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Author : Benno Loewy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385563755
Total Pages : 509 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Diversions written by Benno Loewy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-23 with total page 509 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1877.
Author : Platt Peter G. Platt
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474463436
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Essays written by Platt Peter G. Platt and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that the Essais of Montaigne were a crucial factor in the composition of later Shakespearean dramaA new way of accounting for the different sorts of plays that Shakespeare wrote later in his careerA detailed history of the literary-critical interest in the Montaigne-Shakespeare connection, from the eighteenth century to the present dayCase studies that, through sustained close-readings of Montaigne's essays and Shakespeare's plays, shows the shared concerns of the authorsA new approach that differs from the more typical method of looking merely for verbal echoes, resulting in a deeper, richer sense of the way that Shakespeare's reading of Montaigne shaped his writingIn this revisionist study, Peter G. Platt provides a detailed history of the literary-critical interest in the Montaigne-Shakespeare connection from the eighteenth century to the present day. Through sustained close-readings of Montaigne's essays and Shakespeare's plays, Platt explores both authors' approaches to self, knowledge and form that stress fractures, interruptions and alternatives. While the change in monarchy, the revived interest in judicial rhetoric and the alterations in Shakespeare's acting company helped shape plays such as Measure for Measure, King Lear and The Tempest, this book contends that Shakespeare's reading of Montaigne is an under-recognised driving force in these later plays.
Author : Diana E. Henderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134099029
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Alternative Shakespeares written by Diana E. Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the most innovative of the new directions emerging in Shakespearean scholarship, this volume identifies and explores the new, the changing and the radically 'other' possibilities for Shakespeare Studies at this current time.
Author : M. Menon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230614574
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book Unhistorical Shakespeare written by M. Menon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unhistorical Shakespeare argues against the ideas of difference that underpin historicist studies of the past and its desires, offering, instead, the idea of homo-history to engage with issues of narcissism, anachronism, and recursiveness in conjunction with sexual desire.
Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350211508
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and Forgetting written by Peter Holland and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-03 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it signify when a Shakespearean character forgets something or when Hamlet determines to 'wipe away all trivial fond records'? How might forgetting be an act to be performed, or be linked to forgiveness, such as when in The Winter's Tale Cleomenes encourages Leontes to 'forget your evil. / With them, forgive yourself'? And what do we as readers and audiences forget of Shakespeare's works and of the performances we watch? This is the first book devoted to a broad consideration of how Shakespeare explores the concept of forgetting and how forgetting functions in performance. A wide-ranging study of how Shakespeare dramatizes forgetting, it offers close readings of Shakespeare's plays, considering what Shakespeare forgot and what we forget about Shakespeare. The book touches on an equally broad range of forgetting theory from antiquity through to the present day, of forgetting in recent novels and films, and of creative ways of making sense of how our world constructs the cultural meaning of and anxiety about forgetting. Drawing on dozens of productions across the history of Shakespeare on stage and film, the book explores Shakespeare's dramaturgy, from characters who forget what they were about to say, to characters who leave the stage never to return, from real forgetting to performed forgetting, from the mad to the powerful, from playgoers to Shakespeare himself.
Author : Paul F. Boller
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780151006120
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Presidential Diversions written by Paul F. Boller and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2007 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul F. Boller, Jr.'s widely admired and bestselling anecdotal histories have uncovered new aspects and hidden dimensions in the lives of our presidents. Now he turns to an uncharted--but unexpectedly revealing--element of our leaders' personalities as he brings us stories of what the presidents did for fun.In thumbnail portraits of every president through George W. Bush, Boller chronicles their taste in games, sports, and cultural activities. George Washington had a passion for dancing and John Quincy Adams skinny-dipped in the Potomac; Grover Cleveland loved beer gardens and Woodrow Wilson made a failed effort to write fiction; Calvin Coolidge cherished his afternoon naps, as did Lyndon Johnson his four-pack-a-day cigarette habit; Jimmy Carter was a surprisingly skilled high diver and Bush Senior loved to parachute. The sketches revitalize even the most familiar of our leaders, showing us a new side of our presidents--and their presidencies.
