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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Athens (Greece)
ISBN : NYPL:33433003252636
Author : Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (éd.),Sarah Hatchuel (éd.)
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Art
ISBN : 2877758435
Ce livre a pour objet l’étude des représentations du Songe d’une nuit d’été à l’écran, la pièce ayant fait l’objet d’un colloque qui s’est tenu à Rouen sous les auspices de la Société française Shakespeare. Les plus grands spécialistes de Shakespeare et de Shakespeare au cinéma ont contribué à l’ouvrage. Monolingue anglais, le livre contient en outre une bibliographie exhaustive sur le sujet.
Author : Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Publications de l'Université de Rouen et du Havre
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : English drama
ISBN : 2877753646
Author : William Shakespeare; Ed. Jim Manis
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Nicolas Tredell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137075833
A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide explores the main themes and interpretations and draws on a rich range of critical writings.
Author : Jay L. Halio
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Comedy
ISBN : 0719034043
After an historical survey of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" from Shakespeare's time through to the 19th century, Jay Halio focuses primarily on 20th century productions and adaptations, for film and television as well as for the stage. Chapters are devoted to productions by Max Reinhardt, Peter Hall, Robert Lepage, and especially to Peter Brook's landmark production in 1970 and the reactions to it. Using a wealth of personal experience, as well as original promptbooks and critical reviews, Halio shows how differently but still very effectively the play may be staged, as the wide variety of plays he records. This second, enlarged edition contains three new chapters on Adrian Noble's RSC production and film, Michael Hoffman's film, and the "Dream "in China. Written in clear, jargon-free language, this is the only book so far in print that offers an extended study of major 20th-century productions of the "Dream "in their historical context.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781443441551
Among the most enduring poetry of all time, William Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets address such eternal themes as love, beauty, honesty, and the passage of time. Written primarily in four-line stanzas and iambic pentameter, Shakespeare’s sonnets are now recognized as marking the beginning of modern love poetry. The sonnets have been translated into all major written languages and are frequently used at romantic celebrations. Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably the greatest English-language writer known. Enormously popular during his life, Shakespeare’s works continue to resonate more than three centuries after his death, as has his influence on theatre and literature. Shakespeare’s innovative use of character, language, and experimentation with romance as tragedy served as a foundation for later playwrights and dramatists, and some of his most famous lines of dialogue have become part of everyday speech. HarperPerennial Classics brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperPerennial Classics collection to build your digital library.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198129288
A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best-loved of Shakespeare's plays, and certainly the one that children are likely to encounter first; its mixture of aristocrats, workers, and fairies meeting in a wood outside Athens has a magic of its own. Simple and engaging on the surface, it isnonetheless a highly original and sophisticated work, remarkable for both its literary and its theatrical mastery. The fact that it is one of the very few of Shakespeare's plays not to draw on a narrative source suggests the degree to which it reflects his deepest imaginative concerns.In his Introduction, defining the play in both the literary and theatrical traditions to which it belongs, Peter Holland pays particular attention to dreams and dreamers, tracing the materials out of which Shakespeare constructs his world of night and shadows in the strange but enchanting amalgam hemakes of them. Both here and in the detailed commentary he draws freely upon the play's extensive performance history to illustrate the wide range of interpretations of which it is capable.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781585106585
George Lyman Kittredge’s insightful editions of Shakespeare have endured in part because of his eclecticism, his diversity of interests, and his wide-ranging accomplishments, all of which are reflected in the valuable notes in each volume. These new editions have specific emphasis on the performance histories of the plays (on stage and screen). Features of each edition include: - The original introduction to the Kittredge Edition - Editor’s Introduction to the Focus Edition. An overview on major themes of the plays, and sections on the play’s performance history on stage and screen. - Explanatory Notes. The explanatory notes either expand on Kittredge’s superb glosses, or, in the case of plays for which he did not write notes, give the needed explanations for Shakespeare’s sometimes demanding language. - Performance notes. These appear separately and immediately below the textual footnotes and include discussions of noteworthy stagings of the plays, issues of interpretation, and film and stage choices. - How to read the play as Performance Section. A discussion of the written play vs. the play as performed and the various ways in which Shakespeare’s words allow the reader to envision the work "off the page." - Comprehensive Timeline. Covering major historical events (with brief annotations) as well as relevant details from Shakespeare’s life. Some of the Chronologies include time chronologies within the plays. - Topics for Discussion and Further Study Section. Critical Issues: Dealing with the text in a larger context and considerations of character, genre, language, and interpretative problems. Performance Issues: Problems and intricacies of staging the play connected to chief issues discussed in the Focus Editions’ Introduction. - Select Bibliography & Filmography Each New Kittredge edition also includes screen grabs from major productions, for comparison and scene study.
Author : William Shakespeare,Thomas L. Berger
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017586897
A Midsummer Night's Dream was performed around 1595 and published in 1600, in a quarto printed by Richard Bradock. This edition provides a photographic facsimile of this text taken from the Huntingdon Library. In his introduction Berger discusses the nature of the manuscript, and reconstructs the printing process. He also analyzes the many differences between the Quarto and Folio versions of the play, and considers the extent to which they reflect Shakespeare's own revisions.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307807717
Magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies. Some Athenian tradesmen, rehearsing a play for the forthcoming wedding of Duke Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta, unintentionally add to the hilarity. The result is a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, merriment and farce, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between art and life, dreams and the waking world. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108421164
Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.
Author : Magalie Desorbay
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783346979681
Seminar paper from the year 2018 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, LMU Munich, course: Literature and Film: Shakespeare on Screen, language: English, abstract: The following paragraphs will focus on the early period with the start of the silent movies. A period, in which, plays went from stage to screen for the very first time. The analysis will be carried out in the light of three Shakespearean plays: "A Midsummer Night’s Dream", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Macbeth". William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616) is considered to be the greatest writer and dramatist in English language. Most of his work was produced during 1589 and 1613 but in 1594, Shakespeare's talent was recognized by the public. His early plays were mostly histories and comedies like for example "A Midsummer Night's Dream". It was later on that he started writing tragedies, such as "Hamlet", "Macbeth" and "Henry VI". In his last working phase, that is to say from 1608 to 1613, Shakespeare produced romances and tragicomedies like "The Winter's Tale". After the plague in 1599, his own playing company built the Globe theatre where his plays were also performed. However, the theatre closed its doors in 1642, but was reconstructed and reopened in a modern form in 1997. Ever since it is referred to as Shakespeare's Globe. The ambition is there in the range and scope of the work, the determination to master all the dramatic kinds, the restless experimentation, the exploitation of the conventions of poetic drama in manner hat never quite loses sight of the need to entertain while constantly stretching the imaginative and intellectual responses of its audiences. The emotional turbulence is there in the frequent depiction of extreme states of mind, both comic and tragic. Shakespeare lived and wrote during the period of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. The queen had a great fondness for theatre, which means that plays were used a tool to please and capture the royal attention. She saw almost every Shakespearean play. The Elizabethan Era was a very peaceful period in which theatre, literature and music were in the foreground and consequently, the Shakespearean plays had and still have an enormous influence in art. Keeping his success in mind, it is not surprising that Shakespearean plays were performed all over the world and were also produced as films. In the nineteenth century with the start of the silent movie productions, his plays went from stage to screen. One of the first movies was the French version of "Hamlet" in 1907 by Georges Méliès. The film "Shakespeare in love" (1998) was directed by John Madden and is about the early life of William Shakespeare.
Author : R.S. White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350103894
This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and 'warbling' notes' and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom's comic malapropisms. An introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play's performance history and its critical reception completes the volume. Each chapter offers a 'Writing matters' section, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare's language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.
Author : James L. Calderwood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105002300841
