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Shakespeare and National Identity

Author : Christopher Ivic
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474296113
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (961 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and National Identity written by Christopher Ivic and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Arden Shakespeare Dictionary on Shakespeare and National Identity makes a timely and valuable contribution to the discipline. National identity in the early modern period is a central topic of scholarly investigation; it is also a dominant topic in classroom instruction and discussion. More than any other early modern playwright, Shakespeare (especially his history plays) is at the heart of recent critical investigations into a host of relevant topics: borders, history, identity, land, memory, nation, place and space. This Dictionary works through Shakespeare's plays and the cultural moment in which they were produced to provide a rich and informative account of such topics. An ideal reference work for upper level students and scholars and an essential resource for any literary library."--Bloomsbury Publishing

Cross-Gender Shakespeare and English National Identity

Author : E. Klett
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230622607
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Cross-Gender Shakespeare and English National Identity written by E. Klett and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-06-22 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines contemporary female portrayals of male Shakespearean roles and shows how these performances invite audiences to think differently about Shakespeare, the English nation, and themselves.

Shakespeare and National Identity

Author : Christopher Ivic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472534638
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and National Identity written by Christopher Ivic and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-12 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arden Shakespeare Dictionary on Shakespeare and National Identity makes a timely and valuable contribution to the discipline. National identity in the early modern period is a central topic of scholarly investigation; it is also a dominant topic in classroom instruction and discussion. More than any other early modern playwright, Shakespeare (especially his history plays) is at the heart of recent critical investigations into a host of relevant topics: borders, history, identity, land, memory, nation, place and space. This Dictionary works through Shakespeare's plays and the cultural moment in which they were produced to provide a rich and informative account of such topics. An ideal reference work for upper level students and scholars and an essential resource for any literary library.

Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle

Author : Brian Carroll
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476685827
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle written by Brian Carroll and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2022-05-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of Shakespeare's history plays are not principally the plots or "facts" of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audiences. Reading Shakespeare through the lens of national identity is a study almost as old as the plays themselves, and many scholars have found various articulations of nationhood in Shakespeare's plays. This book argues that Shakespeare's histories furnished modern England with a curriculum for constructing a national identity, a confidence of language and culture, and a powerful new medium through which to communicate and express this negotiated identity. Highlighting the application of semiotics, it studies the playwright's use of symbols, metonymy, symbolic codes, and metaphor. By examining what Shakespeare and playgoers remembered and forgot, as well as the ways ideas were framed, this book explores how a national identity was crafted, contested, and circulated.

Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play

Author : Ralf Hertel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317050800
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Staging England in the Elizabethan History Play written by Ralf Hertel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying current political theory on nationhood as well as methods established by recent performance studies, this study sheds new light on the role the public theatre played in the rise of English national identity around 1600. It situates selected history plays by Shakespeare and Marlowe in the context of non-fictional texts (such as historiographies, chorographies, political treatises, or dictionary entries) and cultural artefacts (such as maps or portraits), and thus highlights the circulation, and mutation, of national thought in late sixteenth-century culture. At the same time, it goes beyond a New Historicist approach by foregrounding the performative surplus of the theatre event that is so essential for the shaping of collective identity. How, this study crucially asks, does the performative art of theatre contribute to the dynamics of the formation of national identity? Although theories about the nature of nationalism vary, a majority of theorists agree that notions of a shared territory and history, as well as questions of religion, class and gender play crucial roles in the shaping of national identity. These factors inform the structure of this book, and each is examined individually. In contrast to existing publications, this inquiry does not take for granted a pre-existing national identity that simply manifested itself in the literary works of the period; nor does it proceed from preconceived notions of the playwrights’ political views. Instead, it understands the early modern stage as an essentially contested space in which conflicting political positions are played off against each other, and it inquires into how the imaginative work of negotiating these stances eventually contributed to a rising national self-awareness in the spectators.

Shakespeare and National Identity

Author : Christopher Ivic
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472525833
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England

Author : Liz Oakley-Brown
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0826441696
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England written by Liz Oakley-Brown and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-06-16 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: >

Forgone Nations

Author : Florian Kläger
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783884767887
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (678 download)

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Download or read book Forgone Nations written by Florian Kläger and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Performing National Identity

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 940120523X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (12 download)

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Download or read book Performing National Identity written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is in performances—ranging from the scenarios of everyday interactions to ‘cultural performances’ such as pageants, festivals, political manifestations or sports, to the artistic performances of music, dance, theatre, literature, the visual and culinary arts and more recent media—that cultural identity and a sense of nationhood are fashioned. National identity is not an essence one is born with but something acquired in and through performances. Particularly important here are intercultural performances and transactions, and that not only in a colonial and postcolonial dimension, where such performative aspects have already been considered, but also in inner-European transactions. ‘Englishness’ or ‘Britishness’ and Italianità, the subject of this anthology, are staged both within each culture and, more importantly, in joint performances of difference across cultural borders. Performing difference highlights differences that ‘make a difference’; it ‘draws a line’ between self and other—boundary lines that are, however, constantly being redrawn and renegotiated, and remain instable and shifting.

