Shakespeare S Widows

Author : D. Kehler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230623354

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Shakespeare's Widows by D. Kehler Pdf

Shakespeare s Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage. Through nuanced analyses, grounded in the widows material circumstances, Kehler uncovers the plays negotiations between the opposed poles of residual Catholic precept and Protestant practice - between celibacy and remarriage. Reading from a feminist materialist perspective, this book argues that Shakespeare s insights into the political and economic pressures the widows face allow them to elude mechanistic ideology. Kehler s book provides extensive historical background into the various religious and cultural attitudes towards widows in early modern England.

Author : B. J. Sokol,Mary Sokol
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139440493

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Shakespeare, Law, and Marriage by B. J. Sokol,Mary Sokol Pdf

This interdisciplinary study combines legal, historical and literary approaches to the practice and theory of marriage in Shakespeare's time. It uses the history of English law and the history of the contexts of law to study a wide range of Shakespeare's plays and poems. The authors approach the legal history of marriage as part of cultural history. The household was viewed as the basic unit of Elizabethan society, but many aspects of marriage were controversial, and the law relating to marriage was uncertain and confusing, leading to bitter disagreements over the proper modes for marriage choice and conduct. The authors point out numerous instances within Shakespeare's plays of the conflict over status, gender relations, property, religious belief and individual autonomy versus community control. By achieving a better understanding of these issues, the book illuminates both Shakespeare's work and his age.

Author : Samuel Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1140 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1766
Category : English language
ISBN : HARVARD:HXKCGB

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A Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson Pdf

Author : Asuka Kimura
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501513893

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Performing Widowhood on the Early Modern English Stage by Asuka Kimura Pdf

The deaths of husbands radically changed women’s lives in the early modern period. While losing male protection, widows acquired rare opportunities for social and economic independence. Placed between death and life, female submissiveness and male audacity, chastity and sexual awareness, or tragedy and comedy, widows were highly problematic in early modern patriarchal society. They were also popular figures in the theatre, arousing both male desire and anxiety. Now how did Shakespeare and his contemporaries represent them on the stage? What kind of costume, props, and gestures were employed? What influence did actors, spectators, and play-space have? This book offers a fresh and incisive examination of the theatrical representation of widows by discussing the material conditions of the early modern stage. It is also the only comprehensive study of this topic covering all three phases of Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline drama.

Author : Corey Lynn Hutchins
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Feminist literary criticism
ISBN : 9781612337500

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Weeping Widows and Warrior Women by Corey Lynn Hutchins Pdf

Weeping Widows and Warrior Women will consider the plays of Shakespeare's first tetralogy, which includes 1, 2, 3 Henry VI and Richard III, through a feminist critical perspective. It will assess the female characters of these plays through their speech and actions rather than giving credence to external evaluations of them, whether from other characters or a perceived stance of the playwright. The goal throughout is to divorce previously seldom-studied characters from oppressive patriarchal interpretations of their actions in order to bring them in line with a feminist understanding of fully individuated women. This thesis will explore issues of sexuality, witchcraft, war-mongering, widowhood, mourning, and scolding through the characters of Joan la Pucelle, the Countess of Auvergne, Eleanor Cobham, Margaret of Anjou, Elizabeth Grey, Anne Neville, and the Duchess of York. Feminist issues such as biological determinism, the difference between sex and gender, rejection of hegemonic patriarchal history and discourse, and patriarchal punishment for gender transgression will further develop discussion of the texts. By revisiting the plays of the first tetralogy through a specifically feminist critical discourse, this thesis will prove the existence of alternative readings of the plays that do not depend on patriarchal exploitation of female characters. The readings explained in this thesis could provide a basis for a resurrection of these early history plays by replacing a reactionist acceptance of the inherent misogyny of the genre with an exploration of the difficulties of female existence in a patriarchal society.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:852152804

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a hand-picked selection of some of Will Shakespeare's lasses and ladies, maids and matrons, wives and widows, presented in workshop style complete with annotated scripts, director's notes, costume details, staging, casting, lighting and SFX suggestions for any number of all-female players from one to sixty by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1597
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:31158009319392

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Richard III. by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Mark Fortier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000577389

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Shakespeare's Law by Mark Fortier Pdf

Shakespeare's Law is a critical overview of law and legal issues within the life, career, and works of William Shakespeare as well as those that arise from the endless array of activities that happen today in the name of Shakespeare. Mark Fortier argues that Shakespeare’s attitudes to law are complex and not always sanguine, that there exists a deep and perhaps ultimate move beyond law very different from what a lawyer or legal scholar might recognize. Fortier looks in detail at the legal issues most prominent across Shakespeare’s work: status, inheritance, fraud, property, contract, tort (especially slander), evidence, crime, political authority, trials, and the relative value of law and justice. He also includes two detailed case studies, of The Merchant of Venice and Measure for Measure, as well as a chapter looking at law in works by Shakespeare's contemporaries. The book concludes with a chapter on the law as it relates to Shakespeare today. The book shows that the legal issues in Shakespeare are often relevant to issues we face now, and the exploration of law in Shakespeare is as germane today, though in sometimes new ways, as in the past.

