Shakespeare The Illusionist

Author : Neil Forsyth
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780821446478

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Shakespeare the Illusionist by Neil Forsyth Pdf

In Shakespeare the Illusionist, Neil Forsyth reviews the history of Shakespeare’s plays on film, using the basic distinction in film tradition between what is owed to Méliès and what to the Lumière brothers. He then tightens his focus on those plays that include some explicit magical or supernatural elements—Puck and the fairies, ghosts and witches, or Prospero’s island, for example—and sets out methodically, but with an easy touch, to review all the films that have adapted those comedies and dramas, into the present day. Forsyth’s aim is not to offer yet another answer as to whether Shakespeare would have written for the screen if he were alive today, but rather to assess what various filmmakers and TV directors have in fact made of the spells, haunts, and apparitions in his plays. From analyzing early camera tricks to assessing contemporary handling of the supernatural, Forsyth reads Shakespeare films for how they use the techniques of moviemaking to address questions of illusion and dramatic influence. In doing so, he presents a bold step forward in Shakespeare and film studies, and his fresh take is presented in lively, accessible language that makes the book ideal for classroom use.

Author : Richard Burt,Lynda E. Boose
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134457007

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Shakespeare, The Movie II by Richard Burt,Lynda E. Boose Pdf

Combining three key essays from the earlier collection with exciting new work from leading contributors, this text offers sixteen fascinating essays. It is quite simply a must-read for any student of Shakespeare, film or cultural studies.

Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000-10-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521639751

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film by Russell Jackson Pdf

Film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays are increasingly popular and now figure prominently in the study of his work and its reception. This lively Companion is a collection of critical and historical essays on the films adapted from, and inspired by, Shakespeare's plays. An international team of leading scholars discuss Shakespearean films from a variety of perspectives: as works of art in their own right; as products of the international movie industry; in terms of cinematic and theatrical genres; and as the work of particular directors from Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles to Franco Zeffirelli and Kenneth Branagh. They also consider specific issues such as the portrayal of Shakespeare's women and the supernatural. The emphasis is on feature films for cinema, rather than television, with strong coverage of Hamlet, Richard III, Macbeth, King Lear and Romeo and Juliet. A guide to further reading and a useful filmography are also provided.

Author : Alexa Alice Joubin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780191082078

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Shakespeare and East Asia by Alexa Alice Joubin Pdf

Structured around modes in which one might encounter Asian-themed performances and adaptations, Shakespeare and East Asia identifies four themes that distinguish post-1950s East Asian cinemas and theatres from works in other parts of the world: Japanese formalistic innovations in sound and spectacle; reparative adaptations from China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; the politics of gender and reception of films and touring productions in South Korea and the UK; and multilingual, diaspora works in Singapore and the UK. These adaptations break new ground in sound and spectacle; they serve as a vehicle for artistic and political remediation or, in some cases, the critique of the myth of reparative interpretations of literature; they provide a forum where diasporic artists and audiences can grapple with contemporary issues; and, through international circulation, they are reshaping debates about the relationship between East Asia and Europe. Bringing film and theatre studies together, this book sheds new light on the two major genres in a comparative context and reveals deep structural and narratological connections among Asian and Anglophone performances. These adaptations are products of metacinematic and metatheatrical operations, contestations among genres for primacy, or experimentations with features of both film and theatre.

Author : Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (éd.),Sarah Hatchuel (éd.)
Publisher : Presses universitaires de Rouen et du Havre
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 2877758435

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Shakespeare on screen : a midsummer night's dream by Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin (éd.),Sarah Hatchuel (éd.) Pdf

Ce livre a pour objet l’étude des représentations du Songe d’une nuit d’été à l’écran, la pièce ayant fait l’objet d’un colloque qui s’est tenu à Rouen sous les auspices de la Société française Shakespeare. Les plus grands spécialistes de Shakespeare et de Shakespeare au cinéma ont contribué à l’ouvrage. Monolingue anglais, le livre contient en outre une bibliographie exhaustive sur le sujet.

Author : Russell Jackson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781108421164

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Screen by Russell Jackson Pdf

Lively and up-to-date critical introductions to a rich range of Shakespeare adaptations for film, video and television.

