Shakespeare S Sceptered Isle

Author : Brian Carroll
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476646756

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Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle by Brian Carroll Pdf

This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of Shakespeare's history plays are not principally the plots or "facts" of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audiences. Reading Shakespeare through the lens of national identity is a study almost as old as the plays themselves, and many scholars have found various articulations of nationhood in Shakespeare's plays. This book argues that Shakespeare's histories furnished modern England with a curriculum for constructing a national identity, a confidence of language and culture, and a powerful new medium through which to communicate and express this negotiated identity. Highlighting the application of semiotics, it studies the playwright's use of symbols, metonymy, symbolic codes, and metaphor. By examining what Shakespeare and playgoers remembered and forgot, as well as the ways ideas were framed, this book explores how a national identity was crafted, contested, and circulated.

Author : George Wilson Knight
Publisher : Oxford : B. Blackwell
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1940
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015001990111

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This Sceptred Isle by George Wilson Knight Pdf

Author : John J. Joughin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Civilization, Modern
ISBN : 0719050510

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Shakespeare and National Culture by John J. Joughin Pdf

Shakespeare continues to feature in the construction and refashioning of national cultures and identities in a variety of forms. Often co-opted to serve nationalism, Shakespeare has also served to contest it in complex and contradictory ways.

Author : William Shakespeare,Fay Godwin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 0285629034

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This Scepter'd Isle by William Shakespeare,Fay Godwin Pdf

Author : Charles W. R. D. Moseley
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847601056

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Shakespeare's History Plays: Richard II to Henry V, the Making of a King by Charles W. R. D. Moseley Pdf

Part I examines the context for Shakespeare's history plays, including the a treatment of Elizabethan cosmology and its relevance to political order. Part 2 explores the 'Ricardian' plays, under the following headings: Mirrors of our Fickle State; Hawks and Handsaws: Modes and Genres of the Plays; This Blessed Plot: Husbandry and the Garden; Passing Brave to be a King: Richard II; This Royal Throne of Kings: Henry IV, parts 1 and 2; This Sceptred Isle: Henry V; A Trim Reckoning: Language, Poetics and Rhetoric.

Author : C W R D Moseley
Publisher : Humanities-Ebooks
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1972-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847603005

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Shakespeare's History Plays: Richard II to Henry V, the Making of a King by C W R D Moseley Pdf

Part I examines the context for Shakespeare's history plays, including the a treatment of Elizabethan cosmology and its relevance to political order. Part 2 explores the 'Ricardian' plays, under the following headings: Mirrors of our Fickle State; Hawks and Handsaws: Modes and Genres of the Plays; This Blessed Plot: Husbandry and the Garden; Passing Brave to be a King: Richard II; This Royal Throne of Kings: Henry IV, parts 1 and 2; This Sceptred Isle: Henry V; A Trim Reckoning: Language, Poetics and Rhetoric.

Author : Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317010562

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This England, That Shakespeare by Margaret Tudeau-Clayton Pdf

Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from various angles the relation of the figure of the national poet/dramatist to constructions of England and Englishness this collection of essays probes the complex issues raised by this question, first through explorations of his plays, principally though not exclusively the histories (Part One), then through discussion of a range of subsequent appropriations and reorientations of Shakespeare and 'his' England (Part Two). If Shakespeare has been taken to stand for Britain as well as England, as if the two were interchangeable, this double identity has come under increasing strain with the break-up - or shake-up - of Britain through devolution and the end of Empire. Essays in Part One examine how the fissure between English and British identities is probed in Shakespeare's own work, which straddles a vital juncture when an England newly independent from Rome was negotiating its place as part of an emerging British state and empire. Essays in Part Two then explore the vexed relations of 'Shakespeare' to constructions of authorial identity as well as national, class, gender and ethnic identities. At this crucial historical moment, between the restless interrogations of the tercentenary celebrations of the Union of Scotland and England in 2007 and the quatercentenary celebrations of the death of the bard in 2016, amid an increasing clamour for a separate English parliament, when the end of Britain is being foretold and when flags and feelings are running high, this collection has a topicality that makes it of interest not only to students and scholars of Shakespeare studies and Renaissance literature, but to readers inside and outside the academy interested in the drama of national identities in a time of transition.

Author : Renaud Morieux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107039490

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The Channel by Renaud Morieux Pdf

This book approaches the English Channel as a border which connected, as much as it separated, France and England in the eighteenth century.

Author : Willy Maley,Andrew Murphy,Andrew D. Murphy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0719066379

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Shakespeare and Scotland by Willy Maley,Andrew Murphy,Andrew D. Murphy Pdf

This is a timely collection of new essays in which leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic address a neglected national context for a body of dramatic work too often viewed within a narrow English milieu or against a broad British backdrop. These essays explore the playwright's place in Scotland and the place of Scotland in his work. From critical reception to dramatic and cinematic adaptation, the contributors engage with the complexity of Shakespeare's Scotland and Scotland's Shakespeare. The influence of Scotland on Shakespeare's writing, and later on his reception, is set alongside the dramatic effects that his work had on the development of Scottish literature, from the Globe to globalization, and from Captain Jamy and King James to radical productions at the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow.

