Shakespeare S Ghosts Live

Author : Adrian Parker-Reed,Annekatrin Puhle
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781443879552

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Shakespeare's Ghosts Live by Adrian Parker-Reed,Annekatrin Puhle Pdf

Shakespeare has been one of the most-cited authors since his plays were performed, and yet little attention has been paid to his views on psychic phenomena. It took another 300 years of paranormal experiences before scholars at Cambridge University helped to found the Society for Psychical Research, which brought scientific scrutiny to the area, and the UK is now a world leader in university research on this topic. This book throws new light on many historical case reports from Shakespeare’s time onwards. It identifies the core experiences that transcend time and give clues to an understanding of psychic phenomena. The book highlights Shakespeare’s insights, showing how these relate to, and even amplify, the conclusions of later and on-going research. In our time of disconnectedness from nature, the book discusses neglected human experiences which represent an important part of life and which do, in fact, occur to most of us. In doing so, the book raises awareness against the emptiness of a zombie-like existence in today’s society and offers a new approach to life and death, and their deeper meaning.

Author : Diana E. Henderson,Stephen O'Neill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350110328

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation by Diana E. Henderson,Stephen O'Neill Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of literary genres and new media forms. This comprehensive reference and research resource maps the field of Shakespeare adaptation studies, identifying theories of adaptation, their application in practice and the methodologies that underpin them. It investigates current research and points towards future lines of enquiry for students, researchers and creative practitioners of Shakespeare adaptation. The opening section on research methods and problems considers definitions and theories of Shakespeare adaptation and emphasises how Shakespeare is both adaptor and adapted.A central section develops these theoretical concerns through a series of case studies that move across a range of genres, media forms and cultures to ask not only how Shakespeare is variously transfigured, hybridised and valorised through adaptational play, but also how adaptations produce interpretive communities, and within these potentially new literacies, modes of engagement and sensory pleasures. The volume's third section provides the reader with uniquely detailed insights into creative adaptation, with writers and practice-based researchers reflecting on their close collaborations with Shakespeare's works as an aesthetic, ethical and political encounter. The Handbook further establishes the conceptual parameters of the field through detailed, practical resources that will aid the specialist and non-specialist reader alike, including a guide to research resources and an annotated bibliography.

Author : Louis William Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Ghosts in literature
ISBN : PSU:000032233933

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The Ghosts in Shakespeare by Louis William Rogers Pdf

Author : M. Calbi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137063762

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Spectral Shakespeares by M. Calbi Pdf

Spectral Shakespeares is an illuminating exploration of recent, experimental adaptations of Shakespeare on film, TV, and the web. Drawing on adaptation studies and media theory as well as Jacques Derrida's work, this book argues that these adaptations foreground a cluster of self-reflexive "themes" - from incorporation to reiteration, from migration to addiction, from silence to survival - that contribute to the redefinition of adaptation, and Shakespearean adaptation in particular, as an unfinished and interminable process. The "Shakespeare" that emerges from these adaptations is a fragmentary, mediatized, and heterogeneous presence, a spectral Shakespeare that leaves a mark on our contemporary mediascape.

Author : Norman Austin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0271039450

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Meaning and Being in Myth by Norman Austin Pdf

Norman Austin has organized his analysis of classical Greek myths around Lacan's dichotomy between (ineffable) Being and the meanings imposed upon Being by culturally determined signifiers. The primary signifiers in myth (the gods), as projections of contradictory meanings, impel human consciousness in contradictory directions: toward heroic self-realization, on the one hand, and into the fear, guilt, and despair resulting from failure, on the other. The gods both reveal and occlude that which they signify--the signified; ultimately, Being itself. Austin includes one chapter on the father's ghost in Shakespeare's Hamlet, and another on Albert Camus's The Stranger, as examples of the power of mythical archetypes to reveal and occlude Being, even when the apparatus of gods has been excluded. Despite their pessimism, ancient myths also affirm that the paradoxes are not insoluble. Austin concludes by outlining the profile of the Universal Self intimated in myth, religion, and philosophy as the joint venture of the world realized in consciousness, consciousness realized in consciousness, and consciousness realized in the world.

Author : Victoria Bladen,Yan Brailowsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Occultism in literature
ISBN : 1526109069

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Shakespeare and the Supernatural by Victoria Bladen,Yan Brailowsky Pdf

This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches.

