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Shakespeare's Romances as Interrogative Texts

Author : Boika Sokolova
Publisher : Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Romances as Interrogative Texts written by Boika Sokolova and published by Edwin Mellen Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest as interrogative texts, throwing light not only on elements of their complex structure but on some of the pressures existing in Jacobean ideology. It is a politicized reading of the texts, analyzing the multiple dramatic strategies which create angles of vision, revealing deficiencies in the nature of authority, the role of the king as father, husband and ruler, and the function of the aristocratic woman as restorer of harmony. It also discusses problems of genre and dramatic strategies.

The Quest for Cardenio

Author : David Carnegie
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199641811
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book The Quest for Cardenio written by David Carnegie and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together leading scholars, critics, and theatre practitioners, this collection of essays is devoted to 'The History of Cardenio', a play based on Don Quixote and said to have been written by Shakespeare and the young man who was taking his place, John Fletcher.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays

Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828282
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays by : Catherine M. S. Alexander

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays written by Catherine M. S. Alexander and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Which plays are included under the heading 'Shakespeare's last plays', and when does Shakespeare's 'last' period begin? What is meant by a 'late play', and what are the benefits in defining plays in this way? Reflecting the recent growth of interest in late studies, and recognising the gaps in accessible scholarship on this area, in this book leading international Shakespeare scholars address these and many other questions. The essays locate Shakespeare's last plays - single and co-authored - in the period of their composition, consider the significant characteristics of their Jacobean context, and explore the rich afterlives, on stage, in print and other media of The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline, The Tempest, Pericles, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Henry VIII. The volume opens with a historical timeline that places the plays in the contexts of contemporary political events, theatrical events, other cultural milestones, Shakespeare's life and that of his playing company, the King's Men.

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

Author : Margreta De Grazia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107495482
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (74 download)

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Book Synopsis The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare by : Margreta De Grazia

Download or read book The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare written by Margreta De Grazia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings of the plays are given in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume, contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a national context, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history of reception and performance.

A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture

Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470998725
Total Pages : 792 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture by : Michael Hattaway

Download or read book A Companion to English Renaissance Literature and Culture written by Michael Hattaway and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a one volume, up-to-date collection of more than fifty wide-ranging essays which will inspire and guide students of the Renaissance and provide course leaders with a substantial and helpful frame of reference. Provides new perspectives on established texts. Orientates the new student, while providing advanced students with current and new directions. Pioneered by leading scholars. Occupies a unique niche in Renaissance studies. Illustrated with 12 single-page black and white prints.

Shakespeare and Greece

Author : Alison Findlay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474244262
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Greece written by Alison Findlay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-01-26 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson's claim that Shakespeare had 'small Latin and less Greek' and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare's texts: a group whose generic hybridity (tragic-comical-historical-romance) exemplifies the hybridity of Greece in the early modern imagination. To early modern England, Greece was an enigma. It was the origin and idealised pinnacle of Western philosophy, tragedy, democracy, heroic human endeavour and, at the same time, an example of decadence: a fallen state, currently under Ottoman control, and therefore an exotic, dangerous, 'Other' in the most disturbing senses of the word. Indeed, while Britain was struggling to establish itself as a nation state and an imperial authority by emulating classical Greek models, this ambition was radically unsettled by early modern Greece's subjection to the Ottoman Empire, which rendered Europe's eastern borders dramatically vulnerable. Focussing, for the first time, on Shakespeare's 'Greek' texts (Venus and Adonis, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Love's Labour's Lost, Troilus and Cressida, Timon of Athens, King Lear, Pericles and The Two Noble Kinsmen), the volume considers how Shakespeare's use of antiquity and Greek myth intersects with early modern perceptions of the country and its empire.

Shakespeare's History Plays

Author : A. J. Hoenselaars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521829021
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's History Plays by : A. J. Hoenselaars

Download or read book Shakespeare's History Plays written by A. J. Hoenselaars and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-09-23 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, with a foreword by Dennis Kennedy, addresses a range of attitudes to Shakespeare's English history plays in Britain and abroad from the early seventeenth century to the present day. It concentrates on the play texts as well as productions, translations and adaptations of them. The essays explore the multiple points of intersection between the English history they recount and the experience of British and other national cultures, establishing the plays as genres not only relevant to the political and cultural history of Britain but also to the history of nearly every nation worldwide. The plays have had a rich international reception tradition but critics and theatre historians abroad, those practising 'foreign' Shakespeare, have tended to ignore these plays in favour of the comedies and tragedies. By presenting the British and foreign Shakespeare traditions side by side, this volume seeks to promote a more finely integrated world Shakespeare.

Shakespeare's Dark Lady

Author : John Hudson
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445621665
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Dark Lady written by John Hudson and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amelia Bassano Lanier is proved to be a strong candidate for authorship of Shakespeare's plays: Hudson looks at the fascinating life of this woman, believed by many to be the dark lady of the sonnets, and presents the case that she may have written Shakespeare's plays.

Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408138115
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics written by Andrew Hadfield and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, was concerned with the question of the succession and the legitimacy of the monarch. From the early plays through the histories to Hamlet, Shakespeare's work is haunted by the problem of political legitimacy.