Author : Michael Dobson
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191591718
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book The Making of the National Poet : Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769 written by Michael Dobson and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1992-10-22 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study since the 1920s of the Restoration and eighteenth-century's revisions and revaluations of Shakespeare, and the first to consider the period's much-reviled stage adaptions in the context of the profound cultural changes of their times. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, Dobson examines how and why Shakespeare was retrospectively claimed as both a respectable Enlightenment author and a crucial and contested symbol of British national identity. The book provides thorough analysis, both engaging and informative, the definitive account of the theatre's role in establishing Shakespeare as Britain's National Poet. - ;The century between the Restoration and David Garrick's Stratford Jubilee saw William Shakespeare's promotion from the status of archaic, rustic playwright to that of England's timeless Bard, and with it the complete transformation of the ways in which his plays were staged, published, and read. But why Shakespeare, and what different interests did this process serve? The Making of the National Poet is the first full-length study since the 1920s of the Restoration and eighteenth century's revisions and revaluations of Shakespeare, and the first to consider the period's much-reviled stage adaptations in the context of the profound cultural changes in which they participate. Drawing on a wide range of evidence - including engravings, prompt-books, diaries, statuary, and previously unpublished poems (among them traces of the hitherto mysterious Shakespeare Ladies' Club) - it examines how and why Shakespeare was retrospectively claimed as both a respectable Enlightenment author and a crucial and contested symbol of British national identity. It shows in particular how the deification of Shakespeare co-existed with, and even demanded, the drastic and sometimes bizarre rewriting of his plays for which the period is notorious. The book provides thorough analysis, both engaging and informative, the definitive account of the theatre's role in establishing Shakespeare as Britain's National Poet. -
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 756 pages
Book Rating : 4.P/5 (24 download)
Download or read book A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rory Clements
Publisher : Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN 13 : 1529350190
Total Pages : 1196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Martyr/Revenger/Prince written by Rory Clements and published by Hodder & Stoughton. This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 1196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first three books of the bestselling John Shakespeare series of Tudor spy thrillers from Rory Clements, author of the Sunday Times bestseller Hitler's Secret *** Martyr Tensions in Elizabeth I's government are at breaking point. At the eye of the storm is John Shakespeare, chief intelligencer in the secret service of Sir Francis Walsingham. When an intercept reveals a plot to assassinate England's 'sea dragon', Francis Drake, Shakespeare is ordered to protect him. With Drake on land fitting out his ships, he is frighteningly vulnerable. If he dies, England will be open to invasion. From the splendour and intrigue of the royal court, to the sleek warships of Her Majesty's Navy and the teeming brothels of Southwark, Shakespeare soon learns that nothing is as it seems . . . Revenger The quiet life of John Shakespeare is shattered by a summons from Robert Cecil, the cold but deadly young statesman who dominated the last years of the Queen's long reign, insisting Shakespeare re-enter government service. His mission: to find vital papers, now in the possession of the Earl of Essex. When John Shakespeare infiltrates this dissolute world he discovers not only that the Queen herself is in danger - but that he and his family is also a target. With only his loyal footsoldier Boltfoot Cooper at his side, Shakespeare must face implacable forces who believe themselves above the law. And in a world of shifting allegiances, just how far he can trust Robert Cecil, his devious new master? Prince Driven on by cold rage, Shakespeare's investigations will take him from magnificent royal horseraces to the opulent chambers of Black Luce's brothel, from the theatrical underworld of Marlowe and Kyd to the pain-wracked torture cells of priest-hunter Richard Topcliffe, and from the elegant offices of master tactician Robert Cecil to the splintering timbers of an explosive encounter at sea. As Shakespeare delves ever deeper, he uncovers intricate layers of mystery and deception that threaten the heart not only of the realm, but of all that he holds dear.
Author : FRED G. BARKER
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book FORTY-MINUTE PLAYS from SHAKESPEARE written by FRED G. BARKER and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Folk-lore of Shakespeare written by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edmund Gosse
Publisher : London : Heinemann
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Some Diversions of a Man of Letters written by Edmund Gosse and published by London : Heinemann. This book was released on 1920 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Huw Griffiths
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350316865
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare - Hamlet written by Huw Griffiths and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-10-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet is one of the best known works of English literature throughout the world, and its central character one of Shakespeare's most recognisable and enduring creations. Hamlet's first critics in the 17th century were, however, concerned with the play's apparent lack of decorum, whilst the Romantics revelled in the melancholy prince's isolation. Caught between a dead father and a remarried mother, Hamlet inevitably provided scope for Freud and the psychoanalytic writers of the 20th century. The play has retained its fascination for more recent critics and every new interpretation provides fuel for further study. In this Guide, Huw Griffiths traces the history of the play's criticism from the 1660s through to the present day. Readers are provided with substantial excerpts from all the key critical readings - including accounts of the interaction between film versions and critical interpretations. Griffiths places each reading of the play within its own historical context and within the history of literary criticism, offering both students and teachers an approachable introduction to the critical fortunes of this most influential text.
Author : Darryl P. Domingo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316558916
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The Rhetoric of Diversion in English Literature and Culture, 1690–1760 written by Darryl P. Domingo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did eighteenth-century writers employ digression as a literary form of diversion, and how did their readers come to enjoy linguistic and textual devices that self-consciously disrupt the reading experience? Darryl P. Domingo answers these questions through an examination of the formative period in the commercialization of leisure in England, and the coincidental coming of age of literary self-consciousness in works published between approximately 1690 and 1760. During this period, commercial entertainers tested out new ways of gratifying a public increasingly eager for amusement, while professional writers explored the rhetorical possibilities of intrusion, obstruction, and interruption through their characteristic use of devices like digression. Such devices adopt similar forms and fulfil similar functions in literature as do diversions in culture: they 'unbend the mind' and reveal the complex reciprocity between commercialized leisure and commercial literature in the age of Swift, Pope, and Fielding.
Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113478354X
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)
Download or read book William Shakespeare written by Brian Vickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.
Author : David Bobey
Publisher : Outskirts Press
ISBN 13 : 1977265014
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (772 download)
Download or read book Brain Diversions written by David Bobey and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-01-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents questions pertaining to a wide array of subjects, including art, music, literature, geography, history, biology, chemistry/math, sports, entertainment, and miscellany. There are 200 questions per subject. The vast majority of questions involve the selection of false statements, true statements, correct associations, incorrect associations, choosing the correct answer from information supplied, matching, and event sequencing. This book is an ideal companion to a party, corporate meeting ice breaker, etc.
