Literary studies: c 1600 to c 1800 Books
Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Shakespeares Artists The Painters Sculptors Poets and Musicians in his Plays and Poems Arden Shakespeare
Book SynopsisB. J. Sokol is a Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.Trade ReviewAn enthralling peek at the lives and cultures of the named (or near-named) artists in Shakespeare…For those who took for granted a bleak English Renaissance art scene, his world of three-man songs, injurious bagpipes, imprese, paragone, and whited statuary is likely to be a revelation. * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One. Painters and Sculptors in Shakespeare’s Poems Chapter Two. Painters and Sculptors in Shakespearian Plays Chapter Three. Poets in Shakespeare’s Plays Chapter Four. Poets in Shakespeare’s Poems Chapter Five. Shakespeare’s Musicians: Mimetic Chapter Six. Shakespeare’s Mythical Musicians Afterword Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Titus Andronicus The State of Play Arden Shakespeare The State of Play
Book SynopsisFarah Karim-Cooper is Head of Higher Education & Research at Shakespeare's Globe and Visiting Research Fellow, King's College London, UK.Table of ContentsList of illustrations List of contributors Series preface Introduction, Farah Karim-Cooper (Shakespeare's Globe, UK) Part 1: Genre, style and sources 1. Senecan belatedness and Titus Andronicus, Curtis Perry (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA) 2. Titus Andronicus: Elizabethan Classicism and the Styles of New Tragedy, Goran Stanivukovic (Saint Mary's University, Canada) 3. Soliloquies in Titus Andronicus: An Empirical Approach, James Hirsh (Georgia State University, USA) Part 2: Critical approaches: Race, culture and politics 4. “I have done thy mother”: Racial and sexual geographies in Titus Andronicus, John Kunat (Sonoma State University, USA) 5. Remixing the family: Blackness and domesticity in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, David Sterling Brown (Binghampton Universty, SUNY, USA) 6. 'If I might have my will': Aaaron's affect and race in Titus Andronicus, Carol Mejia LaPerle (Wright State University, USA) Part 3: Critical approaches: Bodies, emotions and metaphor 7. Metaphorically Speaking: Titus Andronicus and the Limits of Utterance, Jennifer Edwards (Shakespeare's Globe, UK) 8. Granular Reading: Texture, Language and Surface Marks in Titus Andronicus, Whitney Sperrazza (University of Kansas, USA) Part 4: Performance and adaptation 9. 'Did you see that?!': Titus Andronicus and Theatrical Transgression, Ralph Alan Cohen (Mary Baldwin University, USA) 10. In/di/gestion: Seneca-->Shakespeare-->South Park, Lizz Angello (University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, USA) 11. 'My tears will choke me, if I ope my mouth': Framing, Feasting and Speaking Sexual Violence in Titus Andronicus, 2006-2017, Emma Whipday (University of Newcastle, UK) Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Latin Political Propaganda in the War of the Spanish Succession and Its Aftermath 17001740
Book SynopsisAlejandro Coroleu is ICREA Research Professor at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain. He has written extensively on Neo-Latin literature, including the book Printing and Reading Italian Latin Humanism in Renaissance Europe (2014), co-authored the volume The Classical Tradition in Medieval Catalan, 1300-1500 (2018) and published Catalan and Spanish translations of Lorenzo Valla and Leon Battista Alberti.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Praise and Blame: Legitimising the New Kings’ Old Dynasties 2. ‘Bellonae et Martis genitus’: mapping the Spanish conflict in Latin verse and prose (1701–1712) 3. Latin Writing between Court, Church and Academia during the War of the Spanish Succession 4. Latin Propaganda Beyond the Dynastic Conflict (1715-1740) Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Latin Political Propaganda in the War of the Spanish Succession and Its Aftermath 17001740
Book SynopsisLatin Political Propaganda offers the first comprehensive study of the central role played by the Latin language to celebrate or undermine political power during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1715). Waged as much on the printed page as on the battlefield, this worldwide conflict gave rise to an astonishing variety of Latin writing across the Continent - in verse or in prose - on both the pro-Habsburg and pro-Bourbon sides. Ranging from official documents, epic, satirical and panegyric poetry to defamatory pamphlets, letters, historiographical and juridical tracts, medals and ephemeral architecture, this vast textual corpus has gone almost unnoticed. Alejandro Coroleu provides close examination of the literary devices of these texts and shows how imitation of models and figures from classical antiquity was at the heart of the authors' highly refined verse and prose technique. He also pays attention to the historical and social context in which the texts emerged, and connect
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Tamburlaine A Critical Reader
