The Spectacular In And Around Shakespeare

Author : Pascale Drouet
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443812047

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The Spectacular In and Around Shakespeare by Pascale Drouet Pdf

This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in and around Shakespeare’s plays, both in early modern England and in late-twentieth/twenty-first-century adaptations and appropriations. Apart from addressing issues such as (im)plausibility, tours de force arousing amazement, and excess for the sake of entertainment, it raises the question of intentionality—what is behind the spectacular? Is there always a manipulative purpose? How far-reaching are the political and ideological stakes? The contributors to this volume investigate a broad spectrum of particular phenomena: the spectacular sound effects and pyrotechnics displayed for the opening of the Globe theatre with Julius Caesar on performance; George Gascoigne’s lavish 1575 pageant commissioned by the Earl of Leicester for the queen at Kenilworth (The Princely Pleasures); the relationship between the spectacular and scientific discoveries, as well as their dialectics of appropriation; the impact of Mannerist art on The Winter’s Tale; Coriolanus’ resistance to ostentation and political shows; the anti-spectacular counter-current running through Timon of Athens; Julia Pascal’s innovative 2007 stage production of The Merchant of Venice; apocalyptic screen adaptations of turn-of-the-century Jacobean tragedies, and Richard III’s potential to be graphically interpreted in 2008 as political satire and as a danse macabre.

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474427838

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Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare by Sophie Chiari Pdf

To the readers who ask themselves: What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry, occultism and philosophy.

Author : Courtney Lehmann,Lisa S. Starks
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838639100

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Spectacular Shakespeare by Courtney Lehmann,Lisa S. Starks Pdf

Spectacular Shakespeare includes an introduction, nine essays, and an afterword that all address the spectacle of Shakespeare in recent Hollywood films. The essays approach the Shakespeare-as-star phenomenon from various perspectives, some applauding the popularization of the Bard, others critically questioning the appropriation of Shakespeare in contemporary mass culture.

Author : Farah Karim Cooper,Tiffany Stern
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408157053

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Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance by Farah Karim Cooper,Tiffany Stern Pdf

How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.

Author : Sujata Iyengar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317620075

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Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body by Sujata Iyengar Pdf

This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering and historicizing the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's literary and material world. The volume visits a series of questions about the history of the body and how early modern cultures understand physical ability or vigor, emotional competence or satisfaction, and joy or self-fulfillment. Individual essays investigate the purported disabilities of the "crook-back" King Richard III or the "corpulent" Falstaff, the conflicts between different health-care belief-systems in The Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet, the power of figurative language to delineate or even instigate puberty in the Sonnets or Romeo and Juliet, and the ways in which the powerful or moneyed mediate the access of the poor and injured to cure or even to care. Integrating insights from Disability Studies, Health Studies, and Happiness Studies, this book develops both a detailed literary-historical analysis and a provocative cultural argument about the emphasis we place on popular notions of fitness and contentment today.

Author : Sophie Chiari
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474427845

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Spectacular Science, Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare by Sophie Chiari Pdf

How can multicultural governance respond to our increasingly complex migratory world?

Author : Annalisa Castaldo,Rhonda Knight
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683931508

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Stage Matters by Annalisa Castaldo,Rhonda Knight Pdf

This collection features nine essays that explore how the material conditions of the early modern English stage shaped the theater. Topics range from the simulation of pregnant bodies by boy actors (and the effects of those simulations) to how bruises created by make-up might have been used on stage

Author : Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317071709

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Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617 by Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast Pdf

Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617 is the first book to consider railing plays and pamphlets as participating in a coherent literary movement that dominated much of the English literary landscape during the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period. Author Prendergast considers how these crisis-ridden texts on religious, gender, and aesthetic controversies were encouraged and supported by the emergence of the professional theater and print pamphlets. She argues that railing texts by Shakespeare, Nashe, Jonson, Jane Anger and others became sites for articulating anxious emotions-including fears about the stability of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth and the increasing factional splits between Protestant groups. But, given that railings about religious and political matters often led to censorship or even death, most railing writers chose to circumvent such possible repercussions by railing against unconventional gender identity, perverse sexual proclivities, and controversial aesthetics. In the process, Prendergast argues, railers shaped an anti-aesthetics that was itself dependent on the very expressions of perverse gender and sexuality that they discursively condemned, an aesthetics that created a conceptual third space in which bitter enemies-male or female, conformist or nonconformist-could bond by engaging in collaborative experiments with dialogical invective. By considering a literary mode of articulation that vehemently counters dominant literary discourse, this book changes the way that we look at late Elizabethan and early Jacobean literature, as it associates works that have been studied in isolation from each other with a larger, coherent literary movement.

