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Poison, Play, and Duel

Author : Nigel Alexander
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000738426
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Poison, Play, and Duel written by Nigel Alexander and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1971, Poison, Play and Duel explores the dominant symbols of the language and action of Hamlet. The Ghost first reveals that Claudius murdered his brother by poison, and this act of poisoning is then dramatically presented before the King. The ultimate consequence of the ‘poison in jest’ performed by the actors is the poisoned ‘play’ with rapiers between Laertes and Hamlet. This representation of violence, and the vengeful response to violence, creates the moral and the psychological problems of Hamlet. Critics naturally question, and disagree about, the way that Hamlet plays his role in this play because the role of Hamlet is a theatrical device designed to bring all human actions into debate and question. It is hardly surprising that audiences have seen mirrored in Hamlet their own most fundamental and inescapable problems. Nigel Alexander shows how Shakespeare, like Raphael, Titian and other Renaissance artists, developed and adapted the imagery inherited from the Christian and classical past. The battle within the soul, the choice of life, the hunt of passion, the triple face of prudence and the dance of the graces are given dramatic habitation in Hamlet’s soliloquies, in the inner-play and in the savage contrast of sexuality between Gertrude and Ophelia. This book will be of interest to students of literature, drama, psychology and philosophy.

The Ordeals of Interpretation

Author : Maria Sequeira Mendes
Publisher : Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press
ISBN 13 : 9892619579
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Ordeals of Interpretation written by Maria Sequeira Mendes and published by Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra / Coimbra University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ordálias da Interpretação analisa ordálias medievais, a leitura de dados no polígrafo e alguns métodos de tortura, ao mesmo tempo que lê textos como Hamlet e Macbeth. Este livro descreve a ambição por uma pedra de toque que demonstre a veracidade, ou autenticidade, de certas entidades. De notar que pedra-de-toque – basanos (Βάσαυος) – era um termo usado para denominar a pedra com que se testava em contextos mercantis a qualidade do ouro, mas que designava igualmente a ideia de teste, tortura e torturador. Para os intérpretes mencionados neste livro, a pedra de toque, que pode ser um objecto, uma pessoa ou um teste, teria a capacidade de nos auxiliar a distinguir amigos de inimigos, de identificar a qualidade de alguns versos e de iluminar a verdade. Argumenta-se, todavia, que a capacidade de fazer juízos precisos deriva de um entendimento técnico de interpretação conduzida por indivíduos hábeis, observando-se que a capacidade de descobrir “a verdade” depende da perícia de cada examinador, da sua intuição, da capacidade para aprender um método ou uma técnica específica, de detectar erros e fazer perguntas (qualidades importantes na actividade de um crítico literário).

The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends

Author : Simon Young
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496839455
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends written by Simon Young and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the “Choking Doberman,” the “Eaten Ticket,” and the “Vanishing Hitchhiker.” But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from “Beetle Eyes” to the “Shoplifter’s Dilemma” and from “Hands in the Muff” to the “Suicide Club.” While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives—particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends.

Hamlet

Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1681492210
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Hamlet written by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited by Joseph Pearce Contributors to this volume: Crystal Downing Anthony Esolen Gene Fendt Richard Harp Joseph Pearce Andrew Moran Jim Scott Orrick R.V. Young Arguably Shakespeare's finest and most important play, Hamlet is also one of the most misunderstood masterpieces of world literature. ""To be or not to be"", may be the question, but the answer has eluded many generations of critics. What does it mean ""to be""? And is everything as it seems to be? These are the questions that are asked and answered in the introduction by Joseph Pearce, author of The Quest for Shakespeare, and in the tradition-oriented critical essays by leading Shakespeare scholars that can be found in this groundbreaking edition of Shakespeare's masterpiece. To see or not to see, that is the question. The Ignatius Critical Edition of Hamlet will help many people truly see the play and its deepest meaning in a new and surprising light. The Ignatius Critical Editions represent a tradition-oriented alternative to popular textbook series such as the Norton Critical Editions or Oxford World Classics, and are designed to concentrate on traditional readings of the Classics of world literature. Whereas many modern critical editions have succumbed to the fads of modernism and post-modernism, this series will concentrate on tradition-oriented criticism of these great works. Edited by acclaimed literary biographer, Joseph Pearce, the Ignatius Critical Editions will ensure that traditional moral readings of the works are given prominence, instead of the feminist, or deconstructionist readings that often proliferate in other series of 'critical editions'. As such, they represent a genuine extension of consumer-choice, enabling educators, students and lovers of good literature to buy editions of classic literary works without having to 'buy into' the ideologies of secular fundamentalism. The series is particularly aimed at tradition-minded literature professors offering them an alternative for their students. The initial list will have about 15 - 20 titles. The goal is to release three books a season, or six in a year.