Book SynopsisArden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the plays' critical and performance history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and onlineThe blockbuster Tamburlaine plays (1587) instantly established Marlowe's reputation for experimenting with subversive, outrageous and immoral material. The plays follow the meteoric rise of a Scythian shepherd-turned-warlord, whose conquests of eastern emperors soon sees him established as the most poTrade ReviewThe true genius of this collection is in its Janusian perspective ... Tamburlaine: A Critical Reader serves as a concise but impressive review of Tamburlaine’s history in past decades, a time capsule recording the current state of the field, and an optimistic forecast of what we may see in decades to come. * Marlowe Society of America *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Series Introduction Notes on Contributors Introduction David McInnis, University of Melbourne, Australia 1 Tamburlaine, 1587-2000: A Reception History M. L. Stapleton, Purdue University, USA 2 ‘The Critical Landscape, 2000-Present’ Sarah Wall-Randell, Wellesley College, USA 3 ‘High astounding terms’: Tamburlaine and Tamburlaine on stage Peter Kirwan, University of Nottingham, UK 4 New Directions: Mending Tamburlaine Claire M. L. Bourne, Pennsylvania State University, USA 5 New Directions: Tamburlaine the Weather Man Tom Rutter, University of Sheffield, UK 6 New Directions: Towards a Racialized TamburlaineSydnee Wagner, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA 7 New Directions: Retooling Timür Matthew Dimmock, University of Sussex, UK 8 Three Tents for Tamburlaine: Resources and Approaches for Teaching the Play Liam E. Semler, University of Sydney, Australia Works Cited and Selected Further Reading Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Arden of Faversham A Critical Reader
Book SynopsisOne of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to Arden of Faversham's role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for it
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Baroque Latinity
Book SynopsisThis volume addresses the idea of the Baroque in European literature in Latin. With contributions by scholars from various disciplines and countries, and by looking at a range of texts from across Europe, the volume offers case studies to deepen scholarly understanding of this important literary phenomenon and inspire future research. A key aim of the volume is to address the distinctiveness of these texts by interrogating the usefulness and specificity of the term Baroque', especially in relation to the classical rules it transgresses to produce effects of grandeur, richness, and exuberance in a range of secular and sacred arts (e.g. music, architecture, painting), as well as various forms of literature (e.g. prose, poetry, drama). The contributors consider how and why Latin writing mutated from earlier humanist paradigms, thus exploring how ideas of early modern' and Baroque' are related, and examine the interplay of the theory and practice of the Baroque', including its d
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC An Anthology of NeoLatin Poetry by Classical
Book SynopsisPresenting a range of Neo-Latin poems written by distinguished classical scholars across Europe from c. 1490 to c. 1900, this anthology includes a selection of celebrated names in the history of scholarship. Individual chapters present the Neo-Latin poems alongside new English translations (usually the first) and accompanying introductions and commentaries that annotate these verses for a modern readership, and contextualise them within the careers of their authors and the history of classical scholarship in the Renaissance and early modern period.An appealing feature of Renaissance and early modern Latinity is the composition of fine Neo-Latin poetry by major classical scholars, and the interface between this creative work and their scholarly research. In some cases, the two are actually combined in the same work. In others, the creative composition and scholarship accompany each other along parallel tracks, when scholars are moved to write their own veTrade ReviewThis volume will be a valuable resource for anyone with an interest in the history of literature, education and scholarship. -- L. B. T. Houghton, Honorary Research Fellow in Greek and Latin, University College London, UKTable of ContentsList of Contributors Preface Introduction, Stephen J. Harrison (University of Oxford, UK) 1. Poems of Printed Books: The Case of Niccolo Perotti's (1430-1480) Cornu Copiae, Marianne Pade (Aarhus University, Denmark) 2. The Natalis of Paolo Marsi (1440-1484), Raphael Schwitter (University of Bonn, Germany) 3. The Verses of Antonio de Nebrija (1444–1522) on the Philologist's Work of the Philologist and the Place of Greek, William M. Barton (University of Innsbruck, Austria) 4. Aldus Manutius (c. 1450-1515), Musarum Panagyris and Other Early Poems, Oren Margolis (University of East Anglia, UK) 5. An Elegiac Poem by Julius Caesar Scaliger (1484-1558) on Sickness and Healing, Bobby Xinyue (King's College London, UK) 6. Two Poems by Pietro Vettori (1499–1585), Agnese D'Angelo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy) 7. Jean Dorat (1508-1588): The Latin Lyrics of a Greek Professor, Stephen J. Harrison (University of Oxford, UK) 8. Janus Dousa (1545-1604): The Satires of a Dutch Scholar, David Andrew Porter (Hunan Normal University, China) 9. Editing Cicero (and Translating Aratus) in 16th Century Europe: Jan Kochanowski (1579) and Hugo Grotius (1600), Daniele Pellacani (University of Bologna, Italy) 10. John Barclay (1582-1621): The Argenis as a Station Scholar's Novel, Ruth Parkes (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK) 11. Spare Muses: Epigrams by the Cambridge Don James Duport (1606-1678), Thomas Matthew Vozar (University of Hamburg, Germany) 12. Writing a Woman Scholar: Poems Around Birgitte Thott (1610-1662), Trine Arlund Hass (University of Oxford, UK) 13. The Plinian Dolphin: Johann Matthias Gesner (1691-1761), Carmina, Gesine Manuwald (University College London, UK) 14. Giovanni Pascoli (1855-1912), Reditus Augusti, an Horatian Mime, Francesco Citti (University of Bologna, Italy) Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Early Modern Literature and the Bodies of a Reformed Eucharist
