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Shakespeare's Wordcraft

Author : Scott Kaiser
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879103453
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Wordcraft written by Scott Kaiser and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Limelight). Written for readers who have a passion for Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Wordcraft takes a comprehensive look at Shakespeare's stellar use of language devices throughout his plays, devices he used to ink memorable lines like these: * I must be cruel only to be kind * Fair is foul, and foul is fair * Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more! * Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears! In a clear, accessible, non-academic style using plain terms, modern quotes, and several thousand examples Shakespeare's Wordcraft deftly reveals how these lasting lines were not accidental or coincidental, but designed and crafted by a master of the word.

Will's Words

Author : Jane Sutcliffe
Publisher : Charlesbridge Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580896383
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Will's Words written by Jane Sutcliffe and published by Charlesbridge Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jane Sutcliffe sets out to write a book about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, in her own words, she runs into a problem: Will's words keep popping up all over the place! What's an author to do? After all, Will is responsible for such familiar phrases as "what's done is done" and "too much of a good thing." He even helped turn "household words" into household words. But, Jane embraces her dilemma, writing about Shakespeare, his plays, and his famous phrases with glee. After all, what better words are there to use to write about the greatest writer in the English language than his very own? As readers will discover, "the long and the short of it" is this: Will changed the English language forever. Backmatter includes an author’s note, a bibliography, and a timeline.

Shakespeare in the Light

Author : Paul Menzer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1683931653
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (839 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in the Light written by Paul Menzer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare in the Light convenes an accomplished group of scholars, actors, and teachers to celebrate the legacy of renowned Shakespearean and co-founder of the American Shakespeare Center, Ralph Alan Cohen. Each contributor pivots off a production at the ASC’s Blackfriars Playhouse to explore Cohen’s abiding passion, the performance of the plays of William Shakespeare under their original theatrical conditions. Whether interested in early modern theatre history, the teaching of Shakespeare to high school students, or the performance of Shakespeare in twenty-first century America, each essay sheds light on the professing of Shakespeare today, whether on the page, on the stage, or in the classroom. Guided by the spirit of “universal lighting” – so central to the aesthetic of the American Shakespeare Center – Shakespeare in the Light illuminates the impact that the ASC and its founder have made upon the teaching, editing, scholarship, and performance of Shakespeare today.

Shakespeare’s Common Language

Author : Alysia Kolentsis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350007005
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Common Language written by Alysia Kolentsis and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeare's language in the plays? Shakespeare's Common Language demonstrates how methods borrowed from language criticism can illuminate the surprising expressive force of Shakespeare's common words. With chapters focused on different approaches based in language theory, the book analyses language change in Coriolanus; discourse analysis in Troilus and Cressida; pragmatics in Richard II; and various aspects of grammar in As You Like It. In mapping the tools of linguistics and language theory onto the study of literature, and employing finely-grained close readings of dialogue, Shakespeare's Common Language frames a methodology that offers a fresh approach to reading dramatic language.

The Tragic Paradox

Author : Leonard Moss
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739171224
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Tragic Paradox written by Leonard Moss and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paradox informs the narrative sequence, images, and rhetorical tactics contrived by skilled dramatists and novelists. Their literary languages depict not only a war between rivals but also simultaneous affirmation and negation voiced by a tragic individual. They reveal the treason, flux, and duplicity brought into play by an unrelenting drive for respect. Their patterns of speech, action, and image project a convergence of polarities, the convergence of integrity and radical change, of constancy and infidelity. A fanatical drive to fulfill a traditional code of masculine conduct produces the ironic consequence of de-forming that code—the tragic paradox. Tragic literature exploits irony. In Athenian and Shakespearean tragedy, self-righteous male or female aristocrats instigate their own disgrace, shame, and guilt, an un-expected diminishment. They are victimized by a magnificent obsession, a fantasy of un-alloyed authority or virtue, a dream of perfect self-sufficiency or trust. The authors of tragedy revised the concept of “nobility” to reflect the strange fact that grandeur elicits its own annulment. “Strengths by strengths do fail,” Shakespeare wrote in Coriolanus. The playwrights made this paradoxical predicament concrete with a narrative format that equates self-assertion with self-detraction, images that revolve between incredible reversals and provisional reinstatements, and speech that sounds impressively weighty but masks deception, disloyalty, cynicism, and insecurity. Three heroic philosophers, Plato, Hegel, and Nietzsche, contributed invaluable but contrasting accounts of these literary languages (Aristotle's Poetics will be discussed in connection with Plato's attitude toward poetry). Their divergent descriptions can be reconciled to show that invalidations as well as affirmations—the transmission of contraries—are essential for tragic composition. An equivocal rhetoric, a mutable imagery, and an ironic progression convey the tortuous pursuit of personal preeminence or (in later tragic works by Kafka and Strindberg) family solidarity and communal safety. I am trying to integrate the disparate arguments offered by several notable theorists with technical procedures fashioned by the Athenian dramatists and recast by Shakespeare and other writers, procedures that articulate the tragic paradox.