Educating the Soul

Author : Josie Alwyn
Publisher : Temple Lodge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1906999929
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Educating the Soul written by Josie Alwyn and published by Temple Lodge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-25 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The power of Shakespeare lies in his evidently conscious knowledge, skill and understanding of how to work with the alchemical potential in the human soul in the crafting of his plays. Each play is made as an exquisitely unique transformative device for the education of the soul.’ ‘Books carry on conversations across the thresholds of time and space’, writes Josie Alwyn in her introduction. This book is the fruit of her ‘conversation’ with Brien Masters – a collaboration that began more than twenty years ago, when she was learning to be a Waldorf teacher. They open their discussions with the broader theme of the role and ‘mission’ of drama in human development, before focusing on the central topic: the potential for metamorphosis inherent in Shakespeare’s plays. This creative, birth-giving, transformative essence of Shakespeare – the esoteric core of his work – is vitally important to our times, they suggest, and contributes to the ongoing cultural education of the human soul. Published to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, Educating the Soul offers an overview of Shakespeare’s journey as a playwright in the context of evolving human consciousness. The heart of the book features nine essays on Shakespeare’s most performed plays. Just as the middle act of a Shakespearian drama gives a point of transformation, so these essays represent the central, unfolding dialogue that took place between the writers as the book developed. This section is followed by an in-depth study of Hamlet, that sees the story as a learning process, deeply strengthened by the primary character’s own education and changing consciousness. Finally, the book explores the theme of transformation through The Tempest and in relation to the archetypal ‘tree of life’. Accessible to all, the motifs of the various chapters in this book are woven lightly together, enabling the reader to follow the contents in sequence, or to dip in and pick up the threads at any point.

Hamlet: Critical Essays

Author : Joseph G. Price
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317814339
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book Hamlet: Critical Essays written by Joseph G. Price and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive collection of the best writing about this Shakespearian play, both as dramatic literature and theatrical performance, this book is an excellent resource companion to the text. This collected wisdom was originally published in 1986. It contains pieces of commentary from as far back as the late 18th Century but also highly acclaimed critical pieces from more recent years, organised into six general themes.

Free Shakespeare

Author : John Russell Brown
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557832832
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (328 download)

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Download or read book Free Shakespeare written by John Russell Brown and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1997 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). This expanded edition of Free Shakespeare is a tool to liberate the works of Shakespeare from directors and academics who seek to impose their ideas upon the plays. John Russell Brown empowers actors and readers to approach the plays freshly and boldly armed with the many different interpretations inherent in the plays. Recognized as a benchmark for the understanding of Shakespearean performance in the twentieth century, a new chapter explores the technological and funding challenges facing Shakespearean productions in the next millennium.

Shakespeare's Hamlet

Author : Tzachi Zamir
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190698519
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Hamlet written by Tzachi Zamir and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does philosophy gain or lose when it is embedded within literature or embodied by drama? Does literary criticism gain or lose when it turns to literary works as occasions for abstract reflection? Leading literary scholars and philosophers interrogate philosophical dimensions of Shakespeare's Hamlet with these urgent questions in view. Scholars probe Hamlet's own insights, assess the significance of philosophy's literary-dramatic framing by this play, and trace the philosophically-relevant underpinnings revealed by historical transformations in Hamlet's reception. They focus on the play's thematizations of subjectivity, knowledge, sex, grief, self-theatricalization. Examining Shakespeare's play from a philosophical standpoint sharpens the questions the play itself so famously poses: What counts as a proper response to injustice upon realizing that whatever one does, there can be no undoing of the initial wrong? What do our commitments to the dead amount to? How to persist in infusing significance into action while grasping the degradation of death and our own replaceability? Scholars at the forefront of their fields tackle these and other questions from a wide range of viewpoints, illuminating the central concerns of one of Shakespeare's masterpieces.

