Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:915276513
Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools
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Shakespeare S Great Stage Of Fools
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Great Stage of Fools
Peter J. Leithart
Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781532638527
Great Stage of Fools by Peter J. Leithart Pdf
This book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of the plays.
Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools
R. Bell
Author : R. Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230337725
Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools by R. Bell Pdf
This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures.
Great Stage of Fools
Peter J. Leithart
Author : Peter J. Leithart
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781532638541
Great Stage of Fools by Peter J. Leithart Pdf
This book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of the plays.
King Lear
Jeffrey Kahan
Author : Jeffrey Kahan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135973650
King Lear by Jeffrey Kahan Pdf
Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink
Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools
R. Bell
Author : R. Bell
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230337725
Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools by R. Bell Pdf
This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures.
As You Like it
William Shakespeare
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018947523
As You Like it by William Shakespeare Pdf
This Great Stage
Robert Bechtold Heilman
Author : Robert Bechtold Heilman
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Figures of speech
ISBN : PSU:000029565221
This Great Stage by Robert Bechtold Heilman Pdf
Shakespeare's Folly
Sam Hall
Author : Sam Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317223603
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.
King Lear
William Shakespeare
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1501063030
King Lear by William Shakespeare Pdf
"Nothing will come of nothing: speak again." --- William Shakespeare, King Lear "When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools." --- William Shakespeare, King Lear King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The titular character descends into madness after disposing of his estate between two of his three daughters based on their flattery, bringing tragic consequences for all. Based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king, the play has been widely adapted for the stage and motion pictures, with the title role coveted by many of the world's most accomplished actors. Originally drafted between 1603 and its first known performance in 1607, the first attribution to Shakespeare was a 1608 publication in quarto of uncertain provenance; it may be an early draft or simply reflect the first performance text. The Tragedy of King Lear, a more theatrical revision, was included in the 1623 First Folio. Modern editors usually conflate the two, though some insist that each version has its individual integrity that should be preserved. After the Restoration, the play was often revised with a happy ending for audiences who disliked its dark and depressing tone, but since the 19th century Shakespeare's original version has been regarded as one of his supreme achievements. The tragedy is particularly noted for its probing observations on the nature of human suffering and kinship. George Bernard Shaw wrote, "No man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear".
Social Shakespeare
Peter J. Smith
Author : Peter J. Smith
Publisher : Springer
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349242252
Social Shakespeare by Peter J. Smith Pdf
'Social Shakespeare is a thoughtful and frequently incisive book wabout an important and complex topic.' - Terence Hawkes, Cahiers Elisabethains Shakespeare studies have become increasingly politicised and clashes of opinion amongst scholars are not uncommon. Social Shakespeare, in its enthusiasm for the plays themselves, attempts to bridge the gap between rival approaches, aiming as a distinct refocusing of political criticism upon the Shakespearean text as realised in performance. Modern Shakespeare productions have the potential to make far more political impact than academic studies and yet, until now, critics have been reluctant to recognise this potential. With reference to particular productions, backed up by illustrations, Peter J. Smith integrates critical understanding of the plays with evidence of their political impact on stage.
Wise Fools in Shakespeare
Robert Hillis Goldsmith
Author : Robert Hillis Goldsmith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Fools and jesters in literature
ISBN : IND:30000007176245
Wise Fools in Shakespeare by Robert Hillis Goldsmith Pdf
The Fool's Girl
Celia Rees
Author : Celia Rees
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780747597346
The Fool's Girl by Celia Rees Pdf
Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2011 Shakespeare in Love meets Twelfth Night - A gripping and evocative historical novel by bestselling Celia Rees
Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History
Vicki K. Janik
Author : Vicki K. Janik
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 571 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1998-05-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313033575
Fools and Jesters in Literature, Art, and History by Vicki K. Janik Pdf
Jesters and fools have existed as important and consistent figures in nearly all cultures. Sometimes referred to as clowns, they are typological characters who have conventional roles in the arts, often using nonsense to subvert existing order. But fools are also a part of social and religious history, and they frequently play key roles in the rituals that support and shape a society's system of beliefs. This reference book includes alphabetically arranged entries for approximately 60 fools and jesters from a wide range of cultures. Included are entries for performers from American popular culture, such as Woody Allen, Mae West, Charlie Chaplin, and the Marx Brothers; literary characters, such as Shakespeare's Falstaff, Rabelais' Gargantua and Pantagruel, and Singer's Gimpel; and cultural and mythological figures, such as India's Birbal, the American circus clown, the Native American Coyote, Taishu Engeki of Japan, Hephaestus, Loki the Norse fool, schlimiels and schlimazels, and the drag queen. The entries, written by expert contributors, are critical as well as informative. Each begins with a biographical, artistic, religious, or historical background section, which places the subject within a larger cultural and historical context. A description and analysis follow. This section may include a discussion of the fool's appearance, gender role, ethical and moral roles, social function, and relationship to such themes as nature, time, and mortality. The entry then discusses the critical reception of the subject and concludes with an extensive bibliography of general works.
Mirror up to Shakespeare
Jack Cooper Gray
Author : Jack Cooper Gray
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1984-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781487597832
Mirror up to Shakespeare by Jack Cooper Gray Pdf
George Hibbard has always endorsed T.S. Eliot's idea that 'we must know all of Shakespeare's work in order to know any of it,' and this idea, implicit in the first essay in this volume, informs the whole collection, written in honour of one of Canada's leading Shakespearian editors and scholars. The two essays which begin the collection present broad overviews of Elizabethan drama and discuss Shakespeare's first great editor, Theobald. Together with the final essay – on publication and performance in early Stuart drama – these form the frame of the mirror held up to Shakespeare in the other eighteen essays, whether they of general themes running through some or all of Shakespeare's plays or the plays his contemporaries, or whether they treat of specific plays. There is an especially rich concentration on Macbeth and Coriolanus.