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Author : Loraine Fletcher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781910996263
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (962 download)
Download or read book Honour Killing in Shakespeare written by Loraine Fletcher and published by . This book was released on 2019-06 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Howe
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000873846
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Crimes of Passion Since Shakespeare written by Adrian Howe and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-04-28 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing key Shakespeare texts into dialogue with feminist socio-legal research, this book investigates the notion of a ‘crime of passion’ – indicatively, wife-killing. Its key concern is to bring attention to a cultural and legal revolution widely overlooked even in the law field where it occurred. In 2009, the English Parliament passed a controversial law abolishing the defence of provocation. Explaining the new law, reformers said that this so-called ‘heat of passion’ defence had allowed men to get away with murder by blaming the victim. Abolishing it in cases of alleged ‘infidelity’ would ‘end the culture of excuses’. Unpacking what was at stake in the reformers’ revolutionary challenge to the English law of murder’s age-old concession to ‘human frailty’ in ‘red mist’ rage cases, this book charts passion’s progress in wife-killing cases over the centuries. It commences in the early modern era when jurists were busy distinguishing murder from manslaughter and, contemporaneously, Shakespeare set about querying culturally inscribed excuses for femicide in his plays, Titus Andronicus and Othello. This book will appeal to feminist and socio-legal scholars, criminologists and those working in the fields of law and literature, legal theory and Shakespeare studies. More widely, it will appeal to anyone interested in so-called ‘crimes of passion’.
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635767
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable."—Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare’s work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge them.
Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0826463142
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare’s Politics written by Robin Headlam Wells and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Politics is an invaluable introduction to the political world of Shakespeare's plays. It includes passages from the plays together with extracts from contemporary historical and political documents. The clear, jargon-free narrative introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England. The introduction outlines the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote and explains the intellectual principles that informed early modern thinking about politics. By reading Shakespeare alongside contemporary documents students will be able to develop their own informed critical interpretations of the plays. Shakespeare's Politics is essential for anyone studying Shakespeare while tutors and postgraduate students will find the book's up-to-date survey of modern Shakespeare criticism useful and provocative.
Author : Mark Billingham
Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN 13 : 0802189547
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Love Like Blood written by Mark Billingham and published by Atlantic Monthly Press. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “chilling and moving” international bestseller, two of London’s toughest detectives investigate the savage world of honor killings (The Times, London). In Love Like Blood, DI Tom Thorne, “the next superstar detective,” teams up with perfectionist DI Nicola Tanner, the protagonist of Billingham’s acclaimed stand-alone thriller Die of Shame (Lee Child). When her domestic partner Susan is brutally murdered, Nicola Tanner is convinced that she was the intended target. The murderer’s motive is likely connected to her recent work on a string of cold case honor killings. Despite being placed on leave, Tanner insists on pursuing justice for Susan—and she turns to fellow DI Tom Thorne for help. Agreeing to take the case, Thorne quickly finds that working in such controversial territory among London’s Hindu, Muslim, and Sikh communities can be dangerous in more ways than one. But when a young Bangladeshi couple goes missing, Tanner and Thorne must put everything on the line to investigate a case that is anything but cold. “Brilliant.” —The Independent “Groundbreaking . . . a gripping, unsensational take on a type of crime that is happening more frequently than many of us realize.” —The Sunday Times
Author : Vanessa McMahon
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852855369
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (553 download)
Download or read book Murder in Shakespeare's England written by Vanessa McMahon and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-10-25 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A social history of how murder was committed, investigated, and punished in Stuart England examines a range of specific cases while discussing the seventeenth-century public's fascination with violence as reflected in its overflowing courtrooms and numerous crime-inspired works of art.
Author : D. Cohen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230379443
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Culture of Violence written by D. Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1992-12-08 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Derek Cohen studies the relationship of Shakespearean drama to the Western culture of violence. He argues that violence is an inherent feature and form of patriarchy and that its production and control is one of the dominant motives of the political system. Shakespeare's plays supply examples of the way in which the patriarchy of his plays - and hence, perhaps, of modern Western culture - absorbs, naturalizes, and legitimizes violence in its attempts to maintain political control over its subjects.
Author : Bright Summaries
Publisher : BrightSummaries.com
ISBN 13 : 2808012780
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare (Book Analysis) written by Bright Summaries and published by BrightSummaries.com. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlock the more straightforward side of Titus Andronicus with this concise and insightful summary and analysis! This engaging summary presents an analysis of Titus Andronicus by William Shakespeare, a revenge tragedy that continues to shock audiences with its brutality and violence. It centres around two families, that of the Roman war hero Titus Andronicus, and that of the Goth Queen Tamora, who has been brought to Rome as a prisoner of war and swears to wreak revenge on Titus. This leads to a series of violent acts, including rape, mutilation and murder (over half the play’s characters are dead by the end). Beyond the copius blood and gore, the play has inspired a range of readings, with recent critics drawing on feminist and postcolonial theory to suggest new interpretations. Find out everything you need to know about Titus Andronicus in a fraction of the time! This in-depth and informative reading guide brings you: • A complete plot summary • Character studies • Key themes and symbols • Questions for further reflection Why choose BrightSummaries.com? Available in print and digital format, our publications are designed to accompany you on your reading journey. The clear and concise style makes for easy understanding, providing the perfect opportunity to improve your literary knowledge in no time. See the very best of literature in a whole new light with BrightSummaries.com!
