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Changing Styles in Shakespeare

Author : Ralph Berry
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134566182
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Changing Styles in Shakespeare written by Ralph Berry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1981. Each of Shakespeare's plays is in a continuous state of development in performance. This book examines major changes whilst focusing on six plays in detail: Coriolanus, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, Henry V, Hamlet and Twelfth Night. Changing Styles in Shakespeare looks at representative and key productions to trace the evolution of each play on today's stage, illustrating how production changes relate to a changed perception of the play, and thus to shifts in social attitudes. It singles out the salient features of many productions, paying special attention to reviews and prompt books.

Shakespeare's Style

Author : Maurice Charney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611477654
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Style written by Maurice Charney and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s Style presents a detailed consideration of aspects of Shakespeare’s writing style in his plays. Each chapter offers a detailed discussion about a single feature of style in a chosen Shakespeare play. Topics examine include: a discussion of a key image or images, both verbal and nonverbal; consideration of the way a character is put together; reflection of the changing audience response to a character; and audience response to an account of the speech rhythms of a single play. This book will be of interest to audiences who see Shakespeare’s plays, readers of the printed page, and students aiding them in concentrating on the significant ways that Shakespeare expresses himself.

How Shakespeare Changed Everything

Author : Stephen Marche
Publisher : Harper Perennial
ISBN 13 : 9780061965548
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book How Shakespeare Changed Everything written by Stephen Marche and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare is everywhere Nearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare permeates our everyday lives: from the words we speak to the teenage heartthrobs we worship to the political rhetoric spewed by the twenty-four-hour news cycle. In the pages of this wickedly clever little book, Esquire columnist Stephen Marche uncovers the hidden influence of Shakespeare in our culture, including these fascinating tidbits: Shakespeare coined more than 1,700 words, including hobnob, glow, lackluster, and dawn. Paul Robeson's 1943 performance as Othello on Broadway was a seminal moment in black history. Tolstoy wrote an entire book about Shakespeare's failures as a writer. In 1936, the Nazi Party tried to claim Shakespeare as a Germanic writer. Without Shakespeare, the book titles Infinite Jest, The Sound and the Fury, and Brave New World wouldn't exist. The name Jessica was first used in The Merchant of Venice. Freud's idea of a healthy sex life came directly from the Bard. Stephen Marche has cherry-picked the sweetest and most savory historical footnotes from Shakespeare's work and life to create this unique celebration of the greatest writer of all time.

Shakespeare and the Arts of Language

Author : Russ McDonald
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198711719
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (987 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Arts of Language written by Russ McDonald and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Russ McDonald... offers an initiation into Shakespeares English.... Like a good musician leading us beyond merely humming the tunes, he helps us hear Shakespearean unclarity, revealing just how expression in late Shakespeare sometimes transcends ordinary verbal meaning.... particularly recommendable.' -Ruth Morse, Times Literary Supplement 'Oxford University Press offer a mix of engagingly written introductions to a variety of Topics intended largely for undergraduates. Each author has clearly been reading and listening to the most recent scholarship, but they wear their learning lightly.' -Ruth Morse, Times Literary SupplementOxford Shakespeare Topics (General Editors Peter Holland and Stanley Wells) provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or playgoer, English as Shakespeare used it - especially in verse drama - can seem alien. Shakespeare and the Arts of Language offers practical help with linguistic and poetic obstacles. Written in a lucid, nontechnical style, the book defines Shakespeare's artistic tools, including imagery, rhetoric, and wordplay, and illustrates their effects. Throughout, the reader is encouraged to find delight in the physical properties of the words: their colour, weight, and texture, the appeal of verbal patterns, and the irresistible affective power of intensified language.

Representing Shakespeare

Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317866746
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Representing Shakespeare written by Robert Shaughnessy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social and political conflict, crisis and change. Since the company's inception in the early 1960s, the RSC's commitment to relevance has fostered close relationships between Shakespearean criticism and performance, and between the theatre and its audiences. Through a detailed discussion of key productions, from "The War of the Roses" in 1963 to "The Plantegenets" in 1988, Robert Shaughnessy emphasizes the political dimension of contemporary theatrical representations of Shakespeare, and of the "Shakespearean" modes of history that these plays have been employed to promote; individualist, cyclical, male-dominated, and driven by essentialised, transcendent human nature.