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135154882

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Shakespeare's Ghost Writers by Marjorie Garber Pdf

The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts – and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. Ghosts take the form of absences, erasures, even forgeries and signatures – metaphors extended to include Shakespeare himself and his haunting of us, and in particular theorists such Derrida, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud – the figure of Shakespeare constantly made and remade by contemporary culture. Marjorie Garber, one of the most eminent Shakespearean theorists writing today, asks what is at stake in the imputation that "Shakespeare" did not write the plays, and shows that the plays themselves both thematize and theorize that controversy. This Routledge Classics edition contains a new preface and new chapter by the author.

Author : Zachary Lesser
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780812252941

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Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes by Zachary Lesser Pdf

Four years before the publication of the First Folio, a group of London printers and booksellers attempted to produce a "collected works" of William Shakespeare as a series of quarto pamphlets. Zachary Lesser examines more than three hundred surviving copies of these "Pavier Quartos," revealing they are far more mysterious than we thought.

Author : S. Ryle
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137332066

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Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire by S. Ryle Pdf

Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender.

Author : A. Mancewicz
Publisher : Springer
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781137360045

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Intermedial Shakespeares on European Stages by A. Mancewicz Pdf

Intermedial Shakespeares argues that intermediality has refashioned performances of Shakespeare's plays over the last two decades in Europe. It describes ways in which text and author, time and space, actor and audience have been redefined in Shakespearean productions that incorporate digital media, and it traces transformations in practice.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1853
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCBK:C086242684

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William Shakespeare's Complete Works by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Bernard Benstock
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1988-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0815624468

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James Joyce by Bernard Benstock Pdf

Author : John Wyver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 373 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350006591

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Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company by John Wyver Pdf

No theatre company has been involved in such a broad range of adaptations for television and cinema as the Royal Shakespeare Company. Starting with Richard III filmed in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre before World War One, the RSC's accomplishments continue today with highly successful live cinema broadcasts. The Wars of the Roses (BBC, 1965), Peter Brook's film of King Lear (1971), Channel 4's epic version of Nicholas Nickleby (1982) and Hamlet with David Tennant (BBC, 2009) are among their most iconic adaptations. Many other RSC productions live on as extracts in documentaries, as archival recordings, in trailers and in other fragmentary forms. Screening the Royal Shakespeare Company explores this remarkable history of collaborations between stage and screen and considers key questions about adaptation that concern all those involved in theatre, film and television. John Wyver is a broadcasting historian and the producer of RSC Live from Stratford-upon-Avon, and is uniquely well-placed to provide a vivid account of the company's television and film productions. He contributes an award-winning practitioner's insight into screen adaptation's numerous challenges and rich potential.

Author : John S. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192521439

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Shakespeare and the Afterlife by John S. Garrison Pdf

The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? Did sinners experience torment after death? Would an individual reunite with loved ones in the afterlife? Could the dead communicate with the world of the living? Could the living affect the state of souls after death? How should the dead be commemorated? Could the dead return to life? Was immortality possible? The wide array of possible answers to these questions across Shakespeare's work can be surprising. Exploring how particular texts and characters answer these questions, Shakespeare and the Afterlife showcases the vitality and originality of the author's language and thinking. We encounter characters with very personal visions of what awaits them after death, and these visions reveal new insights into these individuals' motivations and concerns as they navigate the world of the living. Shakespeare and the Afterlife encourages us to engage with the author's work with new insight and new curiosity. The volume connects some of the best-known speeches, characters, and conflicts to cultural debates and traditions circulating during Shakespeare's time.

Author : Royal Shakespeare Company
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781472585196

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The RSC Shakespeare Toolkit for Primary Teachers by Royal Shakespeare Company Pdf

Developed by one of the world's leading theatre companies, this fantastic resource offers teachers a practical, drama-based approach to teaching and appreciating three of Shakespeare's most popular plays: Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. The toolkit brings the plays alive as performance pieces, with Primary pupils undertaking drama-based explorations of the text that take them through much of the play. Teachers' notes and accompanying photocopiable worksheets offer a lesson-by-lesson teaching route through each of the three plays in turn. The schemes of work offer teachers a route through each play that has been designed to be flexible and to bolt on to what they already teach. The schemes comprise a series of lessons that can either be followed in their entirety as a stand-alone scheme of work or which can be dipped into by teachers wanting to augment their existing schemes of work.