The Jew Of Malta A Critical Reader

Author : Robert A. Logan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408191545

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The Jew of Malta: A Critical Reader by Robert A. Logan Pdf

Christopher Marlowe's drama, The Jew of Malta, has become an increasingly popular source for scholarly scrutiny, staged productions, and, most recently, a filmed version. The play follows the sometimes tragic, sometimes comic, often outrageous fortunes of its villainous protagonist, the Jew Barabas. In recent years the play has provoked as much interpretive controversy as any work in the Marlowe canon. This unique volume is therefore especially timely, providing fresh, varied approaches to the many enigmatic elements of the play.

Author : Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350270190

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Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader by Peter Kirwan,Duncan Salkeld Pdf

One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to Arden of Faversham's role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.

Author : David McInnis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350082724

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Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader by David McInnis Pdf

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the plays' critical and performance history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online The blockbuster Tamburlaine plays (1587) instantly established Marlowe's reputation for experimenting with subversive, outrageous and immoral material. The plays follow the meteoric rise of a Scythian shepherd-turned-warlord, whose conquests of eastern emperors soon sees him established as the most powerful man in the world. The visual tableaux featured in the plays are iconic. He uses his enemy Bajazeth as a footstool, and has other emperors pull his chariot like horses. He burns the Qur'an on stage. The plays were memorable, too, for how they sounded: they showcased the power and variability of iambic pentameter, the meter that Shakespeare would go on to perfect. No history of Shakespeare's theatre is complete without understanding the influence and significance of Marlowe's Tamburlaine plays. Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader offers the definitive introduction to these plays and new perspectives on these seminal works. It provides an overview of their reception on stage and by critics, and offers fresh insights into the teaching of these plays in the classroom.

Author : Sara Munson Deats,Robert A. Logan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317166481

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Christopher Marlowe at 450 by Sara Munson Deats,Robert A. Logan Pdf

There has never been a retrospective on Christopher Marlowe as comprehensive, complete and up-to-date in appraising the Marlovian landscape. Each chapter has been written by an eminent, international Marlovian scholar to determine what has been covered, what has not, and what scholarship and criticism will or might focus on next. The volume considers all of Marlowe’s dramas and his poetry, including his translations, as well as the following special topics: Critical Approaches to Marlowe; Marlowe’s Works in Performance; Marlowe and Theatre History; Electronic Resources for Marlovian Research; and Marlowe’s Biography. Included in the discussions are the native, continental, and classical influences on Marlowe and the ways in which Marlowe has interacted with other contemporary writers, including his influence on those who came after him. The volume has appeal not only to students and scholars of Marlowe but to anyone interested in Renaissance drama and poetry. Moreover, the significance for readers lies in the contributors’ approaches as well as in their content. Interest in the biography of Christopher Marlowe and in his works has bourgeoned since the turn of the century. It therefore seems especially appropriate at this time to present a comprehensive assessment of past and present traditional and innovative lines of inquiry and to look forward to future developments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472584052

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Edward II: A Critical Reader by Anonim Pdf

Edward II: A Critical Reader gives students, teachers and scholars alike an overview of the play's reception both in the theatre and among artists and critics, from the end of the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st. The volume also offers a series of new perspectives on the play by leading experts in the field of early modern history and culture. Bolstered with a timeline tracking Marlowe's life and work, an up-to-date bibliography and an extensive index, this collection is an ideal and definitive guide to Edward II.

Author : Evelyn Tribble
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472576057

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Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre by Evelyn Tribble Pdf

What skills did Shakespeare's actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre: Thinking with the Body examines the 'toolkit' of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their many skills. Theatre is an ephemeral medium. Little remains to us of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries: some printed texts, scattered documents and records, and a few scraps of description, praise, and detraction. Because most of what survives are printed playbooks, students of English theatre find it easy to forget that much of what happened on the early modern stage took place within the gaps of written language: the implicit or explicit calls for fights, dances, military formations, feats of physical skill, song, and clowning. Theatre historians and textual editors have often ignored or denigrated such moments, seeing them merely as extraneous amusements or signs that the text has been 'corrupted' by actors. This book argues that recapturing a positive account of the skills and expertise of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period.

Author : Laurie Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351578820

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Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse by Laurie Johnson Pdf

The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare’s career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London, and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career in the theatre, this playhouse has been easy to forget. Yet for eleven days in June, 1594, it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres. Thanks to the ledgers of theatre entrepreneur, Philip Henslowe, we have a record of this short venture. Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse is an exploration of a brief moment in time when the focus of the theatrical world in England was on this small playhouse. To write this history, Laurie Johnson draws on archival studies, archaeology, environmental studies, geography, social, political, and cultural studies as well as methods developed within literary and theatre history to expand the scope of our understanding of the theatres, the rise of the playing business, and the formations of the playing companies.

