World Historical Plays

Author : Ian Kershaw
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350089662

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The Greatest Play in the History of the World by Ian Kershaw Pdf

What is it that you would want to be preserved for eternity? A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover that the world has stopped. Through the crack in his bedroom curtains he can see no signs of life at all...other than a light in the house opposite where a woman in an oversized Bowie T-shirt stands, looking back at him. The Greatest Play in the History of the World is a beautifully constructed love story, set on Preston Road and also in space and in time. Presented as a monologue for one actor, it asks profound questions with deepest sincerity whilst simultaneously balancing the human quest for meaningful connections. This edition was published to coincide with the play's run at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh in summer 2018 starring Julie Hesmondhalgh.

Author : Dr. Dolly Soni
Publisher : Ashok Yakkaldevi
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781387508433

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MANAGEMENT WISDOM IN HISTORICAL PLAYS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE by Dr. Dolly Soni Pdf

“The attempt to write about Shakespeare is like going into a large, spacious and splendid Dome through the conveyance of a narrow and obscure entry.”(Theobalt, 231) William Shakespeare is acknowledged as world’s greatest English language playwright and poet who possessed great wit and wisdom. His works are still admired by day to day people. He has written about almost all fields of knowledge. His plays not only entertain us but they give us insightful advice and wise suggestions for life. We have Shakespearean plays on varied human affairs like war, love, different family crises, problems etc. It seems that all the plays are written to keep live situations of our day to day affairs. For Shakespeare’s universal Fame Pope in his Preface to Shakespeare says: “If ever any author deserved the name of an original, it was Shakespeare” (2).

Author : Robert Watt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781317876137

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Shakespeare's History Plays by Robert Watt Pdf

Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their relevance to central contemporary issues such as English, national identities and gender roles. Interpretations of the history plays have been transformed since the 1980s by new theoretically-informed critical approaches. Movements such as New Historicism and cultural materialism, as well as psychoanalytical and post-colonial approaches, have swept away the humanist consensus of the mid-twentieth century with its largely conservative view of the plays. The last decade has seen an emergence of feminist and gender-based readings of plays which were once thought overwhelmingly masculine in their concerns. This book provides an up-to-date critical anthology representing the best work from each of the modern theoretical perspectives. The introduction outlines the changing debate in an area which is now one of the liveliest in Shakespearean criticism.

Author : Niloufer Harben
Publisher : Springer
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1988-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349090075

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Twentieth-Century English History Plays by Niloufer Harben Pdf

The history play is an extremely popular genre among English playwrights of this century, yet very little research has been done in the field. In particular, the sheer size and complexity of the subject appears to have prevented critics from attempting to arrive at a clear definition of the genre. This book examines the term 'history play' afresh, seeking to define more precisely the scope and the limits of the genre in relation to twentieth-century ideas of and attitudes to history.

Author : Thomas Macknight
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082265003

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Prize Essay on the Historical Plays of Shakspeare by Thomas Macknight Pdf

Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521775396

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays by Michael Hattaway Pdf

Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.

Author : Spencer E. Roberts
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401508674

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Soviet Historical Drama by Spencer E. Roberts Pdf

The taste for history is the most ariswcratic of all tastes. Ernest Rerum "Our century is pre-eminently an historical century . . . . Even art has now become pre-eminently historical. The historical novel and drama interest each and everyone more at present than do similar works belonging to the realm of pure fiction. "! Although Belinskii was writing in 1841, his statement could equally well apply to the Russia of a century later, when the interest in historical fiction had become, if anything, more intense. In fact, the abundance of Soviet historical novels and plays tempts one to believe Heine, when he said that the people want their history handed to them by the poet, not the historian. The infatuation with history to which Belinskii referred was not, however, indigenous to Russia; it was part of a rage, largely inspired by Waiter Scott, which had swept western Europe in the early nine teenth century, and which soon spread to Russia. Today, Scott's star has been eclipsed in the West, but it still burns brightly in the Soviet Union. Indeed, it can be said that the West has not only rejected Scott, but, to a considerable extent, the historical novel and playas well. As one writer recently put it: "The reading public, brought up on a strict diet of sex and science, prefers to take its history undiluted in the form of unexpurgated memoirs and frank biographies.

Author : Martin Puchner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-04-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0199742243

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The Drama of Ideas by Martin Puchner Pdf

Most philosophy has rejected the theater, denouncing it as a place of illusion or moral decay; the theater in turn has rejected philosophy, insisting that drama deals in actions, not ideas. Challenging both views, The Drama of Ideas shows that theater and philosophy have been crucially intertwined from the start. Plato is the presiding genius of this alternative history. The Drama of Ideas presents Plato not only as a theorist of drama, but also as a dramatist himself, one who developed a dialogue-based dramaturgy that differs markedly from the standard, Aristotelian view of theater. Puchner discovers scores of dramatic adaptations of Platonic dialogues, the most immediate proof of Plato's hitherto unrecognized influence on theater history. Drawing on these adaptations, Puchner shows that Plato was central to modern drama as well, with figures such as Wilde, Shaw, Pirandello, Brecht, and Stoppard using Plato to create a new drama of ideas. Puchner then considers complementary developments in philosophy, offering a theatrical history of philosophy that includes Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Burke, Sartre, Camus, and Deleuze. These philosophers proceed with constant reference to theater, using theatrical terms, concepts, and even dramatic techniques in their writings. The Drama of Ideas mobilizes this double history of philosophical theater and theatrical philosophy to subject current habits of thought to critical scrutiny. In dialogue with contemporary thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum, Iris Murdoch, and Alain Badiou, Puchner formulates the contours of a "dramatic Platonism." This new Platonism does not seek to return to an idealist theory of forms, but it does point beyond the reigning philosophies of the body, of materialism and of cultural relativism.

