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Shakespeare's Stories of the English Middle Ages

Author : Peter Whisson
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595200001
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Stories of the English Middle Ages written by Peter Whisson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09-24 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynastic turmoil in 15th Century England? No thanks! For many people Shakespeare's histories rank a distant third behind his tragedies and comedies. Obscure lords and long-forgotten battles. So the image goes. Yet some of these same plays tell superb stories, and contain scenes and characters that are among the liveliest and most memorable in all literature.Here, four of the very best, Richard the Second, Henry the Fourth Parts One and Two, and Henry the Fifth are presented as 'productions for the page'-consecutive stories for the modern reader. Be bemused no longer by endless kings, dukes and earls, acting out their arguments in iambic verse. Follow instead, as if in the midst of events, Shakespeare's masterly unfolding of a classic pattern of revolution, suppression of enemies, and conquest abroad.

Shakespeare's Kings

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743200314
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (432 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Kings written by John Julius Norwich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-03-13 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares the historical kings with their portrayal in Shakespeare's plays.

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Author : Helen Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521683068
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (216 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Middle Ages written by Helen Cooper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-04-13 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Cooper's inaugural lecture traces the influence of medieval literature on the Renaissance, particularly in Shakespeare's work.

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Author : Martha W. Driver
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786491655
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Middle Ages written by Martha W. Driver and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every generation reinvents Shakespeare for its own needs, imagining through its particular choices and emphases the Shakespeare that it values. The man himself was deeply involved in his own kind of historical reimagining. This collection of essays examines the playwright’s medieval sources and inspiration, and how they shaped his works. With a foreword by Michael Almereyda (director of the Hamlet starring Ethan Hawke) and dramaturge Dakin Matthews, these thirteen essays analyze the ways in which our modern understanding of medieval life has been influenced by our appreciation of Shakespeare’s plays.

Shakespeare's English Kings

Author : Peter Saccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019988076X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's English Kings written by Peter Saccio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to the Richards, Edwards, Henrys, Warwicks and Norfolks who ruled and fought across Shakespeare's page and stage. Not only theater-goers and students, but today's film-goers who want to enrich their understanding of film adaptations of plays such as Richard III and Henry V will find this revised edition of Shakespeare's English Kings to be an essential companion. Saccio's engaging narrative weaves together three threads: medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material, that history as understood by modern scholars, and the action of the plays themselves. Including a new preface, a revised further reading list, genealogical charts, an appendix of names and titles, and an index, the second edition of Shakespeare's English Kings offers excellent background reading for all of the ten history plays.

Medieval Shakespeare

Author : Ruth Morse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107016274
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Medieval Shakespeare written by Ruth Morse and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives readers the opportunity to appreciate Shakespeare from the perspectives of the late-medieval European traditions that surrounded him.

Shakespeare's Medieval Craft

Author : Kurt A. Schreyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 080145509X
Total Pages : 348 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 348 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 and the Medieval World

Author : Helen Cooper
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408138999
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Medieval World written by Helen Cooper and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-22 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helen Cooper's unique study examines how continuations of medieval culture into the early modern period, forged Shakespeare's development as a dramatist and poet. Medieval culture pervaded his life and work, from his childhood, spent within reach of the last performances of the Coventry Corpus Christi plays, to his dramatisation of Chaucer in The Two Noble Kinsmen three years before his death. The world he lived in was still largely a medieval one, in its topography and its institutions. The language he spoke had been forged over the centuries since the Norman Conquest. The genres in which he wrote, not least historical tragedy, love-comedy and romance, were medieval inventions. A high proportion of his plays have medieval origins and he kept returning to Chaucer, acknowledged as the greatest poet in the English language. Above all, he grew up with an English tradition of drama developed during the Middle Ages that assumed that it was possible to stage anything - all time, all space. Shakespeare and the Medieval World provides a panoramic overview that opens up new vistas within his work and uncovers the richness of his inheritance.

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages

Author : Curtis Perry
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191569712
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Middle Ages written by Curtis Perry and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-05-07 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity. Shakespeare provides them with the perfect focus, since his works turn back to the Middle Ages as decisively as they anticipate the modern world: almost all of the histories depict events during the Hundred Years War, and King John glances even further back to the thirteenth-century Angevins; several of the comedies, tragedies, and romances rest on medieval sources; and there are important medieval antecedents for some of the poetic modes in which he worked as well. Several of the essays reread Shakespeare by recovering aspects of his works that are derived from medieval traditions and whose significance has been obscured by the desire to read Shakespeare as the origin of the modern. These essays, taken cumulatively, challenge the idea of any decisive break between the medieval period and early modernity by demonstrating continuities of form and imagination that clearly bridge the gap. Other essays explore the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries constructed or imagined relationships between past and present. Attending to the way these writers thought about their relationship to the past makes it possible, in turn, to read against the grain of our own teleological investment in the idea of early modernity. A third group of essays reads texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as documents participating in social-cultural transformation from within. This means attending to the way they themselves grapples with the problem of change, attempting to respond to new conditions and pressures while holding onto customary habits of thought and imagination. Taken together, the essays in this volume revisit the very idea of transition in a refreshingly non-teleological way.

