Talking Back to Shakespeare

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874135299
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Talking Back to Shakespeare by : Martha Tuck Rozett

Download or read book Talking Back to Shakespeare written by Martha Tuck Rozett and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is about the way in which Shakespeare's plays have inspired readers to "talk back" and about some of the forms such talking back can assume. It is also about the way different interpretive communities, including students, read their cultural, political, and moral assumptions into Shakespeare's plays, appropriating and transforming elements of plot, character, and verbal text while challenging what they see as the ideological premises of the plays. Texts that talk back to Shakespeare pose questions, offer alternatives, take liberties, and fill in gaps. Some of the transformations discussed in Talking Back to Shakespeare challenge deeply held assumptions such as, for instance, that Hamlet is a tragic hero and Shylock a stereotypical grasping usurer. Others invent prior or subsequent lives for Shakespeare's characters (women characters in particular) so as to account for their actions and imagine their lives more fully than Shakespeare chooses to do. Very few of these works have received much critical attention, and some are virtually unknown or forgotten." "Rather than a comprehensive study of Shakespeare transformations, Talking Back to Shakespeare is an innovative exploration of the kinship between the kind of talking back that occurs in the classroom and the kind to be found in texts produced by writers who "rewrite" some of Shakespeare's most frequently taught and performed plays. Such re-visions unsettle the cultural authority of the plays and expose the accumulated lore that surrounds them to probing, often irreverent scrutiny." "Much of the talking back comes from marginalized readers: women, like Lillie Wyman, author of Gertrude of Denmark: An Interpretive Romance, and other nineteenth-century women critics, or Jewish writers, like Arnold Wesker, whose play The Merchant transforms the relationship between Antonio and Shylock. Some talking back comes from an international collection of oppositional voices of the 1960s, including Charles Marowitz, Aime Cesaire, Eugene Ionesco, and Joseph Papp. Talking Back to Shakespeare ranges from popular books like the recent Pulitzer Prize-winning novel A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley to obscure, seldom-read ones like Percy MacKaye's ambitious four-play prequel, The Mystery of Hamlet, King of Denmark. What these published texts share with student journal entries and transformations is the assumption, familiar to postmodern readers, that Shakespeare's plays are essentially unstable, culturally determined constructs capable of acquiring new meanings and new forms. By bringing together these two kinds of "talking back," Rozett challenges the traditional separation between critical and pedagogical inquiry that has until recently dominated English studies."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Women Talk Back to Shakespeare

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000466167
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Women Talk Back to Shakespeare by : Jo Eldridge Carney

Download or read book Women Talk Back to Shakespeare written by Jo Eldridge Carney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-27 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores more recent adaptations published in the last decade whereby women—either authors or their characters—talk back to Shakespeare in a variety of new ways. "Talking back to Shakespeare", a term common in intertextual discourse, is not a new phenomenon, particularly in literature. For centuries, women writers—novelists, playwrights, and poets—have responded to Shakespeare with inventive and often transgressive retellings of his work. Thus far, feminist scholarship has examined creative responses to Shakespeare by women writers through the late twentieth century. This book brings together the "then" of Shakespeare with the "now" of contemporary literature by examining how many of his plays have cultural currency in the present day. Adoption and surrogate childrearing; gender fluidity; global pandemics; imprisonment and criminal justice; the intersection of misogyny and racism—these are all pressing social and political concerns, but they are also issues that are central to Shakespeare’s plays and the early modern period. By approaching material with a fresh interdisciplinary perspective, Women Talk Back to Shakespeare is an excellent tool for both scholars and students concerned with adaptation, women and gender, and intertextuality of Shakespeare’s plays.

How to Speak Shakespeare

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ISBN 13 : 9781891661181
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (611 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Speak Shakespeare by : Cal Pritner

Download or read book How to Speak Shakespeare written by Cal Pritner and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classroom and theater-tested program teaches amateur and professional actors alike how to understand and effectively communicate the poetry of Shakespeare. Organized around passages from Romeo and Juliet, a simple, three-step process is presented. In the first step, Test Your Understanding, readers learn the value of looking up words in the Oxford English Dictionary and paraphrase passages to ensure that they truly understand the words they are speaking. The second step, Stress for Meaning, presents essential tools for speaking Shakespeare effectively, including iambic pentameter and correct rhythm, and explains how to syncopate for meaning. The final step, Celebrate the Poetry, honors the poetry of Shakespeare through a discussion of the use of punctuation, repeated sounds, and connecting key words and phrases. Exercises bring all the elements of these steps together.

