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The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Author : Vivian Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 100035010X
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays written by Vivian Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas’s new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. From the collapse of ‘degree’ in Troilus and Cressida to the corruption at the heart of innocence in Measure for Measure, to the puzzling status of virtue and valour in All’s Well, the most obvious feature of these plays in their capacity to prompt new questions. In a detailed discussion of each play in turn, the author traces the dominant themes that both distinguish and unite them, and provides numerous insights into the sources, background, texture and morality of the plays.

Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627932534
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Problem Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-07-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection containing Alls Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida

The Problem Plays of Shakespeare

Author : Ernest Schanzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136564896
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book The Problem Plays of Shakespeare written by Ernest Schanzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon.

Shakespeare and the Problem Play

Author : E.L. Risden
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078647243X
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Problem Play by : E.L. Risden

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Problem Play written by E.L. Risden and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2012-10-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays provide a rich source of genre variation as well as moral or ethical issues that invite deep study. The genre issue often proves the very moral crux where Shakespeare raises the most complex questions. He aimed to build good plays, not simple fulfillments of genre demands. To him "good plays" meant leaving his audience with problems to consider. This book begins with those works most commonly appearing in studies of problem plays, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure; moves to some comedic problem plays, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Twelfth Night; and then to tragic problem plays, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. It concludes with some problems in the history and romance genres for the issues they raise in love, adventure, and governance: Henry IV, Part 1, Henry V, Cymbeline, The Tempest, and Love's Labor's Lost.

Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition

Author : Jean-Pierre Maquerlot
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521410830
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition by : Jean-Pierre Maquerlot

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Mannerist Tradition written by Jean-Pierre Maquerlot and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1996 book offers an original approach to Shakespeare's so-called 'problem plays' by contending that they can be viewed as experiments in the Mannerist style. The plays reappraised here are Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. How can a term used to define a movement in art history be made relevant to theatrical analysis? Maquerlot shows how famous painters of sixteenth-century Italy cultivated structural ambiguity or dissonance in reaction to the classical canons of the High Renaissance. Close readings of Shakespeare's plays, from the period 1599 to 1604, reveal intriguing analogies with Mannerist art and the dramatist's response to Elizabethan formalism. Maquerlot concludes by examining Othello, which marks the end of Shakespeare's Mannerist experiments, and the less equivocal use of artifice in his late romances.

Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies

Author : David F. McCandless
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253113344
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (133 download)

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Book Synopsis Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies by : David F. McCandless

Download or read book Gender and Performance in Shakespeare's Problem Comedies written by David F. McCandless and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1997-12-22 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is exactly the kind of work, with its synthesis of theory, close reading, and deconstructive performance criticism that many of us in the profession have been looking for." -- Joel B. Altman, University of California, Berkeley "McCandless's book represents an inventive and illuminating account that not only produces a theoretically activated text but also explores a range of options for staging it, turning theoretical into theatrical meanings." -- Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University "The writing is clear, snappy, wonderfully informed with a vivid and experienced theatrical imagination... a book that taught me a good deal about the problem comedies, especially from the vantage point of performance, though the insights into performance are fully and incisively integrated with, and they richly illuminate, formal, thematic, and psychological vantage points on the play." -- Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois Composed at a critical moment in English history, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida -- Shakespeare's problem plays -- dramatize a crisis in the sex-gender system. They register a male dread of emasculation and engulfment, a fear of female authority and sexuality. In these plays males identify desire for a female as dangerous and unmanly, females contend and confound traditional femininity. David McCandless's book is a unique and invigorating example of performance criticism that illuminates these difficult, sometimes-overlooked tragicomedies. It is an original and timely contribution to Shakespearean theater scholarship.

The Problem Plays of Shakespeare

Author : Ernest Schanzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136564969
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Download or read book The Problem Plays of Shakespeare written by Ernest Schanzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-11-05 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon.

