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Shakespeare and the Origins of English

Author : Neil Rhodes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019924572X
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Origins of English written by Neil Rhodes and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What existed before there was a subject known as English? How did English eventually come about? Focusing specifically on Shakespeare's role in the origins of the subject, Rhodes addresses the evolution of English from the early modern period up to the late eighteenth century. He deals with the kinds of literary and educational practices that would have formed Shakespeare's experience and shaped his work and traces the origins of English in certain aspects of the educational regime that existed before English literature became an established part of the curriculum. Rhodes then presents Shakespeare both as a product of Renaissance rhetorical teaching and as an agent of the transformation of rhetoric in the eighteenth century into the subject that emerged as the modern study of English. By transferring terms from contemporary disciplines, such as 'media studies' and 'creative writing', or the technology of computing, to earlier cultural contexts Rhodes aims both to invite further reflection on the nature of the practices themselves, and also to offer new ways of thinking about their relationship to the discipline of English. Shakespeare and the Origins of English attempts not only an explanation of where English came from, but suggests how some of the things that we do now in the name of 'English' might usefully be understood in a wider historical perspective. By extending our view of its past, we may achieve a clearer view of its future.

Shakespeare and the Origins of English [ebook]

Author : Neil Rhodes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Origins of English [ebook] written by Neil Rhodes and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did Shakespeare learn at school? Did he study creative writing? This book addresses these and similar questions as the author shows where the modern subject of 'English' came from, and what part Shakespeare played in its formation.

Shakespeare's First Folio

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191069280
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's First Folio written by Emma Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of its place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare's reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognise Shakespeare.

English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton

Author : Valerie Hotchkiss
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252033469
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book English in Print from Caxton to Shakespeare to Milton written by Valerie Hotchkiss and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark collection of early English books, with many gorgeous illustrations

Shakespeare's English Kings

Author : Peter Saccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019988076X
Total Pages : 297 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 297 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.

English History in Shakespeare's Plays

Author : Beverley Ellison Warner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book English History in Shakespeare's Plays written by Beverley Ellison Warner and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare and the Origins of English [ebook]

Author : Neil Rhodes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)

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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

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780195160932
Total Pages : 494 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare written by Stanley Wells and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly illustrated book tells the story of Shakespeare's life, his writings, and his afterlife. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of studying, teaching, editing, and writing about Shakespeare, Stanley Wells combines scholarly authority with authorial flair in a book that will appeal equally to the specialist and the untutored enthusiast. Chapters on Shakespeare's life in Stratford and in London offer a fresh view of the development of the writer's career and personality. At the core of the book lies a magisterial study of the writings themselves--how Shakespeare set about writing a play, his relationships with the company of actors with whom he worked, his developing mastery of the literary and rhetorical skills that he learned at the Stratford grammar school, the essentially theatrical quality of the structure and language of his plays. Subsequent chapters trace the fluctuating fortunes of his reputation and influence. Here are accounts of adaptations, productions, and individual performances in England and, increasingly, overseas; of great occasions such as the Garrick Jubilee and the tercentenary celebrations of 1864; of the spread of Shakespeare's reputation in France and Germany, Russia and America, and, more recently, the Far East; of Shakespearian discoveries and forgeries; of critical reactions, favorable and otherwise, and of scholarly activity; of paintings, music, films and other works of art inspired by the plays; of the plays' use in education and the political arena, and of the pleasure and intellectual stimulus that they have given to an increasingly international public. Shakespeare, said Ben Jonson, was not of an age but for all time. This is a book about him for our time.

The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare

Author : Irving Ribner
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415353144
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (531 download)

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Download or read book The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare written by Irving Ribner and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents the most comprehensive account available of the English historical drama from its beginning to the closing of the theatres in 1642.

The Life of King Henry the Fifth

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Life of King Henry the Fifth written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Shakespeare Suppressed

Author : Katherine Chiljan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780982940556
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Suppressed written by Katherine Chiljan and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Non-fiction research book about Shakespeare, the man and his works, based on contemporary evidence. This evidence conflicts with the orthodox view; for example, contemporary evidence shows that ?William Shakespeare? was a pen name, and that his plays were written far earlier than believed. The book also deconstructs the case of the Stratford Man as Shakespeare, and presents a theory how and why the two different identities were later confused. 2nd edition, 448 pages, footnotes, plates.

English history in Shakespeare

Author : John A. R. Marriott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book English history in Shakespeare written by John A. R. Marriott and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Story of English Speech

Author : Charles Noble
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Story of English Speech written by Charles Noble and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

English Drama Before Shakespeare

Author : Peter Happe
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317871138
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book English Drama Before Shakespeare written by Peter Happe and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English Drama before Shakespeare surveys the range of dramatic activity in English up to 1590. The book challenges the traditional divisions between Medieval and Renaissance literature by showing that there was much continuity throughout this period, in spite of many innovations. The range of dramatic activity includes well-known features such as mystery cycles and the interludes, as well as comedy and tragedy. Para-dramatic activity such as the liturgical drama, royal entries and localised or parish drama is also covered. Many of the plays considered are anonymous, but a coherent, biographical view can be taken of the work of known dramatists such as John Heywood, John Bale, and Christopher Marlowe. Peter Happé's study is based upon close reading of selected plays, especially from the mystery cycles and such Elizabethan works as Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy. It takes account of contemporary research into dramatic form, performance (including some important recent revivals), dramatic sites and early theatre buildings, and the nature of early dramatic texts. Recent changes in outlook generated by the publication of the written records of early drama form part of the book's focus. There is an extensive bibliography covering social and political background, the lives and works of individual authors, and the development of theatrical ideas through the period. The book is aimed at undergraduates, as well as offering an overview for more advanced students and researchers in drama and in related fields of literature and cultural studies.

This England, That Shakespeare

Author : Professor Margaret Tudeau-Clayton
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1409476081
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book This England, That Shakespeare written by Professor Margaret Tudeau-Clayton and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-04-28 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from various angles the relation of the figure of the national poet/dramatist to constructions of England and Englishness this collection of essays probes the complex issues raised by this question, first through explorations of his plays, principally though not exclusively the histories (Part One), then through discussion of a range of subsequent appropriations and reorientations of Shakespeare and 'his' England (Part Two). If Shakespeare has been taken to stand for Britain as well as England, as if the two were interchangeable, this double identity has come under increasing strain with the break-up – or shake-up – of Britain through devolution and the end of Empire. Essays in Part One examine how the fissure between English and British identities is probed in Shakespeare's own work, which straddles a vital juncture when an England newly independent from Rome was negotiating its place as part of an emerging British state and empire. Essays in Part Two then explore the vexed relations of 'Shakespeare' to constructions of authorial identity as well as national, class, gender and ethnic identities. At this crucial historical moment, between the restless interrogations of the tercentenary celebrations of the Union of Scotland and England in 2007 and the quatercentenary celebrations of the death of the bard in 2016, amid an increasing clamour for a separate English parliament, when the end of Britain is being foretold and when flags and feelings are running high, this collection has a topicality that makes it of interest not only to students and scholars of Shakespeare studies and Renaissance literature, but to readers inside and outside the academy interested in the drama of national identities in a time of transition.

ENGLISH HIST IN SHAKESPEARE

Author : J. a. R. (John Arthur Ransome) Marriott
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781362208907
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book ENGLISH HIST IN SHAKESPEARE written by J. a. R. (John Arthur Ransome) Marriott and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.