Book SynopsisJulianne Sandberg is an Assistant Professor of English at Samford University, USA.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Women and Transnational Cultural Exchange
Book SynopsisBrianna E. Robertson-Kirkland is a Lecturer in Historical Musicology at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, UK.Louise Duckling is an independent scholar based in the UK.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Jane Austen in 50 Words
Book SynopsisMaria Frawley is a Professor of English at the George Washington University, USA.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Screen Adaptations Shakespeares Hamlet Shakespeares Hamlet The Relationship between Text and Film
Book SynopsisSamuel Crowl is Trustee Professor of English at Ohio University, USA. He is the author of several books on Shakespeare in performance including Shakespeare Observed, Shakespeare at the Cineplex, The Films of Kenneth Branagh and Shakespeare and Film. He has lectured at colleges and universities in the United States, England, Europe, and Africa and has been five times honored for distinguished teaching.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Preface 1 Literary contexts 2 Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet: from text to screen 3 Kenneth Branagh’s Hamlet: from text to screen 4 Critical response and the afterlife of text and film Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Doing Shakespeare
Book SynopsisSimon Palfrey is Fellow in English, Braesnose College, Oxford University.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Hamlet Language and Writing
Book SynopsisThis lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a turning point in Shakespeare''s use of language and dramatic form as well as addressing the key problem at the play''s core: Hamlet''s inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches to the play and its theatre history, including the recent David Tennant / RSC Hamlet on both stage and TV screen.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Macbeth The State of Play
Book SynopsisThe Series Editors are Professor Ann Thompson, King's College London and Professor Lena Orlin, Georgetown University. Ann Thompson is a Professor of English and Director of the London Shakespeare Centre, King's College London. She is a General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series. Lena Orlin is Chief Executive of the Shakespeare Association of America.Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION Ann Thompson THE TEXT AND ITS STATUS Notes and Queries Concerning the Text of Macbeth Anthony B. Dawson Dwelling ‘in doubtful joy’: Macbeth and the Aesthetics of Disappointment Brett Gamboa HISTORY AND TOPICALITY Politic Bodies in Macbeth Dermot Cavanagh ‘To crown my thoughts with acts’: Prophecy and Prescription in Macbeth Debapriya Sarkar Lady Macbeth, First Ladies and the Arab Spring: The Performance of Power on the Twenty-First Century Stage Kevin A. Quarmby CRITICAL APPROACHES AND CLOSE READING ‘A walking shadow’: Place, Perception and Disorientation in Macbeth Darlene Farabee Cookery and Witchcraft in Macbeth Geraldo U. de Sousa The Language of Macbeth Jonathan Hope and Michael Witmore ADAPTATION AND AFTERLIFE The Shapes of Macbeth: The Staged Text Sandra Clark Raising the Violence while Lowering the Stakes: Geoffrey Wright’s Screen Adaptation of Macbeth Philippa Sheppard The Butcher and the Text: Adaptation, Theatricality and the ‘Shakespea(Re)-Told’ Macbeth Ramona Wray
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Transforming the Teaching of Shakespeare with the Royal Shakespeare Company
Book SynopsisJoe Winston is Professor of Drama and Theatre Education at the University of Warwick, UK.Trade ReviewProvides detailed, descriptive and analytical insights into the ways rehearsal room strategies may be incorporated into the teaching of Shakespeare. * Cahiers Élisabéthains *This slim volume pulls off a considerable feat - capturing the important work of one of the country's key drama institutions in taking Shakespeare out into the community and so ensuring his enduring appeal and relevance to schools and young people ... A valuable publication. -- Jerome Monahan * Around the Globe *Table of ContentsList of Tables and Figures Introduction Chapter 1: Education at the Royal Shakespeare Company Chapter 2: Why teach Shakespeare? Chapter 3: Developing a Rehearsal Room Pedagogy at the RSC: Key Influences Chapter 4: The Classroom as a Rehearsal Room: An Example of Practice Chapter 5: A Theoretical Rationale for Rehearsal Room Pedagogy Chapter 6: Tim Crouch Directing the Young People's Shakespeare Chapter 7: The Impact of the Learning and Performance Network on the Practice of Teachers Chapter 8: The Impact of Rehearsal Room Pedagogy on Students: What Research SHows (co-authored with Steve Strand) Chapter 9: Looking Forward Notes Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Othello The State of Play
