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Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521760676
Why should we bother with Shakespeare today? A provocative perspective on the theme of individual freedom in Shakespeare's work.
Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139484954
Providing a provocative and original perspective on Shakespeare, Peter Holbrook argues that Shakespeare is an author friendly to such essentially modern and unruly notions as individuality, freedom, self-realization and authenticity. These expressive values vivify Shakespeare's own writing; they also form a continuous, and a central, part of the Shakespearean tradition. Engaging with the theme of the individual will in specific plays and poems, and examining a range of libertarian-minded scholarly and literary responses to Shakespeare over time, Shakespeare's Individualism advances the proposition that one of the key reasons for reading Shakespeare today is his commitment to individual liberty - even as we recognize that freedom is not just an indispensable ideal but also, potentially, a dangerous one. Engagingly written and jargon free, this book demonstrates that Shakespeare has important things to say about fundamental issues of human existence.
Author : Michele Marrapodi
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0754655040
Applying recent developments in new historicism and cultural materialism-along with the new perspectives opened up by the current debate on intertextuality and the construction of the theatrical text-the essays collected here reconsider the pervasive infl
Author : Curtis Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108496179
Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.
Author : Patrick Gray
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474427470
Explores Shakespeare's representation of the failure of democracy in ancient Rome This book introduces Shakespeare as a historian of ancient Rome alongside figures such as Sallust, Cicero, St Augustine, Machiavelli, Gibbon, Hegel and Nietzsche. It considers Shakespeare's place in the history of concepts of selfhood and reflects on his sympathy for Christianity, in light of his reception of medieval Biblical drama, as well as his allusions to the New Testament. Shakespeare's critique of Romanitas anticipates concerns about secularisation, individualism and liberalism shared by philosophers such as Hannah Arendt, Alasdair MacIntyre, Charles Taylor, Michael Sandel and Patrick Deneen.
Author : Marcus Nordlund
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-08-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810124233
The best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultural, and historical explanation. It is within just such a bio-cultural nexus that Nordlund explores Shakespeare’s treatment of different forms of love. His approach leads to a valuable new perspective on Shakespearean love and, more broadly, on the interaction between our common humanity and our historical contingency as they are reflected, recast, transformed, or even suppressed in literary works. After addressing critical issues about love, biology, and culture raised by his method, Nordlund considers four specific forms of love in seven of Shakespeare’s plays. Examining the vicissitudes of parental love in Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus, he argues that Shakespeare makes a sustained inquiry into the impact of culture and society upon the natural human affections. King Lear offers insight into the conflicted relationship between love and duty. In two problem plays about romantic love, Troilus and Cressida and All’s Well that Ends Well, the tension between individual idiosyncrasies and social consensus becomes especially salient. And finally, in Othello and The Winter’s Tale, Nordlund asks what Shakespeare can tell us about the dark avatar of jealousy.
Author : S. Herbrechter,I. Callus
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137033598
Shakespeare scholars and cultural theorists critically investigate the relationship between early modern culture and contemporary political and technological changes concerning the idea of the 'human.' The volume covers the tragedies King Lear and Hamlet in particular, but also provides posthumanist readings of other Shakespearean plays.
Author : Bradd Shore
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000429787
This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a “great thinker” and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare’s plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays—Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, and King Lear—engage with the texts in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions, and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory, and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how “the new astronomy” of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of “perspective,” and shaped Shakespeare’s approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.
Author : Edel Semple,Ronan Hatfull
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2023-11-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350359215
This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it uniquely identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare, his family and his social circle in theatre, film and television. Interrogating Shakespeare's afterlife across stage and screen media, the volume explores continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, which it positions as the progenitor of recent Shakespearean biofictions in Anglo-American culture. It traces these developments through the 21st century, from pivotal moments such as the Shakespeare 400 celebrations in 2016, up to the quatercentenary of the publication of the First Folio, whose portrait helped make the author a globally recognisable icon. The collection takes account of recent Anglo-American socio-political, cultural and literary concerns including feminism, digital media and the biopic and superhero genres. The wide variety of works discussed range from All is True and Hamnet to Upstart Crow, Bill and even The Lego Movie. Offering insights from actors, dramatists and literary and performance scholars, it considers why artists are drawn to Shakespeare as a character and how theatre and screen media mediate his status as literary genius.
Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1981-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349049967
Author : John E. Curran,, Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611495058
This book explores representations of the individualistic character in drama, Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean, and some of the Renaissance ideas allowing for and informing them. Setting aside Shakespearean exceptionalism, the study reads a wide variety of plays to explain how intellectual context could allow for such characterization.
Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-10-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521827272
Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of Shakespeare's comedies, as well as the comedy in Shakespeare's other works.
Author : Ania Loomba,Martin Orkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135033705
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Anthony Low
Publisher : Duquesne
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015056901120
This book focuses on representative literary works that illustrate turns in the history of individuality and subjectivity and the changes in one's relations with community and society. In conjunction with The Wanderer, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Everyman, The Faerie Queene, Hamlet, and Paradise Lost, Low considers pertinent historical beliefs, attitudes, and practices, including the experience of loneliness and exile, the development of sacramental confession from communal reconciliation to personal absolution from sin, the abolition of Purgatory and the traditional Christian solidarity with the ancestral dead, the role of conscience in the development of self, and the rise in Shakespeare and Milton of a typically modern sense of autonomous individuality and subjectivity.
Author : Curtis Brown Watson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400878956
Presenting a background study of honor, the author compares ancient concepts with the sympathetic restatements of them that appeared during the Renaissance. He places Shakespeare's plays in the context of these Renaissance ideas, pointing up the sharp conflict between Christian morality and the revived pagan humanism. He demonstrates by pertinent evidence from the plays that Shakespeare favored humanist values over Christian values. Originally published in 1960. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.