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Author : Derek Cohen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349189677
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Shakespearean Motives written by Derek Cohen and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-12-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Leading Motives in the Imagery of Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1970 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of the implications of Shakespeare's use of imagery in his writings.
Author : Murray Cox
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781853021596
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare as Prompter written by Murray Cox and published by Jessica Kingsley Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prompting is the thematic thread that pervades the pages of this book. Its primary connotation is that of the prompter who is urgently called into action, at moments of anxiety, when narrative begins to fail. The central dynamic issue concerns the amending imagination as a prompting resource which, through creativity and the aesthetic imperative, can be invoked in this therapeutic space when the patient - through fear, resistance or distraction - is unable to continue with his story. Psychotherapy can be regarded as a process in which the patient is enabled to do for himself what he cannot do on his own. Shakespeare - as the spokesman for all other poets and dramatists - prompts the therapist in the incessant search for those resonant rhythms and mutative metaphors which augment empathy and make for deeper communication and which also facilitates transference interpretation and resolution. The cadence of the spoken word and the different laminations of silence always call for more finely tuned attentiveness than the therapist, unprompted, can offer. The authors show how Shakespeare can prompt therapeutic engagement with "inaccessible" patients who might otherwise be out of therapeutic reach. At the same time, they demonstrate that the clinical, off-stage world of therapy can also prompt the work of the actor in his on-stage search for representational precision.
Author : Simon Andrew Stirling
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 075249421X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Who Killed William Shakespeare? written by Simon Andrew Stirling and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-08-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare lived in violent times; his death passed without comment. By the time he was adopted as the national poet of England the details of his life had been concealed. He had become an invisible man, the humble Warwickshire lad who entertained royalty and then faded into obscurity. But his story has been carefully manipulated. In reality, he was a dissident whose works were highly critical of the regimes of Elizabeth I and James I. Who Killed William Shakespeare? examines the means, motive and the opportunity that led to his murder, and explains why Will Shakespeare had to be 'stopped'. From forensic analysis of his death mask to the hunt for his missing skull, the circumstances of Shakespeare's death are reconstructed and his life reconsidered in the light of fresh discoveries. What emerges is a portrait of a genius who spoke his mind and was silenced by his greatest literary rival.
Author : Richard Strier
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512823228
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Shakespearean Issues written by Richard Strier and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2022-09-06 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespearean Issues, Richard Strier has written a set of linked essays bound by a learned view of how to think about Shakespeare’s plays and also how to write literary criticism on them. The essays vary in their foci—from dealing with passages and key lines to dealing with whole plays, and to dealing with multiple plays in thematic conversation with each other. Strier treats the political, social, and philosophical themes of Shakespeare’s plays through recursive and revisionary close reading, revisiting plays from different angles and often contravening prevailing views. Part I focuses on characters. Moments of bad faith, of unconscious self-revelation, and of semi-conscious self-revelation are analyzed, along with the problem of describing characters psychologically and ethically. In an essay on “Happy Hamlet,” the famous melancholy of the prince is questioned, as is the villainy of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, while another essay asks the reader to reconsider moral judgments and negative assessments of characters who may be flawed but do not seem obviously wicked, such as Edgar and Gloucester in King Lear. Part II moves to systems, arguing that Henry IV, Measure for Measure, and The Merchant of Venice raise doubts about fundamental features of legal systems, such as impartiality, punishments, and respect for contracts. Strier reveals King Lear’s radicalism, analyzing its concentration on poverty and its insistence on the existence and legitimacy of a material substratum to human life. Essays on The Tempest offer original takes on the play’s presentation of coercive power, of civilization and its discontents, and of humanist ideals. Part III turns to religious and epistemological beliefs, with Strier challenging prevailing views of Shakespeare’s relation to both. A culminating reading sees The Winter’s Tale as ultimately affirming the mind’s capacities, and as finding a place for something like religion within the world. Anyone interested in Shakespeare’s plays will find Shakespearean Issues bracing and thought-provoking.
Author : Ivo Kamps
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317392949
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Left and Right written by Ivo Kamps and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Left and Right brings together critics, strikingly different in their politics and methodologies, who are acutely aware of the importance of politics on literary practice and theory. Should, for example, feminist criticism be subjected to a critique by voices it construes as hostile to its political agenda? Is it possible to present a critique of feminist criticism without implicitly impeding its politics? And, in the light of recent political events should the Right pronounce the demise of Marxism as a social science and interpretive tool? The essays in Shakespeare Left and Right, first published in 1991, present a tug of war about ideology, acted out over the body of Shakespeare. Part One focuses on the challenge thrown down by Richard Levin's widely discussed "Feminist Thematics and Shakespearean Tragedy". Part Two considers these issues in relation to critical practice and the reading of specific plays. This book should be of interest to undergraduates and academics interested in Shakespeare studies.
