Visions Of Venice In Shakespeare

Author : Laura Tosi,Shaul Bassi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317001294

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Visions of Venice in Shakespeare by Laura Tosi,Shaul Bassi Pdf

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer new perspectives to a traditional topic, this timely collection fills a gap in the literature, addressing the new historical, political and economic questions that have been raised in the last few years. The essays in this volume consider Venice a real as well as symbolic landscape that needs to be explored in its multiple resonances, both in Shakespeare's historical context and in the later tradition of reconfiguring one of the most represented cities in Western culture. Shylock and Othello are there to remind us of the dark sides of the myth of Venice, and of the inescapable fact that the issues raised in the Venetian plays are tremendously topical; we are still haunted by these theatrical casualties of early modern multiculturalism.

Author : Laura Tosi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:733448849

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Visions of Venice in Shakespeare by Laura Tosi Pdf

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. This timely collection fills a gap in the literature, addressing the new historical, political and economic questions that have been raised in the last few years about early modern globalization, multiculturalism, and multiple social and ethnic identities.

Author : Laura Tosi,Shaul Bassi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317001300

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Visions of Venice in Shakespeare by Laura Tosi,Shaul Bassi Pdf

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer new perspectives to a traditional topic, this timely collection fills a gap in the literature, addressing the new historical, political and economic questions that have been raised in the last few years. The essays in this volume consider Venice a real as well as symbolic landscape that needs to be explored in its multiple resonances, both in Shakespeare's historical context and in the later tradition of reconfiguring one of the most represented cities in Western culture. Shylock and Othello are there to remind us of the dark sides of the myth of Venice, and of the inescapable fact that the issues raised in the Venetian plays are tremendously topical; we are still haunted by these theatrical casualties of early modern multiculturalism.

Author : Carole Levin,John Watkins
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801457715

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Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds by Carole Levin,John Watkins Pdf

In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his plays with characters testing the limits of personal identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds, shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers. Through parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and Watkins argue that Shakespeare's centrality to English national consciousness is inseparable from his creation of the foreign as a category asserting dangerous affinities between England's internal minorities and its competitors within an increasingly fraught European mercantile system. As a women's historian, Levin is particularly interested in Shakespeare's responses to marginalized sectors of English society. As a scholar of English, Italian Studies, and Medieval Studies, Watkins situates Shakespeare in the context of broadly European historical movements. Together Levin and Watkins narrate the emergence of the foreign as portable category that might be applied both to "strangers" from other countries and to native-born English men and women, such as religious dissidents, who resisted conformity to an increasingly narrow sense of English identity. Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds will appeal to historians, literary scholars, theater specialists, and anyone interested in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age.

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317056317

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Shakespeare and Venice by Graham Holderness Pdf

Shakespeare and Venice is the first book length study to describe and chronicle the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages and has persisted in fiction and film to the present day. Graham Holderness focuses specifically on how that mythology was employed by Shakespeare to explore themes of conversion, change, and metamorphosis. Identifying and outlining the materials having to do with Venice which might have been available to Shakespeare, Holderness provides a full historical account of past and present Venetian myths and of the city's relationship with both Judaism and Islam. Holderness also provides detailed readings of both The Merchant of Venice and of Othello against these mythical and historical dimensions, and concludes with discussion of Venice's relevance to both the modern world and to the past.

Author : Silvia Bigliazzi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781040085646

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Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources by Silvia Bigliazzi Pdf

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean plays, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Cymbeline. It focuses on the works of Sir Giovanni Fiorentino, Da Porto, Bandello, Ariosto, Dolce, Pasqualigo, and Groto, as well as on commedia dell’arte practices. This book discusses hitherto unexamined materials and revises received interpretations, disclosing the relevance of memorial processes within the broad field of intertextuality vis-à-vis conscious reuses and intentional practices.

Author : Christina G. Waldman
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781628943320

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Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice by Christina G. Waldman Pdf

Author : Eric Harber
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781527561076

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Shakespeare, Christianity and Italian Paganism by Eric Harber Pdf

This book shows that, when Shakespeare wrote his plays, he responded to the political, religious and social conflicts in the Christianity of the day, giving those areas a new perspective through pagan (Italian and Greek) mythology. In particular, it offers a reading of The Winter’s Tale, which it has been said is “one of the most linguistically dense, emotionally demanding and spiritually rich of all the plays”. Productions as far afield as Mexico and Paris have brought Shakespeare’s plays up to date to enhance or challenge the lives of their communities. From South Africa to Gdansk, Shakespeare has been adapted to be read in schools. His plays have prompted a dialogue with many European scholars whom this book addresses.

