Shakespeare S Comic Commonwealths

Author : Camille Wells Slights
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0802029248

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Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths by Camille Wells Slights Pdf

Challenging the traditional view that Shakespeare's early comedies are about the experience of romantic love and constitute a genre called romantic comedy, Camille Wells Slights demonstrates that they dramatize individual action in the context of social dynamics, reflecting and commenting on the culture in which they originated. Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths sheds new light on ten Shakespearean comedies: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night. In a diversity of comic forms - from rollicking farce to tragicomedy - these plays offer varying perspectives on the forces that make and mar human communities. Dramatizing tensions between savagery and civilization, autonomy and dependence, and isolation and community, Shakespeare's comedies both reflect and comment on the society that produces them. Slights eschews viewing these comedies as endorsements of the prevailing ideologies of sixteenth-century England or as subversions of that hierarchical, patriarchal culture. They can be most fruitfully understood as imaginative forms that present cultural practices, institutions and beliefs as human constructions susceptible to critical scrutiny. While exposing the injustice and brutality as well as the assurances and satisfactions of social experiences, Shakespeare's comedies represent people as inescapably social beings. By combining historical scholarship with formal analysis and incorporating insights from social anthropology and feminist theory, Shakespeare's Comic Commonwealths offers new readings of Shakespeare's early comedies and analyses the interaction between the plays and the social structures and processes of early modern England.

Author : Edward Berry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521263030

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Shakespeare's Comic Rites by Edward Berry Pdf

Professor Berry combines social history, anthropology and literary criticism to Shakespeare's romantic comedies.

Author : Frances N. Teague
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838635245

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Acting Funny by Frances N. Teague Pdf

Finally, these assumptions lead to the corollary that such hierarchies are natural and immutable and not fashioned by critics.

Author : Ruth Nevo
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136557057

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Comic Transformations in Shakespeare by Ruth Nevo Pdf

First published in 1980. In this study of Shakespeare's ten early comedies, from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night, the concept of a dynamic of comic form is developed; the Falstaff plays are seen as a watershed, and the emergence of new comic protagonists - the resourceful, anti-romantic romantic heroine and the Fool - as the summit of the achievement. The plays are explored from three complementary perspectives - theoretical, developmental and interpretative which lead to a further understanding of the powerful relation between the plays' formal complexity and their naturalistic verisimilitude.

Author : John L. Palmer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1962-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349152155

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Political and Comic Characters of Shakespeare by John L. Palmer Pdf

Author : Joseph Allen Bryant
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813130956

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Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy by Joseph Allen Bryant Pdf

In Shakespeare's hand the comic mode became an instrument for exploring the broad territory of the human situation, including much that had normally been reserved for tragedy. Once the reader recognizes that justification for such an assumption is presented repeatedly in the earlier comedies -- from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night -- he has less difficulty in dispensing with the currently fashionable classifications of the later comedies as problem plays and romances or tragicomedies and thus in seeing them all as manifestations of a single impulse. Bryant shows how Shakespeare, early a.

Author : Karen Newman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136557330

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Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character by Karen Newman Pdf

First published in 1985. In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem 'lifelike' or 'realistic'. His comic practice is firmly set within a comic tradition which stretches from Plautus and Menander to playwrights of the Italian Renaissance.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781604136319

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William Shakespeare by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays on the comedic works of William Shakespeare.

Author : Dennis Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666902099

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Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation by Dennis Taylor Pdf

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiation of Religious Difference explores how Shakespeare’s plays dramatize key issues of the Elizabethan Reformation, the conflict between the sacred, the critical, and the disenchanted; alternatively, the Catholic, the Protestant, and the secular. Each play imagines their reconciliation or the failure of reconcilation. The Catholic sacred is shadowed by its degeneration into superstition, Protestant critique by its unintended (fissaparous) consequences, the secular ordinary by stark disenchantment. Shakespeare shows how all three perspectives are needed if society is to face its intractable problems, thus providing a powerful model for our own ecumenical dialogues. Shakespeare begins with history plays contrasting the saintly but impractical King Henry VI, whose assassination is the ”primal crime,” with the pragmatic and secular Henry IV, until imagining in the later 1590’s how Hal can reconnect with sacred sources. At the same time in his comedies, Shakespeare imagines cooperative ways of resolving the national ”comedy of errors,” of sorting out erotic and marital and contemplative confusions by applying his triple lens. His late Elizabethan comedies achieve a polished balance of wit and devotion, ordinary and the sacred, old and new orders. Hamlet is Shakespeare’s ultimate Elizabethan consideration of these issues, its so-called lack of objective correlation a response to the unsorted trauma of the Reformation.

Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035796759

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Shakespeare's Comic Sequence by Kenneth Muir Pdf

Author : Chintamani N. Desai
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Comedy
ISBN : UCAL:B3563497

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Shakespearean Comedy by Chintamani N. Desai Pdf

Author : Victor L. Cahn
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 889 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313390876

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Shakespeare the Playwright by Victor L. Cahn Pdf

When Victor Cahn's Shakespeare the Playwright was issued in 1991, it was highly recommended for any general public library and for academic collections at all undergraduate levels (Choice) and viewed as a useful guide for the general reader, as well as high school and undergraduate students Library Journal. Now Professor Cahn has revised his introduction to make the context of Shakespeare's plays more meaningful to the beginning researcher and to show how the plays have been performed from the 16th century onward. In addition, the bibliographies for each of the 37 plays have been updated to include the best new research. These updates and revisions will enhance the use of this guide for the general reader, student, and researcher, from high school onward. Since their first production four centuries ago, the plays of William Shakespeare have been the most widely produced, popularly acclaimed, and critically examined works in the world's literature. In this unique book, Victor L. Cahn, an acclaimed teacher of drama, guides the reader scene by scene through each of Shakespeare's thirty-seven plays, re-creating the freshness and theatrical effect of performance. Cahn has based his approach on the assumption that the fundamental appeal of Shakespeare's plays lies in the characters, and with clarity and subtlety he focuses on how the implications of the characters' actions and the nuances of their language contribute to the plays' impact. The introduction briefly traces Shakespeare's life and career, and explains some of the social and artistic circumstances that influenced his work. The plays are grouped by genre: Tragedies, Histories, Comedies, and Romances. This structure allows Cahn to explore Shalespeare's development in all four dramatic forms, as well as to suggest relationships between characters, themes, and images throughout the works. In addition, Cahn discusses the plays as reflective of Shakespeare's age, particularly the Renaissance concern with the tension between individual rights and social responsibility. The text is free from extensive scholarly apparatus, but valuable suggestions for further reading follow the analysis of each play, and a selected bibliography concludes the volume. The comprehensiveness of the book, as well as the accessibility and quality of its interpretations, make it a valuable resource for courses in Shakespeare, drama, and British literature, and a worthy addition to high school, college, university, and public library reference collections.

Author : A. Thorne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230597266

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Vision and Rhetoric in Shakespeare by A. Thorne Pdf

This major new interdisciplinary study argues that Shakespeare exploited long-established connections between vision, space and language in order to construct rhetorical equivalents for visual perspective. Through a detailed comparison of art and poetic theory in Italy and England, Thorne shows how perspective was appropriated by English writers, who reinterpreted it to suit their own literary concerns and cultural context. Focusing on five Shakespearean plays, she situates their preoccupation with issues of viewpoint in relation to a range of artistic forms and topics from miniatures to masques.

Author : P. Yachnin,J. Slights
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230584150

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Shakespeare and Character by P. Yachnin,J. Slights Pdf

Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at the centre of our understanding of Shakespeare's achievement as an artist and thinker.

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494398

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy by Alexander Leggatt Pdf

First published in 2001, this is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare's practice and the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited. The first section puts Shakespeare in the context of classical and Renaissance comedy and comic theory, the work of his Elizabethan predecessors and the traditions of popular festivity. The second section traces a number of themes through Shakespeare's early and middle comedies, dark comedies and late romances, establishing the key features of his comedy as a whole and illuminating particular plays by close analysis. Individual chapters draw on contemporary politics, rhetoric, and the history of Shakespeare production. Written by experts in the relevant fields, the chapters frequently challenge long-standing critical assumptions.