Shakespeare S Tragedies And Modern Critical Theory

Author : James Cunningham
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838637116

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Shakespeare's Tragedies and Modern Critical Theory by James Cunningham Pdf

Individual chapters deal with cultural materialism, new historicism, poststructuralism, and feminist criticism. The theoretical basis of each critical mode is examined and some representative critiques analyzed. Most importantly, in each chapter the various interpretations are tested against Shakespeare's texts, and the strengths and weaknesses of the different readings are assessed.

Author : Willard Farnham
Publisher : Literary Licensing, LLC
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015002979865

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Shakespeare's Tragic Frontier by Willard Farnham Pdf

Shakespeare's Tragic Frontier: The World Of His Final Tragedies is a book written by Willard Farnham that explores the themes and settings of William Shakespeare's final tragedies. Farnham argues that Shakespeare's last plays, including Macbeth, King Lear, and Antony and Cleopatra, are set in a frontier world where traditional values and structures are breaking down. He examines the ways in which Shakespeare uses this frontier setting to explore themes of power, ambition, betrayal, and redemption.Farnham also delves into the historical context of Shakespeare's final plays, looking at the political and social upheavals of the time and how they may have influenced the playwright's work. He explores the role of gender and sexuality in these plays, as well as the complex relationships between characters.Throughout the book, Farnham provides close readings of key scenes and passages from Shakespeare's final tragedies, offering insights into the language, symbolism, and themes of these works. He also draws on contemporary critical theory to illuminate Shakespeare's use of genre, narrative structure, and other literary techniques.Overall, Shakespeare's Tragic Frontier offers a fresh and insightful perspective on some of Shakespeare's most enduring works, shedding new light on their themes, settings, and cultural context.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438129426

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William Shakespeare by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of William Shakespeare.

Author : D. F. Bratchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134967087

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Shakespearean Tragedy by D. F. Bratchell Pdf

This volume reflects changing critical perceptions of Shakespeare's works from Renaissance to modern times and celebrates the power of Shakespearean tragedy. The selection of critical reaction covers both the general concept of Shakespearean tragedy and its expression in the major plays, illustrating the main directions of critical approaches to Shakespearean tragedy and enabling the reader to develop an informed response to Shakespeare's dramatic works. An introductory chapter traces the development of the concept of tragedy from classical times, and its dramatic expression in the time of Shakespeare. Each of Shakespeare's great tragedies - Hamlet, Macbeth, Lear, and Othello - is considered in turn, and a final chapter summarizes contemporary critical approaches so that the reader can link the best of the critical past with the present critical scene.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470776896

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Shakespeare's Tragedies by Emma Smith Pdf

This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies. Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions. Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context. Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.

Author : John Drakakis
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041274650

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Shakespearean Tragedy by John Drakakis Pdf

This series takes up the challenge of contemporary literary theory providing collections of seminal modern readings of key authors, genres and critical approaches.

Author : Nicolas Tredell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137404909

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Shakespeare: The Tragedies by Nicolas Tredell Pdf

Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creative and critical minds. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on the tragedies, from the 17th century through to the present day. In this book, Nicolas Tredell: - Introduces essential concepts, themes and debates. - Relates Shakespeare's tragedies to fi elds of study including psychoanalysis, gender, race, ecology and philosophy. - Summarises major critical texts from Dryden and Dr Johnson to Janet Adelman and Julia Reinhard Lupton, and covers influential critical movements such as New Criticism, New Historicism and poststructuralism. - Demonstrates how key critical approaches work in practice, with close reference to Shakespeare's texts. Informed and incisive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in how the category of Shakespeare's tragedies has been constructed, contested and changed over the years.

Author : Sam Hall
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317223603

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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.