Author : Peter Holbrook
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 147423450X
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Creative Legacies written by Peter Holbrook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-11 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists and performers recreated him. Readers of this book are invited to explore Shakespeare's afterlife on the stage and on the screen, in poetry, fiction, music and dance, as well as in cultural and intellectual life. A series of concise introductory essays are here combined with personal reflections by prominent contemporary practitioners of the arts. At once a celebration and a critical response, the book explores Shakespeare as a global cultural figure who continues to engage artists, audiences and readers of all kinds. Includes contributions from: John Ashbery, Shaul Bassi, Simon Russell Beale, Sally Beamish, David Bintley, Michael Bogdanov, Kenneth Branagh, Debra Ann Byrd, John Caird, Antoni Cimolino, Wendy Cope, Gregory Doran, Margaret Drabble, Dominic Dromgoole, Ellen Geer, Michael Holroyd, Gordon Kerry, John Kinsella, Juan Carlos Liberti, Lachlan Mackinnon, David Malouf, Javier Marías, Yukio Ninagawa, Janet Suzman, Salley Vickers, Rowan Williams, Lisa Wolpe, Greg Wyatt. All proceeds from the sale of this volume will be donated to the International Shakespeare Association, to support the study and appreciation of Shakespeare around the world.
Author : R. Knowles
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403913641
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Arguments with History written by R. Knowles and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-12-21 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argument was the basis of Renaissance education; both rhetoric and dialectic permeated early modern humanist culture, including drama. This study approaches Shakespeare's history plays by analyzing the use of argument in the plays and examining the importance of argument in Renaissance culture. Knowles shows how analysis of arguments of speech and action take us to the core of the plays, in which Shakespeare interrogates the nature of political morality and truth as grounded in the history of what men do and say.
Author : Mrs. Horace Howard Furness
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book A Concordance to Shakespeare's Poems written by Mrs. Horace Howard Furness and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geoffrey Bullough
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231088978
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (889 download)
Download or read book Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare written by Geoffrey Bullough and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Lake
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300247818
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Hamlet's Choice written by Peter Lake and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays Conspiracies and revolts simmered beneath the surface of Queen Elizabeth's reign. England was riven with tensions created by religious conflict and the prospect of dynastic crisis and regime change. In this rich, incisive account, Peter Lake reveals how in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet Shakespeare worked through a range of Tudor anxieties, including concerns about the nature of justice, resistance, and salvation. In both Hamlet and Titus the princes are faced with successions forged under questionable circumstances and they each have a choice: whether or not to resort to political violence. The unfolding action, Lake argues, is best understood in terms of contemporary debates about the legitimacy of resistance and the relation between religion and politics. Relating the plays to their broader political and polemical contexts, Lake sheds light on the nature of revenge, resistance, and religion in post-Reformation England.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1118 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Works written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 1118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Campana
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226832554
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Once and Future Child written by Joseph Campana and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2024-05-06 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of Shakespeare’s child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own. Politicians are fond of saying that “children are the future.” How did the child become a figure for our political hopes? Joseph Campana’s book locates the source of this idea in transformations of childhood and political sovereignty during the age of Shakespeare, changes spectacularly dramatized by the playwright himself. Shakespeare’s works feature far more child figures—and more politically entangled children—than other literary or theatrical works of the era. Campana delves into this rich corpus to show how children and childhood expose assumptions about the shape of an ideal polity, the nature of citizenship, the growing importance of population and demographics, and the question of what is or is not human. As our ability to imagine viable futures on our planet feels ever more limited, and as children take up legal proceedings to sue on behalf of the future, it behooves us to understand the way past child figures haunt our conversations about intergenerational justice. Shakespeare offers critical precedents for questions we still struggle to answer.
Author : R.E. Pritchard
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399093509
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Other Son? written by R.E. Pritchard and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2022-05-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'. The son of an Oxford vintner (or quite possibly the natural son of his godfather, William Shakespeare), he wrote poems for and about the Court of Charles I, and, despite losing his nose to mercury treatment for the clap, which other people thought funny, went on to replace Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate and collaborate with Inigo Jones in composing spectacular Court masques, as well as writing many successful plays -- a few fashionably blood-thirsty, most showing a real comic gift, humanity and sympathy with 'ordinary life'. In the Civil War, he earned a knighthood as an especially successful gun-runner for the Royalists, before escaping to Paris, where he worked on an epic poem. Then sent off by Charles II to colonize Virginia but captured by the Parliamentarians, he escaped execution but was imprisoned for five years. With the Restoration, he practically re-invented English theatre, with the first English opera, women actors, movable scenery and the proscenium arch, as well as reviving interest in Shakespeare with inventive adaptations. Energetic, affable and resilient, he was an appealing and well-liked character. Celebrated and important in his day, Davenant is now surprisingly little known. This enterprising study introduces modern readers to his wit, poetry, and growing scepticism as to Court and aristocratic values, and his developing feminist sympathies. Here, select excerpts and summaries bring this entertaining writer to a new, wider audience.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Twelfth Night written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