Shakespeare Remains

Author : Courtney Lehmann
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501727591
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Remains written by Courtney Lehmann and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No literary figure has proved so elusive as Shakespeare. How, Courtney Lehmann asks, can the controversies surrounding the Bard's authorship be resolved when his works precede the historical birth of that modern concept? And how is it that Shakespeare remains such a powerful presence today, years after poststructuralists hailed the "death of the author"? In her cogent book, Lehmann reexamines these issues through a new lens: film theory.An alternative to literary models that either minimize or exalt the writer's creative role, film theory, in Lehmann's view, perceives authorship as a site of constitutive conflict, generating in the process the notion of the auteur. From this perspective, she offers close readings of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Hamlet, of film adaptations by Kenneth Branagh, Baz Luhrmann, and Michael Almereyda, and of John Madden's Shakespeare in Love. In their respective historical contexts, these plays and films emerge as allegories of authorship, exploiting such strategies as appropriation, adaptation, projection, and montage. Lehmann explores the significance of this struggle for agency, both in Shakespeare's time and in the present day, in the cultures of early and late capitalism.By projecting film theory from the postmodern to the early modern and back again, Lehmann demonstrates the ways in which Shakespeare emerges as a special effect—indeed, as an auteur—in two cultures wherein authors fear to tread.

Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies

Author : David F. McCandless
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113344
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies by : David F. McCandless

Download or read book Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies written by David F. McCandless and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is exactly the kind of work, with its synthesis of theory, close reading, and deconstructive performance criticism that many of us in the profession have been looking for." -- Joel B. Altman, University of California, Berkeley "McCandless's book represents an inventive and illuminating account that not only produces a theoretically activated text but also explores a range of options for staging it, turning theoretical into theatrical meanings." -- Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University "The writing is clear, snappy, wonderfully informed with a vivid and experienced theatrical imagination... a book that taught me a good deal about the problem comedies, especially from the vantage point of performance, though the insights into performance are fully and incisively integrated with, and they richly illuminate, formal, thematic, and psychological vantage points on the play." -- Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois Composed at a critical moment in English history, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida -- Shakespeare's problem plays -- dramatize a crisis in the sex-gender system. They register a male dread of emasculation and engulfment, a fear of female authority and sexuality. In these plays males identify desire for a female as dangerous and unmanly, females contend and confound traditional femininity. David McCandless's book is a unique and invigorating example of performance criticism that illuminates these difficult, sometimes-overlooked tragicomedies. It is an original and timely contribution to Shakespearean theater scholarship.

Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408198789
Total Pages : 1382 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Arden Shakespeare Complete Works written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-03-10 with total page 1382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised edition of the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works includes the full text of Double Falsehood, which was published in the Arden Third series to critical acclaim in 2010. The play is an eighteenth century rewrite of Shakespeare's "lost" play Cardenio and as such is a fascinating testament to the original. A short introduction outlines its complex textual history and the arguments for including it within the Shakespeare canon. The Complete Works contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden series. A general introduction gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.

Screening Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V

Author : Ace G. Pilkington
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874134124
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Screening Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V written by Ace G. Pilkington and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book applies the videocassette to the study of Shakespeare on television and film. The result is that the films become texts, and Shakespeare in performance can be examined with the scholarly care that has been reserved for printed books.

Shakespeare’s Roman Worlds

Author : Vivian Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000350401
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Roman Worlds written by Vivian Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ‘infinite variety’ of Shakespeare’s Roman plays is reflected in the diversity of critical commentary to which they have given rise. Originally published in 1989, the distinguishing feature of this study is that it endeavours to convey a clear idea of the relationship between the characters and events in Shakespeare’s plays and the main narrative sources on which the four Roman plays are based, while simultaneously undertaking a critical analysis of the plays through the perspective of Shakespeare’s Roman worlds, particularly the creation and operation of the value system. Hence these plays are perceived as political plays, histories and tragedies.

Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope

Author : Hugh Grady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009116010
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Dialectic of Hope written by Hugh Grady and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study charts how Shakespeare's early fascination with power developed into the profoundly optimistic utopian visions suffusing his later tragicomedies. Hugh Grady shows how five of Shakespeare's most important plays presciently confront dilemmas of an emerging modernity, diagnosing and indicting instrumental politics and capitalism.

