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Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

Tom McAlindon
Shakespeare Minus Theory Book PDF

Author : Tom McAlindon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 55,5 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.

How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage

Peter Lake
How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage Book PDF

Author : Peter Lake
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300225662

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How Shakespeare Put Politics on the Stage by Peter Lake Pdf

A masterful, highly engaging analysis of how Shakespeare’s plays intersected with the politics and culture of Elizabethan England With an ageing, childless monarch, lingering divisions due to the Reformation, and the threat of foreign enemies, Shakespeare’s England was fraught with unparalleled anxiety and complicated problems. In this monumental work, Peter Lake reveals, more than any previous critic, the extent to which Shakespeare’s plays speak to the depth and sophistication of Elizabethan political culture and the Elizabethan imagination. Lake reveals the complex ways in which Shakespeare’s major plays engaged with the events of his day, particularly regarding the uncertain royal succession, theological and doctrinal debates, and virtue and virtù in politics. Through his plays, Lake demonstrates, Shakespeare was boldly in conversation with his audience about a range of contemporary issues. This remarkable literary and historical analysis pulls the curtain back on what Shakespeare was really telling his audience and what his plays tell us today about the times in which they were written.

Shakespeare's Individualism

Peter Holbrook
Shakespeare s Individualism Book PDF

Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521760676

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Shakespeare's Individualism by Peter Holbrook Pdf

Why should we bother with Shakespeare today? A provocative perspective on the theme of individual freedom in Shakespeare's work.

The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare

Robert Shaughnessy
The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare Book PDF

Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136855030

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The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare by Robert Shaughnessy Pdf

Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans. In this friendly, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy: introduces Shakespeare’s life and works in context, providing crucial historical background looks at each of Shakespeare’s plays in turn, considering issues of historical context, contemporary criticism and performance history provides detailed discussion of twentieth-century Shakespearean criticism, exploring the theories, debates and discoveries that shape our understanding of Shakespeare today looks at contemporary performances of Shakespeare on stage and screen provides further critical reading by play outlines detailed chronologies of Shakespeare’s life and works and also of twentieth-century criticism The companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/shaughnessy contains student-focused materials and resources, including an interactive timeline and annotated weblinks.

Shakespeare's Folly

Sam Hall
Shakespeare s Folly Book PDF

Author : Sam Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317223603

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Shakespeare's Folly by Sam Hall Pdf

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of the serious world. Like Erasmus, More, and Montaigne before him, Shakespeare employs folly as a mode of understanding that does not arrogantly insist upon the veracity of its own claims – a fool’s truth, after all, is spoken by a fool. Yet, as this study demonstrates, Shakespearean folly is not the sole preserve of professional jesters and garrulous clowns, for it is also apparent on a thematic, conceptual, and formal level in virtually all of his plays. Examining canonical histories, comedies, and tragedies, this study is the first to either contextualize Shakespearean folly within European humanist thought, or to argue that Shakespeare’s philosophy of folly is part of a subterranean strand of Western philosophy, which itself reflects upon the folly of the wise. This strand runs from the philosopher-fool Socrates through to Montaigne and on to Nietzsche, but finds its most sustained expression in the Critical Theory of the mid to late twentieth-century, when the self-destructive potential latent in rationality became an historical reality. This book makes a substantial contribution to the fields of Shakespeare, Renaissance humanism, Critical Theory, and Literature and Philosophy. It illustrates, moreover, how rediscovering the philosophical potential of folly may enable us to resist the growing dominance of instrumental thought in the cultural sphere.

Shakespeare and the Nature of Love

Marcus Nordlund
Shakespeare and the Nature of Love Book PDF

Author : Marcus Nordlund
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810124233

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Love by Marcus Nordlund Pdf

The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultural, and historical explanation. It is within just such a bio-cultural nexus that Nordlund explores Shakespeare’s treatment of different forms of love. His approach leads to a valuable new perspective on Shakespearean love and, more broadly, on the interaction between our common humanity and our historical contingency as they are reflected, recast, transformed, or even suppressed in literary works. After addressing critical issues about love, biology, and culture raised by his method, Nordlund considers four specific forms of love in seven of Shakespeare’s plays. Examining the vicissitudes of parental love in Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus, he argues that Shakespeare makes a sustained inquiry into the impact of culture and society upon the natural human affections. King Lear offers insight into the conflicted relationship between love and duty. In two problem plays about romantic love, Troilus and Cressida and All’s Well that Ends Well, the tension between individual idiosyncrasies and social consensus becomes especially salient. And finally, in Othello and The Winter’s Tale, Nordlund asks what Shakespeare can tell us about the dark avatar of jealousy.

Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition

Raphael Lyne
Shakespeare Rhetoric and Cognition Book PDF

Author : Raphael Lyne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139501446

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Shakespeare, Rhetoric and Cognition by Raphael Lyne Pdf

Raphael Lyne addresses a crucial Shakespearean question: why do characters in the grip of emotional crises deliver such extraordinarily beautiful and ambitious speeches? How do they manage to be so inventive when they are perplexed? Their dense, complex, articulate speeches at intensely dramatic moments are often seen as psychological - they uncover and investigate inwardness, character and motivation - and as rhetorical - they involve heightened language, deploying recognisable techniques. Focusing on A Midsummer Night's Dream, Othello, Cymbeline and the Sonnets, Lyne explores both the psychological and rhetorical elements of Shakespeare's language. In the light of cognitive linguistics and cognitive literary theory he shows how Renaissance rhetoric could be considered a kind of cognitive science, an attempt to map out the patterns of thinking. His study reveals how Shakespeare's metaphors and similes work to think, interpret and resolve, and how their struggle to do so results in extraordinary poetry.

Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language

Vivian Thomas
Shakespeare s Political and Economic Language Book PDF

Author : Vivian Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474216081

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Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language by Vivian Thomas Pdf

Shakespeare's plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and economic language in Shakespeare does not consist merely of arcane terms whose shifting meanings require exposition, but includes an enormous number of relatively simple words which possess a structural significance in the configuration of meanings. Often operating by such means as puns, they open up a surprising number of possibilities. The dictionary reveals the conceptual nucleus of each term and explores the contexts in which it is embedded. The overlap between the political and economic dimensions of a word in Shakespeare's drama is particularly exciting as he is highly attuned to the interactions of these two spheres of human activity and their centrality in human affairs.

Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics

Patrick Gray,John D. Cox
Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics Book PDF

Author : Patrick Gray,John D. Cox
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107071933

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Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics by Patrick Gray,John D. Cox Pdf

Shakespeare and Renaissance Ethics examines representations of moral choice in Shakespeare's plays, focusing on intellectual history, Montaigne, and Christian ethics.

Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative

Peter F. Grav
Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative Book PDF

Author : Peter F. Grav
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135894122

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Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative by Peter F. Grav Pdf

Despite the volume of work Shakespeare produced, surprisingly few of his plays directly concern money and the economic mindset. Shakespeare and the Economic Imperative examines the five plays that do address monetary issues (The Comedy of Errors, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure and Timon of Athens), plays in which Shakespeare’s view of how economic determinants shape interpersonal relationships progressively darkens. In short, what thematically starts out in farce ends in nihilistic tragedy. Working within the critical stream of new economic criticism, this book uses formal analysis to interrogate how words are used — how words and metaphoric patterns from the quantifiable dealings of commerce transform into signifiers of qualitative values and how the endemic employment of discursive tropes based on mercantile principles debases human relationships. This examination is complemented by historical socio-economic contextualization, as it seems evident that the societies depicted in these plays reflect the changing world in which Shakespeare lived and wrote.

Shakespeare, Christianity and Italian Paganism

Eric Harber
Shakespeare Christianity and Italian Paganism Book PDF

Author : Eric Harber
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781527561076

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Shakespeare, Christianity and Italian Paganism by Eric Harber Pdf

This book shows that, when Shakespeare wrote his plays, he responded to the political, religious and social conflicts in the Christianity of the day, giving those areas a new perspective through pagan (Italian and Greek) mythology. In particular, it offers a reading of The Winter’s Tale, which it has been said is “one of the most linguistically dense, emotionally demanding and spiritually rich of all the plays”. Productions as far afield as Mexico and Paris have brought Shakespeare’s plays up to date to enhance or challenge the lives of their communities. From South Africa to Gdansk, Shakespeare has been adapted to be read in schools. His plays have prompted a dialogue with many European scholars whom this book addresses.