Author : Khan Amir Khan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474409476

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Shakespeare in Hindsight by Khan Amir Khan Pdf

We know William Shakespeare matters but we cannot pinpoint, precisely, why he matters. Lacking reasons why, we do our best to involve him in others, or involve others in him. He has been branded many times over-as Catholic, Protestant, Materialist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Postcolonial, Popular, Cultural, and, even, Popular-Cultural. In many ways, Shakespeare is overwrought. Why one more 'approach' to Shakespeare? One reason is because whatever these approaches say about tragedy in particular, none of them help us to feel tragedy. Or, rather, they subordinate tragedy to something else-to considerations of, say, class, race, or gender. What these approaches manage to do is explain tragedy away. What this book does is to help us feel tragedy first and foremost-hence to perceive it better. The aim of Amir Khan's counterfactual criticism of Shakespeare's tragedies, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, A Winter's Tale and Othello, then, is precisely to reanimate the tragic effect, long since lost in some deluge of explanation.

Author : Kevin Curran
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474413169

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Shakespeare and Judgment by Kevin Curran Pdf

Ranging widely across law, aesthetics, religion, and philosophy, this book offers the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean dramaShakespeare and Judgment gathers together an international group of scholars to address for the first time the place of judgment in Shakespearean drama. Contributors approach the topic from a variety of cultural and theoretical perspectives, covering plays from across Shakespeare's career and from each of the genres in which he wrote. Anchoring the volume are two critical contentions: first, that attending to Shakespeare's treatment of judgment leads to fresh insights about the imaginative relationship between law, theater, and aesthetics in early modern England; and second, that it offers new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation. Taken together, the essays in Shakespeare and Judgment offer a genuinely new account of the historical and intellectual coordinates of Shakespeare's plays. Building on current work in legal studies, religious studies, theater history, and critical theory, the volume will be of interest to a wide range of scholars working on Shakespeare and early modern drama. Key FeaturesProvides the first account of the place of judgment in Shakespearean dramaOffers a fresh perspective on the imaginative relationship between law, religion, and aesthetics in Shakespeare's playsModels new ways of putting the plays' historical and philosophical contexts into conversation.

Author : P. Yachnin,J. Slights
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230584150

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Shakespeare and Character by P. Yachnin,J. Slights Pdf

Shakespeare and Character brings together leading scholars in theory, literary criticism, and performance studies in order to redress a serious gap in Shakespeare studies and to put character back at the centre of our understanding of Shakespeare's achievement as an artist and thinker.

Author : Susan Zimmerman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Tragedy
ISBN : 0333632184

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Shakespeare's Tragedies by Susan Zimmerman Pdf

Author : Alan Sinfield
Publisher : MacMillan
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Drama
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043357057

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Macbeth, William Shakespeare by Alan Sinfield Pdf

Part of a series of books concerned with modern critical theory and its effect on current approaches to the study of literature. This particular book looks at Shakespeare's "Macbeth" by a series of 12 articles by authors such as Marilyn French, Peter Stallybrass and Sigmund Freud.

Author : John Bayley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000350449

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Shakespeare and Tragedy by John Bayley Pdf

Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author of the same calibre was long overdue. In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major tragedies. He shows how Shakespeare’s most successful tragic effects hinge on an opposition between the discourses of character and form, role and context. For example, in Lear the dramatis personae act in the dramatic world of tragedy which demands universality and high rhetoric of them. Yet they are human and have their being in the prosaic world of domesticity and plain speaking. The inevitable intrusion of the human world into the world of tragedy creates the play’s powerful off-key effects. Similarly, the existential crisis in Macbeth can be understood in terms of the tension between accomplished action and the free-ranging domain of consciousness. What is the relation between being and acting? How does an audience become intimate with a protagonist who is alienated from his own play? What did Shakespeare add to the form and traditions of tragedy? Do his masterpieces in the genre disturb and transform it in unexpected ways? These are the issues raised by this lucid and imaginative study. Professor Bayley’s highly original rethinking of the problems will be a challenge to the Shakespearean scholar as well as an illumination to the general reader.

Author : Geoffrey H. Hartman,Patricia Parker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134964420

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Shakespeare and the Question of Theory by Geoffrey H. Hartman,Patricia Parker Pdf

The theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade has called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and interpreting texts. Shakespeare has been not just the focus of a variety of divergent critical movements within recent years, but also increasingly the locus of emerging debates within, and with, theory itself. This collection of essays, written by distinguished and powerful critics in the fields of literary theory and Shakespeare studies, is intended both for those interested in Shakespeare and for those interested more generally in the emerging debates within contemporary criticism and theory.