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Author : Theodore Russell Weiss
Publisher : New York : Atheneum
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0689705166
Focusing on eight dramatic works from the first half of Shakespeare's career, the author traces his artistic development.
Author : Herbert Grabes,H. J. Diller,Hans Bungert
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783112322369
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Author : Jonathan Hall
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838635695
The following sections deal with such themes as the relationship of wit to political and sexual anxiety, the connection of the mobility of signs to an elusive interiority of the subject, and the paradoxically threatening and redemptive mobility of women in relationship to patriarchal control.
Author : Michael Morrison
Publisher : Research & Education Assoc.
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-09
Category : Study Aids
ISBN : 9780738671772
REA's MAXnotes for William Shakespeare's Richard II The MAXnotes offers a comprehensive summary and analysis of Richard II and a biography of William Shakespeare. Places the events of the play in historical context and discusses each act in detail. Includes study questions and answers along with topics for papers and sample outlines.
Author : Gina Bloom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812201314
Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas about the efficacy of spoken communication spring from an understanding of the voice's materiality. Voices can be cracked by the bodies that produce them, scattered by winds when transmitted as breath through their acoustic environment, stopped by clogged ears meant to receive them, and displaced by echoic resonances. The early modern theater underscored the voice's volatility through the use of pubescent boy actors, whose vocal organs were especially vulnerable to malfunction. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marston, and their contemporaries alongside a wide range of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century texts—including anatomy books, acoustic science treatises, Protestant sermons, music manuals, and even translations of Ovid—Bloom maintains that cultural representations and theatrical enactments of the voice as "unruly matter" undermined early modern hierarchies of gender. The uncontrollable physical voice creates anxiety for men, whose masculinity is contingent on their capacity to discipline their voices and the voices of their subordinates. By contrast, for women the voice is most effective not when it is owned and mastered but when it is relinquished to the environment beyond. There, the voice's fragile material form assumes its full destabilizing potential and becomes a surprising source of female power. Indeed, Bloom goes further to query the boundary between the production and reception of vocal sound, suggesting provocatively that it is through active listening, not just speaking, that women on and off the stage reshape their world. Bringing together performance theory, theater history, theories of embodiment, and sound studies, this book makes a significant contribution to gender studies and feminist theory by challenging traditional conceptions of the links among voice, body, and self.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 19??
Category : Criticism
ISBN : 9781604136319
Presents a collection of critical essays on the comedic works of William Shakespeare.
Author : Larry S. Champion
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820338460
Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play—one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare's dramaturgy after Richard II. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare continues to focus on the psychological analysis and internalized protagonist which lead to his major tragic achievements. In King John and Henry IV, the playwright develops a middle ground between the polarities of Henry VI, in which the flat, onedimensional characters essentially serve the purposes of the narrative, and the tragedies, in which the spectator's consuming interest is in the developing centralfigure whose critical moments they share. Champion sees Henry V as the culmination of Shakespeare's e fforts in the English history play.
Author : Larry S. Champion
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820338446
This work directs attention to the various structural devices by which Shakespeare creates and sustains anticipation in his audience whil simultaneously provoking them to participate in the tragic protagonist's anguish.
Author : Larry S. Champion
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0874133874
This work focuses on thirteen English Renaissance plays: the Anonymous Famous Victories of Henry V and Edward III, the apocryphal plays Sir John Oldcastle and Thomas, Lord Cromwell, the pseudo-Shakespearean Edmund Ironside, and Shakespeare's 1, 2, 3 Henry VI, King John, Richard II, 1, 2 Henry IV, and Henry V. Discussed are the spectators in the socially mixed audience who responded differently, depending on individual political biases, and who had to be considered if the plays were to reach the stage.
Author : John W. Mahon,Ellen Macleod Mahon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136017582
This volume is a collection of all-new original essays covering everything from feminist to postcolonial readings of the play as well as source queries and analyses of historical performances of the play. The Merchant of Venice is a collection of seventeen new essays that explore the concepts of anti-Semitism, the work of Christopher Marlowe, the politics of commerce and making the play palatable to a modern audience. The characters, Portia and Shylock, are examined in fascinating detail. With in-depth analyses of the text, the play in performance and individual characters, this book promises to be the essential resource on the play for all Shakespeare enthusiasts.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300134711
Twelfth Night is one of Shakespeare's funniest plays and also one of his most romantic. A young noblewoman, Viola, shipwrecked in a foreign land and separated from her twin brother, dresses as a man in order to enter the service of Orsino, duke of Illyria. Complications ensue--deceptions, infatuations, misdirected overtures, malevolent pranks--as everyone is drawn into the hilarious confusion.
Author : Stephen Berg
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780966491395
Twenty-eight contemporary American poets reflect on the poems that have most influenced their own creative vision and offer their best new works in this examination of poetic expression. Each entry includes a new poem from the author, the text of a poem or poems that particularly influenced the development of the new poem, and an essay about that influence. The dialogue created between the new works of the poets and the poems that they love provides insight into the poetic process and speaks to the meaning and endurance of great art.
Author : Jeremy Noel-Tod,Ian Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 727 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199640256
This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.
Author : Hamish Johnson,Peter Quennell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136413605
Who's Who in Shakespeare presents a complete and handy guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare's plays. It provides: * detailed biographical information on each leading figure * analyses of the role and significance of each minor figure * a reliable guide to the huge Shakespearian canon for student and teacher * quotations from famous critics * useful information on some of Shakespeare's sources. From Antonio to Yorick, Macbeth to Mercutio, this book embraces the breadth and depth of the world's most important playwright.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780300124736
The Annotated Shakespeare series enables today's readers to understand and enjoy the plays of the world's greatest dramatist. Comprehensive on-page annotations assist with vocabulary, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines in these handsome and affordable paperback editions. In no other play has Shakespeare created two such equally titanic personages as Rome's great soldier and statesman Mark Antony and the Egyptian Queen Cleopatra. The story of their irresistible attraction, their jealous quarrels and betrayals, and the effects on friends and subjects of their ruinous choices is a tale leading irretrievably to despair and defeat. Their suicides, however, strike us as a kind of triumph. Shakespeare stood at the height of his powers when he penned this great tragedy, one of the last he produced.