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Shakespeare in Hindsight

Author : Khan Amir Khan
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474409474
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in Hindsight written by Khan Amir Khan and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-12-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We know William Shakespeare matters but we cannot pinpoint, precisely, why he matters. Lacking reasons why, we do our best to involve him in others, or involve others in him. He has been branded many times over-as Catholic, Protestant, Materialist, Marxist, Psychoanalytic, Feminist, Postcolonial, Popular, Cultural, and, even, Popular-Cultural. In many ways, Shakespeare is overwrought. Why one more 'approach' to Shakespeare? One reason is because whatever these approaches say about tragedy in particular, none of them help us to feel tragedy. Or, rather, they subordinate tragedy to something else-to considerations of, say, class, race, or gender. What these approaches manage to do is explain tragedy away. What this book does is to help us feel tragedy first and foremost-hence to perceive it better. The aim of Amir Khan's counterfactual criticism of Shakespeare's tragedies, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, A Winter's Tale and Othello, then, is precisely to reanimate the tragic effect, long since lost in some deluge of explanation.

Antipodal Shakespeare

Author : Gordon McMullan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474271448
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Antipodal Shakespeare written by Gordon McMullan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture – much more than has been remembered. This book offers new archival discoveries about, and new interpretations of, the Tercentenary celebrations in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and reflects on the long legacy of those celebrations. This collection gathers together five scholars from Britain, Australia and New Zealand to reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare across the hemispheres in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916. It was at this moment of remembering in 1916 that 'global Shakespeare' first emerged in recognizable form. Each contributor performs their own 'antipodal' reading, assessing in parallel events across two hemispheres, geographically opposite but politically and culturally connected in the wake of empire.

Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics

Author : Thomas P. Anderson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748697357
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Fugitive Politics written by Thomas P. Anderson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Establishes Shakespeares plays as some of the periods most speculative political literature Shakespeares Fugitive Politics makes the case that Shakespeares plays reveal there is always something more terrifying to the king than rebellion. The book seeks to move beyond the presumption that political evolution leads ineluctably away from autocracy and aristocracy toward republicanism and popular sovereignty. Instead, it argues for affirmative politics in Shakespeare the process of transforming scenes of negative affect into political resistance. Shakespeares Fugitive Politics makes the case that Shakespeares affirmative politics appears not in his dialectical opposition to sovereignty, absolutism, or tyranny; nor is his affirmative politics an inchoate form of republicanism on its way to becoming politically viable. Instead, this study claims that it is in the place of dissensus that the expression of the eventful condition of affirmative politics takes place a fugitive expression that the sovereign order always wishes to shut down. Key FeaturesPromotes a new understanding of 'fugitive democracy'Establishes the presence of a form of alternative politics in early modern drama, articulated through the contours of theories of sovereigntyExplores how the parameters of contemporary radical politics take shape in major Shakespeare plays, including Coriolanus, King John, Henry V, Titus Andronicus, The Winters Tale and Julius Caesar

Shakespeare's Mad Men

Author : Richard van Oort
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503633586
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Mad Men written by Richard van Oort and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2022-10-18 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about a mad king and a mad duke. With original and iconoclastic readings, Richard van Oort pioneers the reading of Shakespeare as an ethical thinker of the "originary scene," the scene in which humans became conscious of themselves as symbol-using moral and narrative beings. Taking King Lear and Measure for Measure as case studies, van Oort shows how the minimal concept of an anthropological scene of origin—the "originary hypothesis"—provides the basis for a new understanding of every aspect of the plays, from the psychology of the characters to the ethical and dialogical conflicts upon which the drama is based. The result is a gripping commentary on the plays. Why does Lear abdicate and go mad? Why does Edgar torture his father with non-recognition? Why does Lucio accuse the Duke in Measure for Measure of madness and lechery, and why does Isabella remain silent at the end? In approaching these and other questions from the perspective of the originary hypothesis, van Oort helps us to see the ethical predicament of the plays, and, in the process, makes Shakespeare new again.

