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English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Wolfgang Clemen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136811095
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals) written by Wolfgang Clemen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a bearing on Shakespeare’s dramatic technique, helps to illuminate the foundations on which Shakespeare built his dramatic oeuvre.

English Drama Before Shakespeare

Author : Peter Happe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131787112X
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book English Drama Before Shakespeare written by Peter Happe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher Marlowe. Peter Happé's study is based upon close reading of selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. It takes account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance (including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts. Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the written records of early drama form part of the book's focus. There is an extensive bibliography covering social and political background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of literature and cultural studies.

English Tragedy Before Shakespeare

Author : Wolfgang Clemen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book English Tragedy Before Shakespeare written by Wolfgang Clemen and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Tragedy Before Shakespeare

Author : Wolfgang Clemen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book English Tragedy Before Shakespeare written by Wolfgang Clemen and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Drama

Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317871464
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book English Drama written by Alexander Leggatt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most important period in the history of English drama is revealed in Alexander Leggatt's challenging account. The author considers English drama from the beginning of Shakespeare's career to the restoration of Charles II. Focusing on Shakespeare and the development of his art, he examines all his major contemporaries: Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Beaumont, Fletcher and Ford. He combines close analysis of specific plays with a broader look at trends within drama.

English Tragedy Before Shakespeare

Author : Wolfgang Clemen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (459 download)

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Download or read book English Tragedy Before Shakespeare written by Wolfgang Clemen and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals)

Author : Wolfgang Clemen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136811109
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Book Synopsis English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals) by : Wolfgang Clemen

Download or read book English Tragedy before Shakespeare (Routledge Revivals) written by Wolfgang Clemen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama and, by tracing certain characteristics in Elizabethan tragedy which were to have a bearing on Shakespeare’s dramatic technique, helps to illuminate the foundations on which Shakespeare built his dramatic oeuvre.

Three Classical Tragedies

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0307424413
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Three Classical Tragedies written by William Shakespeare and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Titus Andronicus * Timon of Athens * Coriolanus Each Edition Includes: Comprehensive explanatory notes placed on pages facing the text of the play Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography Titus Andronicus This, Shakespeare’s earliest tragedy, is also his bloodiest and most horror-filled. A Roman general, to appease the spirit of his dead son, sacrifices the son of a captive Goth queen—and sets in motion a remorseless cycle of revenge and counterrevenge. The play’s vivid spectacle of violence stuns audiences with rape, murder, mutilation, and unmitigated cruelty. Timon of Athens This stark drama—in some ways Shakespeare’s most bitter play—is a brilliant psychological portrait of a wealthy Athenian lord whose extraordinary trust and love for others turns to hate and spite when, bankrupted by his generosity, he is overwhelmed by the indifference and ingratitude of those he had thought friends. Coriolanus The arrogance of a Roman military hero puts him in conflict with the people of Rome when the aristocrat is unwilling to compromise with the commoners he so despises. Compellingly relevant today, Shakespeare’s last tragedy—from its opening scene of popular unrest to its chilling climax of betrayal and murder—takes an unwavering, ironic look at political extremism.

The Tragedies of Shakespeare

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tragedies of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre

Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521834740
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre written by Janette Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-12 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to early English theatre, from the late medieval period to 1642.

King Lear

Author : Jeffrey Kahan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135973652
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book King Lear written by Jeffrey Kahan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-04-18 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink

Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare

Author : Paul A. Kottman
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801895421
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Tragic Conditions in Shakespeare written by Paul A. Kottman and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-10-26 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul A. Kottman offers a new and compelling understanding of tragedy as seen in four of Shakespeare’s mature plays—As You Like It, Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest. The author pushes beyond traditional ways of thinking about tragedy, framing his readings with simple questions that have been missing from scholarship of the past generation: Are we still moved by Shakespeare, and why? Kottman throws into question the inheritability of human relationships by showing how the bonds upon which we depend for meaning and worth can be dissolved. According to Kottman, the lives of Shakespeare's protagonists are conditioned by social bonds—kinship ties, civic relations, economic dependencies, political allegiances—that unravel irreparably. This breakdown means they can neither inherit nor bequeath a livable or desirable form of sociality. Orlando and Rosalind inherit nothing “but growth itself” before becoming refugees in the Forest of Arden; Hamlet is disinherited not only by Claudius’s election but by the sheer vacuity of the activities that remain open to him; Lear’s disinheritance of Cordelia bequeaths a series of events that finally leave the social sphere itself forsaken of heirs and forbearers alike. Firmly rooted in the philosophical tradition of reading Shakespeare, this bold work is the first sustained interpretation of Shakespearean tragedy since Stanley Cavell’s work on skepticism and A. C. Bradley’s century-old Shakespearean Tragedy.

Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama

Author : John Addington Symonds
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Predecessors in the English Drama written by John Addington Symonds and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy

Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701977X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy by : Claire McEachern

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy written by Claire McEachern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies

Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462431
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies by : Janette Dillon

Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Janette Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this 2007 book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.

Shakespeare's Tragedies

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1006 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Tragedies written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1006 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England

Author : W. Hamlin
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230502768
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Tragedy and Scepticism in Shakespeare's England written by W. Hamlin and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlin's study provides the first full-scale account of the reception and literary appropriation of ancient scepticism in Elizabethan and Jacobean England (c. 1570-1630). Offering abundant archival evidence as well as fresh treatments of Florio's Montaigne and Bacon's career-long struggle with the challenges of epistemological doubt, Hamlin's book explores the deep connections between scepticism and tragedy in plays ranging from Doctor Faustus and Troilus and Cressida to The Tragedy of Mariam , The Duchess of Malfi , and 'Tis Pity She's a Whore .