Author : Paul Yachnin,Patricia Badir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056492

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Shakespeare and the Cultures of Performance by Paul Yachnin,Patricia Badir Pdf

Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional or cultural event. The essays collected here use the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, yet they are also careful to consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. Thus contributors combine a formalist interest in the affective and aesthetic dimensions of language and spectacle with an investment in the material cultures that both produced and received Shakespeare's plays. Six of the chapters focus on early modern cultures of performance, looking specifically at such topics as the performance of rusticity; the culture of credit; contract and performance; the cultivation of Englishness; religious ritual; and mourning and memory. Building upon and interrelating with the preceding essays, the last three chapters deal with Shakespeare and performance culture in modernity. They focus on themes including literary and theatrical performance anxiety; cultural iconicity; and the performance of Shakespearean lateness. This collection strives to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 53,9 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 : Diana E. Henderson,Stephen O'Neill
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350110311

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The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation by Diana E. Henderson,Stephen O'Neill Pdf

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation explores the dynamics of adapted Shakespeare across a range of literary genres and new media forms. This comprehensive reference and research resource maps the field of Shakespeare adaptation studies, identifying theories of adaptation, their application in practice and the methodologies that underpin them. It investigates current research and points towards future lines of enquiry for students, researchers and creative practitioners of Shakespeare adaptation. The opening section on research methods and problems considers definitions and theories of Shakespeare adaptation and emphasises how Shakespeare is both adaptor and adapted.A central section develops these theoretical concerns through a series of case studies that move across a range of genres, media forms and cultures to ask not only how Shakespeare is variously transfigured, hybridised and valorised through adaptational play, but also how adaptations produce interpretive communities, and within these potentially new literacies, modes of engagement and sensory pleasures. The volume's third section provides the reader with uniquely detailed insights into creative adaptation, with writers and practice-based researchers reflecting on their close collaborations with Shakespeare's works as an aesthetic, ethical and political encounter. The Handbook further establishes the conceptual parameters of the field through detailed, practical resources that will aid the specialist and non-specialist reader alike, including a guide to research resources and an annotated bibliography.

Author : Virginia Mason Vaughan,Alden T. Vaughan
Publisher : Twayne Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Tragicomedy
ISBN : UCSC:32106013733461

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Critical Essays on Shakespeare's The Tempest by Virginia Mason Vaughan,Alden T. Vaughan Pdf

Critical essays about William Shakespeare's play "The Tempest".

Author : Juliane Strätz
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783656725640

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The magician Prospero in Shakespeare's "The Tempest". A true Renaissance "magus"? by Juliane Strätz Pdf

Seminar paper from the year 2012 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: In Renaissance, the magus, the adept of natural magic, was considered a powerful man. He was not only aware of natural, mystical and magical phenomena but also of the “innate ideas within the mens”, which is the “intuitive, suprarational faculty within the soul”. He was seen as the good and white magician. Many scholars and intellectuals were either engaged in magic or at least knew about it. In the 16th and 17th century many writers, like Shakespeare and Marlowe, adopted the figure of the white or black magician in their works. In William Shakespeare’s “The Tempest” the main character is Prospero, who is a powerful magician, too. He uses his magical powers to govern all events on the island and wants to leave nothing to chance. In doing so he uses different tools for magical support. He is a master of a learned art which enables him to use magical equipment like books, a staff or a magic garment. Moreover he commands natural spirits to play out a mimesis, which makes nothing on the island what it seems to be. Nevertheless, all of these actions follow a higher moral function. Prospero’s morality is shattered after the usurpation and betrayal of his brother. With the help of the power that he has on the island, he wants to “purge the evil from the inhabitants of his world and restore them to goodness” (Egan 175). In this process he is often very short-sighted and so he mistakes his powers with godliness and humanity with goodness. This paper wants to examine Prospero, the magus and thus asks the question, whether this figure depicts the natural magus of Renaissance times. Elementary to this examination is the assumption that Renaissance magic is real magic. People then considered their magic, miracles, spirits etc. real and not a trick. Thus when I speak about Renaissance magic, it is meant to be just as real as the people in Renaissance times considered it.

Author : Michael Neill,David Schalkwyk
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 993 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780198724193

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy by Michael Neill,David Schalkwyk Pdf

This handbook brings together 54 essays by scholars from all parts of the world. It offers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts, written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor.

Author : Nicholas Royle
Publisher : Granta Books
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783781010

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How To Read Shakespeare by Nicholas Royle Pdf

Shakespeare's legacy is all around us - in our books and our films, in our politics and in our everyday speech. With his words he has formed our world, and his influence has been greater than that of any other writer. So what makes Shakespeare's plays so powerful? Taking a single word from each of the seven most influential plays, Nicholas Royle opens up the delights and complexities of Shakespeare's language for the reader, teaching us to discover his work anew.

Author : Elissa Hare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781315305899

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Enchanted Shows by Elissa Hare Pdf

The book, first published in 1988, examines the role of magic in Elizabethan and Shakespearean theatre. The author observes how certain plays, including Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest, rationalise the unrealism and improbabilities typical of romantic comedy as miracles wrought by specifically magical intervention. The author also explores the ways in which playwrights justify structural discontinuity by the working of magic. This title will be of interest to students of English Literature, Drama and Performance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Theater
ISBN : IND:30000116386321

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Shakespeare in Southern Africa by Anonim Pdf