Shakespeare and Abraham

Author : Ken Jackson
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026808355X
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Abraham written by Ken Jackson and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2015-03-15 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare’s dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham’s near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare’s early plays: Genesis 22 informed Clifford’s attack on young Rutland in 3 Henry 6, Hubert’s providentially thwarted murder of Arthur in King John, and Aaron the Moor’s surprising decision to spare his son amidst the filial slaughters of Titus Andronicus, among others. However, the playwright’s full engagement with the biblical narrative does not manifest itself exclusively in scenes involving the sacrifice of children or in verbal borrowings from the famously sparse story of Abraham. Jackson argues that the most important influence of Genesis 22 and its interpretive tradition is to be found in the conceptual framework that Shakespeare develops to explore relationships among ideas of religion, sovereignty, law, and justice. Jackson probes the Shakespearean texts from the vantage of modern theology and critical theory, while also orienting them toward the traditions concerning Abraham in Jewish, Pauline, patristic, medieval, and Reformation sources and early English drama. Consequently, the playwright’s “Abrahamic explorations” become strikingly apparent in unexpected places such as the “trial” of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and the bifurcated structure of Timon of Athens. By situating Shakespeare in a complex genealogy that extends from ancient religion to postmodern philosophy, Jackson inserts Shakespeare into the larger contemporary conversation about religion in the modern world.

Shakespeare's Moral Compass

Author : Neema Parvini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474432891
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Moral Compass written by Neema Parvini and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-13 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the aesthetics, concepts and politics of chaotic and obscured moving images.

Shakespeare's History Plays

Author : Neema Parvini
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 147442354X
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's History Plays written by Neema Parvini and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

Author : Gary Schmidgall
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813157250
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Poet's Life written by Gary Schmidgall and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall persuasively demonstrates the value of contemplating the professional reasons Shakespeare -- or any poet of the time -- ceased being an Elizabethan court poet and focused his efforts on drama and the Globe. Students of Shakespeare and of Renaissance poetry will find Schmidgall's approach and conclusions both challenging and illuminating.

Shakespeare and Trump

Author : Jeffrey R. Wilson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1439919429
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Trump written by Jeffrey R. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revealing the modernity of Shakespeare's politics, and the theatricality of Trump's

The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author : John S. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198857713
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets written by John S. Garrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pleasures of Memory in Shakespeare's Sonnets uses Shakespeare's poetry as a case study for the mutually formative relationship between desire and recollection. Through a series of close readings that are both historically situated and informed by recent theory, it traces how the speaker of the poems strives for a more agential relationship to his own memory by treating recollection as a form of narrative. Drawing together insights from cognitive science, the early modern memory arts, and psychoanalysis, John S. Garrison connects the Sonnets to the larger Renaissance project of conceiving memory as a faculty to be developed and managed through self-discipline and rhetoric. In doing so, he reveals how early modern thought presaged many theories that have emerged in contemporary neuroscientific and psychoanalytic understandings of the self and its longing for pleasure. The Sonnets emerge as a collection that contemplates the affective dimensions and conceptual overlaps that bind anticipation to retrospection in the fraught pursuit of erotic pleasure. Indispensable for students and scholars working on Shakespeare's poetry, this study appeals also to a broader audience of readers interested in affect, memory, and sexuality studies. Shakespeare's most beloved sonnets are discussed, as well as less familiar ones, alongside contemporary adaptations of the poems. Garrison brings the Sonnets further into the present by comparing them with treatments of pleasure and memory by modern authors such as C.P. Cavafy, Toni Morrison, William Faulkner, and Michael Ondaatje.