Building Embodiment

Author : Baron Kelly
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100089603X
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Building Embodiment written by Baron Kelly and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Building Embodiment: Integrating Acting, Voice, and Movement to Illuminate Poetic Text offers a collection of strategic and practical approaches to understanding, analyzing, and embodying a range of heightened text styles, including Greek tragedy, Shakespeare, and Restoration/comedy of manners. These essays offer insights from celebrated teachers across the disciplines of acting, voice, and movement and are designed to help actors and instructors find deeper vocal and physical connections to poetic text. Although each dramatic genre offers a unique set of challenges, Building Embodiment highlights instances where techniques can be integrated, revealing how the synthesis of body, brain, and word results in a fuller sense of character experiencing for both the actor and the audience. This book bridges the gap between academic and professional application and invites the student and professional actor into a richer experience of character and story.

Macbeth

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
ISBN 13 : 1580495893
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Macbeth written by William Shakespeare and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare's Metrical Art

Author : George T. Wright
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520076427
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (2 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 with total page 367 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.

The Shakespeare Cyclopædia and New Glossary

Author : John Phin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Cyclopædia and New Glossary written by John Phin and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare and Social Theory

Author : Bradd Shore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000429784
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Social Theory written by Bradd Shore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a “great thinker” and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare’s plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays—Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar, and King Lear—engage with the texts in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions, and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory, and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how “the new astronomy” of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of “perspective,” and shaped Shakespeare’s approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.

Shakespeares After Shakespeare [2 Volumes]

Author : Richard Burt
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeares After Shakespeare [2 Volumes] written by Richard Burt and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2007 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although he wrote 400 years ago, Shakespeare's plays continue to be performed by directors and actors interpreting his material for contemporary audiences. This encyclopaedia chronicles the lasting influence of Shakespeare on popular culture. It includes sections on types of media to which Shakespeare has been adapted, with an overview essay. Although he wrote 400 years ago, Shakespeare's plays continue to be performed by directors and actors interpreting his material for contemporary audiences. He also continues to leave his mark on films, comic books, television shows, and popular culture, as modern creative artists adapt and refashion his works. With special emphasis on the last hundred years, this encyclopedia chronicles the lasting influence of Shakespeare on popular culture. It includes broad sections on types of media to which Shakespeare has been adapted, each beginning with an overview essay, followed by sections on individual plays. These present chronologically arranged entries on adaptations. In addition, the work offers stage histories, biographies of actors and directors, and other valuable information. Actors, directors and writers featured include Kenneth Branagh, Ralph Fiennes, John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave, Orson Welles, John Barrymore, Peter Brook, Bertolt Brecht, Henry Irving, and Joseph Papp. The encyclopedia also provides entries on the presence of Shakespeare in films, TV series, and books, including "The Avengers", "Alley Oop", "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Classics Illustrated", "Dombey and Son", "Forbidden Planet", "Get Over It", "The Lion King", "A Plague of Angels", "Superman", "Tombstone", and "Ulysses". It closes with a selected, general bibliography and an extensive index.

The Shakespeare Cyclopœdia and New Glossary ...

Author : John Phin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Cyclopœdia and New Glossary ... written by John Phin and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Julius Caesar - Literary Touchstone

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Prestwick House Inc
ISBN 13 : 1580495877
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Julius Caesar - Literary Touchstone written by William Shakespeare and published by Prestwick House Inc. This book was released on 2005 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The evil that men do lives after them;The good is oft interred with their bones..."How do you choose between the life of your friend and the future of your homeland? In Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Brutus, "the noblest Roman of them all," has only his personal integrity to help him choose which is the greatest good and where he must place his allegiance. The wrong choice will result in certain personal and national devastation. With its stirring speeches and vivid images of men at both their noblest and most terrible, the play will leave the reader with a deeper understanding of what it means to be human. To make Julius Caesar more accessible to the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition provides in-depth explanation, as well as historical background. Convenient sidebar notes and an extensive glossary help the reader navigate the complexities of the text and enjoy the beauty of Shakespeare's verse, the wisdom of his insights, and the impact of his drama.

The Dictionary of Shakespeare Words

Author : Bookcaps
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
ISBN 13 : 1610428943
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Dictionary of Shakespeare Words written by Bookcaps and published by BookCaps Study Guides. This book was released on 2011 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you ever find yourself reading Shakespeare and are completely lost because of words like Obeisance and Quiddity? This dictionary contains over 4500 Shakespearean words and their definition.

Shakespeare's Words

Author : Ben Crystal
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141941529
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Words written by Ben Crystal and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare's plays and on the facing page is a unique diagramatic representation of the relationships within each play.

Coined by Shakespeare

Author : Jeff McQuain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coined by Shakespeare written by Jeff McQuain and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of terms that were first coined in William Shakespeare's plays. Each entry explains the source of the word, how the word is used throughout history, and where each word appears in Shakespeare's works.

Early Modern Theatricality

Author : Henry S. Turner
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199641358
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Theatricality written by Henry S. Turner and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early Modern Theatricality brings together some of the most innovative critics in the field to examine the many conventions that characterized early modern theatricality. It generates fresh possibilities for criticism, combining historical, formal, and philosophical questions, in order to provoke our rediscovery of early modern drama.