The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare

Author : Robert Hornback
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare written by Robert Hornback and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence.

Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages

Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319902180
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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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.

Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare

Author : Bruce W. Young
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313342407
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (133 download)

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Download or read book Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare written by Bruce W. Young and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-30 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet to Othello's misguided murder of Desdemona to the betrayal of King Lear by his daughters, family life is central to Shakespeare's dramas. This book helps students learn about family life in Shakespeare's England and in his plays. The book begins with an overview of the roots of Renaissance family life in the classical era and Middle Ages. This is followed by an extended consideration of family life in Elizabethan England. The book then explores how Shakespeare treats family life in his plays. Later chapters then examine how productions of his plays have treated scenes related to family life, and how scholars and critics have responded to family life in his works. The volume closes with a bibliography of print and electronic resources. The volume begins with a look at the classical and medieval background of family life in the Early Modern era. This is followed by a sustained discussion of family life in Shakespeare's world. The book then examines issues related to family life across a broad range of Shakespeare's works. Later chapters then examine how productions of the plays have treated scenes concerning family life, and how scholars and critics have commented on family life in Shakespeare's writings. The volume closes with a bibliography of print and electronic resources for student research. Students of literature will value this book for its illumination of critical scenes in Shakespeare's works, while students in social studies and history courses will appreciate its use of Shakespeare to explore daily life in the Elizabethan age.

Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds

Author : Carole Levin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801457718
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds written by Carole Levin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds, Carole Levin and John Watkins focus on the relationship between the London-based professional theater preeminently associated with William Shakespeare and an unprecedented European experience of geographic, social, and intellectual mobility. Shakespeare's plays bear the marks of exile and exploration, rural depopulation, urban expansion, and shifting mercantile and diplomatic configurations. He fills his plays with characters testing the limits of personal identity: foreigners, usurpers, outcasts, outlaws, scolds, shrews, witches, mercenaries, and cross-dressers. Through parallel discussions of Henry VI, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Merchant of Venice, Levin and Watkins argue that Shakespeare's centrality to English national consciousness is inseparable from his creation of the foreign as a category asserting dangerous affinities between England's internal minorities and its competitors within an increasingly fraught European mercantile system. As a women's historian, Levin is particularly interested in Shakespeare's responses to marginalized sectors of English society. As a scholar of English, Italian Studies, and Medieval Studies, Watkins situates Shakespeare in the context of broadly European historical movements. Together Levin and Watkins narrate the emergence of the foreign as portable category that might be applied both to "strangers" from other countries and to native-born English men and women, such as religious dissidents, who resisted conformity to an increasingly narrow sense of English identity. Shakespeare's Foreign Worlds will appeal to historians, literary scholars, theater specialists, and anyone interested in Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Age.

A Blessed Shore

Author : Alfred Thomas
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801445682
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book A Blessed Shore written by Alfred Thomas and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although Thomas gives original readings of famous English texts by Chaucer and Shakespeare, this is also a book about Czech writers and travelers; one Czech expatriate, Anne of Bohemia, became Queen of England. For both countries these were decades of religious and dynastic turbulence, and Thomas's analyses of the relations between Wyclif and Hus, Lollards and Hussites, help us to understand why Bohemia was viewed as an almost utopian land of refuge ("a blessed shore" on which a ship might wash up) for persecuted English men and women. Of particular interest is his analysis of the ways in which English court culture emulated that of Prague, which was an imperial seat at a time when England was still a peripheral place with little influence on the heart of Europe.

Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

Author : Sarah Beckwith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801461101
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness written by Sarah Beckwith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as mediators between God and men through sacramental rites, Reformed theology declared the priesthood of all believers. What ensued was not the tidy replacement of one doctrine by another but a long and messy conversation about the conventions of religious life and practice. In this brilliant and strikingly original book, Sarah Beckwith traces the fortunes of this conversation in Shakespeare’s theater. Beckwith focuses on the sacrament of penance, which in the Middle Ages stood as the very basis of Christian community and human relations. With the elimination of this sacrament, the words of penance and repentance—"confess," "forgive," "absolve" —no longer meant (no longer could mean) what they once did. In tracing the changing speech patterns of confession and absolution, both in Shakespeare’s work and Elizabethan and Jacobean culture more broadly, Beckwith reveals Shakespeare’s profound understanding of the importance of language as the fragile basis of our relations with others. In particular, she shows that the post-tragic plays, especially Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest, are explorations of the new regimes and communities of forgiveness. Drawing on the work of J. L. Austin, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Stanley Cavell, Beckwith enables us to see these plays in an entirely new light, skillfully guiding us through some of the deepest questions that Shakespeare poses to his audiences.

Shakespeare and the Medieval Tradition

Author : J. Paul McRoberts
Publisher : Scholarly Title
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Medieval Tradition written by J. Paul McRoberts and published by Scholarly Title. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

William Shakespeare

Author : Ari Berk
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 0763647942
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (636 download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare written by Ari Berk and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.