Shakespeare S Nature

Author : Theodore Spencer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110800377X

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Man by Theodore Spencer Pdf

Analysing Shakespeare's historical background and craft, Spencer's 1943 study investigates the intellectual debates of Shakespeare's age, and the effect these had on the drama of the time. The book outlines the key conflict present in the sixteenth century - the optimistic ideal of man's place in the universe, as presented by the theorists of the time, set against the indisputable and ever-present fact of original sin. This conflict about the nature of man, argues Spencer, is perhaps the deepest underlying cause for the emergence of great Renaissance drama. With detailed reference to Shakespeare's great tragedies, the book demonstrates how Shakespeare presents the fact of evil masked by the appearance of good. Shakespeare's last plays, especially The Winter's Tale and The Tempest, are also analysed in detail to show how they embody a different view from the tragedies, and the discussion is related to the larger perspective of general human experience.

Author : Marcus Nordlund
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780810124233

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Love by Marcus Nordlund Pdf

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 : Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher : Springer
Page : 375 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349245314

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Women by Juliet Dusinberre Pdf

Shakespeare and the Nature of Women was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, ushering in a new era in research and criticism. Its arguments for the feminism both of the drama and the early modern period caused instant controversy, which still engrosses scholars. Dusinberre argues that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated. Using a critical language which predates Foucault and other major theorists, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women argues that Renaissance drama highlights ways in which the feminine and the masculine are socially constructed. The presence of the boy actor on stage created an awareness of gender as performance, now crucial to contemporary feminist thought. Shakespeare and the Nature of Women claimed for women a right to speak about the literary text from their own place in history and culture. The author's Preface to the second edition traces contemporary developments in feminist scholarship, which still wrestles with the book's main thesis: Renaissance feminism, feminist Shakespeare.

Author : Geoffrey Bush
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015000572142

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Shakespeare and the Natural Condition by Geoffrey Bush Pdf

"In a remarkably ambitious and original book, Geoffrey Bush has treated Shakespeare's attitude toward nature in his plays, culminating in Hamlet and King Lear. His method is artful and highly effective : the book's structure is impressionistic -- the author circles around his subject in a spiral, touching, in each revolution, once more on themes he has mentioned earlier : comedy and the conventions of comedy vs. tragedy and its conventions ; the hero vs. the fool ; the certainty of comedy vs. the ambiguity of tragedy ; Nature and Christianity."--Book cover.

Author : Charlotte Scott
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199685080

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Shakespeare's Nature by Charlotte Scott Pdf

Shakespeare's Nature offers a radically new interpretation of Shakespeare's depiction of nature, revealing the extent to which Shakespeare drew on the language of his wider environment for the exploration of his social worlds.

Author : Theodore Spencer
Publisher : New York : Macmillan, 1961 [c1949]
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Human beings
ISBN : UVA:X000412960

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Man by Theodore Spencer Pdf

Author : Richard Allen Shoaf
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443869539

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Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things by Richard Allen Shoaf Pdf

Lucretius and Shakespeare on the Nature of Things maps large, new vistas for understanding the relationship between De rerum natura and Shakespeare’s works. In chapters on six important plays across the canon (King Lear, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream), it demonstrates that Shakespeare articulates his erotics of being, his “great creating nature” (The Winter’s Tale), by drawing on imagery he learned from Ovid and other classical poets, but especially from Lucretius, in his powerful epic that celebrates Venus and her endless creativity. Responding to Lucretius’s widely admired Latinity in his exposition of the life of man in nature, Shakespeare emerges as an early modern materialist who writes poetry that is effectively “atomic,” marked (as we might say today) by fission (hendiadys, for example) and fusion (synoeciosis, for example), joining and splitting, splitting and joining language and character as no other poet has ever done – To give away yourself keeps yourself still; My grave is like to be my wedding bed; I begin/To doubt the equivocation of the fiend/That lies like truth. Readers of Shoaf’s book will encounter anew, through both fresh evidence and close reading, Shakespeare’s universally acknowledged commitment to the art of nature and the nature of art. With Lucretius’s poetry as inspiration, Shakespeare becomes the poet of the material, both in art and in nature, immensely creative with his dædala lingua like dædala natura – his wonder-crafting tongue like wonder-working nature.

Author : Olga Nikitina
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783638614108

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Concepts of Nature in Shakespeare's "King Lear" by Olga Nikitina Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,0, University of Bonn, language: English, abstract: Of Shakespeare's four great tragedies, "King Lear" is remarkable for its vastness. Its largeness and expansiveness have been dwelt on by many critics. What gives King Lear its large dimensions is mostly its preoccupation with nature in all its vastness. Nature plays in it as great a role as in no other of Shakespeare’s plays. ‘Nature’, indeed, serves as a ‘key-word’ of the drama.