Book SynopsisLena Cowen Orlin is Professor of English at Georgetown University, USA.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Lena Cowen Orlin (Georgetown University, USA) 1. Two Faced: the Problem of Othello's Visage - Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College, USA) 2. Eloquent Barbarians: on the Critical Potential of Passionate Character - Lynn Enterline; 3. Audience-Actor Boundaries in Othello - Laurie E. Maguire (University of Oxford, UK) 4. "Speak[ing] Parrot" in Othello: Recontextualizing Black Speech in the Global Renaissance - Robert Hornback (Oglethorpe University, USA) 5. Secrets and Lies - Lois Potter (University of Delaware, USA) 6. Shakespeare's Nobody - Colleen Ruth Rosenfeld (Pomona College, USA) 7. Lucretius and Consummation in Othello - David Schalkwyk (Gallatin School of Individualized Study, USA) 8. Making Ambition Virtue? James Siemon (Washington University, USA) 9. Othello's Black Handkerchief - Ian Smith (Lafayette College, USA) 10. Double Diction and Othello's Dual Identity - Robert N. Watson (UCLA, USA) Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Shakespeare for Young People
Book SynopsisAbigail Rokison is Lecturer in Drama and English in the Education Faculty in Cambridge and Director of Studies in English and Drama at Homerton College, Cambridge, UK. She is Chair of the trustees of the British Shakespeare Association.Trade ReviewAbigail Rokison provides a comprehensive review of some of the many approaches taken by theatre and film directors, publishers and writers to shape the plays to teenagers and provides sharp, pertinent and knowledgeable evaluations of the successes and shortcomings of this body of work ... Rokison's excellent analysis of the plethora of work designed to entice young people into Shakespeare makes this an invaluable book that educators in schools and arts organisations would benefit from reading. -- Georghia Ellinas, Head of Learning with Globe Education * Around the Globe *Abigail Rokison’s new book is an overview of the myriad interesting and dynamic ways in which recent texts have attempted to make Shakespeare and his works, understandable, relatable, and entertaining for young people . . . I found Rokison’s book most engaging in the examination of stage productions of Shakespeare targeted at young people, offering invaluable audience responses, detailed description, and in-depth analysis of these productions . . . The interviews that follow each chapter on the various stage productions are a fascinating insight into the creative process of adapting Shakespeare for young people . . . The variety of films, comics, and other works discussed throughout is a highlight. -- Marina Gerzic, School of Humanities, The University of Western Australia * Parergon *Well written and doesn’t have too much of a critical research project feel, in spite of the numerous quotes and the extensive bibliography. Rokison certainly knows her stuff. -- Ali Warren * Teaching Drama *Offers a wealth of information on adaptations, graphic novels, animations, and original plays based on Shakespeare. -- Roland Greene, Stanford University * Recent Studies in Tudor and Stuart Drama *Table of ContentsIntroduction \ 1. Full-scale Stage Productions for Young People - Shakespeare's Globe: 'Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bankd' - Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing and Macbeth \ 2. Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, Michael Almereyda's Hamlet and Christine Edzard's The Children's A Midsummer Nights Dream \ 3. 'Shakespeare's Stories': Prose Narratives and Picture Books \ 4. Shakespeare and the Graphic Novel \ 5. Cut-down Stage Versions for Young Children \ 6. Shakespeare: The Animated Tales \ 7. Novel Adaptations of Shakespeare: Hamlet \ 8. Original Plays Based on Shakespeare \ 9. Film Adaptations of Shakespeare - 'Romeo and Juliet the cartoon' and 'High School Dreams' \ Bibliography \ Index
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Continuum Publishing Corporation Keats and Negative Capability
Book Synopsis'Negative capability', the term John Keats used only once in a letter to his brothers, is a well-known but surprisingly unexplored concept in literary criticism and aesthetics. This book clarifies the meaning of the term and offers an anatomy of its key components, and provides an account of the history of this idea.Trade Review"Elegantly written and cogently argued, this book puts the enigmatic term negative capability into clear focus for the first time and will immensely deepen our understanding of Keats' critical legacy in a way unattempted before. A brilliant tour de force to bring Keats' important concept back into scholarly debate and circulation." - Professor Zhang Longxi, Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation, City University of Hong Kong and Foreign member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities"Li Ou has taken Keats's most treasured critical concept and given it new and vigorous life. Not only has she provided sensitive readings of Keats's own major poems; she has singled out King Lear for a detailed analysis which illuminates both the play itself and Keats's imaginative relationship to it. Finally, in an especially revelatory chapter, she looks at Yeats and Eliot and sees ways - some of them, I think, previously