Author : Guy Story Brown
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780881461855

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Shakespeare's Philosopher King by Guy Story Brown Pdf

The Tragedy of King Lear precedes Cymbeline King of Britain as the earliest of Shakespeare's English history plays in the sense that it represents a primordial age when the "sceptered isle" of "England" was hardly yet even clearly differentiated from "Britain." The decay and fall of the world is visible, i.e., is originally conceivable as a subject, only from a vantage that is in some sense not itself limited to error or fault. This resolution cannot be a thesis that is merely proved from outside but a vantage that emerges in a careful reading of the 1623 Folio text from the beginning that is alert both to the whole of Shakespeare's corpus and its cultural context. The reading shows The Tragedy of King Lear to be a Thomistic portrayal of the problem and reality of kingship, in which there emerges an increasingly explicit and profoundbut unsentimentalChristianity that seems as much Augustinian as Thomistic.

Author : Dr Dan Brayton,Dr Lynne Bruckner
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2013-05-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409478652

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Ecocritical Shakespeare by Dr Dan Brayton,Dr Lynne Bruckner Pdf

Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet? To what degree are Shakespeare's plays anthropocentric or ecocentric? What is the connection between the literary and the real when it comes to ecological conduct? This collection, engages with these pressing questions surrounding ecocritical Shakespeare, in order to provide a better understanding of where and how ecocritical readings should be situated. The volume combines multiple critical perspectives, juxtaposing historicism and presentism, as well as considering ecofeminism and pedagogy; and addresses such topics as early modern flora and fauna, and the neglected areas of early modern marine ecology and oceanography. Concluding with an assessment of the challenges-and necessities-of teaching Shakespeare ecocritically, Ecocritical Shakespeare not only broadens the implications of ecocriticism in early modern studies, but represents an important contribution to this growing field.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2007-05-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781139835428

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The Second Part of King Henry IV by William Shakespeare Pdf

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition retains Giorgio Melchiori's text of Shakespeare's The Second Part of King Henry IV. Melchiori argues that the play forms an unplanned sequel to the First Part, itself a 'remake' of an old, non-Shakespearean play. In the Second Part, Shakespeare deliberately exploits Falstaff's popular appeal and the resulting rich humour adds a comic dimension to the play, rendering it a unique blend of history, morality play and comedy. Among modern editions, Melchiori's is the one most firmly based on the quarto. This second edition includes a new section by Adam Hansen on recent stage, film and critical interpretations.

Author : Hugh Grady,Terence Hawkes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134172801

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Presentist Shakespeares by Hugh Grady,Terence Hawkes Pdf

Presentist Shakespeares is the first extended study of the principles and practice of 'presentism', a critical movement that takes account of the never-ending dialogue between past and present. In this bold and consistently thought-provoking collection of presentist readings, the contributors: argue that the ironies generated by our involvement in time are a fruitful, necessary and an unavoidable aspect of any text's being, and that presentism allows us to engage with them more fully and productively demonstrate how these ironies can function as agents of change, flowing unstoppably back into the events of the past, colouring how we perceive them and modifying our sense of what they signify show that a critic's inability to step beyond time and specifically the present does not, as has been argued elsewhere, 'contaminate' readings of Shakespeare's plays, but rather points to shades of implication suddenly available here and now within the wide range of plays examined suggest that presentism might not merely challenge or expand our sense of what Shakespeare's plays are able to tell us, but may in fact offer the only effective purchase on these texts that is available to us. Presentist criticism is an open-ended and on-going project, located at a particularly interesting and demanding juncture in modern Shakespeare studies. At this crucial point, then, Presentist Shakespeares is a compelling collection of readings by a distinguished team of authors, but it is also much more: it is a landmark, which reflects, develops and even rejoices in the intedeterminacy of the field. Contributors include: Catherine Belsey, Michael Bristol, Linda Charnes, John Drakakis, Ewan Fernie, Evelyn Gajowski, Hugh Grady, Terence Hawkes and Kiernan Ryan.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780241361641

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This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith Pdf

A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. It takes us into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and technological change. The Shakespeare in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.

Author : Dennis Taylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781666902099

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Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation by Dennis Taylor Pdf

Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation explores how Shakespeare responded in drama to the historical trauma of the Elizabethan Reformation. Shakespeare creatively engaged Catholic, Protestant, and secular points of view, and suggested new and interesting syntheses in play after play, thus providing models for today’s ecumenical dialogues.