The Merchant Of Venice The State Of Play

Author : M. Lindsay Kaplan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350110243

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The Merchant of Venice: The State of Play by M. Lindsay Kaplan Pdf

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays, whose elements resonate even more profoundly in the current climate of rising racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, queerphobia and right-wing nationalism. This collection of essays offers a 'freeze frame' that showcases a range of current debates and ideas surrounding the play. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to your needs. Essays offer new perspectives that provide an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about the play. Key themes and topics include: · Race and religion · Gender and sexuality · Philosophy · Animal studies · Adaptations and performance history

Author : M. Lindsay Kaplan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1350110256

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The Merchant of Venice by M. Lindsay Kaplan Pdf

"The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays, whose elements resonate even more profoundly in the current climate of rising racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, queerphobia and right-wing nationalism. This collection of essays offers a 'freeze frame' that showcases a range of current debates and ideas surrounding the play. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to your needs. Essays offer new perspectives that provide an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about the play. Key themes and topics include: ʺ Race and religion ʺ Gender and sexuality ʺ Philosophy ʺ Animal studies ʺ Adaptations and performance history."--

Author : M. Lindsay Kaplan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350110236

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The Merchant of Venice: The State of Play by M. Lindsay Kaplan Pdf

The Merchant of Venice is one of Shakespeare's most controversial plays, whose elements resonate even more profoundly in the current climate of rising racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-immigrant sentiment, queerphobia and right-wing nationalism. This collection of essays offers a 'freeze frame' that showcases a range of current debates and ideas surrounding the play. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to your needs. Essays offer new perspectives that provide an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about the play. Key themes and topics include: · Race and religion · Gender and sexuality · Philosophy · Animal studies · Adaptations and performance history

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2024-01-09
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781722525101

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The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Pdf

The Merchant of Venice, is an intriguing drama of love, greed, and revenge. Believed to have been written in 1596, it is classified as a comedy, but while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps remembered more for its dramatic scenes, and especially for the character of Shylock, a vengeful Venetian moneylender. At its heart, the play contrasts the characters of Shylock, with the gracious, level-headed Portia, a wealthy young woman, besieged by suitors. One suitor in particular, Antonio, a merchant in Venice, must default on a large loan provided by Shylock, who insists on the enforcement of the binding contract that will cost the life of Antonio, inciting Portia to mount a memorable defense. In this richly plotted drama, Shylock, whom Shakespeare endowed with the depth and vitality of his greatest characters, is not alone in his villainy. In fact, the large cast of ambitious and scheming characters demonstrates in scene after scene, that honesty is a quality often strained where matters of love and money are concerned. In many of the play’s productions, Shylock gives such powerful expression to his alienation due to the hatred around him that, he emerges as the hero. The suspense and gravity of the play's main plot, along with its romance, have made The Merchant of Venice an audience favorite and one of the most studied and performed of Shakespeare's plays.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1917
Category : Jews
ISBN : UCLA:31158000128339

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The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781408186039

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Othello: The State of Play by Lena Cowen Orlin Pdf

Othello has a long history of provoking profound emotion in its audiences and readers. This 'freeze frame' volume showcases current debates and ideas about the play's provocative effects. Each chapter has been carefully selected for its originality and relevance to the needs of students, teachers, and researchers. Key issues and themes include: - Gender, Love, and Desire - Race, Ethnicity, and Difference - Social Relations, Status, and Ambition - Tragedy, Comedy, and Parody - Language, Expression, and Characterization All the essays offer new perspectives and combine to give readers an up-to-date understanding of what's exciting and challenging about Othello. The approach based on an individual play, unlike that of topic-based series, reflects how Shakespeare is most commonly studied and taught.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1407612255

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Shakespeare's Play of the Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Farah Karim Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350027411

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Titus Andronicus: The State of Play by Farah Karim Cooper Pdf

Shakespeare's and Peele's Titus Andronicus has had a theatrical and a critical revival in the last fifteen years; the critical revival was perhaps prompted by Jonathan Bate's Arden edition of the play and its revision of the traditional critical account that it is an immature work and overly sensationalistic with its emphasis on non-essential violence. Recent debates and approaches have drawn closer attention to the play's classicism; re-defined its genre (for example the revised edition of the New Dramatic Sources will re-classify the play as one of Shakespeare's Roman plays); re-considered the nature of violent spectacle, family relations and kinship, political alliance, race and miscegenation. This study will explore how the revitalized critical responses to early modern and contemporary performance histories has had a significant impact upon the wider reception of this play.