unnoticed - in which 'negative capability' informs those poets also. From first to last, Li Ou's book is carefully embedded in the best scholarship of her predecessors and in her own original and perceptive understanding of the poets." - Edwin G. Wilson, Provost Emeritus, Professor Emeritus of English, Wake Forest University, USA"Li Ou has written an important and overdue book. The pendulum has swung too far: negative capability is a once-overused concept now in sore need of rehabilitation. She shows not only its vital importance in reading Keats but its considerable significance in the wider history of ideas. Well worth reading." - Simon Haines Professor of English, Chair of the Department of English, The Chinese, University of Hong KongTable of ContentsIntroduction: Anatomy of Negative Capability; 1. Genealogy of Negative Capability; 2. King Lear and Negative Capability; 3. Negative Capability and Keats's Poetry; 4. Modernist Heritage of Negative Capability; Conclusion: The Tradition of Negative Capability; Appendices: Keats's markings and marginalia in King Lear; Bibliography; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) King Lear
Book Synopsis"King Lear" is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied plays - seen as one of the most significant and universal tragedies of all time. This guide introduces the play's critical and performance history, including notable stage productions alongside TV, film and radio versions.Trade ReviewThis volume provides "all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know" about the challenging experience of King Lear. The coverage is compendious, the research up-to-date, and the essays rich with fresh insights. -- R. S. White, Professor of English, University of Western Australia, AustraliaThis comprehensive approach makes King Lear: A Critical Guide a valuable resource for advanced undergraduates and those who teach them, as it suggests the multitude of reaction to King Lear over time, while also showing what can still be done within this vast tradition. -- William Rhodes, University of Virginia * Sixteenth Century Journal *Table of ContentsSeries Introduction; King Lear Timeline; Introduction; 1. The Critical Backstory, Joan Fitzpatrick (Loughborough University, UK); 2. Performance History, Ramona Wray (Queen's University Belfast, UK); 3. The State of the Art, Philippa Kelly (University of New South Wales, Australia); 4. New Directions: Bowdlerizing and Borrowing: Finding Bits of Lear on the 19th and 20th Century Stage, Lori-Anne Ferrell (Claremont Graduate School, USA); 5. New Directions: 'The Promised End': King Lear and millenarian / utopian ideas in the early seventeenth century, Anthony Parr (University of Western Cape, SA); 6. New Directions: King Lear and Protestantism, John J. Norton (Concordia University, USA); 7. New Directions: King Lear as 'British' play, Willy Maley (University of Glasgow, UK); 8. Resources, Peter Sillitoe (De Montfort University, UK); Notes on Contributors; Index.
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Shakespeares World of Words
Book SynopsisPaul Yachnin is Tomlinson Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Institute for the Public Life of Arts and Ideas (IPLAI) at McGill University, Canada.Trade ReviewThis impressive and wide-ranging volume brings together a variety of perspectives to consider the expansive world of words that unfolds on Shakespeare’s stage. One of the most welcome features of Shakespeare’s World of Words is its diverse body of contributors. Essays from literary scholars appear alongside those by theater practitioners and performance scholars … The “opening up” of interpretive possibilities is one of this volume’s best gifts. Readers come away with a renewed perspective on the many elements that render Shakespeare’s world of words so rich. * Shakespeare Quarterly *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Notes on Contributors Introduction 1. Well-Won Thrift Michael Bristol (McGill University) and Sara Coodin (University of Oklahoma) 2. Proper Names and Common Bodies: The Case of Cressida David Schalkwyk (Folger Shakespeare Library) 3. Antique/Antic: Archaism, Neologism and the Play of Shakespeare’s Words in Love’s Labor’s Lost and 2 Henry IV Lucy Munro (University of Keele) 4. Learning to Color in Hamlet Miriam Jacobson (University of Georgia) 5. Recasting ‘Angling’ in The Winter's Tale J. A. Shea (Dawson College) 6. ‘What may be and should be’: Grammar Moods and the Invention of History in 1 Henry VI Lynne Magnusson (University of Toronto) 7. Othello and Theatrical Language Sarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library) 8. Slips of Wilderness: Verbal and Gestural Language in Measure for Measure Paul Yachnin and Patrick Neilson (McGill University) 9. ‘Captious and Inteemable’: Reading Comprehension in Shakespeare Meredith Evans (Concordia University) 10. ‘Time is their master’: Men and Meter in The Comedy of Errors Jennifer Roberts-Smith (University of Waterloo) Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Garrick Kemble Siddons Kean