Author : Sasha Roberts
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780746308127

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William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet by Sasha Roberts Pdf

This study argues that Romeo and Juliet, perhaps Shakespeare's most popularly-known play, repays thorough investigation - read afresh, the play is an extraordinary exploration of domestic conflict, social relations and linguistic practice. Drawing upon recent criticism on history and literature, and the rarely-discussed work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women critics, Sasha Roberts presents new readings of Romeo and Juliet and its early modern cultural context. Concisely-argued chapters address a wide range of themes - including rival texts, body politics, ethnic identity, adolescence, sexuality, masculinity, relations between women, family dynamics, ritual behaviour, language, bawdy, and the commodification of romantic love - and examine the play's striking imagery of disease, blood, beds, and wombs. Clearly written, this lively and accessible study of Romeo and Juliet will be of interest to readers both new to and familiar with the play.

Author : B. J. Sokol,Mary Sokol
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826492197

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Shakespeare's Legal Language by B. J. Sokol,Mary Sokol Pdf

This encyclopedia-style dicitonary explores early modern social life, legal thought, and the interactions within Shakespearean drama.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082528574

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King Richard II by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : L. Woodbridge
Publisher : Springer
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403982469

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Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism by L. Woodbridge Pdf

In this collection literary scholars, theorists and historians deploy new economic techniques to illuminate English Renaissance literature in fresh ways. Contributors variously explore poetry's precarious perch between gift and commodity; the longing for family in The Comedy of Errors as symbolically expressing the alienating pressures of mercantilism; Measure for Measure 's representation of singlewomen and the feminization of poverty; the collision between two views of money in a possible collaboration between Shakespeare and Middleton; the cultural spread of an accounting mentality and quantitative thinking; and money as it crosses the frontier between price and pricelessness, and from early bodily-injury insurance schemes to The Merchant of Venice .

Author : Carole Levin,Anna Riehl Bertolet,Jo Eldridge Carney
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 903 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781315440705

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A Biographical Encyclopedia of Early Modern Englishwomen by Carole Levin,Anna Riehl Bertolet,Jo Eldridge Carney Pdf

From the exemplary to the notorious to the obscure, this comprehensive and innovative encyclopedia showcases the worthy women of early modern England. Poets, princesses, or pirates, the women of power and agency found in these pages are indeed worth knowing, and this volume will introduce many female figures to even the most established scholars in early modern studies. Rather than using the conventional alphabetical format of the standard biographical encyclopedia, this volume is divided into categories of women. Since many women will fit in more than one category, each woman is placed in the category that best exemplifies her life, and is cross referenced in other appropriate sections. This structure makes the book an interesting read for seasoned scholars of early modern women, while students need not already be familiar with these subjects in order to benefit from the text. Another unusual feature of this reference work is that each entry begins with some incident from the woman’s life that is particularly exciting or significant. Some entries are very brief while others are extensive. Each includes a source listing. The book is well illustrated and liberally sprinkled with quotations of the time either by or about the women in the text.

Author : Germaine Greer
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781551992150

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Shakespeare's Wife by Germaine Greer Pdf

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway’s rightful place in history. Little is known about the wife of the world’s most famous playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare’s will has been interpreted as evidence that she was nothing more than an unfortunate mistake from which Shakespeare did well to distance himself. Yet Shakespeare is above all the poet of marriage. Before him, there were few comedies or tragedies about wooing or wedding. And yet he explored the sacrament in all its aspects, spiritual, psychological, sexual, sociological, and was the creator of some of the most tenacious and intelligent heroines in English literature. Is it possible, therefore, that Ann, who has been mocked and vilified by scholars for centuries, was the inspiration? Until now, there has been no serious critical scholarship devoted to the life and career of the farmer’s daughter who married England’s greatest poet. Part biography, part history, Shakespeare’s Wife is a fascinating reconstruction of Ann’s life, and an illuminating look at the daily lives of Elizabethan women, from their working routines to the rituals of courtship and the minutiae of married life. In this thoroughly researched and controversial book, Greer steps off the well-trodden paths of orthodoxy, asks new questions, and begins to right the wrongs done to Ann Shakespeare.

Author : Theresa D. Kemp
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440870262

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Daily Life of Women in Shakespeare's England by Theresa D. Kemp Pdf

Delve into the often-overlooked lives and legacies of everyday women in Tudor and Stuart England. Owing to their privilege and social stature, much is known about the elite women of 16th- and 17th-century England. Historians know far less, however, about the everyday women from the middle and lower classes from the 1550s to 1650 who left behind only scattered bits and pieces of their lives. Born into a narrow class and gender hierarchy that placed women second to men in almost all regards, women from the poor and middling ranks had limited social and economic opportunities beyond what men and the church afforded them. Yet, as Theresa D. Kemp shows in this addition to the Daily Life through History series, many of these women, most of them illiterate by modern standards, found creative ways to assert agency and push back against social norms. In an era when William Shakespeare debuted his plays at the Globe Theatre in London, everyday English women were active in religious movements, wrote literature, and went to court to protest abuse at home. Ultimately, a close examination of the lives of these women reveals how instrumental they were in shaping English society during a transformative and dynamic period of British history.