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Error in Shakespeare

Author : Alice Leonard
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030351807
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book Error in Shakespeare written by Alice Leonard and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The traditional view of Shakespeare’s mastery of the English language is alive and well today. This is an effect of the eighteenth-century canonisation of his works, and subsequently Shakespeare has come to be perceived as the owner of the vernacular. These entrenched attitudes prevent us from seeing the actual substance of the text, and the various types of error that it contains and even constitute it. This book argues that we need to attend to error to interpret Shakespeare’s disputed material text, political-dramatic interventions and famous literariness. The consequences of ignoring error are especially significant in the study of Shakespeare, as he mobilises the rebellious, marginal, and digressive potential of error in the creation of literary drama.

The Matter of Virtue

Author : Holly A. Crocker
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812251415
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book The Matter of Virtue written by Holly A. Crocker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If material bodies have inherent, animating powers—or virtues, in the premodern sense—then those bodies typically and most insistently associated in the premodern period with matter—namely, women—cannot be inert and therefore incapable of ethical action, Holly Crocker contends. In The Matter of Virtue, Crocker argues that one idea of what it means to be human—a conception of humanity that includes vulnerability, endurance, and openness to others—emerges when we consider virtue in relation to modes of ethical action available to premodern women. While a misogynistic tradition of virtue ethics, from antiquity to the early modern period, largely cast a skeptical or dismissive eye on women, Crocker seeks to explore what happened when poets thought about the material body not as a tool of an empowered agent whose cultural supremacy was guaranteed by prevailing social structures but rather as something fragile and open, subject but also connected to others. After an introduction that analyzes Hamlet to establish a premodern tradition of material virtue, Part I investigates how retellings of the demise of the title female character in Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde, Henryson's Testament of Cresseid, and Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida among other texts structure a poetic debate over the potential for women's ethical action in a world dominated by masculine violence. Part II turns to narratives of female sanctity and feminine perfection, including ones by Chaucer, Bokenham, and Capgrave, to investigate grace, beauty, and intelligence as sources of women's ethical action. In Part III, Crocker examines a tension between women's virtues and household structures, paying particular attention to English Griselda- and shrew-literatures, including Shakespeare's Taming of the Shrew. She concludes by looking at Chaucer's Legend of Good Women to consider alternative forms of virtuous behavior for women as well as men.

Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580

Author : Sunhee Kim Gertz
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333721988
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (219 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer to Shakespeare, 1337-1580 written by Sunhee Kim Gertz and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 250 years introduced here, literature reflects key transitions, embedded as it is in far-reaching political, religious, and socio-economic transformations. This volume tracks some of the resulting tensions in various genres, especially those that re-integrate or respond to the traditional. Such literature is examined by using the tools of rhetoric and semiotics, interpreting from the author-audience axis and focusing on dissonant markers in canonical as well as in lesser well-known narratives. SunHee Kim Gertz looks at the history and culture of the era in order to contextualize the work she examines, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,The Book of Margery Kempe, Le Morte D'Arthur and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Offering a refreshing new perspective on a period of rich literary output, that students often find difficult to engage, this will prove a welcome guide and critical companion.

Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Author : Alex Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0198851421
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Inheritance from Chaucer to Shakespeare written by Alex Davis and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work, Alex Davis explores how inheritance was imagined between the lifetimes of Chaucer and Shakespeare.

The Swan at the Well

Author : Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson
Publisher : New Haven : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300033496
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Swan at the Well written by Ethelbert Talbot Donaldson and published by New Haven : Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Troilus and Cressida

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/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 1905 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Given the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one of the Inns of the Court. Shakespeare's treatment of the age-old tale of love and betrayal is based on many sources, from Homer and Ovid to Chaucer andShakespeare's near contemporary Robert Greene. In the introduction the various problems connected with the play, its performance, and publication, are considered succinctly; its multiple sources are discussed in detail, together with its peculiar stage history and its renewed popularity in recentyears.