Book SynopsisThe four actors whose careers the essays in this volume explore are not only the greatest English actors of their own times but also performers whose brilliance is still invoked by all interested in theatre. Each took a distinct approach to the Shakespeare roles they played and the texts they used: from David Garrick's ability to move other actors as well as the audience to tears, to the noble classicism of John Philip Kemble, from the grand tragic style of Sarah Siddons to the terrifying energy of Edmund Kean. Each changed forever the concept of what Shakespeare's plays might mean in performance.Table of ContentsSeries Preface - Peter Holland and Adrian Poole Introduction, Peter Holland (Notre Dame, USA) David Garrick, Peter Holland (Notre Dame, USA) John Philip Kemble, Michael Dobson (Birkbeck, UK) Sarah Siddons, Russ McDonald (Goldsmiths, UK) Edmund Kean, Peter Thomson (Exeter, UK) Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Tempest A Critical Reader
Book SynopsisThe Tempest contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the effects of colonization, and technology. In this guide, Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan open up new ways into one of Shakespeare's most popular, malleable and controversial plays.Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Series Introduction Notes on Contributors Timeline Introduction (Alden T. Vaughan, Columbia University, USA, Clark University, USA) 1 The Critical Backstory: ‘What’s Past is Prologue’ (Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University, USA) 2 A Theatre of Attraction: Colonialism, Gender, and The Tempest’s Performance History (Eckart Voigts, TU Braunschweig, Germany) 3 Recent Perspectives on The Tempest (Brinda Charry, Keene State College, USA) 4 New Directions: Sources and Creativity in The Tempest (Andrew Gurr, University of Reading, UK) 5 New Directions: Commedia dell’Arte, The Tempest, and Transnational Criticism (Helen M. Whall, College of the Holy Cross, USA) 6 New Directions: ‘He needs will be Absolute Milan’: The Political Thought of The Tempest (Jeffrey A. Rufo, Rutgers University, USA) 7 New Directions: Shakespeare’s Revolution – The Tempest as Scientific Romance (Scott Maisano, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA) 8 ‘volumes that / I prize’: Resources for Studying and Teaching The Tempest (Nathaniel Amos Rothschild, St Thomas Aquinas College, USA) Notes Select Bibliography Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Shakespeare in Our Time
Book SynopsisDympna Callaghan is William L. Safire Professor of Modern Letters at Syracuse University, USA. Suzanne Gossett is Emeritus Professor of Literature at Loyola University, Chicago, USA.Trade ReviewShakespeare in Our Time is an invaluable source in presenting illuminating and intriguing approaches to Shakespeare’s plays. In its twenty articles it is ultimately a challenging conversation among distinguished scholars of the early modern period. The chapters raise interesting and innovative concerns, such as American appropriation, social context, Shakespeare’s sources, and text, and cover a wide range of critical approaches from feminism to ecocriticism, from sexuality to morality, from media to race and class systems, and from historicism to globalization. Each section includes three or four articles from various critical approaches that both broaden the reader’s understanding and approach the matter with new perspectives … Shakespeare in Our Time enriches and broadens the understanding of students and instructors with clear guidance of Shakespeare studies. All chapters, but particularly chapters on teaching, editing, and biography, are informative and beneficial for pedagogical interests. In each chapter, authors present interesting, innovative, and challenging approaches to help students understand their world by learning from Shakespeare’s language, characters, and messages. The book provides professors, students, and readers with eye-opening analyses that will help extend their horizons. * Sixteenth Century Journal *Table of ContentsPreface - Lena Orlin List of Contributors Introduction - Dympna Callaghan and Suzanne Gossett Feminism Why Feminism Still Matters - Phyllis Rackin Just Imagine - Kathryn Schwarz Letters, Characters, Roots - Wendy Wall Sexuality Deeds, Desire, Delight - Bruce R. Smith Rethinking Sexual Acts and Identities - Mario DiGangi HexaSexuality - Madhavi Menon Teaching The Classroom - David Bevington Money for Jam - Marjorie Garber Extension Work - Patricia Cahill Editing Facts, Theories, and Beliefs - Barbara A. Mowat What We Owe to Editors - Lukas Erne What's Next in Editing Shakespeare - Sonia Massai Mortality Suicide as Profit or Loss - Mary Beth Rose Death and King Lear - Michael Neill Shakespeare's Here - Scott L. Newstok Media Spectatorship, Remediation, and One Hundred Years of Hamlet - James C. Bulman Performing Shakespeare through Social Media - Pascale Aebischer Reading Shakespeare through Media Archaeology - Alan Galey Race and Class Is Black so Base a Hue? - Jean E. Howard The Race of Shakespeare's Mind - Lara Bovilsky Speaking of Race - Ian Smith Sources Shakespeare and the Bible - Robert S. Miola Shakespeare's Sources - Ania Loomba Volver, or Coming Back - Sarah Beckwith Text and Authorship Collaboration 2016 - Gary Taylor The Value of Stage Directions - Laurie Maguire The Author Being Dead - Adam G. Hooks Globalization Against Our Own Ignorance - Susanne L. Wofford Circumnavigation, Shakespeare, and the Origins of Globalization - Daniel Vitkus The Bard in Calcutta, India, 1835-2014 - Jyotsna G. Singh Bodies and Emotions Bodies without Borders in Lear and Macbeth - Gail Kern Paster Potions, Passion, and Fairy Knowledge in A Midsummer Night's Dream - Mary Floyd-Wilson Shakespeare and Variant Embodiment - David Houston Wood