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Unediting the Renaissance

Author : Leah Marcus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134855926

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Unediting the Renaissance is a path-breaking and timely look at the issues of the textual editing of Renaissance works. Both erudite and accessible, it will be a fascinating and provocative read for any Renaissance student or scholar. Leah Marcus argues that `bad' versions of Renaissance texts such as Shakespeare's First Folio should not be viewed as mutilated copies of originals, but rather reputable alternatives encoding differences in ideology, cultural meaning and other elements of performance. Marcus focuses on key Renaissance works- Dr Faustus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet and poems by Milton, Donne and Herrick - to re-exmaine how editorial intervention shapes the texts which are widely accepted as `definitive'. Examining the cultural attitudes, fears and influences which influence textual editors, from the seveteenth century to the present day, Marcus sheds new light on a previously unexamined aspect of Renaissance studies. A lively critique of current theoretical practices, Unediting the Renaissance will shift the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries are edited and read.

Text

Author : W. Speed Hill,Edward M. Burns,Peter Shillingsburg
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1998-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472110195

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Text by W. Speed Hill,Edward M. Burns,Peter Shillingsburg Pdf

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Talking to the Audience

Author : Bridget Escolme
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781134320776

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This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address - talking to the audience - can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. By focusing specifically on the relationship between performer and audience, Talking to the Audience examines what happens when the audience are in the presence of a dramatic figure who knows they are there. It is a book concerned with theatrical illusion; with the pleasures and disturbances of seeing 'characters' produced in the moment of performance. Through analysis of contemporary productions Talking to the Audience serves to demonstrate how the study of recent performance helps us to understand both Shakespeare's cultural moment and our own. Its exploration of how theory and practice can inform each other make this essential reading for all those studying Shakespeare in either a literary or theatrical context.

Citizen Shakespeare

Author : J. Archer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781403981295

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Citizen Shakespeare by J. Archer Pdf

Shakespeare was not a citizen of London. But the language of his plays is shot through with the concerns of London 'freemen' and their wives, the diverse commercial class that nevertheless excluded adult immigrants from country towns and northern Europe alike. This book combines London historiography, close reading, and recent theories of citizen subjectivity to demonstrate for the first time that Shakespeare's plays embody citizen and alien identities despite their aristocratic settings. Through three chapters, the book points out where the city shadows the country scenes of the major comedies, shows how London's trades animate the 'civil butchery' of the history plays, ans explains why England's metropolis becomes the fractured Rome of tragedy,

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Where are We Now in Shakespearean Studies?

Author : John. M Mucciolo,William R Elton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351742962

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The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Where are We Now in Shakespearean Studies? by John. M Mucciolo,William R Elton Pdf

This title was first published in 2002. This second volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues the work of assessing the present state of Shakespeare studies in the new millennium. Comprising 20 essays by distinguished scholars from North America, the UK and Australia, it is divided into sections on criticism and theory; text, textuality and technology; Renaissance ideas and conventions; and Shakespeare and the city. The essays address issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare, including those of gender and sexuality, the staging of plays, and historical research on matters such as the monarchy, language, religion, and the law.

Editing Emily Dickinson

Author : Lena Christensen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135914295

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Editing Emily Dickinson by Lena Christensen Pdf

Editing Emily Dickinson considers the processes through which Dickinson's work has been edited in the twentieth century and how such editorial processes contribute specifically to the production of Emily Dickinson as author. The posthumous editing of her handwritten manuscripts into the conventions of the book and the electronic archive has been informed by editors' assumptions about the literary work; at stake is fundamentally what a Dickinson poem may be, or, rather, how we may approach such an object.

Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context

Author : Stephen Hamrick
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317009733

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Tottel's Songes and Sonettes in Context by Stephen Hamrick Pdf

Though printer Richard Tottel’s Songes and Sonettes (1557) remains the most influential poetic collection printed in the sixteenth century, the compiliation has long been ignored or misundertood by scholars of early modern English culture. Embracing a broad range of critical and historical perspectives, the eight essays within this volume offer the first sustained analysis of the many ways that consumers read and understood Songes and Sonettes as an anthology over the course of the early modern period. Copied by a monarch, set to music, sung, carried overseas, studied, appropriated, rejected, edited by consumers, transferred to manuscript, and gifted by Shakespeare, this muti-author verse anthology of 280 poems transformed sixteenth-century English language and culture. With at least eleven printings before the end of Elizabeth I’s reign, Tottel’s ground-breaking text greatly influenced the poetic publications that followed, including individual and multi-author miscellanies. Contributors to this essay collection explore how, in addition to offering a radically new kind of English verse, ’Tottel’s Miscellany’ engaged politics, friendship, religion, sexuality, gender, morality and commerce in complex-and at times, contradictory-ways.

Desiring Donne

Author : Ben Saunders
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674023471

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Desiring Donne by Ben Saunders Pdf

Saunders explores the dialectic of desire, re-evaluating both Donne's poetry and the complex responses it has inspired. This study takes into account recent developments in the fields of historicism, feminism, queer theory, and postmodern psychoanalysis, while offering dazzling close readings of many of Donne's most famous poems.

Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679)

Author : Jan Bloemendal,Frans-Willem Korsten
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 666 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004218833

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Joost van den Vondel (1587-1679) by Jan Bloemendal,Frans-Willem Korsten Pdf

Both historically and theoretically this book deals the work and the life of Joost van den Vondel, the most famous and controversial Dutch playwright in the Dutch Republic. Over twenty-five of his tragedies are analyzed, offering an overview of different theoretical approaches. Historically, Vondel is situated in his own times and in the present.

Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability

Author : Genevieve Love
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350017221

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Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability by Genevieve Love Pdf

What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the figure of the physically disabled prosthetic body in early modern English theatre mediates a set of related 'likeness problems' that structure the theatrical, textual, and critical lives of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The figure of disability stands for the relationship between actor and character: prosthetic disabled characters with names such as Cripple and Stump capture the simultaneous presence of thefictional and the material, embodied world of the theatre. When the figure of the disabled body exits the stage, it also mediates a second problem of likeness, between plays in their performed and textual forms. While supposedly imperfect textual versions of plays have been characterized as 'lame', the dynamic movement of prosthetic disabled characters in the theatre expands the figural role which disability performs in the relationship between plays on the stage and on the page. Early Modern Theatre and the Figure of Disability reveals how attention to physical disability enriches our understanding of early modern ideas about how theatre works, while illuminating in turn how theatre offers a reframing of disability as metaphor.

Making the Miscellany

Author : Megan Heffernan
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812252804

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Making the Miscellany by Megan Heffernan Pdf

In Making the Miscellany Megan Heffernan examines the poetic design of early modern printed books and explores how volumes of compiled poems, which have always existed in practice, responded to media change in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England. Heffernan's focus is not only the material organization of printed poetry, but also how those conventions and innovations of arrangement contributed to vernacular poetic craft, the consolidation of ideals of individual authorship, and centuries of literary history. The arrangement of printed compilations contains a largely unstudied and undertheorized archive of poetic form, Heffernan argues. In an evolving system of textual transmission, compilers were experimenting with how to contain individual poems within larger volumes. By paying attention to how they navigated and shaped the exchanges between poems and their organization, she reveals how we can witness the basic power of imaginative writing over the material text. Making the Miscellany is also a study of how this history of textual design has been differently told by the distinct disciplines of bibliography or book history and literary studies, each of which has handled—and obscured—the formal qualities of early modern poetry compilations and the practices that produced them. Revisiting these editorial and critical approaches, this book recovers a moment when compilers, poets, and readers were alert to a poetics of organization that exceeded the limits of the individual poem.

Textual Performances

Author : Lukas Erne,Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521830958

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Textual Performances by Lukas Erne,Margaret Jane Kidnie Pdf

This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare's plays. In particular, the essays look at how best to engage editorially with evidence provided by historical research into the playhouse, author's study and printing house. How are editors of playscripts to mediate history, in its many forms, for modern users? Considering our knowledge of the past is partial (in the senses both of incomplete and ideological) where are we to draw the line between legitimate editorial assistance and unwarranted interference? In what innovative ways might current controversies surrounding the mediation of Shakespeare's drama shape future editorial practice? Focusing on key points of debate and controversy, this collection makes a vital contribution to a better understanding of how editorial practice (on the page and in cyberspace) might develop in the twenty-first century.

Shakespeare’s Queer Analytics

Author : Don Rodrigues
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350178830

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Shakespeare’s Queer Analytics by Don Rodrigues Pdf

What led Shakespeare to write his most cryptic poem, 'The Phoenix and Turtle'? Could the Phoenix represent Queen Elizabeth, on the verge of death as Shakespeare wrote? Is the Earl of Essex, recently executed for treason, the Turtledove lover of the Phoenix? Questions such as these dominate scholarship of both Shakespeare's poem and the book in which it first appeared: Robert Chester's enigmatic collection of verse, Love's Martyr (1601), where Shakespeare's allegory sits next to erotic love lyrics by Ben Jonson, George Chapman and John Marston, as well as work by the much lesser-known Chester. Don Rodrigues critiques and revises traditional computational attribution studies by integrating the insights of queer theory to a study of Love's Martyr. A book deeply engaged in current debates in computational literary studies, it is particularly attuned to questions of non-normativity, deviation and departures from style when assessing stylistic patterns. Gathering insights from decades of computational and traditional analyses, it presents, most radically, data that supports the once-outlandish theory that Shakespeare may have had a significant hand in editing works signed by Chester. At the same time, this book insists on the fundamentally collaborative nature of production in Love's Martyr. Developing a compelling account of how collaborative textual production could work among early modern writers, Shakespeare's Queer Analytics is a much-needed methodological intervention in computational attribution studies. It articulates what Rodrigues describes as 'queer analytics': an approach to literary analysis that joins the non-normative close reading of queer theory to the distant attention of computational literary studies – highlighting patterns that traditional readings often overlook or ignore.

The Renaissance Text

Author : Andrew Murphy
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000-10-20
Category : History
ISBN : 0719059178

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These essays discuss issues of Renaissance textuality. They explore such topics as the impact of editorial strategies and modes of presentation on our understanding of the text; and the relevance of gender to textual retrieval and preservation.

Shakespeare Studies

Author : Leeds Barroll
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-02-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0838637825

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This volume includes the Forum Race and the Study of Shakespeare and a related essay, 'Hottentot': The Emergence of an Early Modern Racist Epithet. Other articles discuss the works of Robert Weimann, recent studies in early modern sexuality and concepts of virginity.