The Gospel according to Shakespeare

Author : Piero Boitani
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268075689
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Gospel according to Shakespeare written by Piero Boitani and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2014-01-09 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this slim, poetically powerful volume, Piero Boitani develops his earlier work in The Bible and Its Rewritings, focusing on Shakespeare’s “rescripturing” of the Gospels. Boitani persuasively urges that Shakespeare read the New Testament with great care and an overall sense of affirmation and participation, and that many of his plays constitute their own original testament, insofar as they translate the good news into human terms. In Hamlet and King Lear, he suggests, Shakespeare’s "New Testament" is merely hinted at, and faith, salvation, and peace are only glimpsed from far away. But in Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest, the themes of compassion and forgiveness, transcendence, immanence, the role of the deity, resurrection, and epiphany are openly, if often obliquely, staged. The Christian Gospels and the Christian Bible are the signposts of this itinerary. Originally published in 2009, Boitani's Il Vangelo Secondo Shakespeare was awarded the 2010 De Sanctis Prize, a prestigious Italian literary award. Now available for the first time in an English translation, The Gospel according to Shakespeare brings to a broad scholarly and nonscholarly audience Boitani's insights into the current themes dominating the study of Shakespeare's literary theology. It will be of special interest to general readers interested in Shakespeare’s originality and religious perspective.

Shakespeare In The New Europe

Author : Boika Sokolova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474247571
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare In The New Europe by : Boika Sokolova

Download or read book Shakespeare In The New Europe written by Boika Sokolova and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-17 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare is the national poet of many nations besides his own, though a peculiarly subversive one in both east and west. This volume contains a score of essays by scholars from Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain, Ukraine and the USA, written to show how the momentous changes of 1989 were mirrored in the way Shakespeare has been interpreted and produced. The collection offers a valuable record of what Shakespeare has meant in the modern world and some pointers to what he may mean in the future.

Shakespeare Survey

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523851
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Stanley Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625

Author : Andrew Hadfield
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191567175
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625 by : Andrew Hadfield

Download or read book Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625 written by Andrew Hadfield and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-12-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics, particularly their own lack of representation in public institutions. Sometimes such analyses took the form of displaced allegories, whereby writers contrasted the advantages enjoyed, or disadvantages suffered, by foreign subjects with the political conditions of Tudor and Stuart England. Elsewhere, more often in explicitly colonial writings, authors meditated on the problems of government when faced with the possibly violent creation of a new society. If Venice was commonly held up as a beacon of republican liberty which England would do well to imitate, the fear of tyrannical Catholic Spain was ever present - inspiring and haunting much of the colonial literature from 1580 onwards. This stimulating book examines fictional and non-fictional writings, illustrating both the close connections between the two made by early modern readers and the problems involved in the usual assumption that we can make sense of the past with the categories available to us. Hadfield explores in his work representations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East, selecting pertinent examples rather than attempting to embrace a total coverage. He also offers fresh readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe, More, Lyly, Hakluyt, Harriot, Nashe, and others.

Shakespeare Closely Read

Author : Frank Occhiogrosso
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson
ISBN 13 : 1611470153
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Closely Read written by Frank Occhiogrosso and published by Fairleigh Dickinson. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Closely Read is a collection of essays by Shakespearean scholars, all of which were originally papers presented at the 2008 International Shakespeare Conference at Stratford-upon-Avon. Each contains a close reading of Shakespearean or other Elizabethan dramatic texts in an effort to open up new meanings and interpretations. The volume contains an introduction by the editor on the history of close reading and its place in contemporary critical theory and practice.

Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere

Author : Monica Matei-Chesnoiu
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838641958
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Drama and the Eastern European Elsewhere written by Monica Matei-Chesnoiu and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores how Eastern European spaces and meanings are constituted in specific cultural contexts in early modern English drama. Focusing on the ways in which these texts integrate the articulation of Eastern European space and geography into a variety of interpretative conventions, the book develops ways of thinking critically and reflexively about the production of knowledge and identity in Shakespeare and his contemporaries through representations of space in drama.

Shakespeare

Author : Kiernan Ryan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1403913579
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare written by Kiernan Ryan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published to critical acclaim in 1989, this book is now recognised as one of the most original and influential critical studies of Shakespeare to have appeared in recent times. For this brand-new edition, Kiernan Ryan has not only revised and updated the text throughout, but he has also added a great deal of new material, expanding the book to twice the size of the first edition. The section on Shakespearean comedy now includes an essay on Shakespeare's first scintillating experiment in the genre, The Comedy of Errors, and a study of his most perplexing problem play, Measure for Measure. A provocative new last chapter, '"Dreaming on things to come": Shakespeare and the Future of Criticism', reveals how much modern criticism can learn from the appropriation of Shakespeare by Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw and James Joyce. Students, teachers, and anyone with a passionate interest in what the plays have to say to us today, will find this modern classic of Shakespeare criticism indispensable.

The Winter's Tale

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140707168
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Winter's Tale written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1969 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part of The New Penguin Shakespeare series, this text looks at The Winter's Tale with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems of the play. The series is used and recommended by the Royal Shakespeare Company.