Author : Jacqueline Morley
Publisher : Scribo
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 1905638590

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A Shakespearean Theatre by Jacqueline Morley Pdf

Elizabethan London was a vibrant, growing city and theater, especially that of William Shakespeare, played a major role in its lively culture. There was even a different play every day of the week Here's your ticket to the Globe, the legendary 20-sided building where Shakespeare's plays were staged. Go backstage to discover how the theater was run, who chose the actors, how big an audience it could hold, and why it was build on the banks of the Thames. Extraordinary illustrations give a dramatic look at life and art in the sixteenth century. "

Author : Terence G. Schoone-Jongen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056164

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Shakespeare's Companies by Terence G. Schoone-Jongen Pdf

Focusing on a period (c.1577-1594) that is often neglected in Elizabethan theater histories, this study considers Shakespeare's involvement with the various London acting companies before his membership in the Lord Chamberlain's Men in 1594. Locating Shakespeare in the confusing records of the early London theater scene has long been one of the many unresolved problems in Shakespeare studies and is a key issue in theatre history, Shakespeare biography, and historiography. The aim in this book is to explain, analyze, and assess the competing claims about Shakespeare's pre-1594 acting company affiliations. Schoone-Jongen does not demonstrate that one particular claim is correct but provides a possible framework for Shakespeare's activities in the 1570s and 1580s, an overview of both London and provincial playing, and then offers a detailed analysis of the historical plausibility and probability of the warring claims made by biographers, ranging from the earliest sixteenth-century references to contemporary arguments. Full chapters are devoted to four specific acting companies, their activities, and a summary and critique of the arguments for Shakespeare's involvement in them (The Queen's Men, Strange's Men, Pembroke's Men, and Sussex's Men), a further chapter is dedicated to the proposition Shakespeare's first theatrical involvement was in a recusant Lancashire household, and a final chapter focuses on arguments for Shakespeare's membership in a half dozen other companies (most prominently Leicester's Men). Shakespeare's Companies simultaneously opens up twenty years of theatrical activity to inquiry and investigation while providing a critique of Shakespearean biographers and their historical methodologies.

Author : Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317135876

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Female Transgression in Early Modern Britain by Richard Hillman,Pauline Ruberry-Blanc Pdf

Presenting a broad spectrum of reflections on the subject of female transgression in early modern Britain, this volume proposes a richly productive dialogue between literary and historical approaches to the topic. The essays presented here cover a range of ’transgressive’ women: daughters, witches, prostitutes, thieves; mothers/wives/murderers; violence in NW England; violence in Scotland; single mothers; women as (sexual) partners in crime. Contributions illustrate the dynamic relation between fiction and fact that informs literary and socio-historical analysis alike, exploring female transgression as a process, not of crossing fixed boundaries, but of negotiating the epistemological space between representation and documentation.

Author : Richard Strier
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781512823226

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Shakespearean Issues by Richard Strier Pdf

In Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays bound by a learned view of how to think about Shakespeare’s plays and also how to write literary criticism on them. The essays vary in their foci—from dealing with passages and key lines to dealing with whole plays, and to dealing with multiple plays in thematic conversation with each other. Strier treats the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare’s plays through recursive and revisionary close reading, revisiting plays from different angles and often contravening prevailing views. Part I focuses on characters. Moments of bad faith, of unconscious self-revelation, and of semi-conscious self-revelation are analyzed, along with the problem of describing characters psychologically and ethically. In an essay on “Happy Hamlet,” the famous melancholy of the prince is questioned, as is the villainy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, while another essay asks the reader to reconsider moral judgments and negative assessments of characters who may be flawed but do not seem obviously wicked, such as Edgar and Gloucester in King Lear. Part II moves to systems, arguing that Henry IV, Measure for Measure, and The Merchant of Venice raise doubts about fundamental features of legal systems, such as impartiality, punishments, and respect for contracts. Strier reveals King Lear’s radicalism, analyzing its concentration on poverty and its insistence on the existence and legitimacy of a material substratum to human life. Essays on The Tempest offer original takes on the play’s presentation of coercive power, of civilization and its discontents, and of humanist ideals. Part III turns to religious and epistemological beliefs, with Strier challenging prevailing views of Shakespeare’s relation to both. A culminating reading sees The Winter’s Tale as ultimately affirming the mind’s capacities, and as finding a place for something like religion within the world. Anyone interested in Shakespeare’s plays will find Shakespearean Issues bracing and thought-provoking.

Author : Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-07
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 0241341167

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The Little Book of Shakespeare by Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff Pdf

The Little Shakespeare Book is the perfect primer to the works of William Shakespeare, packed with witty illustrations and inspirational quotes, now in a handy compact size. This bold book covers every work, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and As You Like It to the tragedies of Julius Caesar and Hamlet, plus lost plays and less well-known works of poetry. Easy-to-understand graphics and illustrations bring the themes, plots, characters and language of Shakespeare to life, including illustrated timelines which offer an at-a-glance summary of the action for each play. With detailed plot summaries and an in-depth analysis of the major characters and themes, this is a brilliant, innovative exploration of the entire canon of Shakespeare plays, sonnets and poetry. Whether you're a Shakespeare scholar or a student of the great Bard, The Little Book of Shakespeare Book offers a fuller appreciation of his phenomenal talent and lasting legacy.

Author : Jean Newton McIlwraith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : UOM:39015082250237

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A Book about Shakespeare Written for Young People by Jean Newton McIlwraith Pdf

Author : Laurie Maguire,Emma Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470658505

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30 Great Myths about Shakespeare by Laurie Maguire,Emma Smith Pdf

Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material—or its absence—can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.