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Twelfth Night: A Critical Reader

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472503317
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Twelfth Night: A Critical Reader written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelfth Night is the most mature and fully developed of Shakespeare's comedies and, as well as being one of his most popular plays, represents a crucial moment in the development of his art. Assembled by leading scholars, this guide provides a comprehensive survey of major issues in the contemporary study of the play. Throughout the book chapters explore such issues as the play's critical reception from John Manningham's account of one of its first performances to major current comentators like Stephen Greenblatt; the performance history of the play, from Shakespeare's day to the present and key themes in current scholarship, from issues of gender and sexuality to the study of comedy and song. Twelfth Night: A Critical Guide also includes a complete guide to resources available on the play - including critical editions, online resources and an annotated bibliography - and how they might be used to aid both the teaching and study of Shakespeare's enduring comedy.

Twelfth Night: A Critical Reader

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472503309
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Twelfth Night: A Critical Reader written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelfth Night is the most mature and fully developed of Shakespeare's comedies and, as well as being one of his most popular plays, represents a crucial moment in the development of his art. Assembled by leading scholars, this guide provides a comprehensive survey of major issues in the contemporary study of the play. Throughout the book chapters explore such issues as the play's critical reception from John Manningham's account of one of its first performances to major current comentators like Stephen Greenblatt; the performance history of the play, from Shakespeare's day to the present and key themes in current scholarship, from issues of gender and sexuality to the study of comedy and song. Twelfth Night: A Critical Guide also includes a complete guide to resources available on the play - including critical editions, online resources and an annotated bibliography - and how they might be used to aid both the teaching and study of Shakespeare's enduring comedy.

Twelfth Night

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317532325
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Twelfth Night written by Stanley Wells and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-10 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986. Among the most frequently performed and high admired of Shakespeare’s plays, Twelfth Night is examined here in this collection of writings from well-known essayists and scholars. The chapters present to the modern reader discussions of the play to enhance understanding and study of both the text and performances. Opening essays address individual characters; then some accounts of its potential and theatrical reviews are included; finally followed by critical studies looking at various parts and themes. The editor’s introduction explains the usefulness of each chapter and gives an overview of the selection.

Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Twelfth Night

Author : James Schiffer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 041597335X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (159 download)

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Download or read book Twelfth Night written by James Schiffer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in the Shakespeare Criticism series offers a range of approaches to Twelfth Night, including its critical reception, performance history, and relation to early modern culture. James Schiffer's extensive introduction surveys the play's critical reception and performance history, while individual essays explore a variety of topics relevant to a full appreciation of the play: early modern notions of love, friendship, sexuality, madness, festive ritual, exoticism, social mobility, and detection. The contributors approach these topics from a variety of perspectives, such as new critical, new historicist, cultural materialist, feminist and queer theory, and performance criticism, occasionally combining several approaches within a single essay. The new essays from leading figures in the field explore and extend the key debates surrounding Twelfth Night, creating the ideal book for readers approaching this text for the first time or wishing to further their knowledge of this stimulating, much loved play.

Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader

Author : Peter Kirwan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350270199
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Arden of Faversham: A Critical Reader written by Peter Kirwan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-29 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to Arden of Faversham's role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.

Twelfth Night

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107126274
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Twelfth Night written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third New Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, updated by Penny Gay for the contemporary student reader.

Twelfth Night: Arden Performance Editions

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350002992
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Twelfth Night: Arden Performance Editions written by William Shakespeare and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-16 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the world-renowned Arden Shakespeare is producing Performance Editions, aimed specifically for use in the rehearsal room. Published in association with the Shakespeare Institute, the text features easily accessible facing page notes – including short definitions of words, key textual variants, and guidance on metre and pronunciation; a larger font size for easier reading; space for writing notes and reduced punctuation aimed at the actor rather than the reader. With editorial expertise from the worlds of theatre and academia, the series has been developed in association with actors and drama students. The Series Editors are distinguished scholars Professor Michael Dobson and Dr Abigail Rokison and leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale.

Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474284388
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader written by Deborah Cartmell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's rich stage and screen performance, looking closely at major contemporary performances, including Josie Rourke's film starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones at the Old Vic, and the RSC's recent rebranding of it as a sequel. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives, including contemporary directors' deployment of older actors within the lead roles, the play's relationship to Love's Labour's Lost, its presence on Youtube and the ways in which tales and ruses in the play belong to a wider concern with varieties of crime. The volume finishes with a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further research.

Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture

Author : Kristine Steenbergh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108495397
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Compassion in Early Modern Literature and Culture written by Kristine Steenbergh and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores how early modern Europeans responded to suffering and asks how they both described and practised compassion.

Twelfth Night

Author : R. S. White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333606773
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Twelfth Night written by R. S. White and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents a wide range of recent critical essays exemplifying different approaches to Shakespeare's work in general and Twelfth Night in particular. Essays are written from positions of new historicism, deconstruction, feminism, Marxism, reader response, and others. The introduction, written especially for the volume, makes accessible to students at all levels the diversity of the contemporary study of Shakespeare and its wider importance.

Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface

Author : Liz Oakley-Brown
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003828930
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface written by Liz Oakley-Brown and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare on the Ecological Surface uses the concept of the ‘surface’ to examine the relationship between contemporary performance and ecocriticism. Each section looks, in turn, at the 'surfaces' of slick, smoke, sky, steam, soil, slime, snail, silk, skin and stage to build connections between ecocriticism, activism, critical theory, Shakespeare and performance. While the word ‘surface’ was never used in Shakespeare’s works, Liz Oakley-Brown shows how thinking about Shakespearean surfaces helps readers explore the politics of Elizabethan and Jacobean culture. She also draws surprising parallels with our current political and ecological concerns. The book explores how Shakespeare uses ecological surfaces to help understand other types of surfaces in his plays and poems: characters’ public-facing selves; contact zones between characters and the natural world; surfaces upon which words are written; and physical surfaces upon which plays are staged. This book will be an illuminating read for anyone studying Shakespeare, early modern culture, ecocriticism, performance and activism.

Shakespeare and Asia

Author : Jonathan Locke Hart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429663293
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Asia written by Jonathan Locke Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Asia brings together innovative scholars from Asia or with Asian connections to explore these matters of East-West and global contexts then and now. The collection ranges from interpretations of Shakespeare’s plays and his relations with other authors like Marlowe and Dickens through Shakespeare and history and ecology to studies of film, opera or scholarship in Japan, Russia, India, Pakistan, Singapore, Taiwan and mainland China. The adaptations of Kozintsev and Kurosawa; Bollywood adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays; different Shakespearean dramas and how they are interpreted, adapted and represented for the local Pakistani audience; the Peking-opera adaptation of Hamlet ; Féng Xiǎogāng’s The Banquet as an adaptation of Hamlet; the ideology of the film, Shakespeare Wallah. Asian adaptations of Hamlet will be at the heart of this volume. Hamlet is also analyzed in light of Oedipus and the Sphinx. Shakespeare is also considered as a historicist and in terms of what influence he has on Chinese writers and historical television. Lear is Here and Cleopatra and Her Fools, two adapted Shakespearean plays on the contemporary Taiwanese stage, are also discussed. This collection also examines in Shakespeare the patriarchal prerogative and notion of violence; carnival and space in the comedies; the exotic and strange; and ecology. The book is rich, ranging and innovative and will contribute to Shakespeare studies, Shakespeare and media and film, Shakespeare and Asia and global Shakespeare.

Richard II: A Critical Reader

Author : Michael Davies
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350064564
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Richard II: A Critical Reader written by Michael Davies and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Contributions from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making these books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance histories A keynote chapter reviewing current research and recent criticism of the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of learning and teaching resources for both instructors and students This volume offers a thought-provoking guide to Shakespeare's Richard II, surveying its critical heritage and the ways in which scholars, critics, and historians have approached the play, from the 17th to the 21st century. It provides a detailed, up-to-date account of the play's rich performance history on stage and screen, looking closely at some major British productions, as well as a guide to learning and teaching resources and how these might be integrated into effective pedagogic strategies in the classroom. Presenting four new critical essays, this collection opens up fresh perspectives on this much-studied drama, including explorations of: the play's profound preoccupation with earth, ground and land; Shakespeare's engagement with early modern sermon culture, 'mockery' and religion; a complex network of intertextual and cultural references activated by Richard's famous address to the looking-glass; and the long-overlooked importance to this profoundly philosophical drama of that most material of things: money.

The Alchemist: A Critical Reader

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441180591
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book The Alchemist: A Critical Reader written by and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The eponymous alchemist of Ben Jonson's quick-fire comedy is a fraud: he cannot make gold, but he does make brilliant theatre. The Alchemist is a masterpiece of wit and form about the self-delusions of greed and the theatricality of deception. This guide will be useful to a diverse assembly of students and scholars, offering fresh new ways into this challenging and fascinating play.

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.

The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage

Author : Lisa Hopkins
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 1501514156
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Edge of Christendom on the Early Modern Stage written by Lisa Hopkins and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2022-03-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the edges of Europe were under pressure from the Ottoman Turks. This book explores how Shakespeare and his contemporaries represented places where Christians came up against Turks, including Malta, Tunis, Hungary, and Armenia. Some forms of Christianity itself might seem alien, so the book also considers the interface between traditional Catholicism, new forms of Protestantism, and Greek and Russian orthodoxy. But it also finds that the concept of Christendom was under threat in other places, some much nearer to home. Edges of Christendom could be found in areas that were or had been pagan, such as Rome itself and the Danelaw, which once covered northern England; they could even be found in English homes and gardens, where imported foreign flowers and exotic new ingredients challenged the concept of what was native and natural.