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Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107046306
This book establishes the significance of actresses, female playgoers and women critics in shaping Shakespeare's burgeoning reputation in the eighteenth century.
Author : Irene G. Dash
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Drama
ISBN : UOM:39076001762678
"Focusing on five Shakespeare plays, this book offers a fresh approach to the complex choices and decisions the women characters must face. Author Irene G. Dash scrutinizes stage productions over the centuries. Her exciting discoveries show the subtle ways the characters have been changed. By comparing promptbook versions from the eighteenth century to the present with the texts, Dash reveals how contemporary attitudes, spilling over into the theater, skew the works and diminish their breadth." "Questions multiply as women attempt to understand relationship between the power of others over their lives and their own decisions about the moral responsibility for action. Shakespeare dramatizes these ideas." "Dash shows how frequently such subtleties are lost on stage where roles are cut or reshaped, scenes transposed, or lines added. The author deftly analyzes the result of such changes. Lady Macbeth, for example, diminishes in complexity when the witches are transformed into dancing, singing choruses, or when Lady Macduff's murder disappears from the tragedy or when ironic lines are transformed. Comparing the seventeenth-century Davenant version and the twentieth-century Orson Welles film, Dash shows how these works illuminate Shakespeare's dramatic art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Author : Fiona Ritchie,Peter Sabor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521898607
This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.
Author : L. Leigh
Publisher : Springer
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137465993
Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
Author : Peter Sabor,Paul Yachnin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351900768
In 1700, Shakespeare was viewed as one of the leading Renaissance playwrights, but not as supreme. By 1800, he was not only widely performed and read but celebrated as a universal genius and a national literary hero. What happened during the intervening years is the subject of this fascinating volume, which brings together Renaissance and eighteenth-century scholars who examine how Shakespeare gradually penetrated, and came to dominate, the culture and intellectual life of people in the English-speaking world. The contributors approach Shakespeare from a wide range of perspectives, to illuminate the way contemporary philosophy, science and medicine, textual practice, theatre studies, and literature both informed and were influenced by eighteenth-century interpretations of his works. Among the topics are Falstaff and eighteenth-century ideas of the sublime, David Garrick's 1756 adaptation of The Winter's Tale and its relationship to medical theories of femininity, the textual practices of George Steevens, Shakespeare's importance in furthering the careers of actors on the eighteenth-century stage, and the influence of Shakespeare on writers as diverse as Edmund Burke, Horace Walpole, and Ann Radcliff. Together, the essays paint a vivid picture of the relationship between eighteenth-century Shakespeare and ideas about shared nationhood, knowledge, morality, history, and the self.
Author : Annie K. Smart
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781644531044
Did women have a civic identity in eighteenth-century France? In Citoyennes: Women and the Ideal of Citizenship in Eighteenth-Century France, Annie Smart contends that they did. While previous scholarship has emphasized the ideal of domestic motherhood or the image of the republican mother, Smart argues persuasively that many pre-revolutionary and revolutionary texts created another ideal for women–the ideal of civic motherhood. Smart asserts that women were portrayed as possessing civic virtue, and as promoting the values and ideals of the public sphere. Contemporary critics have theorized that the eighteenth-century ideal of the Republic intentionally excluded women from the public sphere. According to this perspective, a discourse of “Rousseauean” domestic motherhood stripped women of an active civic identity, and limited their role to breastfeeding and childcare. Eighteenth-century France marked thus the division between a male public sphere of political action and a female private sphere of the home. Citoyennes challenges this position and offers an alternative model of female identity. This interdisciplinary study brings together a variety of genres to demonstrate convincingly that women were portrayed as civic individuals. Using foundational texts such as Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Emile, or on Education (1762), revolutionary gouaches of Lesueur, and vaudeville plays of Year II of the Republic (1793/1794), this study brilliantly shows that in text and image, women were represented as devoted to both the public good and their families. In addition, Citoyennes offers an innovative interpretation of the home. Through re-examining sphere theory, this study challenges the tendency to equate the home with private concerns, and shows that the home can function as a site for both private life and civic identity. Citoyennes breaks new ground, for it both rectifies the ideal of domestic Rousseauean motherhood, and brings a fuller understanding to how female civic identity operated in important French texts and images. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author : Mary Pix,Susanna Centlivre,Elizabeth Griffith,Hannah Cowley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199554812
"First published as an Oxford World's Classics paperback 2001"--T.p
Author : Michael Caines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199642373
Surveys the critical and creative responses of 18th-century actors, audiences, critics, editors, artists, and philosophers to Shakespeare's work and traces how those responses influenced subsequent responses.
Author : Kristine Johanson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611474602
This book presents a scholarly edition of five of the first adaptations of Shakespeare from the eighteenth century, the period when Shakespeare became “Shakespeare.” Written by men influential in early Augustan cultural spheres, these adaptations demonstrate how contemporary literary principles and contemporary politics were applied to Shakespeare’s texts. In these adaptations of Henry V, Richard II, Coriolanus, 2 Henry VI and 3 Henry VI, we see the various ways that eighteenth-century authors “righted” Shakespeare’s “wrongs”: through the addition and alteration of female characters and romantic sub-plots, the introduction of new scenes, the use of the unities of time and place, and the inclusion of overt moral and political arguments. The critical introduction contextualizes the five adaptations through its discussion of early eighteenth-century theatre and politics. First providing an overview of the state of the theatre at the beginning of the Augustan age, the introduction then examines the multiple political conspiracies that rocked the first years of George I’s reign and that provide the backdrop to these adaptations. Furthermore, the introduction draws particular attention to the importance of the actress in the early eighteenth century, highlighting how Shakespeare’s adaptors drew on actresses’ cultural capital to alter Shakespeare’s texts. Finally, the edition provides a critical introduction to each of the plays. Extensive explanatory notes are provided, which situate further these plays in their contemporary context. In its introduction and explanatory notes, Shakespeare Adaptations supplies an important critical apparatus to five plays which are often noted in the annals of Shakespearean theatrical history with derision. However, this edition reveals how these plays documented their own time and helped shape Shakespeare into the most recognizable literary icon in the Western canon.
Author : Kate Louise Rumbold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : English drama
ISBN : OCLC:863495760
Author : Kate Rumbold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016-03-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781107132405
Explores the significant presence of Shakespeare in major novels of the eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
Author : Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz,Gayle Greene,Carol Thomas Neely
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Feminism and literature
ISBN : 0252010167
Author : Laura Engel
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781527561366
“The Public’s Open to Us All”: Essays on Women and Performance in Eighteenth-Century England considers the relationship between British women and various modes of performance in the long eighteenth century. From the moment Charles II was restored to the English throne in 1660, the question of women’s status in the public world became the focus of cultural attention both on and off the stage. In addition to the appearance of the first actresses during this period female playwrights, novelists, poets, essayists, journalists, theatrical managers and entrepreneurs emerged as skillful and often demanding professionals. In this variety of new roles, eighteenth-century women redefined shifting notions of femininity by challenging traditional representations of female subjectivity and contributing to the shaping of eighteenth-century society’s attitudes, tastes, and cultural imagination. Recent scholarship in eighteenth-century studies reflects a heightened interest in fame, the rise of celebrity culture, and new ways of understanding women’s participation as both private individuals and public professionals. What is unique to the body of essays presented here is the authors’ focus on performance as a means of thinking about the ways in which women occupied, negotiated, re-imagined, and challenged the world outside of the traditional domestic realm. The authors employ a range of historical, literary, and theoretical approaches to the connections among women and performance, and in doing so make significant contributions to the fields of eighteenth-century literary and cultural studies, theatre history, gender studies, and performance studies.
Author : Vivien Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521586801
This book, first published in 2000, is an authoritative volume of new essays on women's writing and reading in the eighteenth century.
Author : Mrs. Jameson (Anna)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Women in art
ISBN : HARVARD:32044014171391