Author : Lynn Enterline
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350073371

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Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play by Lynn Enterline Pdf

Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this literary conversation and contribute for the current, vigorous reassessment of humanism's intended consequences by drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy and vernacular poetic invention. Key themes and topics include: -Epyllia, masculinity and sexuality -Classicism and commerce -Genre and mimesis -Rhetoric and aesthetics

Author : Paul Barry
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786459872

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A Lifetime with Shakespeare by Paul Barry Pdf

Written by the only American to direct and fight-choreograph all of Shakespeare's plays, this text represents an expert and practical guide to the Bard's oeuvre. From the Henry VI plays through The Tempest, each play is explored in its full theatrical complexity, with particular attention paid to directorial and acting challenges, character quirks and development, and the particularities of Shakespearean language. Directing successes are recounted, but the failures are not shied away from, making this work indispensable for anyone interested in producing plays by Shakespeare.

Author : Sonia Massai,Lucy Munro
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350117730

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Hamlet: The State of Play by Sonia Massai,Lucy Munro Pdf

This collection brings together emerging and established scholars to explore fresh approaches to Shakespeare's best-known play. Hamlet has often served as a testing ground for innovative readings and new approaches. Its unique textual history – surviving as it does in three substantially different early versions – means that it offers an especially complex and intriguing case-study for histories of early modern publishing and the relationship between page and stage. Similarly, its long history of stage and screen revival, creative appropriation and critical commentary offer rich materials for various forms of scholarship. The essays in Hamlet: The State of Play explore the play from a variety of different angles, drawing on contemporary approaches to gender, sexuality, race, the history of emotions, memory, visual and material cultures, performativity, theories and histories of place, and textual studies. They offer fresh approaches to literary and cultural analysis, offer accessible introductions to some current ways of exploring the relationship between the three early texts, and present analysis of some important recent responses to Hamlet on screen and stage, together with a set of approaches to the study of adaptation.

Author : Philip Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136536311

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Othello by Philip Kolin Pdf

Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. Othello: Critical Essays explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more.

Author : Philip C. Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136017902

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Othello by Philip C. Kolin Pdf

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Lauren B. Strauss,Michael Brenner
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0814333958

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Mediating Modernity by Lauren B. Strauss,Michael Brenner Pdf

A landmark collection of essays by prominent academics in modern Jewish and German-Jewish history, honoring Michael A. Meyer, a pioneer in those fields. In Mediating Modernity, contemporary Jewish scholars pay tribute to Michael A. Meyer, scholar of German-Jewish history and the history of Reform Judaism, with a collection of essays that highlight growing diversity within the discipline of Jewish studies. The occasion of Meyer's seventieth birthday has served as motivation for his colleagues Lauren B. Strauss and Michael Brenner to compile this volume, with essays by twenty-four leading academics, representing institutions in five countries. Mediating Modernity is introduced by an overview of modern Jewish historiography, largely drawing on Meyer's work in that field, delineating important connections between the writing of history and the environment in which it is written. Meyer's own areas of specialization are reflected in essays on Moses Mendelssohn, German-Jewish historiography, the religious and social practices of German Jews, Reform Judaism, and various Jewish communities in America. The volume's field of inquiry is broadened by essays that deal with gender issues, literary analysis, and the historical relationship of Israel and the Palestinians. Though other volumes have been compiled to honor Jewish historians, Mediating Modernity is unique in the personal and intellectual relationships shared by its contributors and Michael A. Meyer. Scholars of Jewish studies, German history, and religious history will appreciate this timely volume.

Author : David Wheeler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317532231

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Coriolanus by David Wheeler Pdf

Originally published in 1995. Providing the most influential historical criticism, but also some contemporary pieces written for the volume, this collection includes the most essential study and reviews of this tragic play. The first part contains critical articles arranged chronologically while the second part presents reviews of stage performances from 1901 to 1988 from a variety of sources. Chapters chosen are representative of their given age and critical approach and therefore show the changing responses and the topics that interested critics in the play through the years. Coriolanus is an unsympathetic character and the play has been traditionally less popular than other tragedies - a comprehensive introduction by the editor discusses these attitudes to the play and the reasons behind them.