Social Context Social Contexting - Frances E. Dolan "Hic et ubique": Hamlet in Sync - Bradin Bormack Playing in Context, Playing out Context - William N. West Historicism Historicizing Historicism - William C. Carroll Minding Anachronism - Margreta de Grazia The Historicist as Gamer - Gina Bloom Appropriations American Appropriation through the Centuries - Georgianna Ziegler Appropriation 2.0 - Christy Desmet Appropriation in Contemporary Fiction - Andrew Hartley Biography Shakespeare and Biography - Peter Holland Shakespeare's Friends and Family in the Archives - David Kathman Biography vs. Novel - Lois Potter Classicism The Classics as Popular Discourse - Coppelia Kahn Shakespeare's Classicism, Redux - Lynn Enterline Time, Verisimilitude, and the Counter-Classical Ovid - Heather James Public Shakespeare The Publicity of the Look - Paul Yachnin Public Women / Women of Valor - Julia Reinhard Lupton The Ghost of the Public University - Henry S. Turner Style William Shakespeare, Elizabethan Stylist - Russ McDonald Nondramatic Style - Stephen Guy-Bray Shakespeare's Lexical Style - Alysia Kolentsis Performance Pluralizing Performance - Diana E. Henderson The Study of Historical Performance - Tiffany Stern Shakespeare / Performance - W. B. Worthen Ecocriticism Shakespeare and Nature - Rebecca Bushnell Shakespeare without Nature - Steve Mentz The Chicken and the Egg - Karen Raber Afterword: Shakespeare in Tehran - Stephen Greenblatt
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare in the Theatre Mark Rylance at the Globe
Book SynopsisShakespeare in the Theatre: Mark Rylance at the GlobeEach volume in the Shakespeare in the Theatre series focuses on a director or theatre company who has made a significant contribution to Shakespeare production, identifying the artistic and political/social contexts of their work. The series introduces readers to the work of significant theatre directors and companies whose Shakespeare productions have been transformative in our understanding of his plays in performance. Each volume examines a single figure or company, considering their key productions, rehearsal approaches and their work with other artists.Since its opening in the late 1990s, the reconstructed Shakespeare's Globe Theatre has made an indelible impression on the contemporary British theatre scene. This book explores the theatre's first decade of productions under the pioneering leadership of Sir Mark Rylance. Drawing upon an extensive range of material from the theatre's archive, interviews wTrade ReviewInvaluable to scholars of performance, adaptation, contemporary productions of Shakespeare, and twentieth- to twenty-first-century commercial theatrical culture … Purcell draws extensively on Rylance’s own archive of the period, and a long concluding interview opens a fascinating window into the impressions, memories, and ideas of this most creative of contemporary Shakespeareans. * SEL: Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 Experiment and Reaction: The 1995–1998 Seasons 2 Masters of Play: Directing at the Globe 3 Shared Experiences: The Actor/Audience Relationship 4 The Politics of Performance at the Globe 5 An Interview with Mark Rylance Epilogue: Legacy and Return
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Performing King Lear
Book SynopsisJonathan Croall is a distinguished biographer and theatre historian. He is the author of twenty books, notably the acclaimed biographies John Gielgud: Matinee Idol to Movie Star (Methuen Drama) and Sybil Thorndike: A Star of Life.Trade Review[An] illuminating survey of modern approaches to the play in performance ... [providing] succinct accounts of nearly 50 performances over the last half-century. * The Guardian *There are about 40 living actors who’ve tackled the role. Read this book, all ye students, and find out as much as you can about how it’s been done in the recent past. * The Stage *A superb survey by Jonathan Croall of modern Lears (from Gielgud onwards). * The Telegraph *[Performing King Lear] contains detailed critical and personal accounts of nearly 60 productions, some successful, some not ... Croall draws on published memoirs and frequently rueful interviews conducted with actors and directors for this project, to give the reader some sense of what the Lear experience is like from within. Chapters devoted to the exertions of Gielgud, Charles Laughton and an ill-fated production starring Nigel Hawthorne make for compelling reading. * The Sydney Morning Herald *[E]xemplary ... King Lear is for me, and for many Shakespeareans, the Mount Everest of the Shakespearean canon, and Jonathan Croall's excellently helpful and insightful book enables us to enjoy a broad perspective from the top of the summit. * Around the Globe *[Croall] has staked a convincing claim to being Britain's leading theatrical commentator and biographer ... [and i]n this latest book, he makes a valuable addition to theatre history ... So much in this collection, on matters large and small, is stimulating to read that it seems invidious to single out any passages ... Croall should be encouraged – urged – to work his way through the other great roles in the Shakespearean canon. * Inside Story *A fascinating book to anyone interested in theatre history or in the art of interpretation * Tim Pigott-Smith (King Lear, 2011) *I’m enjoying dipping into this very readable and insightful book, and very much appreciated the overview of our production * Paul