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A Foul and Pestilent Congregation

Author : Barry Wind
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429865139
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book A Foul and Pestilent Congregation written by Barry Wind and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998, this volume explores how in the seventeenth century depictions of human oddity, hunchbacks, cripples, dwarfs, appeared regularly in the work of both minor and major artists including Veláquez, Rubens, Van Dyck and Rivera. In this, the first comprehensive study of these images, Barry Wind starts with the topoi for the mentally and physically infirm established in antiquity and traces their development into the Baroque period. A delight in the unusual was consonant with the contemporary collection of other exotica, convoluted shells and strange animals, but human ‘freaks’ provoked more than curiosity. Their representation ranged from taxonomic fascination to derisive mockery. They were frequently cast as imperfect foils to the fashionable courtiers who sought aggrandizement through juxtaposition. The images were also exploited as metaphors for a favourite theme of the period ‘the world turned upside down’. In this synthesis of repulsion and fascination, mockery and dread, the portrayal of these ‘others’ reveals a dark underside of Baroque culture that has never been thoroughly investigated or understood. With the support of 75 reproductions of works from Italy, Spain and Northern Europe, Barry Wind examines representations of human deformity throughout the baroque period. He pursues his account into the eighteenth century and the expression of a new sympathetic understanding and compassion. His study, written with great clarity, makes available hitherto obscure and inaccessible material gathered from diverse sources such as medical treatises, literary texts, popular ballads and court documents to set these images in their context and explain this obsession with difference.

Stages and Playgoers

Author : Janet Hill
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773522732
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Stages and Playgoers written by Janet Hill and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stages and Playgoers demonstrates the long, vital tradition of dialogue between stage and audience from medieval, through Tudor, to Jacobean drama. Janet Hill offers new insights into techniques of addressing playgoers from the stage and how they might have operated under particular staging conditions. Hill calls this dialogue "open address," a term that takes in a range of speeches often called "asides," "monologues," and "soliloquies." She argues that open address is a strategy that challenges playgoers, asking for answers that lie outside the stage in the playgoer/playhouse world.

Hamlet

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780748703463
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2014 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hamlet, Prince of Denmark written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference

Author : John Gillies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458535
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (585 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference written by John Gillies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre, arising from their shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and hubristic expansiveness. Dr Gillies shows that Shakespeare's images of the exotic, the 'barbarous, outlandish or strange', are grounded in concrete historical fact: to be marginalised was not just a matter of social status, but of belonging, quite literally, to the margins of contemporary maps. Through an examination of the icons and emblems of contemporary cartography, Dr Gillies challenges the map-makers' overt intentions, and the attitudes and assumptions that remained below the level of consciousness. His study of map and metaphor raises profound questions about the nature of a map, and of the connections between the semiology of a map and that of the theatre.

An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction

Author : William Adolphus Wheeler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Explanatory and Pronouncing Dictionary of the Noted Names of Fiction written by William Adolphus Wheeler and published by . This book was released on 1866 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory

Author : Andrew Hiscock
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317596846
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory written by Andrew Hiscock and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-08-09 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Memory introduces this vibrant field of study to students and scholars, whilst defining and extending critical debates in the area. The book begins with a series of "Critical Introductions" offering an overview of memory in particular areas of Shakespeare such as theatre, print culture, visual arts, post-colonial adaptation and new media. These essays both introduce the topic but also explore specific areas such as the way in which Shakespeare’s representation in the visual arts created a national and then a global poet. The entries then develop into more specific studies of the genre of Shakespeare, with sections on Tragedy, History, Comedy and Poetry, which include insightful readings of specific key plays. The book ends with a state of the art review of the area, charting major contributions to the debate, and illuminating areas for further study. The international range of contributors explore the nature of memory in religious, political, emotional and economic terms which are not only relevant to Shakespearean times, but to the way we think and read now.

Key Concepts in Creative Writing

Author : Matthew Morrison
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350314803
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Key Concepts in Creative Writing written by Matthew Morrison and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive writers' guide to the terminology used across the creative writing industries and in the major literary movements. Packed with practical tips for honing writing skills and identifying opportunities for publication and production, it also explains the workings of publishing houses, literary agencies and producing theatres.

The Faith of William Shakespeare

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Lion Books
ISBN 13 : 0745968929
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book The Faith of William Shakespeare written by Graham Holderness and published by Lion Books. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare stills stands head and shoulders above any other author in the English language, a position that is unlikely ever to change. Yet it is often said that we know very little about him - and that applies as much to what he believed as it does to the rest of his biography. Or does it? In this authoritative new study, Graham Holderness takes us through the context of Shakespeare's life, times of religious and political turmoil, and looks at what we do know of Shakespeare the Anglican. But then he goes beyond that, and mines the plays themselves, not just for the words of the characters, but for the concepts, themes and language which Shakespeare was himself steeped in - the language of the Bible and the Book of Common Prayer. Considering particularly such plays as Richard ll, Henry V, The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Othello, The Tempest and The Winter's Tale, Holderness shows how the ideas of Catholicism come up against those of Luther and Calvin; how Christianity was woven deep into Shakespeare's psyche, and how he brought it again and again to his art.