Author : Quentin Skinner
Publisher : Clarendon Lectures in English
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199558247

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Forensic Shakespeare by Quentin Skinner Pdf

Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet) and on three early Jacobean dramas, (Othello, Measure for Measure and All's Well That Ends Well), Quentin Skinner argues that major speeches, and sometimes sequences of scenes, are crafted according to a set of rhetorical precepts about how to develop a persuasive judicial case, either in accusation or defence. Some of these works have traditionally been grouped together as 'problem plays', but here Skinner offers a different explanation for their frequent similarities of tone. There have been many studies of Shakespeare's rhetoric, but they have generally concentrated on his wordplay and use of figures and tropes. By contrast, this study concentrates on Shakespeare's use of judicial rhetoric as a method of argument. By approaching the plays from this perspective, Skinner is able to account for some distinctive features of Shakespeare's vocabulary, and also help to explain why certain scenes follow a recurrent pattern and arrangement. More broadly, he is able to illustrate the extent of Shakespeare's engagement with an entire tradition of classical and Renaissance humanist thought.

Author : Daniela Carpi,François Ost
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783110591514

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As You Law It - Negotiating Shakespeare by Daniela Carpi,François Ost Pdf

Shakespeare was fascinated by law, which permeated Elizabethan everyday life. The general impression one derives from the analysis of many plays by Shakespeare is that of a legal situation in transformation and of a dynamically changing relation between law and society, law and the jurisdiction of Renaissance times. Shakespeare provides the kind of literary supplement that can better illustrate the legal texts of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. There was a strong popular participation in the system of justice, and late sixteenth-century playwrights often made use of forensic models of narrative. Uncertainty about legal issues represented a rich potential for causing strong reactions in the public, especially feelings concerning the resistance to tyranny. The volume aims at highlighting some of the many legal perspectives and debates emplotted in Shakespearean plays, also taking into consideration the many texts that have been produced during the latest years on law and literature in the Renaissance.

Author : R M Christofides
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781474212984

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Othello's Secret by R M Christofides Pdf

Othello's Secret uncovers the relationship between the play and the conflicts that have torn apart its Cypriot setting, providing a new and powerfully political reading. Exploring the domestic and military anxieties connected by Shakespeare, Christofides highlights the ways in which these issues resonate with current ideological and geographical divisions in Cyprus, divisions rooted in the 16th century struggles to control the island. Challenging the conventional view of Othello as a Venetian play, this book offers a fierce and personal example of how early modern literature can purposefully contribute to even the most complex geopolitical debates.

Author : Robert Ornstein
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0874138558

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Re-visions of Shakespeare by Robert Ornstein Pdf

Re-Visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honor of Robert Ornstein is a tribute to one of the most prominent Shakespeareans in the last half of the twentieth century, past president of the Shakespeare Association of America, and author of Shakespeare's Comedies: From Roman Farce to Romantic Mystery, and Other texts. Twelve original contributions by an international group of scholars, including some of the most prominent working in Shakespeare studies today, use a variety of theoretical perspectives to address issues of contemporary import in the dramatic texts. Janus-like, the collection suggests the directions of Shakespeare studies at the outset of the new millennium while considering their roots in the last.

Author : Shaul Bassi
Publisher : Springer
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137491701

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Shakespeare’s Italy and Italy’s Shakespeare by Shaul Bassi Pdf

Shaul Bassi is Associate Professor of English and Postcolonial Literature at Ca'Foscari University of Venice, Italy. His publications include Visions of Venice in Shakespeare, with Laura Tosi, and Experiences of Freedom in Postcolonial Literatures and Cultures, with Annalisa Oboe.

Author : Jade Standing
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2024-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781003837602

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The Play of Conscience in Shakespeare’s England by Jade Standing Pdf

Having a conscience distinguishes humans from the most advanced A.I. systems. Acting in good conscience, consulting one’s conscience, and being conscience-wracked are all aspects of human intelligence that involve reckoning (deriving general laws from particular inputs and vice versa), and judgement (contemplating the relationship of the reckoning system to the world). While A.I. developers have mastered reckoning, they are still working towards the creation of judgement. This book sheds light on the reckoning and judgement of conscience by demonstrating how these concepts are explored in Everyman, Doctor Faustus, The Merchant of Venice, and Hamlet. Academic, student, or general-interest readers discover the complexity and multiplicity of the early modern concept of conscience, which is informed by the scholastic intellectual tradition, juridical procedures of the court of Chancery, the practical advice of Protestant casuistry, and Reformation theology. The aims are to examine the rubrics for thinking through, regulating, and judging actions that define the various consciences of Shakespeare’s day, to use these rubrics to interpret questions of truth and action in early modern plays, and to offer insights into what it is about conscience that developers want to grasp to eliminate the difference between human and non-human intelligences, and achieve true A.I.

Author : Curtis Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108496179

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Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy by Curtis Perry Pdf

Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.