Author : Marianne Novy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199642362
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and Outsiders written by Marianne Novy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an engaging account of the portrayal of outsiders in Shakespeare's writings. It considers characters who are outsiders for an array of reasons including their race, religion, gender, psychology, and morality, and highlights the idea of otherness as a relative rather than fixed term.
Author : John Gillies
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458535
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (585 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference written by John Gillies and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-05-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging book, John Gillies explores Shakespeare's geographic imagination, and discovers an intimate relationship between Renaissance geography and theatre, arising from their shared dependence on the opposing impulses of taboo-laden closure and hubristic expansiveness. Dr Gillies shows that Shakespeare's images of the exotic, the 'barbarous, outlandish or strange', are grounded in concrete historical fact: to be marginalised was not just a matter of social status, but of belonging, quite literally, to the margins of contemporary maps. Through an examination of the icons and emblems of contemporary cartography, Dr Gillies challenges the map-makers' overt intentions, and the attitudes and assumptions that remained below the level of consciousness. His study of map and metaphor raises profound questions about the nature of a map, and of the connections between the semiology of a map and that of the theatre.
Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438116497
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the plot, characters, and themes of five Shakespearean tragedies.
Author : Kay Stockholder
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119059011
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Thinking About Shakespeare written by Kay Stockholder and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the challenges of maintaining bonds, living up to ideals, and fulfilling desire in Shakespeare’s plays In Thinking About Shakespeare, Kay Stockholder reveals the rich inner lives of some of Shakespeare’s most enigmatic characters and the ways in which their emotions and actions shape and are shaped by the social and political world around them. In addressing all genres in the Shakespeare canon, the authors explore the possibility of people being constant to each other in many different kinds of relationships: those of lovers, kings and subjects, friends, and business partners. While some bonds are irrevocably broken, many are reaffirmed. In all cases, the authors offer insight into what drives Shakespeare’s characters to do what they do, what draws them together or pulls them apart, and the extent to which bonds can ever be eternal. Ultimately, the most durable bond may be between the playwright and the audience, whereby the playwright pleases and the audience approves. The book takes an in-depth look at a dozen of The Bard’s best-loved works, including: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Romeo and Juliet; The Merchant of Venice; Richard II; Henry IV, Part I; Hamlet; Troilus and Cressida; Othello; Macbeth; King Lear; Antony and Cleopatra; and The Tempest. It also provides an epilogue titled: Prospero and Shakespeare. Written in a style accessible for all levels Discusses 12 plays, making it a comprehensive study of Shakespeare’s work Covers every genre of The Bard’s work, giving readers a full sense of Shakespeare’s art/thought over the course of his oeuvre Provides a solid overall sense of each play and the major characters/plot lines in them Providing new and sometimes unconventional and provocative ways to think about characters that have had a long critical heritage, Thinking About Shakespeare is an enlightening read that is perfect for scholars, and ideal for any level of student studying one of history’s greatest storytellers.
Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319902180
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages written by Alfred Thomas and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the Tudor-Stuart state. In examining Shakespeare’s Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Winter’s Tale, the text explores how Shakespeare repossessed the medieval past to articulate political and religious dissent. By comparing these and other plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries with their medieval analogues, Alfred Thomas argues that Shakespeare was an ecumenical writer concerned with promoting tolerance in a highly intolerant and partisan age.
Author : Lloyd Davis
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137903
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (379 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Matters written by Lloyd Davis and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each area, the authors discuss a range of issues by applying and debating key critical approaches to Shakespeare including new historicism, cultural materialism, feminism, and postcolonialism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Leah Scragg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349086614
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Discovering Shakespeare's Meaning written by Leah Scragg and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-04-12 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lachlan Mackinnon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349092258
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare the Aesthete written by Lachlan Mackinnon and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-02-23 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G. Holderness
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349190691
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare: The Play of History written by G. Holderness and published by Springer. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen Bamford
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442690550
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedies of Love written by Karen Bamford and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borrowing its title from renowned scholar Alexander Leggatt's landmark 1974 study, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a tribute to a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies. To help celebrate his distinguished career as a teacher and scholar, this collection of essays presents a wide range of new work on the Bard's comedies. The contributors cover diverse areas of inquiry, including the use of the comedies as a source of women's empowerment in nineteenth-century America; civic drama in Elizabethan London; male anxiety about women in the comedies; anti-Semitism in The Merchant of Venice; as well as some key productions of Shakespeare's comedies. Rich in detail and broad in scope, Shakespeare's Comedies of Love is a celebration of Leggatt's distinguished career, and an enduring collection of work on the world's most famous writer.