The Shakespeare Wars

Author : Ron Rosenbaum
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307807924
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Wars written by Ron Rosenbaum and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-11-09 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.” –David Remnick In The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler, he shakes up much that we thought we understood about a vital subject and renews our sense of excitement and urgency. He gives us a Shakespeare book like no other. Rather than raking over worn-out fragments of biography, Rosenbaum focuses on cutting-edge controversies about the true source of Shakespeare’s enchantment and illumination–the astonishing language itself. How best to unlock the secrets of its spell? With quicksilver wit and provocative insight, Rosenbaum takes readers into the midst of fierce battles among the most brilliant Shakespearean scholars and directors over just how to delve deeper into the Shakespearean experience–deeper into the mind of Shakespeare. Was Shakespeare the one-draft wonder of Shakespeare in Love? Or was he rather–as an embattled faction of textual scholars now argues–a different kind of writer entirely: a conscientious reviser of his greatest plays? Must we then revise our way of reading, staging, and interpreting such works as Hamlet and King Lear? Rosenbaum pursues key partisans in these debates from the high tables of Oxford to a Krispy Kreme doughnut shop in a strip mall in the Deep South. He makes ostensibly arcane textual scholarship intensely seductive–and sometimes even explicitly sexual. At an academic “Pleasure Seminar” in Bermuda, for instance, he examines one scholar’s quest to find an orgasm in Romeo and Juliet. Rosenbaum shows us great directors as Shakespearean scholars in their own right: We hear Peter Brook–perhaps the most influential Shakespearean director of the past century–disclose his quest for a “secret play” hidden within the Bard’s comedies and dramas. We listen to Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company, as he launches into an impassioned, table-pounding fury while discussing how the means of unleashing the full intensity of Shakespeare’s language has been lost–and how to restore it. Rosenbaum’s hilarious inside account of “the Great Shakespeare ‘Funeral Elegy’ Fiasco,” a man-versus-computer clash, illustrates the iconic struggle to define what is and isn’t “Shakespearean.” And he demonstrates the way Shakespearean scholars such as Harold Bloom can become great Shakespearean characters in their own right. The Shakespeare Wars offers a thrilling opportunity to engage with Shakespeare’s work at its deepest levels. Like Explaining Hitler, this book is destined to revolutionize the way we think about one of the overwhelming obsessions of our time.

The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye

Author : Raoul Lefèvre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye written by Raoul Lefèvre and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Testament of Cresseid

Author : Robert Henryson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107636264
Total Pages : 43 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (76 download)

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Download or read book The Testament of Cresseid written by Robert Henryson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-24 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1926, this volume contains the full text of The Testament of Cresseid by Scottish poet Robert Henryson.

The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare

Author : Doug Stewart
Publisher : Da Capo Press
ISBN 13 : 0306819007
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare written by Doug Stewart and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1795, a frustrated young writer named William Henry Ireland stood petrified in his father's study as two of England's most esteemed scholars interrogated him about a tattered piece of paper that he claimed to have found in an old trunk. It was a note from William Shakespeare. Or was it? In the months that followed, Ireland produced a torrent of Shakespearean fabrications: letters, poetry, drawings -- even an original full-length play that would be hailed as the Bard's lost masterpiece and staged at the Drury Lane Theatre. The documents were forensically implausible, but the people who inspected them ached to see first hand what had flowed from Shakespeare's quill. And so they did. This dramatic and improbable story of Shakespeare's teenaged double takes us to eighteenth century London and brings us face-to-face with history's most audacious forger.

From Chaucer's Pardoner to Shakespeare's Iago

Author : Maik Goth
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783631564653
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book From Chaucer's Pardoner to Shakespeare's Iago written by Maik Goth and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages the American critic Harold Bloom claims that Shakespeare drew on Chaucer's Pardoner when creating the villain Iago for his Othello. This book turns Bloom's observation of influences within the canon of Western literature into a more complex intermedial analysis of dramatic and literary traditions at the waning of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance. The discussion of verbal and non-verbal codes in Chaucer's presentation of the Pardoner and Shakespeare's depiction of Iago sheds light on the various strands of the Vice's development, and shows that Chaucer's pilgrim, who descends obliquely from the stage Vices, stands at the very beginning of the Vice tradition, while Iago is a late development of him, who adapts his role to new dramatic challenges.