The Genius of the English Nation

Author : Anna Suranyi
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780874139983
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book The Genius of the English Nation written by Anna Suranyi and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Travel literature was one of the most popular literary genres of the early modern era. This book examines how concepts of national identity, imperialism, colonialism, and orientalism were worked out and represented for English readers in early travel and ethnographic writings.

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457718
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds written by Carole Levin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his plays with characters testing the limits of personal identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds, shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers. Through parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and Watkins argue that Shakespeare's centrality to English national consciousness is inseparable from his creation of the foreign as a category asserting dangerous affinities between England's internal minorities and its competitors within an increasingly fraught European mercantile system. As a women's historian, Levin is particularly interested in Shakespeare's responses to marginalized sectors of English society. As a scholar of English, Italian Studies, and Medieval Studies, Watkins situates Shakespeare in the context of broadly European historical movements. Together Levin and Watkins narrate the emergence of the foreign as portable category that might be applied both to "strangers" from other countries and to native-born English men and women, such as religious dissidents, who resisted conformity to an increasingly narrow sense of English identity. Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds will appeal to historians, literary scholars, theater specialists, and anyone interested in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age.

Shakespeare and the Second World War

Author : Irena Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442698381
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Second World War written by Irena Makaryk and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-09-18 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim to Shakespeare and have called upon his work to convey their society’s self-image. In wartime, such claims frequently brought to the fore a crisis of cultural identity and of competing ownership of this ‘universal’ author. Despite this, the role of Shakespeare during the Second World War has not yet been examined or documented in any depth. Shakespeare and the Second World War provides the first sustained international, collaborative incursion into this terrain. The essays demonstrate how the wide variety of ways in which Shakespeare has been recycled, reviewed, and reinterpreted from 1939–1945 are both illuminated by and continue to illuminate the War today.

Shakespeare and National Culture

Author : John J. Joughin
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719050510
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and National Culture written by John J. Joughin and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare continues to feature in the construction and refashioning of national cultures and identities in a variety of forms. Often co-opted to serve nationalism, Shakespeare has also served to contest it in complex and contradictory ways.

Making Subject(s)

Author : Allen Carey-Webb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317776992
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Download or read book Making Subject(s) written by Allen Carey-Webb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considering a wide range of cultural materials and engaging in a close reading of literary texts, this book draws a compelling comparison between national identity in Europe and the Third World. The author explores historical periods of nation building in Europe (Early Modernism) and the postcolonial world (post-1945 decolonization) to demonstrate that intriguingly similar circumstances of imperial rule, linguistic diversity, and educational systemization facilitated the emergence of national consciousness in both European and non-European countries. By bringing the insights of postcolonial studies to classic canonical dramas of Shakespeare and Lope de Vega, the author describes the impact of New World colonial encounters on Spanish and English national formation and self-conception. This book is the first to investigate the rich intertextuality of El Nuevo Mundo (Spain, 1601) and The Tempest (England, 1611). Turning to Ousmane Sembene and Salman Rushdie-perhaps the two most important postcolonial writers-this study shows how their finest novels write back to the European tradition of Lope and Shakespeare and simultaneously represent the trend of postcolonial literature from assertive anticolonial nationalism to postmodern national critique. Tracing developments in the study of nationalism and literature from Louis Althusser and Benedict Anderson through Frederic Jameson, Homi Bhabha, and Partha Chatterjee, the book's introduction serves as a lucid guide to a central problem in contemporary cultural studies for the general reader or the specialized scholar. Juxtaposing Renaissance etchings, traditional African and Indian sculpture, 19th-century political cartoons, and intriguing works of contemporary art, Making Subject(s) is of unusual interest and visual appeal.

Shakespeare's Accents

Author : Sonia Massai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108429629
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Accents written by Sonia Massai and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.

Images of Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Author : A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838634318
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (343 download)

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Download or read book Images of Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries written by A. J. Hoenselaars and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connection between Renaissance ideas about the character of individual nations and the presentation of stage characters of various nationalities in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries is examined in this volume.

The New Elizabethan Age

Author : Irene Morra
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857728342
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book The New Elizabethan Age written by Irene Morra and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first half of the twentieth century, many writers and artists turnedto the art and received example of the Elizabethans as a means ofarticulating an emphatic (and anti-Victorian) modernity. By the middleof that century, this cultural neo-Elizabethanism had become absorbedwithin a broader mainstream discourse of national identity, heritage andcultural performance. Taking strength from the Coronation of a new, youngQueen named Elizabeth, the New Elizabethanism of the 1950s heralded anation that would now see its 'modern', televised monarch preside over animminently glorious and artistic age.This book provides the first in-depth investigation of New Elizabethanismand its legacy. With contributions from leading cultural practitioners andscholars, its essays explore New Elizabethanism as variously manifestin ballet and opera, the Coronation broadcast and festivities, nationalhistoriography and myth, the idea of the 'Young Elizabethan', celebrations ofair travel and new technologies, and the New Shakespeareanism of theatreand television. As these essays expose, New Elizabethanism was muchmore than a brief moment of optimistic hyperbole. Indeed, from moderndrama and film to the reinternment of Richard III, from the London Olympicsto the funeral of Margaret Thatcher, it continues to pervade contemporaryartistic expression, politics, and key moments of national pageantry.