Shakespeare and Quotation

Author : Julie Maxwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108640001
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Quotation written by Julie Maxwell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare is the most frequently quoted English author of all time. Quotations appear everywhere, from the epigraphs of novels to the mottoes on coffee cups. But Shakespeare was also a frequent quoter himself - of classical and contemporary literature, of the Bible, of snatches of popular songs and proverbs. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to trace the rich history of quotation from Shakespeare's own lifetime to the present day. Exploring a wide range of media, including Romantic poetry, theatre criticism, novels by Jane Austen, Thomas Hardy and Ian McEwan, political oratory, propaganda, advertising, drama, film and digital technology, the chapters draw fresh connections between Shakespeare's own practices of creative reworking and the quotation of his work in new and traditional forms. Richly illustrated and featuring an Afterword by Margreta de Grazia, the collection tells a new story of the making and remaking of Shakespeare's plays and poems.

Shakespearean Melancholy

Author : J.F. Bernard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474417345
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Shakespearean Melancholy written by J.F. Bernard and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the bestselling textbook for Scottish teacher training courses.

The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake

Author : A. Putz
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137027665
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book The Celtic Revival in Shakespeare's Wake written by A. Putz and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reconsiders the Celtic Revival by examining appropriations of Shakespeare, using close readings of works by Arnold, Dowden, Yeats and Joyce to reveal the pernicious manner in which the discourse of Anglo-Irish cultural politics informed the critical paradigms that mediated the reading of Shakespeare in Ireland for a generation.

Shakespeare’s Early History Plays

Author : Donald Watson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349110353
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Early History Plays written by Donald Watson and published by Springer. This book was released on 1990-06-18 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines the early history plays - the first tetralogy and "King John" - as plays, not only by analyzing their theatrical dimensions but also be connecting their staging with the playhouse as a social institution and with the theatricality of Elizabethan culture in the 1590s.

Shakespeare's Theatre

Author : Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780826477767
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Theatre written by Hugh Macrae Richmond and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Under an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins>

Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy

Author : Paul A. Cantor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646251X
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy written by Paul A. Cantor and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-06-28 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul A. Cantor first probed Shakespeare’s Roman plays—Coriolanus, Julius Caeser, and Antony and Cleopatra—in his landmark Shakespeare’s Rome (1976). With Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy, he now argues that these plays form an integrated trilogy that portrays the tragedy not simply of their protagonists but of an entire political community. Cantor analyzes the way Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of the Roman Republic and the emergence of the Roman Empire. The transformation of the ancient city into a cosmopolitan empire marks the end of the era of civic virtue in antiquity, but it also opens up new spiritual possibilities that Shakespeare correlates with the rise of Christianity and thus the first stirrings of the medieval and the modern worlds. More broadly, Cantor places Shakespeare’s plays in a long tradition of philosophical speculation about Rome, with special emphasis on Machiavelli and Nietzsche, two thinkers who provide important clues on how to read Shakespeare’s works. In a pathbreaking chapter, he undertakes the first systematic comparison of Shakespeare and Nietzsche on Rome, exploring their central point of contention: Did Christianity corrupt the Roman Empire or was the corruption of the Empire the precondition of the rise of Christianity? Bringing Shakespeare into dialogue with other major thinkers about Rome, Shakespeare’s Roman Trilogy reveals the true profundity of the Roman Plays.

Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse

Author : Laurie Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351578820
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse written by Laurie Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-14 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The playhouse at Newington Butts has long remained on the fringes of histories of Shakespeare’s career and of the golden age of the theatre with which his name is associated. A mile outside London, and relatively disused by the time Shakespeare began his career in the theatre, this playhouse has been easy to forget. Yet for eleven days in June, 1594, it was home to the two companies that would come to dominate the London theatres. Thanks to the ledgers of theatre entrepreneur, Philip Henslowe, we have a record of this short venture. Shakespeare's Lost Playhouse is an exploration of a brief moment in time when the focus of the theatrical world in England was on this small playhouse. To write this history, Laurie Johnson draws on archival studies, archaeology, environmental studies, geography, social, political, and cultural studies as well as methods developed within literary and theatre history to expand the scope of our understanding of the theatres, the rise of the playing business, and the formations of the playing companies.