Shakespeare's Authentic Performance Texts

Author : Graham Watts
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786497203
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Authentic Performance Texts written by Graham Watts and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we pick up a copy of a Shakespeare play, we assume that we hold in our hands an original record of his writing. We don't. Present-day printings are an editor's often subjective version of the script. Around 25 percent of any Shakespeare play will have been altered, and this creates an enormous amount of confusion. The only authentic edition of Shakespeare's works is the First Folio, published by his friends and colleagues in 1623. This volume makes the case for printing and staging the plays as set in the First Folio, which preserved actor cues that helped players understand and perform their roles. The practices of modern editors are critiqued. Also included are sections on analyzing and acting the text, how a complex character can be created using the First Folio, and a director's approach to rehearsing Shakespeare with various exercises for both professional and student actors. In conclusion, all of the findings are applied to Measure for Measure.

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Author : Douglas Bruster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000770273
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Shakespeare’s Style written by Douglas Bruster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally. Organized as a series of studies of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, poetry, and prose, it looks at the inner functioning of language and form in works from all phases of this writer’s career. Because the very concept of literary style has dropped out of so many of our conversations about writing, we need new ways to understand how words, phrases, speeches, and genres in literature work. Responding to this need, this book shows how visual representations of writing can lead to a deeper understanding of language’s textures and effects. Starting with chapters that a beginning reader of Shakespeare can benefit from, its second half puts these tools to use in more in-depth examinations of Shakespeare’s language and style. Although focused on Shakespeare’s works, and the works of his contemporaries, this book provides tools for all readers of literature by defining style as material, graphic, and shaped by the various media in which all writers work.

Shakespeare in Performance

Author : Frank Occhiogrosso
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137767
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in Performance written by Frank Occhiogrosso and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book deal with the nature of performance criticism, performance history, state and screen productions of Shakespeare and the physical playhouse. These essays, by John Russell Brown, James Bulman, Ralph Berry, Herbert Coursen, Jay Halio, James Lusardi, June Schlueter, Harry Keyishian, Alan Dessen, Pauline Kiernan, and Marvin Rosenberg, represent some of the best current thinking on the roles of performance in criticism of Shakespeare.

Wartime Shakespeare

Author : Amy Lidster
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009356070
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Wartime Shakespeare written by Amy Lidster and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first sustained study of how Shakespeare has been mobilized during conflicts spanning the eighteenth to the twenty-first century. It draws on interdisciplinary research to develop an innovative critical methodology that reveals the creativity and diversity of wartime theatre production and its variable impacts.

Shakespeare's Grammatical Style

Author : Dolores M. Burton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292771487
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Grammatical Style written by Dolores M. Burton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s Grammatical Style is the first full-scale, systematic study using an examination of Shakespeare’s syntax as a key to the interpretation of his work. Dolores M. Burton presents information on the application of linguistic and statistical techniques to the description and analysis of style, and she has applied the insights and techniques of the major schools of linguistic inquiry, including those of London and Prague. Just as studies of imagery and vocabulary have aided interpretations of the plays, so an examination of the grammatical features of Shakespeare’s language indicates that they, too, perform a poetic and dramatic function. For example, noun modifiers like possessives and definite articles yield insights into a speaker’s point of view or subtly aid in defining the fictional world of the plays. With respect to stylistic development, Shakespeare’s handling of word order moved from a concentration of dislocated sentences and clause constituents to greater emphasis on varied and frequent permutations in nominal and verbal phrases. A computer-generated concordance of function words facilitated the study of syntactic features, which included an examination of formal aspects of diction, nominal group structure, the function and frequency of relative clauses, and the classification of sentences by mood and type. Several problems associated with quantitative and linguistic studies of a full-length literary work are discussed and exemplified. Style itself is defined mathematically as a propositional function S(A), and from this definition stylistic parameters are derived by correlating critical notions like fictional world, point of view, and characterization with differences in the syntax of the two plays.

Watching Shakespeare

Author : Anthony B Dawson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349193623
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Watching Shakespeare written by Anthony B Dawson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-07-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a book written primarily for playgoers. Looking closely at eighteen plays, Anthony Dawson examines key decisions that actors and directors have to make, and shows how different interpretations flow from these decisions. His aim is to make audiences more aware of the multiple possibilities that a Shakespearean text provides, and hence better able to assess particular productions. Using frequent and extensive illustration from the modern theatre, he argues that contradiction and creative inconsistency are marks of Shakespeare's plays and that productions usually work best when they embrace opposition and strive for balance, rather than when they adopt one-sided readings or suppress elements that don't fit a particular concept.