympic and Paralympic ceremonies, to his major presence in the cultural programme surrounding the Games, including the Royal Shakespeare Company's World Shakespeare Festival and the Globe's Globe to Globe Festival, Shakespeare played a major role in the way the UK presented itself to its citizens and to the world. This collection explores the cultural forces at play in the construction, use and reception of Shakespeare during the 2012 Olympic Moment, considering what his presence says about culture, politics and identity in twenty-first century British and global life.
Author : Wendy Beth Hyman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 147445559X
This book provides diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices.
Author : Henry Halford Vaughan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11376958
Author : Robert McCrum
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781509896998
‘Enchanting’ - Simon Russell Beale ‘Remarkable’ - James Shapiro ‘Wonderful . . . compulsively readable’ - Nicholas Hytner Why do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday? When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life-changing stroke, described in My Year Off, he discovered that the only words that made sense to him were snatches of Shakespeare. Unable to travel or move as he used to, McCrum found the First Folio became his ‘book of life’, an endless source of inspiration through which he could embark on ‘journeys of the mind’, and see a reflection of our own disrupted times. An acclaimed writer and journalist, McCrum has spent the last twenty-five years immersed in Shakespeare’s work, on stage and on the page. During this prolonged exploration, Shakespeare’s poetry and plays, so vivid and contemporary, have become his guide and consolation. In Shakespearean he asks: Why is it that we always return to Shakespeare, particularly in times of acute crisis and dislocation? What is the key to his hold on our imagination? And why do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as if they were written yesterday? Shakespearean is a rich, brilliant and superbly drawn portrait of an extraordinary artist, one of the greatest writers who ever lived. Through an enthralling narrative, ranging widely in time and space, McCrum seeks to understand Shakespeare within his historical context while also exploring the secrets of literary inspiration, and examining the nature of creativity itself. Witty and insightful, he makes a passionate and deeply personal case that Shakespeare’s words and ideas are not just enduring in their relevance – they are nothing less than the eternal key to our shared humanity.
Author : Dennis Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666902099
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation explores how Shakespeare responded in drama to the historical trauma of the Elizabethan Reformation. Shakespeare creatively engaged Catholic, Protestant, and secular points of view, and suggested new and interesting syntheses in play after play, thus providing models for today’s ecumenical dialogues.
Author : Eric S. Mallin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826490421
Polemic new reading of Shakespeare focusing on atheism, scepticism and belief.
Author : Philip Davis
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441129031
Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method. Shakespeare Thinking discusses the positioning of Shakespeare as the paradigm of fully human mental creativity from the Romantics to the latest neurological experiments which show that Shakespeare can reveal new understandings of the hard-wiring of the human brain, and the sheer sudden electricity of its synaptic development.
Author : Richard Dutton,Jean E. Howard
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470997291
This four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century. This companion to Shakespeare’s comedies contains original essays on every comedy from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Twelfth Night as well as twelve additional articles on such topics as the humoral body in Shakespearean comedy, Shakespeare’s comedies on film, Shakespeare’s relation to other comic writers of his time, Shakespeare’s cross-dressing comedies, and the geographies of Shakespearean comedy.