Author : John F. Danby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:61076132

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Shakespeare's Doctrine of Nature by John F. Danby Pdf

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105003755696

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Shakespeare and the Nature of Time by Frederick Turner Pdf

Author : Khalil M. Habib,L. Joseph Hebert Jr.
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498543279

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The Soul of Statesmanship by Khalil M. Habib,L. Joseph Hebert Jr. Pdf

Shakespeare’s plays explore a staggering range of political topics, from the nature of tyranny, to the practical effects of Christianity on politics and the family, to the meaning and practice of statesmanship. From great statesmen like Burke and Lincoln to the American frontiersman sitting by his rustic fire, those wrestling with the problems of the human soul and its confrontation with a puzzling world of political peril and promise have long considered these plays a source of political wisdom. The chapters in this volume support and illuminate this connection between Shakespearean drama and politics by examining a matter of central concern in both domains: the human soul. By depicting a bewildering variety of characters as they seek happiness and self-knowledge in the context of differing political regimes, family ties, religious duties, friendships, feuds, and poetic inspirations, Shakespeare illuminates the complex interdynamics between self-rule and political governance, educating readers by compelling us to share in the struggles of and relate to the tensions felt by each character in a way that no political treatise or lecture can. The authors of this volume, drawing upon expertise in fields such as political philosophy, American government, and law, explore the Bard’s dramatization of perennial questions about human nature, moral virtue, and statesmanship, demonstrating that reading his plays as works of philosophical literature enhances our understanding of political life and provides a source of advice and inspiration for the citizens and statesmen of today and tomorrow.

Author : Mark Allen McDonald
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0761824669

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Shakespeare's King Lear with The Tempest by Mark Allen McDonald Pdf

Shakespeare's 'King Lear' with 'The Tempest' is Mark McDonald's inquiry into the political philosophy of William Shakespeare through a reading of King Lear with reference to The Tempest. McDonald follows an argument connecting King Lear to the question of natural right and to changes in the orders of the western world at the beginnings of modernity.

Author : Nermin Bastug
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9783656213093

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Shakespeare’s Exploration of Human Nature by Nermin Bastug Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject Didactics - English - History of Literature, Eras, grade: AA, Middle East Technical University, course: English Literature I , language: English, abstract: Why is Shakespeare so famous? We do we read his plays at school? What is his importance for English literature? Even though William Shakespeare died 1616, even today everybody knows him and his work. He was an actor, a business man, a poet and a playwright. He was born in Stratford-on-Avon in 1564 and was the son of the mayor of the town. Writing comedies, history plays, tragedies and sonnets made him the greatest dramatist and poet in the English language. In this work, I would like to focus on an exemplarily sonnet and excerpts of some plays of Shakespeare, later on his language in order to show his importance in English and moreover in World Literature.

Author : B. Boehrer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2002-03-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230602120

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Shakespeare Among the Animals by B. Boehrer Pdf

Shakespeare Among the Animals examines the role of animal-metaphor in the Shakespeare stage, particularly as such metaphor serves to underwrite various forms of social difference. Working through texts such as Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream , Jonson's Volpone , and Middleton's A Chaste Maid in Cheapside , different chapters of the study focus upon the allegedly natural character of femininity, masculinity, and ethnicity, while a fourth chapter considers the nature of the natural world itself as it appears on the Renaissance stage. Addressing each of these topics in turn, Shakespeare Among the Animals explores the notions of cultural order that underlie early modern conceptions of the natural world, and the ideas of nature implicit in early modern social practice.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : David Zwirner Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1644230615

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William Shakespeare × Rose Wylie: The Tempest by William Shakespeare Pdf

Set on a remote island, Shakespeare’s The Tempest is an ideal subject for the artist Rose Wylie, whose work frequently references classic stories and well-known characters. Likely the last play written entirely by Shakespeare, The Tempest brings together various themes the Bard explored in his prior plays, including magic, revenge and forgiveness, order and society, and nature versus art. The shipwreck and remote island, the spirits, and the dukes and their children offer rich material for Wylie’s works on paper and canvas. As the third title in David Zwirner Books’s Seeing Shakespeare series, this book pairs a complex narrative with equally layered works by a contemporary artist who approaches the play and art making from a unique perspective. Also included is an introduction by the writer Katie Kitamura.