Shakespeare`s Sense of Character: On the Page and From the Stage, Michael W. Shurgot
Автор: Vivian Thomas Название: Shakespeare`s political and economic language ISBN: 0826479952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826479952 Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic Рейтинг: Цена: 43560.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Shakespeare`s plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. This is a A-Z reference guide to political and economic terms, concepts and references in Shakespeare.
Comprising dozens of primary source documents, this book explores Early Modern historical issues reflected in four of Shakespeare's tragedies most commonly taught in secondary schools and universities around the world: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth.
Primary source documents relating to Romeo and Juliet deal with subjects such as dueling, breast-feeding, and the Black Plague. Background discussion of Julius Caesar addresses the influence of Roman culture on Renaissance England; the nature of monarchy; and warfare in Renaissance England, including the defeat of the Spanish Armada. The backdrop for Hamlet includes the nature of spirits; heaven, hell, and purgatory; the history of revenge tragedy beginning with ancient Greece; and debates over the theater in Shakespeare's time. Macbeth brings the reader into the reign of King James and examines ongoing debates over the dangers of witchcraft; the crime of the century, the Gunpowder Plot of 1605; and the "Macbeth curse" that has plagued productions of the Scottish Play since its premiere.
Описание: This volume is a broad-ranging guide to Othello, providing an introduction to the contexts of the play, the range of critical responses to the play and the play in performance.
Автор: van Es Bart Название: Shakespeare`s Comedies: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0198723350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198723356 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: In this Very Short Introduction Bart Van Es analyses Shakespeare`s comedic plays, picking out the family resemblances across these works. He considers their shared themes such as confusion and cross dressing, misguided love, twins and substitutions, and explores the bard`s verbal artistry and wit.
Автор: Wells Stanley Название: Shakespeare`s Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction ISBN: 0198785291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198785293 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 1582.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Shakespeare`s tragedies contain an astonishing variety of suffering, from suicides and murders to dismemberments and grief. Stanley Wells considers how the bard`s tragic plays drew on the literary and theatrical conventions of his time. Discussing the individual plays, he also explores why tragedy is regarded as a fit subject for entertainment.
Автор: Shurgot Название: Shakespeare`s Sense of Character ISBN: 1138261734 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138261730 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 8114.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies in which character criticism can work. The return to character thus involves incorporating as well as contesting postmodern ideas that have radically revised our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. At the same time, by engaging theatre practitioners, this book promotes the kind of comprehensive dialogue that is necessary for the common endeavor of sustaining the vitality of Shakespeare's characters.
Автор: Bell Robert H Название: Shakespeare`s Great Stage of Fools ISBN: 1137346752 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137346759 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 7685.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare`s fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare`s theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare`s most vibrant and often vexing figures.
Автор: Clare Название: Shakespeare`s Stage Traffic ISBN: 1107040035 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107040038 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 11720.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Shakespeare's unique status has made critics reluctant to acknowledge the extent to which some of his plays are the outcome of adaptation. In Shakespeare's Stage Traffic Janet Clare re-situates Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and competitive theatrical trade of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. She demonstrates how Shakespeare worked with materials which had already entered the dramatic tradition, and how, in the spirit of Renaissance theory, he moulded and converted them to his own use. The book challenges the critical stance that views the Shakespeare canon as essentially self-contained, moves beyond the limitations of generic studies and argues for a more conjoined critical study of early modern plays. Each chapter focuses on specific plays and examines the networks of influence, exchange and competition which characterised stage traffic between playwrights, including Marlowe, Jonson and Fletcher. Overall, the book addresses multiple perspectives relating to authorship and text, performance and reception.
Автор: Mazzola, Elizabeth Название: Women and mobility on shakespeare`s stage ISBN: 113862960X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138629608 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 24499.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Long before the economist Amartya Sen proposed that more than 100 million women were missing-lost to disease or neglect, kidnapping or forced marriage, denied the economic and political security of wages or membership in a larger social order-Shakespeare was interested in such women`s plight, how they were lost, and where they might have gone.
Автор: Depledge Emma Название: Shakespeare`s Rise to Cultural Prominence ISBN: 1108427103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108427104 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Combining scholarly methodologies of book and theatre history this book argues that the watershed moment in Shakespeare`s authorial afterlife came not in the eighteenth century, as critics have suggested, but instead as a result of a succession dispute known as the Exclusion Crisis, 1678-1682.
In Shakespeare's Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage.As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.
Автор: Schoch Richard W. Название: Shakespeare`s Victorian Stage ISBN: 0521622816 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521622813 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Цена: 14256.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare`s history plays, Henry V, Henry VIII, King John, Macbeth and Richard II, as staged by the actor-manager Charles Kean in mid-Victorian London. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre history, Shakespeare studies and Victorian culture.
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