Shakespeare and Company, Paris

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Publisher : Shakespeare Paris
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (961 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Company, Paris by : Krista Halverson

Download or read book Shakespeare and Company, Paris written by Krista Halverson and published by Shakespeare Paris. This book was released on 2016 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost 70 years, Shakespeare and Company, the English-language bookstore in Paris, has been a home-away-from-home for celebrated writers--including Jorge Luis Borges, James Baldwin, A. M. Homes, and Dave Eggers--as well as for young, aspiring authors and poets. Visitors are invited to read in the library, share a pot of tea, and sometimes even live in the shop itself, sleeping in beds tucked among the towering shelves of books. Since 1951, more than 30,000 have slept at the "rag and bone shop of the heart." This first, fully illustrated history of the bookstore draws on a century's worth of never-before-seen archives. Photographs and ephemera are woven together with personal essays, diary entries, and poems from more than seventy contributors, including Allen Ginsberg, Anaïs Nin, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Sylvia Beach, Nathan Englander, Dervla Murphy, Jeet Thayil, David Rakoff, Ian Rankin, Kate Tempest, and Ethan Hawke. With hundreds of images, it features Tumbleweed autobiographies, precious historical documents, and beautiful photographs, including ones of such renowned guests as William Burroughs, Henry Miller, Langston Hughes, Alberto Moravia, Zadie Smith, Jimmy Page, and Marilynne Robinson. Tracing more than 100 years in the French capital, the story touches on the Lost Generation and the Beats, the Cold War, May '68, and the feminist movement--all while reflecting on the timeless allure of bohemian life in Paris.--Adapted from dust jacket and publisher website.

Hag-Seed

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Publisher : Hogarth
ISBN 13 : 0804141304
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Hag-Seed by : Margaret Atwood

Download or read book Hag-Seed written by Margaret Atwood and published by Hogarth. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The beloved author of The Handmaid’s Tale reimagines Shakespeare’s final, great play, The Tempest, in a gripping and emotionally rich novel of passion and revenge. “A marvel of gorgeous yet economical prose, in the service of a story that’s utterly heartbreaking yet pierced by humor, with a plot that retains considerable subtlety even as the original’s back story falls neatly into place.”—The New York Times Book Review Felix is at the top of his game as artistic director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. Now he’s staging aTempest like no other: not only will it boost his reputation, but it will also heal emotional wounds. Or that was the plan. Instead, after an act of unforeseen treachery, Felix is living in exile in a backwoods hovel, haunted by memories of his beloved lost daughter, Miranda. And also brewing revenge, which, after twelve years, arrives in the shape of a theatre course at a nearby prison. Margaret Atwood’s novel take on Shakespeare’s play of enchantment, retribution, and second chances leads us on an interactive, illusion-ridden journey filled with new surprises and wonders of its own. Praise for Hag-Seed “What makes the book thrilling, and hugely pleasurable, is how closely Atwood hews to Shakespeare even as she casts her own potent charms, rap-composition included. . . . Part Shakespeare, part Atwood, Hag-Seed is a most delicate monster—and that’s ‘delicate’ in the 17th-century sense. It’s delightful.”—Boston Globe “Atwood has designed an ingenious doubling of the plot of The Tempest: Felix, the usurped director, finds himself cast by circumstances as a real-life version of Prospero, the usurped Duke. If you know the play well, these echoes grow stronger when Felix decides to exact his revenge by conjuring up a new version of The Tempest designed to overwhelm his enemies.”—Washington Post “A funny and heartwarming tale of revenge and redemption . . . Hag-Seed is a remarkable contribution to the canon.”—Bustle

Literature in our Lives

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429581327
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (295 download)

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Book Synopsis Literature in our Lives by : Richard Jacobs

Download or read book Literature in our Lives written by Richard Jacobs and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular, frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs, who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students, whether starting their studies or more experienced, and also for all lovers of literature. At its heart is the conviction that reading, thinking about, and writing or talking about literature involves us all personally: texts talk to us intimately and urgently, inviting us to talk back, intervening in and changing our lives. These lectures discuss, in an open but richly informed way, a wide range of texts that are regularly studied and enjoyed. They model what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature, and how the study of literature can be life-changing - perhaps even with the effect of changing the lives of readers of this eloquent and remarkable book.

Shakespeare Matters

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874137903
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (379 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare Matters by : Lloyd Davis

Download or read book Shakespeare Matters written by Lloyd Davis and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In each area, the authors discuss a range of issues by applying and debating key critical approaches to Shakespeare including new historicism, cultural materialism, feminism, and postcolonialism."--BOOK JACKET.

Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521518245
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century by : Gail Marshall

Download or read book Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century written by Gail Marshall and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated collection of new essays with valuable reference material on the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays.