A Companion to Tragedy

Author : Rebecca Bushnell
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405192461
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Tragedy written by Rebecca Bushnell and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Tragedy is an essential resource for anyone interested in exploring the role of tragedy in Western history and culture. Tells the story of the historical development of tragedy from classical Greece to modernity Features 28 essays by renowned scholars from multiple disciplines, including classics, English, drama, anthropology and philosophy Broad in its scope and ambition, it considers interpretations of tragedy through religion, philosophy and history Offers a fresh assessment of Ancient Greek tragedy and demonstrates how the practice of reading tragedy has changed radically in the past two decades

The London Pulpit

Author : James Ewing Ritchie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book The London Pulpit written by James Ewing Ritchie and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Superior Spectre

Author : Angela Meyer
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1925183920
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (251 download)

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Download or read book A Superior Spectre written by Angela Meyer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-07-23 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff is dying. Haunted by memories and grappling with the shame of his desires, he runs away to remote Scotland with a piece of experimental tech that allows him to enter the mind of someone in the past. Instructed to only use it three times, Jeff – self-indulgent, isolated and deteriorating – ignores this advice. In the late 1860s, Leonora lives a contented life in the Scottish Highlands, surrounded by nature, her hands and mind kept busy. Contemplating her future and the social conventions that bind her, a secret romantic friendship with the local laird is interrupted when her father sends her to stay with her aunt in Edinburgh – an intimidating, sooty city; the place where her mother perished. But Leonora’s ability to embrace her new life is shadowed by a dark presence that begins to lurk behind her eyes, and strange visions that bear no resemblance to anything she has ever seen or known… A Superior Spectre is a highly accomplished debut novel about our capacity for curiosity, and our dangerous entitlement to it, and reminds us the scariest ghosts aren’t those that go bump in the night, but those that are born and create a place for themselves in the human soul.

Surviving Theatre

Author : Marco Pustianaz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000450546
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Surviving Theatre written by Marco Pustianaz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written soon before and in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, when theatre ground to a halt and spectatorship was suspended, this book takes stock of spectatorship as theatre’s living archive and affirms its value in the midst of the present crisis. Drawing from a manifold affective archive of performances and installations (by Marina Abramović, Ron Athey, Forced Entertainment, Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Blast Theory, LIGNA, Doris Salcedo, Graeme Miller, Lenz Rifrazioni, Cristina Rizzo, etc.), and expanding on the work of many theorists and scholars, such as Roland Barthes and Jacques Rancière, Giorgio Agamben and Alain Badiou, Nicholas Ridout and Alan Read, among others, the book focuses on the spectator as the subject, rather than the object, of investigation. This is the right time to remember their secret power and theorise their collective time in the theatre. This book is an archive of their adventure and a manifesto rooted in their potentiality. It boldly posits the spectator as the inaugurator of theatre, the surplus that survives it. The book will be of great interest to spectators all and sundry, to scholars and students of theatre and performance studies, of spectatorship and politics.

Inside Out and Outside In

Author : Joan Berzoff
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538125471
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)

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Download or read book Inside Out and Outside In written by Joan Berzoff and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside Out and Outside In has established itself as a foundational book for mental health practitioners in a variety of disciplines who work with clients in complex social environments. It is unique in its focus on the forces that shape people from within and also from their social worlds, with sensitivity to race, gender, sexuality, and class. The fifth edition features new material and revisions throughout while maintaining the respectful and accessible style for which the book is known. It has been fully updated to reflect the changing political and social landscape, regarding women's issues, immigration issues, and racism, to name just a few. Two new chapters have been added on Biopsychosocial Assessment and Neurobiology. In addition, the authors reinforce intersectionality and diversity through case studies in every chapter. The fifth edition of Inside Out and Outside In is an up-to-date and essential resource for mental health professionals and students practicing in today’s increasingly complex environment.

Hamlet ESP

Author : Paul Baker
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780822204923
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book Hamlet ESP written by Paul Baker and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 1971 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Embodied here as a drama of what transpires in two worlds--an outer one of external events and an inner one of the mind--the action of the play centers on the second area, and the remarkably complex, exciting dialogue taking place within H

Hamlet's Search for Meaning

Author : Walter N. King
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820338559
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Hamlet's Search for Meaning written by Walter N. King and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theological and psychological interpretations of Shakespeare's most problematic play have been pursued as complementary to each other. In this bold reading, Walter N. King brings twentiethcentury Christian existentialism and post-Freudian psychological theory to bear upon Hamlet and his famous problems. King draws on the support of Paul Tillich, John Macquarrie, and Nicolai Beryaev, who radically reinterpreted the Christian doctrine of providence, and presents an unconventional thesis. He derives illuminating psychological insights from Erik Erikson, the pioneer in the modern study of identity, and Viktor Frankl, the founder of logotherapy.

Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion

Author : David Loewenstein
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316239810
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion written by David Loewenstein and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, Catholicism, non-Christian religions including Judaism and Islam, and secular perspectives, considering plays such as Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Winter's Tale. The collection is of great interest to readers of Shakespeare studies, early modern literature, religious studies, and early modern history.