Shakespeare S Political And Economic Language

Author : Vivian Thomas
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474216081

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Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language by Vivian Thomas Pdf

Shakespeare's plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and economic language in Shakespeare does not consist merely of arcane terms whose shifting meanings require exposition, but includes an enormous number of relatively simple words which possess a structural significance in the configuration of meanings. Often operating by such means as puns, they open up a surprising number of possibilities. The dictionary reveals the conceptual nucleus of each term and explores the contexts in which it is embedded. The overlap between the political and economic dimensions of a word in Shakespeare's drama is particularly exciting as he is highly attuned to the interactions of these two spheres of human activity and their centrality in human affairs.

Author : Vivian Thomas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441151672

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Shakespeare's Political and Economic Language by Vivian Thomas Pdf

Shakespeare's plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and economic language in Shakespeare does not consist merely of arcane terms whose shifting meanings require exposition, but includes an enormous number of relatively simple words which possess a structural significance in the configuration of meanings. Often operating by such means as puns, they open up a surprising number of possibilities. The purpose of this Dictionary is to reveal the conceptual nucleus of each term and explore the contexts in which it is embedded. The dictionary covers the whole spectrum from jokes to political invective. The overlap between the political and economic dimensions of a word in Shakespeare's drama is particularly exciting as he is highly attuned to the interactions of these two spheres of human activity and their centrality in human affairs.

Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-09-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781316582985

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Shakespeare and Politics by Catherine M. S. Alexander Pdf

This important collection of essays from Shakespeare Survey, the first published in 1975, shows a full range of writing on Shakespeare and politics with shifts of focus as diverse as biography, text and contexts, language and film, and from perspectives that are literary, historical, religious, theoretical and cultural. A new introductory article by John J. Joughin provides a commentary on the essays, relates them to other work in the field and gives an over-view of the subject. The comprehensive collection is a stimulating and provocative introduction to a subject that is complex but never dull.

Author : Hugh M. Richmond
Publisher : Peter Smith Publisher
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015002979352

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Shakespeare's Political Plays by Hugh M. Richmond Pdf

Author : David Hawkes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472576989

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Shakespeare and Economic Theory by David Hawkes Pdf

An introduction to economic literary theory as applied to Shakespeare, concentrating on the shifting relations between economics and literature in both the Renaissance and postmodern eras.

Author : John Albert Murley,Sean D. Sutton
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0739116843

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Perspectives on Politics in Shakespeare by John Albert Murley,Sean D. Sutton Pdf

Shows us that Shakespeare's poetic imagination displays the essence of politics and inspires reflection on the fundamental questions of statesmanship and political leadership. This book explores themes such as classical republicanism and liberty, the rule of law and morality, the nature and limits of statesmanship, and the character of democracy.

Author : D. Cohen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230390010

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The Politics of Shakespeare by D. Cohen Pdf

This book is an attempt to explore Shakespearean drama from the vantage point of the oppressed, invisible, and silent individuals and collectivities constructed in the plays. It examines the ideological apparatuses which produce and naturalise oppression and the political structures through which that oppression is sustained. Derek Cohen is concerned to demonstrate the many ways in which political and personal life, always interdependent, intersect. contradict, and disrupt one another often in the interests of and to the advantage of the dominant social ideology.

Author : Dirk Delabastita,Jozef de Vos,Paul Franssen
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874130042

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Shakespeare and European Politics by Dirk Delabastita,Jozef de Vos,Paul Franssen Pdf

"This volume's main focus is on the ways in which, over the past 400 years, Shakespeare has played a role of significance within a European framework, particularly where a series of political events and ideologically based developments were concerned, such as the early modern wars of religion, the emergence of "the nation" during the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the First and Second World Wars, the process of European unification during the 1990s, the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, and Britain's participation in the war in Iraq." "The whole of the collection and particularly the opening section clearly invites a European and even a global perspective." "This book convincingly demonstrates that Shakespeare, both at the level of his meaning in his own time and at that of his reception in later ages, should no longer be studied only in relation to particular nations, but as Dirk Delabastita argues, also at various supranational levels." --Book Jacket.

Author : David Hawkes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472577009

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Shakespeare and Economic Theory by David Hawkes Pdf

Over the last 20 years, the concept of 'economic' activity has come to seem inseparable from psychological, semiotic and ideological experiences. In fact, the notion of the 'economy' as a discrete area of life seems increasingly implausible. This returns us to the situation of Shakespeare's England, where the financial had yet to be differentiated from other forms of representation. This book shows how concepts and concerns that were until recently considered purely economic affected the entire range of sixteenth and seventeenth century life. Using the work of such critics as Jean-Christophe Agnew, Douglas Bruster, Hugh Grady and many others, Shakespeare and Economic Theory traces economic literary criticism to its cultural and historical roots, and discusses its main practitioners. Providing new readings of Timon of Athens, King Lear, The Winter's Tale, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Macbeth and The Tempest, David Hawkes shows how it can reveal previously unappreciated qualities of Shakespeare's work.

Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Political plays, English
ISBN : 1472555422

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Shakespeare's Politics by Robin Headlam Wells Pdf

Written in an accessible, jargon-free style, this book is an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare's tragedy and history plays.

Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39015012839802

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Shakespeare, Politics and the State by Robin Headlam Wells Pdf

Author : Joseph Alulis,Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0847682897

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Shakespeare's Political Pageant by Joseph Alulis,Vickie B. Sullivan Pdf

Literary works, through their very personal means of characterization, reveal the direct effect of politics on individuals in a way a political treatise cannot. The distinguished contributors to this volume share the belief that Shakespeare is the author who most effectively sets forth the multifarious pageant of politics. Shakespeare's rich canon presents monarchy and republic, tyrant and king, thinker and soldier, and Christian and pagan. The twelve essays in Shakespeare's Political Pageant discuss a broad range of Shakespeare's dramatic poetry from the perspective of the political theorist. This innovative book demonstrates the immense value of seeing Shakespeare's plays in the context of political philosophy. It will be an important source for students and scholars of both political science and literature.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-10
Category : Political plays, English
ISBN : 9780198848615

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Shakespeare and the Political Way by Anonim Pdf

This book develops an original approach to theories of political power and seeks to show the particular value of examining these issues through the frame of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : Katie Halsey,Angus Vine
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137578532

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Shakespeare and Authority by Katie Halsey,Angus Vine Pdf

This book examines conceptions of authority for and in Shakespeare, and the construction of Shakespeare as literary and cultural authority. The first section, Defining and Redefining Authority, begins by re-defining the concept of Shakespeare’s sources, suggesting that ‘authorities’ and ‘resources’ are more appropriate terms. Building on this conceptual framework, the remainder of this section explores linguistic and discursive authority more broadly. The second section, Shakespearean Authority, considers the construction, performance and questioning of authority in Shakespeare’s plays. Essays here range from examinations of monarchical authority to discussions of household authority, literary authority and linguistic ownership. The final part, Shakespeare as Authority, then traces the increasing establishment of Shakespeare as an authority from the eighteenth to the twenty-first century in a series of essays that explore Shakespearean authority for editors, actors, critics, authors, readers and audiences. The volume concludes with two essays that reassess Shakespeare as an authority for visual culture – in the cinema and in contemporary art.

Author : Frederick Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Didactic drama, English
ISBN : 9780195128611

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Shakespeare's Twenty-first Century Economics by Frederick Turner Pdf

Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, this text demonstrates that terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even in our most mundane moments.