The Melancholy Muse

Author : Carol Falvo Heffernan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Melancholy Muse written by Carol Falvo Heffernan and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Melancholy is so much part of human experience that it is no surprise that, in its clinical dimension, it has been written about by physicians for hundreds of years, from antiquity into the 20th century.

The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare

Author : Deanne Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521832168
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The French Fetish from Chaucer to Shakespeare written by Deanne Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-11-18 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deanne Williams traces the cultural legacy of the Norman Conquest in England from 1350 to 1600.

Chaucer

Author : Marion Turner
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210152
Total Pages : 626 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer written by Marion Turner and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-22 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than any other canonical English writer, Geoffrey Chaucer lived and worked at the centre of political life -- yet his poems are anything but conventional. Edgy, complicated, and often dark, they reflect a conflicted world, and their astonishing diversity and innovative language earned Chaucer renown as the father of English literature. Marion Turner, however, reveals him as a great European writer and thinker. To understand his accomplishment, she reconstructs in unprecedented detail the cosmopolitan world of Chaucer's adventurous life, focusing on the places and spaces that fired his imagination. Uncovering important new information about Chaucer's travels, private life, and the early circulation of his writings, this innovative biography documents a series of vivid episodes, moving from the commercial wharves of London to the frescoed chapels of Florence and the kingdom of Navarre, where Christians, Muslims, and Jews lived side by side. The narrative recounts Chaucer's experiences as a prisoner of war in France, as a father visiting his daughter's nunnery, as a member of a chaotic Parliament, and as a diplomat in Milan, where he encountered the writings of Dante and Boccaccio. At the same time, the book offers a comprehensive exploration of Chaucer's writings, taking the reader to the Troy of Troilus and Criseyde, the gardens of the dream visions, and the peripheries and thresholds of The Canterbury Tales. By exploring the places Chaucer visited, the buildings he inhabited, the books he read, and the art and objects he saw, this landmark biography tells the extraordinary story of how a wine merchant's son became the poet of The Canterbury Tales." -- Publisher's description.

Chaucer's Tale

Author : Paul Strohm
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143127837
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book Chaucer's Tale written by Paul Strohm and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2015-10-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A lively microbiography of Geoffrey Chaucer, the "father of English literature", focusing on the surprising and fascinating story of the tumultuous year that led to the creation of the Canterbury Tales"--Provided by publisher.

The Cambridge Guide to Homer

Author : Corinne Ondine Pache
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108663621
Total Pages : 974 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Homer written by Corinne Ondine Pache and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 974 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its ancient incarnation as a song to recent translations in modern languages, Homeric epic remains an abiding source of inspiration for both scholars and artists that transcends temporal and linguistic boundaries. The Cambridge Guide to Homer examines the influence and meaning of Homeric poetry from its earliest form as ancient Greek song to its current status in world literature, presenting the information in a synthetic manner that allows the reader to gain an understanding of the different strands of Homeric studies. The volume is structured around three main themes: Homeric Song and Text; the Homeric World, and Homer in the World. Each section starts with a series of 'macropedia' essays arranged thematically that are accompanied by shorter complementary 'micropedia' articles. The Cambridge Guide to Homer thus traces the many routes taken by Homeric epic in the ancient world and its continuing relevance in different periods and cultures.

The Bard and the Bible

Author : Bob Hostetler
Publisher : Worthy Inspired
ISBN 13 : 1617958425
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The Bard and the Bible written by Bob Hostetler and published by Worthy Inspired. This book was released on 2016-08-09 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 365 Devotions pairing Scripture from the King James Bible and lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Includes little known history, curiosities, and facts about words introduced or used in new ways by Shakespeare.