Liber Amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux

Author : Paul-André Bempéchat
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781576470916
Total Pages : 562 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Liber Amicorum Isabelle Cazeaux written by Paul-André Bempéchat and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matters of authenticity. Chopin's Polish rhapsody / Ferdinand Gajewski -- Matters folkloric. L'emprunt, facteur de renouvellement musical dans les pays celtiques / Yves Defrance ; Gibbons in the Budapest Zoo : reflections on Hungarian folksong / Virginia James Kidd ; Folklore and reminiscence in Claude Debussy / Virginia Raad -- Matters instrumental. Frédéric Triebert (1813-1878), designer of the modern oboe : newly found archival documents featuring the inventory and auction of his musical instrument enterprise / Tula Giannini ; Marking the accord of instrument and style, 1709-1768 / Sally C. Park -- Matters naval. Jean Cras, the scientist : an explication of his navigational ruler ; Compass, la règle-rapporteur cras / Allan P. Archer -- Matters novel. Album-leaf : for piano 109 / John Davison -- Matters operatic. Naturaliste et dreyfusard : Alfred Bruneau, compositeur engagé / Jean-Max Guieu -- Deconstructive melodrama in the Hamlet of Ambroise Thomas / John Harrison ; Judith Gautier et les traductions de Parsifal / Danièle Pistone ; Gawain in opera 159 / Jerome V. Reel -- Matters operettic. The border territory between classical and broadway : a voyage ; Around and about Four saints in three acts and West Side story / Ralph P. Locke ; Manuel de Falla's early works for the theater / Elizabeth Seitz -- Matters of perception. Point-counter-point : Schoenberg meets Bach / John Daverio ; The problems of musical hermeneutics / Edward Lippman -- Matters of reception. From Haus to Konzerthaus : orchestrations of Schubert's : Erlkönig and other liede.

Post-Colonial Shakespeares

Author : Ania Loomba
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135033706
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Post-Colonial Shakespeares written by Ania Loomba and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2002. This collection of new essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging post-colonial period. Post-Colonial Shakespeares examines the extent to which our assumption about such key terms as ‘colonization’, ‘race’ and ‘nation’ derive from early modern English culture. It also looks at how such terms are themselves affected by what were established subsequently as ‘colonial’ forms of knowledge. The volume features original work by some of the leading critics within the field of Shakespearean studies. It is the most authoritative collection on this topic to date and represents an exciting step forward for post-colonial studies

Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare

Author : Fred B. Tromly
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 144269906X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare written by Fred B. Tromly and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some of Shakespeare's most memorable male characters, such as Hamlet, Prince Hal, and Edgar, are defined by their relationships with their fathers. In Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare, Fred B. Tromly demonstrates that these relationships are far more complicated than most critics have assumed. While Shakespearean sons often act as their fathers' steadfast defenders, they simultaneously resist paternal encroachment on their autonomy, tempering vigorous loyalty with subtle hostility. Tromly's introductory chapters draw on both Freudian psychology and Elizabethan family history to frame the issue of filial ambivalence in Shakespeare. The following analytical chapters mine the father-son relationships in plays that span Shakespeare's entire career. The conclusion explores Shakespeare's relationship with his own father and its effect on his fictional depictions of life as a son. Through careful scrutiny of word and deed, the scholarship in Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare reveals the complex attitude Shakespeare's sons harbour towards their fathers.

Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies

Author : Bernard McElroy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400855942
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Mature Tragedies written by Bernard McElroy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite their diversity in tone and subject matter, Shakespeare's four mature tragedies--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth--all have an essential experience in common. Bernard McElroy defines this experience as the collapse of the subjective world of the tragic hero. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

The Apothecary’s Chest

Author : Fabienne Collignon
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443807338
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The Apothecary’s Chest written by Fabienne Collignon and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-03-26 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘The Apothecary’s Chest: Magic, Art and Medication’ was a one-day symposium held at the University of Glasgow on November 24, 2007. The symposium called for a discussion on the evolution of the notions of mysticism, knowledge and superstition in the way they are intertwined in both science and the literary imagination in the figure of healers such as the apothecary, the alchemist, the shaman. There were three main areas of interest. The first involved traditional perceptions of physicians, who combined knowledge and superstition and thus bordered, in their practices, on the sphere of the occult. The second theme, evolving from the first, proposed an inquiry of the overlapping interests and processes of science, magic and prophesy, as well as of the implications and consequences of a privileged access to medical knowledge, while the third subject of discussion concentrated on the development of the symbolism of the healer in literature, history, philosophy of science, anthropology, theology, film and art. The twelve papers included in this volume, papers presented by doctoral candidates and young scholars from across a range of geographical regions and disciplines, result in a collection of approaches to an investigative field with topics ranging from mystical traits of mundane materials to the origins of the occult and gender struggles. The thirteenth and final essay included in the volume, Professor Bill Herbert’s ‘From Mere Bellies to the Bad Shaman’, is an exploration of the modern role of the contemporary poet in the form of an extended conversation initiated at the closing of the conference, when Professor Herbert was asked to combine a poetry reading with a few observations on the relationship between the poet and the shaman.

Shakespeare's Brain

Author : Mary Thomas Crane
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824001
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Brain written by Mary Thomas Crane and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive theory--a theory which argues that language is produced by a reciprocal interaction of body and environment, brain and culture, and which refocuses attention on the role of the author in the making of meaning. Crane reveals in Shakespeare's texts a web of structures and categories through which meaning is created. The approach yields fresh insights into a wide range of his plays, including The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. ? Crane's cognitive reading traces the complex interactions of cultural and cognitive determinants of meaning as they play themselves out in Shakespeare's texts. She shows how each play centers on a word or words conveying multiple meanings (such as "act," "pinch," "pregnant," "villain and clown"), and how each cluster has been shaped by early modern ideological formations. The book also chronicles the playwright's developing response to the material conditions of subject formation in early modern England. Crane reveals that Shakespeare in his comedies first explored the social spaces within which the subject is formed, such as the home, class hierarchy, and romantic courtship. His later plays reveal a greater preoccupation with how the self is formed within the body, as the embodied mind seeks to make sense of and negotiate its physical and social environment.

Christian Settings in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Author : D. Douglas Waters
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838635285
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book Christian Settings in Shakespeare's Tragedies written by D. Douglas Waters and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 1994 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Battenhouse's Shakespearean tragedy: Its art and Christian premises, Irving Ribner's Patterns in Shakespearian tragedy, Virgil K. Whitaker's The mirror up to nature: The techniques of Shakespeare's tragedies, and Robert Grams Hunter's Shakespeare and the mystery of God's judgments. Waters questions, for example, Battenhouse's validity of Christian theological and didactic emphases on the old purgation theory of catharsis. His approach differs also from Northrop Frye's views on the tragedies in Northrop Frye on Shakespeare, an archetypal approach to representative plays including the tragedies.

Hamlet

Author : Michael E. Mooney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Hamlet written by Michael E. Mooney and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character

Author : Imtiaz H. Habib
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945636373
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (363 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character written by Imtiaz H. Habib and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presentation of a complex character such as Shylock bears resemblance to the technique of anamorphic portraiture and trick perspective in the sense that, seen one way he appears a villain, but seen another way he appears a persecuted victim. The clashing and merging of opposed frames of ideological reference that cannot be held apart or resolved and that remain in a kind of uneasy balance may be a technique of comic characterization that exploits relativism and ambiguity in the presentation of human personality and self on stage. A similar technique can be seen at work in the Histories in the characters of Richard and Bolingbroke, who, as has long been noted, compete contrarily for the audience's ideological sympathies over the course of the play.