Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613: Merry Worlds, Harriet Phillips
Автор: Poore Название: Heritage, Nostalgia and Modern British Theatre ISBN: 0230298893 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780230298897 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 12577.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The stage portrayal of the Victorians in recent times is a key reference point in understanding notions of Britishness, and the profound politicisation of that debate over the last four decades. This book throws new light on works by canonical playwrights like Bond, Edgar, and Churchill, linking theatre to the wider culture at large.
In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died and King James I inherited the English throne. During James's reign, England continued to hark back to Elizabeth, comparing him with his predecessor - not always in a way that was either flattering or pleasing to James. Critics have traditionally assumed that Shakespeare avoided involving himself in this discourse. In this study of Shakespeare's Jacobean plays, however, Yuichi Tsukada demonstrates that, far from not involving himself in the phenomenon of nostalgia for Elizabeth, Shakespeare interacted closely with retrospective writings on Elizabeth and illuminated the complex politics behind the nostalgia. Based upon close readings of Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline and Henry VIII, together with a range of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, John Marston, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson, the book traces the ongoing cultural negotiation of the memory of Elizabeth.
Yuichi Tsukada offers fresh insights into enigmatic aspects of Shakespeare's Jacobean drama. For instance, what was the original significance of the two contentious prophecies - 'none of woman born' and the march of Birnam Wood - in Macbeth? Or that of the seemingly out-of-place triumphal procession of Volumnia near the tragic end of Coriolanus? Although her memory recurred in all forms of discourse throughout the first decade of James's reign, the impact of this cultural undercurrent on Shakespeare's Jacobean drama has been ignored or underestimated. Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia reveals the unnoticed richness of Shakespeare's Jacobean drama by focusing on the growing cultural and political nostalgia for England's dead queen.
Описание: This is the first in-depth, comparative analysis of the Globe and the Blackfriars Theatres` performance conditions. Examining how the social and sensory qualities of these sites affected early modern dramatists, audiences and actors, the study also considers recent productions at Shakespeare`s Globe and the new Sam Wanamaker Playhouse.
Автор: Power Название: Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613 ISBN: 110746319X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107463196 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6019.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A team of leading international Shakespeare scholars provides a critical reappraisal of the final phase of Shakespeare`s writing life. Containing original scholarly approaches to the last seven extant plays, the volume includes dedicated chapters on Coriolanus and Shakespeare`s two late co-authored plays, King Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Описание: Presents a collection of the writings and influence of Elizabeth Cary, author of the first original play by a woman to be printed in English, "The Tragedyie of Mariam" (1613). This volume features essays which provide an understanding of Cary as a writer by incorporating critical and historical analyses of her forays into other genres as well.
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