Shakespeare’s Double-Dealing Comedies

Author : Myron Stagman
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443818054
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare’s Double-Dealing Comedies written by Myron Stagman and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are some of Shakespeare’s romantic storybook heroines actually emoting sexually obscene (but very funny) lines? {“Sexual quibbles (puns, play-on words), covertly uttered by precious-and-pure heroines, call for an immediate revision of viewpoint.”} When Fernando (The Tempest) is described as bravely swimming for shore “in lusty stroke”, would he be disqualified for doing this in Olympic competition? Before the walls of Harfleur, when Henry V threatens to “mow like grass your fresh-fair virgins” and have “your naked infants spitted upon pikes”, is he (and by inference his creator) barbarous? Or is he doing an hilarious comic imitation of Marlowe’s Tamburlaine before the walls of Damascus? {“There exists an interesting Marlovian source for the Tamburlaine protagonist himself—Ivan the Terrible. He proposed marriage to Queen Elizabeth, who tactfully turned him down.”} Rule Number 1: If a good writer seems surprisingly inept and has been known to be a wit or humorist, suspect parody or satire. Well, esteemed readers, you decide where to place your bets. On the critics? Or on William Shakespeare?

Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Author : Eustace M. W. Tillyard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140175776
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Problem Plays written by Eustace M. W. Tillyard and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure - these are all described by the author as Shakespeare's problem plays. In each of them, the author argues, Shakespeare is deeply interested in speculative thought and in the observance of human nature for their own sake; and each is concerned with men on the edge of manhood and of the harsh experiences which forced them to grow up.

Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation

Author : Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 0415308674
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation written by Margaret Jane Kidnie and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnie brings current debates in performance criticism in contact with recent developments in textual studies to explore what it is that distinguishes Shakespearean work from its apparent other, the adaptation.

Measure for Measure

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521854482
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Measure for Measure written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-07-06 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme the play is seen as a religious allegory, at the other it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege. Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the play, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises that shock the audience even to the end. The introduction describes the play's critical reception and stage history and how these have varied according to prevailing social, moral and religious issues, which were highly sensitive when Measure for Measure was written, and have remained so to the present day.

Shakespeare's Irrational Endings

Author : D. Margolies
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137031042
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Irrational Endings written by D. Margolies and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his audience by frustrating their expectations.

Troilus and Cressida

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Troilus and Cressida written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1811 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning

Author : Norman Rabkin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226701786
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning written by Norman Rabkin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1981-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rabkin selects The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Antony and Cleopatra, Julius Caesar, Richard III, Macbeth, Coriolanus, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest as the plays on which to build his argument, and he teaches us a great deal about these plays. . . . To convince the unbelievingthat that the plays do mean, but that the meaning is coterminous with the experience of the plays themselves, Rabkin finds a strategy more subtle than thesis and rational argument, a strategy designed to make us see for ourselves why thematic descriptions are inadequate, see for ourselves tath the plays mean more than and statement about them can ever suggest." –Barbara A. Mowat, Auburn University "Norman Rabkin's new book is a very different kind of good book. Elegantly spare, sharp, undogmatic. . . . The relationship between the perception of unity and the perception of artistic achievement is a basic conundrum, and it is one that Mr. Rabkin has courageously placed at the center of his discussion." –G. K. Hunter, Sewanee Review "Rabkin's book is brilliant, taut, concise, beautifully argued, and sensitively responsive to the individuality of particular Shakespeare plays." –Anne Barton, New York Review of Books

The Comedy of Errors

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Comedy of Errors written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Myriad-minded Shakespeare

Author : E.A.J. Honigmann
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349198145
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book Myriad-minded Shakespeare written by E.A.J. Honigmann and published by Springer. This book was released on 1989-03-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Eternal Bonds, True Contracts

Author : A. G. Harmon
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484920
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Eternal Bonds, True Contracts written by A. G. Harmon and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Uses legal and literary resources to explore Shakespeare's use of the law and its instruments in the problem plays.