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Shakespeare's Medieval Craft

Author : Kurt A. Schreyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080145509X
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Medieval Craft written by Kurt A. Schreyer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespeare's Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage.As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.

Shakespeare's Medieval Craft

Author : Kurt A. Schreyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801455103
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Medieval Craft written by Kurt A. Schreyer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage. As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.

Shakespeare's Craft

Author : Philip H. Highfill
Publisher : Carbondale : Published for the George Washington University by Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Craft written by Philip H. Highfill and published by Carbondale : Published for the George Washington University by Southern Illinois University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally prepared for the distinguished Tupper Lecture series by some of the world's most widely recognized and respected Shakespearian scholars. Anne R. Barton in "Julius Caesar and Coriolanus: Shakespeare's Roman World of Words" contends that within the Roman world of oratory lies a central question: "The ethical status of oratory." In "Irony and Its Interrelatedness in Shakespeare," David Bevington studies verbal irony, dramatic irony, and "a more embracing irony which is both a criticism of life and a principle of dramatic structure." Robert B. Heilman, "Shakespeare's Variations on Farcical Style," explores the "evolution" of farcical elements in Shakespeare. Alvin B. Kernan, "Shakespeare's Stage Audiences: The Playwright's Reflections and Control of Audience Response," notes that the Renaissance dramatist was the first to have to sell his product on the marketplace. No more were they gentleman poets. In "Two Scenes from Macbeth," Harry Levin concentrates on the porter's scene and the sleepwalking scene. Noting that both scenes are in prose--usually reserved for lowlife comedy or for "psychic disturbance," he shows the thematic, theological, and psychological importance of those scenes. "Looking for Shakespeare" is Samuel Schoenbaum's attempt to find Shakespeare in the records and artifacts he left behind and in various documents and shrines erected to immortalize him. Hallett D. Smith's "The Poetry of the Lyric Group: Richard II, Romeo and Juliet, AMidsummer Night'sDream"examines the poetry in scenes where dramatic action might be more appropriate. In "Shakespeare and the Ceremonies of Romance," Eugene M. Waith examines the appeal of ceremonial scenes for Shakespeare and other Tudor playwrights.

How to Think Like Shakespeare

Author : Scott Newstok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691227691
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book How to Think Like Shakespeare written by Scott Newstok and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--

Shakespeare for Kids

Author : Colleen Aagesen
Publisher : For Kids
ISBN 13 : 9781556523472
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare for Kids written by Colleen Aagesen and published by For Kids. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the life and works of Shakespeare. Includes activities to introduce Elizabethan times, including making costumes, making and using a quill pen, and binding a book by hand.

Shakespeare

Author : Dr. Surinder Mohan Devgun
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1482838060
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (828 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare written by Dr. Surinder Mohan Devgun and published by Partridge Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare not only influenced the theatre of his contemporary age, but his influence on theatre comes down to our own age. His stagecraft, theatre architecture, and theatrical effects leave an indelible influence on Greek, Roman, Indian, Kabuki, and Western Theatre. This stagecraft of Shakespearean theatre helped the smooth and spontaneous flow of the action. This encompassed the human emotions and feelings. It proved purgative for the human heart. Shakespeare enlivened the printed page of the drama. The present work describes the comparative study of various theatre forms of East and West. Shakespeare successfully established a deep emotional relationship between the actors and the audience. The theatre became a passionate urge for the people with Shakespeare.

Shakespeare

Author : Darrell Figgis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare written by Darrell Figgis and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

William Shakespeare

Author : Paul Shuter
Publisher : Raintree
ISBN 13 : 1406273392
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare written by Paul Shuter and published by Raintree. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was William Shakespeare? How much do we really know about him, and how much of what is believed is myth? This unique biography takes the reader step-by-step through Shakespeare's life, setting out the evidence and what we can reasonably infer about him. It reminds the reader about the world he lived in, such as that standard spelling of words did not exist in his time, and shows how we must think carefully before applying modern ideas to explain his life.

Alternative Shakespeares

Author : John Drakakis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134445792
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Alternative Shakespeares written by John Drakakis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work centred on the quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. In Alternative Shakespeares, John Drakakis brought together key essays by founding figures in this movement to remake Shakespeare studies. A new afterword by Robert Weimann outlines the extraordinary impact of Alternative Shakespeares on academic Shakespeare studies. But as yet, the Shakespeare myth continues to thrive both in Stratford and in our schools. These essays are as relevant and as powerful as they were upon publication and with a contributor list that reads like a 'who's who' of modern Shakespeare studies, Alternative Shakespeares demands to be read.

Seeing Shakespeare’s Style

Author : Douglas Bruster
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000770273
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Seeing Shakespeare’s Style written by Douglas Bruster and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-11-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seeing Shakespeare’s Style offers new ways for readers to perceive Shakespeare and, by extension, literary texts generally. Organized as a series of studies of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, poetry, and prose, it looks at the inner functioning of language and form in works from all phases of this writer’s career. Because the very concept of literary style has dropped out of so many of our conversations about writing, we need new ways to understand how words, phrases, speeches, and genres in literature work. Responding to this need, this book shows how visual representations of writing can lead to a deeper understanding of language’s textures and effects. Starting with chapters that a beginning reader of Shakespeare can benefit from, its second half puts these tools to use in more in-depth examinations of Shakespeare’s language and style. Although focused on Shakespeare’s works, and the works of his contemporaries, this book provides tools for all readers of literature by defining style as material, graphic, and shaped by the various media in which all writers work.

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

Author : Ken Ludwig
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307951499
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare written by Ken Ludwig and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines an engaging way to instill an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's classic works in children, outlining a family-friendly method that incorporates the history of Shakespearean theater and society.

Nelson Thornes Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

Author : Duncan Beal
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780748769568
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Nelson Thornes Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet written by Duncan Beal and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2014-11 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flexible yet structured resource package specifically targeting the GCSE and AS Assessment Objectives and the criteria for the study of Shakespeare, designed to enhance students' knowledge, understanding and response. The series covers ten of Shakespeare's most popular plays, with accompanying teacher resources.

Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox

Author : Peter G. Platt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317056523
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Culture of Paradox written by Peter G. Platt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.

Nelson Thornes Shakespeare - the Tempest

Author : David Stone
Publisher : Nelson Thornes
ISBN 13 : 9780748769582
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book Nelson Thornes Shakespeare - the Tempest written by David Stone and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 2014-11 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A flexible yet structured resource package specifically targeting the GCSE and AS Assessment Objectives and the criteria for the study of Shakespeare, designed to enhance students' knowledge, understanding and response. The series covers ten of Shakespeare's most popular plays, with accompanying teacher resources.

Shakespeare, a Study

Author : Darrell Figgis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, a Study written by Darrell Figgis and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Where are We Now in Shakespearean Studies?

Author : John. M Mucciolo
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351742965
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean International Yearbook: Where are We Now in Shakespearean Studies? written by John. M Mucciolo and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title was first published in 2002. This second volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues the work of assessing the present state of Shakespeare studies in the new millennium. Comprising 20 essays by distinguished scholars from North America, the UK and Australia, it is divided into sections on criticism and theory; text, textuality and technology; Renaissance ideas and conventions; and Shakespeare and the city. The essays address issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare, including those of gender and sexuality, the staging of plays, and historical research on matters such as the monarchy, language, religion, and the law.

Shakespeare's Metrical Art

Author : George T. Wright
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520911938
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Metrical Art written by George T. Wright and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1988-08-02 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a wide-ranging, poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. George T. Wright offers a detailed survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language.