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Shakespeare and Realism

Author : Peter Lichtenfels
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683931718
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Realism written by Peter Lichtenfels and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-08 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays examines the works of the most famous writer of plays in the English language within the most culturally pervasive genre in which they are performed. Though Realist productions of Shakespeare are central to the ways in which his work is produced and consumed in the 21st century-and has been for the last 100 years-scholars are divided on the socio-political, historical, and ethical effects of this marriage of content and style. The book is divided into two sections, the first of which focuses on how Realist performance style influences our understanding of Shakespeare’s characters. These chapters engage in close readings of multiple performances, interrogating the ways in which actors’ specific characterizations contribute to extremely varied interpretations of a single character. The second section then considers audiences’ experiences of Shakespearean texts in Realist performance. The essays in this section-all written by theatre directors-imagine out what might constitute Realism. Each chapter focuses on a particular production, or set of productions by a single company, and considers how the practitioners utilized critically informed notions of what constitutes “the real” to reframe what Realism looks like on stage. This is a book of arguments by both theatre practitioners and scholars. Rather than presenting a unified critical position, this collection seeks to stimulate the debate around Realist Shakespeare performance, and to attend to the political consequences of particular aesthetic choices for the audience, as well as for Shakespeare critics and theatre artists.

Shakespeare's Political Realism

Author : Tim Spiekerman
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791448670
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Political Realism written by Tim Spiekerman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the continuing relevance of important political themes in five of Shakespeare's English History plays.

Theatre, Magic and Philosophy

Author : Gabriela Dragnea Horvath
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134767781
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book Theatre, Magic and Philosophy written by Gabriela Dragnea Horvath and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzing Shakespeare's views on theatre and magic and John Dee's concerns with philosophy and magic in the light of the Italian version of philosophia perennis (mainly Marsilio Ficino, Pico della Mirandola and Giordano Bruno), this book offers a new perspective on the Italian-English cultural dialogue at the Renaissance and its contribution to intellectual history. In an interdisciplinary and intercultural approach, it investigates the structural commonalities of theatre and magic as contiguous to the foundational concepts of perennial philosophy, and explores the idea that the Italian thinkers informed not only natural philosophy and experimentation in England, but also Shakespeare's theatre. The first full length project to consider Shakespeare and John Dee in juxtaposition, this study brings textual and contextual evidence that Gonzalo, an honest old Counsellor in The Tempest, is a plausible theatrical representation of John Dee. At the same time, it places John Dee in the tradition of the philosophia perennis-accounting for what appears to the modern scholar the conflicting nature of his faith and his scientific mind, his powerful fantasy and his need for order and rigor-and clarifies Edward Kelly's role and creative participation in the scrying sessions, regarding him as co-author of the dramatic episodes reported in Dee's spiritual diaries. Finally, it connects the Enochian/Angelic language to the myth of the Adamic language at the core of Italian philosophy and brings evidence that the Enochian is an artificial language originated by applying creatively the analytical instruments of text hermeneutics used in the Cabala.

A New Mimesis

Author : Anthony David Nuttall
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300118650
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (186 download)

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Download or read book A New Mimesis written by Anthony David Nuttall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pursuit of a powerful, common-sense argument about realism, renowned scholar A. D. Nuttall discusses English eighteenth-century and French neo-classical conceptions of realism, and considers Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and both parts of King Henry IV as a prolonged feat of mimesis, with particular emphasis on Shakespeare’s perception of society and culture as subject to historical change. Shakespeare is chosen as the great example of realism because he addresses not only the stable characteristics but also the flux of things, and he is thus seen as a perceiver of that flux and not a mere specimen. An acknowledged classic of literary studies, A New Mimesis is reissued here with a new preface by the author.

Double Shakespeares

Author : Cary M. Mazer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611478448
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Double Shakespeares written by Cary M. Mazer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-09-10 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Double Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the “emotional realist” traditions of acting that were codified by Stanislavski over a century ago. These performances recognize the inescapable doubleness of realism: that the actor may aspire to be the character but can never fully do so. This doubleness troubled the late-nineteenth-century actors and theorists who first formulated realist modes of acting; and it equally troubles theorists and theatre practitioners today. The book first looks at contemporary performances that foreground the doubleness of the actor’s body, particularly through cross-dressing. It then examines narratives of Shakespearean rehearsal—both fictional representations of rehearsal in film and video, and eye-witness narratives of actual rehearsals—and how they show us the process by which the actor does or does not “become” the character. And, finally, it looks at modern performances that “frame” Shakespeare’s play as a play-within-a-play, showing the audience both the character in the Shakespeare play-within and the actor in the frame-play acting that character.

Realism in the Romances of Shakespeare

Author : Prabhat Kumar Singh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788171894871
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Realism in the Romances of Shakespeare written by Prabhat Kumar Singh and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Realism in Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies

Author : Marvin Felheim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Realism in Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies written by Marvin Felheim and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Political Pageant

Author : Joseph Alulis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Political Pageant written by Joseph Alulis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Literary works, through their very personal means of characterization, reveal the direct effect of politics on individuals in a way a political treatise cannot. The distinguished contributors to this volume share the belief that Shakespeare is the author who most effectively sets forth the multifarious pageant of politics. Shakespeare's rich canon presents monarchy and republic, tyrant and king, thinker and soldier, and Christian and pagan. The twelve essays in Shakespeare's Political Pageant discuss a broad range of Shakespeare's dramatic poetry from the perspective of the political theorist. This innovative book demonstrates the immense value of seeing Shakespeare's plays in the context of political philosophy. It will be an important source for students and scholars of both political science and literature.