Clues to Acting Shakespeare (Third Edition)

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1621536637
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (215 download)

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Book Synopsis Clues to Acting Shakespeare (Third Edition) by : Wesley Van Tassel

Download or read book Clues to Acting Shakespeare (Third Edition) written by Wesley Van Tassel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A workhorse of a book! Beautifully conceived and executed. Clues to Acting Shakespeare is a no-brainer purchase for acting collections in all libraries.” —Library Journal Clues to Acting Shakespeare has become a popular guide for actors, directors, teachers and Shakespeare enthusiasts, selling over 15,000 copies of previous editions. This third edition retains the second edition’s unique solutions to challenges that face directors and actors at advanced levels and is expanded to include an entirely new section for amateur and community theatre groups. In this new edition, readers will be delighted to find: New section to aid community theatres to perform Shakespeare’s plays, including five recorded workshops of community theatre actors coached and trained by the author Updates to the successful sections on training student actors (MFA and BFA programs), and professional actors (including audition tips)—highlighted by twenty author-coached workshops with professional and advanced student actors Improved section for teachers of high school and child actors with worksheets and sample lesson plans New exercises and resources for all levels of acting and production To aid professionals, Clues to Acting Shakespeare offers a one-day brush-up for auditions and preparation to play Shakespeare immediately. Text analysis, character studies, and both classical British training and American methods are explored. The exercises and recorded workshops provide inspiring advice to all actors and demonstrate concepts discussed throughout the book. The critical skills required for acting Shakespeare, including scansion, phrasing, caesura, breathing, speech structure, antithesis, and more are covered in detail. The comprehensive exercises using the Bard’s plays and sonnets teach actors to break down the verse, support the words, understand the imagery, and use the text to create vibrant performances.

How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307951499
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)

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Book Synopsis How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare by : Ken Ludwig

Download or read book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare written by Ken Ludwig and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines an engaging way to instill an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's classic works in children, outlining a family-friendly method that incorporates the history of Shakespearean theater and society.

Shakespeare and Latinidad

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474488501
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Latinidad by : Trevor Boffone

Download or read book Shakespeare and Latinidad written by Trevor Boffone and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and Latinidad is a collection of scholarly and practitioner essays in the field of Latinx theatre that specifically focuses on Latinx productions and appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays.

Shakespeare and Youth Culture

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230105246
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Youth Culture by : J. Hulbert

Download or read book Shakespeare and Youth Culture written by J. Hulbert and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the appropriation of Shakespeare by youth culture and the expropriation of youth culture in the manufacture and marketing of 'Shakespeare'. Considering the reduction, translation and referencing of the plays and the man, the volume examines the confluence between Shakepop and rock, rap, graphic novels, teen films and pop psychology.

Shakespeare and the Afterlife

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192521438
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and the Afterlife by : John S. Garrison

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Afterlife written by John S. Garrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? Did sinners experience torment after death? Would an individual reunite with loved ones in the afterlife? Could the dead communicate with the world of the living? Could the living affect the state of souls after death? How should the dead be commemorated? Could the dead return to life? Was immortality possible? The wide array of possible answers to these questions across Shakespeare's work can be surprising. Exploring how particular texts and characters answer these questions, Shakespeare and the Afterlife showcases the vitality and originality of the author's language and thinking. We encounter characters with very personal visions of what awaits them after death, and these visions reveal new insights into these individuals' motivations and concerns as they navigate the world of the living. Shakespeare and the Afterlife encourages us to engage with the author's work with new insight and new curiosity. The volume connects some of the best-known speeches, characters, and conflicts to cultural debates and traditions circulating during Shakespeare's time.

Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350296449
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities by : Sheila T. Cavanagh

Download or read book Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities written by Sheila T. Cavanagh and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-01-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can theatre and Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals? Employing an integrative approach that draws from science, actor training, therapeutical practices and current research on the senses, this study reveals the work being done by drama practitioners with a range of specialized populations, such as incarcerated people, neurodiverse individuals, those with physical or emotional disabilities, veterans, people experiencing homelessness and many others. With insights drawn from visits to numerous international programs, it argues that these endeavors succeed when they engage multiple human senses and incorporate kinesthetic learning, thereby tapping into the diverse benefits associated with artistic, movement and mindfulness practices. Neither theatre nor Shakespeare is universally beneficial, but the syncretic practices described in this book offer tools for physical, emotional and collaborative undertakings that assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals. Among the practitioners and companies whose work is examined here are programs from the Shakespeare in Prison Network, the International Opera Theater, Blue Apple Theatre, Flute Theatre, DeCruit and Feast of Crispian programs for veterans, Extant Theatre and prison programs in Kolkata and Mysore, India.

Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135363358
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (353 download)

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Book Synopsis Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults by : Naomi Miller

Download or read book Reimagining Shakespeare for Children and Young Adults written by Naomi Miller and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Freeing Shakespeare's Voice

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Publisher : Theatre Communications Group
ISBN 13 : 1559366389
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (593 download)

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Book Synopsis Freeing Shakespeare's Voice by : Kristin Linklater

Download or read book Freeing Shakespeare's Voice written by Kristin Linklater and published by Theatre Communications Group. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A passionate exploration of the process of comprehending and speaking the words of William Shakespeare. Detailing exercises and analyzing characters' speech and rhythms, Linklater provides the tools to increase understanding and make Shakespeare's words one's own.

Shakespeare and Appropriation

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415207266
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare and Appropriation by : Christy Desmet

Download or read book Shakespeare and Appropriation written by Christy Desmet and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of original essays show how writer's efforts to intimate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation.