Shakespeare S Bastard

Author : Richard B. Wright
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443404327

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Mr. Shakespeare's Bastard by Richard B. Wright Pdf

In a quiet manor house in Oxfordshire, an ailing housekeeper by the name of Aerlene Ward feels that she must now confess the great secret that has shaped her life: she is the illegitimate daughter of William Shakespeare, England’s most famous playwright. With a brilliant eye and ear for this rich period of history, Richard B. Wright brings to life the teeming streets of Elizabethan London and the seasonal rhythms of rural life in Oliver Cromwell’s England as he interweaves the intriguing stories of the lovely Elizabeth, who is seduced by a struggling young writer from Stratford, and her plain but clever daughter who must live with the consequences. As their lives unfold, secrets are revealed, love is found and lost, and futures are forever changed. Readers will be fascinated by glimpses of the young Will as an actor with the Queen’s Men and, fifteen years later, as the world-weary but increasingly wealthy playwright. An engaging blend of invention and historical detail, Mr. Shakespeare’s Bastard confirms Wright as one of our finest storytellers.

Author : Simon Stirling
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780750968560

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Shakespeare's Bastard by Simon Stirling Pdf

Sir William Davenant (1606–1668) – Poet Laureate and Civil War hero – is one of the most influential and neglected figures in the history of British theatre. He introduced ‘opera’, actresses, scenes and the proscenium arch to the English stage. Narrowly escaping execution for his Royalist activities during the Civil War, he revived theatrical performances in London, right under Oliver Cromwell’s nose. Nobody, perhaps, did more to secure Shakespeare’s reputation or to preserve the memory of the Bard.Davenant was known to boast over a glass of wine that he wrote ‘with the very spirit’ of Shakespeare and was happy to be thought of as Shakespeare’s son. By recounting the story of his eventful life backwards, through his many trials and triumphs, this biography culminates with a fresh examination of the vexed issue of Davenant’s paternity. Was Sir William’s mother the voluptuous and maddening ‘Dark Lady’ of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and was he Shakespeare’s ‘lovely boy’?

Author : Sandra Clark
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472581822

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Shakespeare and Domestic Life by Sandra Clark Pdf

This dictionary explores the language of domestic life found in Shakespeare's work and seeks to demonstrate the meanings he attaches to it through his uses of it in particular contexts. "Domestic life" covers a range of topics: the language of the household, clothing, food, family relationships and duties; household practices, the architecture of the home, and all that conditions and governs the life of the home. The dictionary draws on recent cultural materialist research to provide in-depth definitions of the domestic language and life in Shakespeare's works, creating a richly rewarding and informative reference tool for upper level students and scholars.

Author : Frank Harris
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783752358704

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The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Liffe Story by Frank Harris Pdf

Reproduction of the original: The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Liffe Story by Frank Harris

Author : Marianne Novy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199642366

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Shakespeare and Outsiders by Marianne Novy Pdf

This book offers an engaging account of the portrayal of outsiders in Shakespeare's writings. It considers characters who are outsiders for an array of reasons including their race, religion, gender, psychology, and morality, and highlights the idea of otherness as a relative rather than fixed term.

Author : Jeffrey R. Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000228687

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Shakespeare and Game of Thrones by Jeffrey R. Wilson Pdf

It is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-century civil war between feuding English families. In this book, Jeffrey R. Wilson shows how that connection was mediated by Shakespeare, and how a knowledge of the Shakespearean context enriches our understanding of the literary elements of Game of Thrones. On the one hand, Shakespeare influenced Game of Thrones indirectly because his history plays significantly shaped the way the Wars of the Roses are now remembered, including the modern histories and historical fictions George R.R. Martin drew upon. On the other, Game of Thrones also responds to Shakespeare’s first tetralogy directly by adapting several of its literary strategies (such as shifting perspectives, mixed genres, and metatheater) and tropes (including the stigmatized protagonist and the prince who was promised). Presenting new interviews with the Game of Thrones cast, and comparing contextual circumstances of composition—such as collaborative authorship and political currents—this book also lodges a series of provocations about writing and acting for the stage in the Elizabethan age and for the screen in the twenty-first century. An essential read for fans of the franchise, as well as students and academics looking at Shakespeare and Renaissance literature in the context of modern media.

Author : Alison Findlay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Authority in literature
ISBN : UOM:39015055900123

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Illegitimate Power by Alison Findlay Pdf

In Renaissance drama, the bastard is an extraordinarily powerful and disruptive figure. We have only to think of Caliban or of Edmund to realise the challenge presented by the illegitimate child. Drawing on a wide range of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crisis in early modern England, reading them in relation to witchcraft, spiritual insecurities and social unrest in family and State. The characters discussed range from demi-devils, unnatural villains and clowns to outstandingly heroic or virtuous types who challenge officially sanctioned ideas of illegitimacy. The final chapter of the book considers bastards in performance; their relationship with theatre spaces and audiences. Illegitimate voices, Findlay argues, can bring about the death of the author/father and open the text as a piece of theatre, challenging accepted notions of authority.

Author : Ania Loomba,Martin Orkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135033705

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Post-Colonial Shakespeares by Ania Loomba,Martin Orkin Pdf

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 51,9 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>

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : 1st World Publishing
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10
Category : Britons
ISBN : 9781421813530

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King John by William Shakespeare Pdf

KING JOHN. Now, say, Chatillon, what would France with us? CHATILLON. Thus, after greeting, speaks the King of France In my behaviour to the majesty, The borrowed majesty, of England here. ELINOR. A strange beginning- 'borrowed majesty'! KING JOHN. Silence, good mother; hear the embassy.

Author : Brian Carroll
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476685823

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Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle by Brian Carroll Pdf

This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of Shakespeare's history plays are not principally the plots or "facts" of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audiences. Reading Shakespeare through the lens of national identity is a study almost as old as the plays themselves, and many scholars have found various articulations of nationhood in Shakespeare's plays. This book argues that Shakespeare's histories furnished modern England with a curriculum for constructing a national identity, a confidence of language and culture, and a powerful new medium through which to communicate and express this negotiated identity. Highlighting the application of semiotics, it studies the playwright's use of symbols, metonymy, symbolic codes, and metaphor. By examining what Shakespeare and playgoers remembered and forgot, as well as the ways ideas were framed, this book explores how a national identity was crafted, contested, and circulated.

Author : William Shakespeare,Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1785
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:11560815

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King Lear by William Shakespeare,Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Laurie Maguire
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470776704

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Studying Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire Pdf

This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life. Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespeare's plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time. Focuses on the characters, situations and stories in Shakespeare which are still familiar today. Shows how Shakespeare's plays illustrate some of life's most familiar stories - love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge Makes Shakespeare’s plays accessible to the widest possible audience.

Author : Thomas P. Anderson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474417433

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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

Author : Malone Society
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0342166808

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The History of King Leir by Malone Society Pdf

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