A Theory of Literary Explication

Kenneth B. Newell
A Theory of Literary Explication Book PDF

Author : Kenneth B. Newell
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781443832304

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A Theory of Literary Explication by Kenneth B. Newell Pdf

This book presents current multidisciplinary research and theory from 17 different fields (most of them never before applied to literary explication) in order to provide (1) justification for the practice of a relative-probability type of explication as distinguished from interpretation, (2) a relativistic foundation for the preference of some explication(s) of a literary work over others, and thereby (3) a middle way between the postmodern pluralist view that a work has only an unlimited number of equally acceptable though different explications and the modern intentionalist view that it has only one acceptable explication (the author’s). Nine of the 17 fields are of primary relevance: critical theory, hermeneutics, probability theory, philosophy of science, second-order logic, and four fields of cognitive science (linguistics, epistemology, neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence). But the book also touches upon textual criticism, legal theory, measure theory, fuzzy logic, animal learning behavior, developmental psychology, evolutionary epistemology, and neurobiology. The book shows that those using a relative-probability type of explication on a literary work can achieve consensus because the healthy, adult human brain has an evolved, uniform, and probably innate ability to form relative-probability judgments and to form them in the practice of activities (like reading and explicating) that are not uniform and innate. Lastly, the book contributes to the scholarly areas of explication theory and practice, first, by providing a relativistic foundation for a craft (explication) that currently is not acknowledged to have any foundation but nonetheless continues and will continue to be practiced and, second, by presenting a means (relative epistemic probability) by which judging some explication(s) of a literary work to be more acceptable than others may be justified philosophically—an uncommon circumstance in this postmodern era in which philosophical justification of many beliefs and practices is thought to be untenable.

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Regina Buccola
A Midsummer Night s Dream Book PDF

Author : Regina Buccola
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441179791

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A Midsummer Night's Dream by Regina Buccola Pdf

A Midsummer Night's Dream is one of Shakespeare's most widely studied comedies. This guide offers students an introduction to its critical and performance history, including notable stage productions, TV, and film versions as well as opera and ballet. It includes a keynote chapter outlining major areas of current research on the play and four new critical essays. Finally, a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further individual research.

Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox

Peter G. Platt
Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox Book PDF

Author : Peter G. Platt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 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.

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama

John E. Curran
Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama Book PDF

Author : John E. Curran
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644530535

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Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama by John E. Curran Pdf

Character and the Individual Personality in English Renaissance Drama: Tragedy, History, Tragicomedy studies instantiations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside such fraught questions as the history of Renaissance subjectivity and individualism on the one hand and Shakespearean exceptionalism on the other, we can find that in some plays, by a range of different authors and collaborators, a conception has been evidenced of who a particular person is, and has been used to drive the action. This evidence can take into account a number of internal and external factors that might differentiate a person, and can do so drawing on the intellectual context in a number of ways. Ideas with potential to emphasize the special over the general in envisioning the person might come from training in dialectic (thesis vs hypothesis) or in rhetoric (ethopoeia), from psychological frameworks (casuistry, humor theory, and their interpenetration), or from historiography (exemplarity). But though they depicted what we would call personality only intermittently, and with assumptions different from our own about personhood, dramatists sometimes made a priority of representing the workings of a specific mind: the patterns of thought and feeling that set a person off as that person and define that person singularly rather than categorically. Some individualistic characters can be shown to emerge where we do not expect, such as with Fletcherian personae like Amintor, Arbaces, and Montaigne of The Honest Man’s Fortune; some are drawn by playwrights often uninterested in character, such as Chapman’s Bussy D’Ambois, Jonson’s Cicero, and Ford’s Perkin Warbeck; and some appear in being constructed differently from others by the same author, as when Webster’s Bosola is set in contrast to Flamineo, and Marlowe’s Faustus is set against Barabas. But Shakespearean characters are also examined for the particular manner in which each troubles the categorical and exhibits a personality: Othello, Good Duke Humphrey, and Marc Antony. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.