Author : Donald Watson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1990-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349110353

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Shakespeare’s Early History Plays by Donald Watson Pdf

This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and "King John" - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s.

Author : C W R D Moseley
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9781847601063

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Shakespeare's History Plays: Richard II to Henry V, the Making of a King by C W R D Moseley Pdf

Part I provides some contexts for what is inevitably our reading of the history plays, so that perhaps we may guess at the impact they may have had on their contemporaries. The author suggests, by implication, a way of approaching Elizabethan drama that may be generally useful. Part II is a consideration of what the author thinks are some major issues in the Ricardian plays.

Author : Ralf Hertel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317050797

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Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play by Ralf Hertel Pdf

Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe in the context of non-fictional texts (such as historiographies, chorographies, political treatises, or dictionary entries) and cultural artefacts (such as maps or portraits), and thus highlights the circulation, and mutation, of national thought in late sixteenth-century culture. At the same time, it goes beyond a New Historicist approach by foregrounding the performative surplus of the theatre event that is so essential for the shaping of collective identity. How, this study crucially asks, does the performative art of theatre contribute to the dynamics of the formation of national identity? Although theories about the nature of nationalism vary, a majority of theorists agree that notions of a shared territory and history, as well as questions of religion, class and gender play crucial roles in the shaping of national identity. These factors inform the structure of this book, and each is examined individually. In contrast to existing publications, this inquiry does not take for granted a pre-existing national identity that simply manifested itself in the literary works of the period; nor does it proceed from preconceived notions of the playwrights’ political views. Instead, it understands the early modern stage as an essentially contested space in which conflicting political positions are played off against each other, and it inquires into how the imaginative work of negotiating these stances eventually contributed to a rising national self-awareness in the spectators.

Author : Michael Robinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521846042

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The Cambridge Companion to August Strindberg by Michael Robinson Pdf

A collection of essays on the highly colourful life and work of August Strindberg - dramatist, novelist, autobiographer and painter.

Author : Prof Dr Ralf Hertel
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472420510

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Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play by Prof Dr Ralf Hertel Pdf

Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe in the context of non-fictional texts (such as historiographies, chorographies, political treatises, or dictionary entries) and cultural artefacts (such as maps or portraits), and thus highlights the circulation, and mutation, of national thought in late sixteenth-century culture. At the same time, it goes beyond a New Historicist approach by foregrounding the performative surplus of the theatre event that is so essential for the shaping of collective identity. How, this study crucially asks, does the performative art of theatre contribute to the dynamics of the formation of national identity? Although theories about the nature of nationalism vary, a majority of theorists agree that notions of a shared territory and history, as well as questions of religion, class and gender play crucial roles in the shaping of national identity. These factors inform the structure of this book, and each is examined individually. In contrast to existing publications, this inquiry does not take for granted a pre-existing national identity that simply manifested itself in the literary works of the period; nor does it proceed from preconceived notions of the playwrights’ political views. Instead, it understands the early modern stage as an essentially contested space in which conflicting political positions are played off against each other, and it inquires into how the imaginative work of negotiating these stances eventually contributed to a rising national self-awareness in the spectators.

Author : Kristin Gjesdal
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780190070762

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The Drama of History by Kristin Gjesdal Pdf

The Drama of History plumbs the rich relationship between drama and philosophy. Kristin Gjesdal offers a lively and accessible discussion of the philosophical aspects of Henrik Ibsen's work. She shows how well-known nineteenth-century philosophers such as Hegel and Nietzsche develop their thoughts in interaction with the dramatic arts. At the heart of this interaction is a shared interest in exploring the existential condition of human life as lived andexperienced in history. In this sense, Gjesdal engages philosophy's capacity beyond its narrow academic confines.

Author : Dominique Goy-Blanquet
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198119879

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Shakespeare's Early History Plays by Dominique Goy-Blanquet Pdf

Like many of his fellow playwrights, Shakespeare turned to national history for inspiration. In this study, Dominique Goy-Blanquet provides a close comparison of the Henry VI plays and Richard III with their historical and theatrical sources, demonstrating how Shakespeare was able to meet not only the ideological but also the technical problems of turning history into drama, how by cutting, carving, shaping, casting his unwieldy material into performable plays, he matured into the most influential dramatist and historian of his time. Recent criticism of Shakespeare's history plays has often consisted of fierce arguments over their ideological import and Shakespeare's position on the spectrum of current political opinions. This book, however, stems from the belief that a more constructive starting point for research is the exploration of the technical problems raised by turning heavy narratives into performable plays, rather than the political motives that could inpire a playwright's representation of national history. Illuminating and instructive, Shakespeare's Early History Plays includes not only close investigation of the verbal, poetic, and political texture of the plays, but also provides a broad overview of the wider sixteenth-century historiographical contexts of the plays, and their significance to Shakespeare's oeuvre more generally.