Author : Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350082304

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The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader by Sarah Hatchuel,Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin Pdf

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: - Essays on the play's critical and performance history - A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play - A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice has often been labelled a 'problem play', and throughout the ages it has been an object of both fascination and repulsion. Without neglecting the socio-political and religious issues that are at the heart of the play, this collection of critical essays invites readers to rediscover the variety of approaches that this multifaceted work calls for, exploring its gender aspects, its rich mythological background, its legal matters and the ways in which it has been adapted to the screen. Essays consider the play in relation to its sources, genre and religion, historical and socio-political context and its critical reception and performance history.

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Jews
ISBN : UVA:X000311736

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The Jew of Malta by Christopher Marlowe Pdf

Author : David McInnis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108843263

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Shakespeare and Lost Plays by David McInnis Pdf

Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.

Author : Brian Walsh
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472585424

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The Revenger's Tragedy: A Critical Reader by Brian Walsh Pdf

The Revenger's Tragedy is one of the most vital, important, and enduring tragedies of the Jacobean era, one of the few non-Shakespearean plays of that period that is still regularly revived on stage and taught in classrooms. The play is notable for its piercing insight into human depravity, its savage humour, and its florid theatricality. This collection of new essays offers students an invaluable overview of the play's critical and performance history as well as four critical essays offering a range of new perspectives.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781472587411

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The White Devil: A Critical Reader by Anonim Pdf

The White Devil is one of the most violent and most fascinating plays in English theatrical history. It is also a notoriously challenging work; this volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to the play, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's performance, beginning with its first staging in 1611 staging and ending with the RSC's 2014 revival. Moving through to four new critical essays, it opens up cutting-edge perspectives on the work, and finishes with a practical guide to pedagogical approaches and resources. Detailing web-based and production-related resources, and including an annotated bibliography of critical works, the guide will equip teachers and facilitate students' understanding of this complex play.

Author : Bent Holm,Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen
Publisher : Hollitzer Wissenschaftsverlag
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-23
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783990121252

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Imagined, Embodied and Actual Turks in Early Modern Europe by Bent Holm,Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen Pdf

The confrontation between European countries and the expanding Ottoman Empire in the early modern era has played a major role in numerous fields of history. The aim of this book is to investigate the European-Ottoman interrelations from three angles. One deals with the circumstances: How did the Europeans meet the Turks in pragmatic and diplomatic connections? Another concerns imagery: how were the Turks depicted in literature and art? The third examines performativity: how were the Turks inserted into plays, operas and ceremonies? This book confronts mental, visual and embodied images with historical positions and conditions. The focus, therefore, is on the dynamic interactive processes of experience, embodiment and imagination in context. Bringing together Turkish and European scholars, it applies a number of research strategies used by historians to the history of art, literature, music and theatre. Contributions by Pál Ács | Robert Born | Asli Çirakman | Anne Duprat | Kate Fleet | Bent Holm | Marcus Keller | Maria Pia Pedani | Mogens Pelt | Mikael Bøgh Rasmussen | Günsel Renda | Pia Schwarz Lausten | Charlotte Colding Smith | Suna Suner | Dirk Van Waelderen

Author : Andrew James Hartley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781474220392

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Julius Caesar: A Critical Reader by Andrew James Hartley Pdf

This volume offers a practical, accessible and thought-provoking guide to this Roman tragedy, surveying its major themes and critical reception. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's performance, beginning with its earliest known staging in 1599, including an analysis of the 2013 film Caesar Must Die starring Italian inmates, and an assessment of why the play is now coming back into vogue on stage. Moving through to four new critical essays, it opens up cutting-edge perspectives on the work, and finishes with a guide to pedagogical approaches by the experienced teacher and leading academic Jeremy Lopez. Detailing web-based and production-related resources, and including an annotated bibliography of critical works, the guide will equip teachers and facilitate students' understanding of this challenging play.

Author : Kirk Melnikoff,Roslyn L. Knutson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107126206

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Christopher Marlowe, Theatrical Commerce and the Book Trade by Kirk Melnikoff,Roslyn L. Knutson Pdf

Examines Christopher Marlowe and his work in the overlapping contexts of the professional theatre and the book trade.