Reading the Allegorical Intertext

Author : Judith H. Anderson
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 0823228495
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Allegorical Intertext written by Judith H. Anderson and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judith H. Anderson conceives the intertext as a relation between or among texts that encompasses both Kristevan intertextuality and traditional relationships of influence, imitation, allusion, and citation. Like the Internet, the intertext is a state, or place, of potential expressed in ways ranging from deliberate emulation to linguistic free play. Relatedly, the intertext is also a convenient fiction that enables examination of individual agency and sociocultural determinism. Anderson’s intertext is allegorical because Spenser’s Faerie Queene is pivotal to her study and because allegory, understood as continued or moving metaphor, encapsulates, even as it magnifies, the process of signification. Her title signals the variousness of an intertext extending from Chaucer through Shakespeare to Milton and the breadth of allegory itself. Literary allegory, in Anderson’s view, is at once a mimetic form and a psychic one—a process thinking that combines mind with matter, emblem with narrative, abstraction with history. Anderson’s first section focuses on relations between Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales and Spenser’s The Faerie Queene, including the role of the narrator, the nature of the textual source, the dynamics of influence, and the bearing of allegorical narrative on lyric vision. The second centers on agency and cultural influence in a variety of Spenserian and medieval texts. Allegorical form, a recurrent concern throughout, becomes the pressing issue of section three. This section treats plays and poems of Shakespeare and Milton and includes two intertextually relevant essays on Spenser. How Paradise Lost or Shakespeare’s plays participate in allegorical form is controversial. Spenser’s experiments with allegory revise its form, and this intervention is largely what Shakespeare and Milton find in his poetry and develop. Anderson’s book, the result of decades of teaching and writing about allegory, especially Spenserian allegory, will reorient thinking about fundamental critical issues and the landmark texts in which they play themselves out.

Renaissance Realism

Author : Alastair Fowler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199259588
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (595 download)

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Download or read book Renaissance Realism written by Alastair Fowler and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early narratives have tended to be critiqued as novels, an approach that misses their distinctive Renaissance realism. Alastair Fowler surveys picturing and perspective from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth, drawing analogies between literature and visual art. The book is based on the history of the narrative imagination after single-point perspective. The habit of an older, multi-point perspective long continued, accounting for "anachronism," discontinuous realism, "double time-schemes," and depiction of different moments as simultaneous.

Mimesis

Author : Erich Auerbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780691012698
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Mimesis written by Erich Auerbach and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Political Realism

Author : Tim Spiekerman
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 079149120X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Political Realism written by Tim Spiekerman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides fresh interpretations of five of Shakespeare's history plays (King John, Richard II, Henry IV, Parts I and II, and Henry V), each guided by the often criticized assumption that Shakespeare can teach us something about politics. In contrast to many contemporary political critics who treat Shakespeare's political dramas as narrow reflections of his time, the author maintains that Shakespeare's political vision is wide-ranging, compelling, and relevant to modern audiences. Paying close attention to character and context, as well as to Shakespeare's creative use of history, the author explores Shakespeare's views on perennially important political themes such as ambition, legitimacy, tradition, and political morality. Particular emphasis is placed on Shakespeare's relation to Machiavelli, turning repeatedly to the conflict between ambition and justice. In the end, Shakespeare's history plays point to the limits of politics even more pessimistically than Machiavelli's realism.

Teaching Literature

Author : Elaine Showalter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Teaching Literature written by Elaine Showalter and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A New Mimesis

Author : A. D. Nuttall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781551113906
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book A New Mimesis written by A. D. Nuttall and published by . This book was released on 2000-07 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pursuit of a powerful, commonsense argument about realism, renowned scholar A. D. Nuttall discusses English eighteenth-century and French neoclassical conceptions of realism and considers Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and both parts of King Henry IV as a prolonged feat of mimesis, with particular emphasis on Shakespeare's perception of society and culture as subject to historical change. Shakespeare is chosen as the great example of realism because he addresses not only the stable characteristics but also the flux of things, and he is thus seen as a perceiver of that flux and not a mere specimen. An acknowledged classic of literary studies, A New Mimesis is reissued here with a new preface by the author. Book jacket.

Realism

Author : David Martineau Haylings
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realism written by David Martineau Haylings and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Kierkegaard, Language and the Reality of God

Author : Steven Shakespeare
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351808796
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (518 download)

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Download or read book Kierkegaard, Language and the Reality of God written by Steven Shakespeare and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2001: Debate about the reality of God risks becoming an arid stalemate. An unbridgeable gulf seems to be fixed between realists, arguing that God exists independently of our language and beliefs, and anti-realists for whom God-language functions to express human spiritual ideals, with no reference to a reality external to the faith of the believer. Soren Kierkegaard has been enlisted as an ally by both sides of this debate. Kierkegaard, Language and the Reality of God presents a new approach, exploring the dynamic nature of Kierkegaard's texts and the way they undermine neat divisions between realism and anti-realism, objectivity and subjectivity. Showing that Kierkegaard's understanding of language is crucial to his practice of communication, and his account of the paradoxes inherent in religious discourse, Shakespeare argues that Kierkegaard advances a form of 'ethical realism' in which the otherness of God is met in the making of liberating signs. Not only are new perspectives opened on Kierkegaard's texts, but his own contribution to ongoing debates is affirmed in its vital, creative and challenging significance.

Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory

Author : Hanoch Dagan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199890692
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Reconstructing American Legal Realism & Rethinking Private Law Theory written by Hanoch Dagan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates how legal realism offers important and unique jurisprudential insights that are not just a part of legal history, but are also relevant and useful for a contemporary understanding of legal theory.