Copley (King Lear, 2012) *By playing King Lear you join a conversation with colleagues alive and dead, male and female, and of surprisingly varied ages. Jonathan Croall’s vividly researched book celebrates both our diversity and our common ground. * Michael Pennington (King Lear, 2014) *I enjoyed reading about the various interpretations, including my own efforts – fascinating, and a lot to be learned. * Timothy West (King Lear, 1971, 1992 and 2002) *Truly glorious. What a wonderful achievement. * Deborah Warner (director King Lear, 1985 and 1990) *A genuinely fascinating read. The plurality of approaches is breathtaking * Tim Crouch (director, King Lear, 2012) *A valuable resource in reconstructing the ways and means by which the play has been made to mean on the stage, and the fables of retrospection that the play has produced. * Shakespeare Quarterly *This book will be of great interest to a wide range of people – students and academics interested in interpretations of this complex play, actors, directors and designers (the book is particularly strong on describing the many and various ways in which the play has been staged from a visual point of view), and of course anyone who loves the play itself. * Shiny New Books *Table of ContentsIntroduction 1 A Stage History 2 The First of the Moderns: John Gielgud, Randle Ayrton, Donald Wolfit, Laurence Olivier 3 At the Old Vic: William Devlin, John Gielgud 4 A Stratford Decade: John Gielgud, Michael Redgrave, Charles Laughton, Paul Scofield 5 For the Royal Shakespeare Company: Eric Porter, Donald Sinden, Michael Gambon 6 Around the Regions: Michael Hordern, Kathryn Hunter, Warren Mitchell, Pete Postlethwaite, Tim Pigott-Smith 7 At the Old Vic 2: Anthony Quayle, Eric Porter, Alan Howard 8 In the Round: Paul Shelley, Clive Swift, John Shrapnel 9 For the Royal Shakespeare Company 2: John Wood, Robert Stephens, Nigel Hawthorne 10 At the Globe: Julian Glover, David Calder, Joseph Marcell 11 On the Road: Timothy West, Anthony Quayle, Richard Briers 12 In Wales and Scotland: Nicol Williamson, David Hayman 13 Young Audiences, Young Players: Tony Church, Richard Haddon Haines, Timothy West, Nonso Anozie, Paul Copley 14 For the Royal Shakespeare Company 3: Corin Redgrave, Ian McKellen, Greg Hicks 15 In Smaller Spaces: Robert Demeger, Tom Wilkinson, Oliver Cotton, Oliver Ford Davies, Derek Jacobi, Jonathan Pryce 16 Transatlantic Sessions: Peter Ustinov, Christopher Plummer, Frank Langella, Michael Pennington 17 At the National: Anthony Hopkins, Brian Cox, Ian Holm, Simon Russell Beale Sources Further Reading Acknowledgements Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) Shakespeare and New Historicist Theory
Book SynopsisNeema Parvini is Lecturer in English at the University of Surrey. He is the author of Shakespeare's History Plays: Rethinking Historicism (2012) and Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory: New Historicism and Cultural Materialism (Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2012).Trade ReviewNeema Parvini’s concise and polemical retelling of this once powerful mode of critical reading is a useful reminder of what was gained by New Historicism, what its limitations were, and what kind of legacy it has left ... Parvini writes directly, passionately, and engagingly ... Useful to anyone, students and scholars, in need of a quick reference guide to the gist of critique of New Historicism. * Renaissance and Reformation/Renaissance et Réforme *Parvini’s chapters provide a logical progression of well-researched information and analysis that begin with basic definitions, move through examinations of the differences between “old” and “new” historicism, and examine the effect of New Historicism and its legacy on theoretical discourse. All these points of discussion are useful, informative, and serve to paint a more complete picture of how New Historicism has influenced and changed the way we think, talk, and write about Shakespeare. * Renaissance Quarterly *Neema Parvini’s concise and polemical retelling of this once powerful mode of critical reading is a useful reminder of what was gained by New Historicism, what its limitations were, and what kind of legacy it has left … [The book] grapples succinctly with New Historicism’s arguments across a range of theoretical and ideological interpretative practices … Useful to anyone, students and scholars, in need of a quick reference guide to the gist of critique of New Historicism. * Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Reforme *Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface Acknowledgements Introductory Note 1 What is ‘History’? 2 After Tillyard, before Greenblatt 3 Power, Containment and Cultural Poetics 4 New Historicism in Practice: The Case of Measure for Measure 5 New Historicism and Feminism 6 The Opponents of New Historicism 7 The Legacy of New Historicism Notes Bibliography
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC King Richard III Language and Writing
Book SynopsisA new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writings skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare''s texts. The book''s core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare''s complex dramatic language, and expanding the student''s own critical vocabulary as they respond to the play.The book explores several different approaches to Shakespeare''s language. It looks at how the subtleties of Shakespeare''s language reveal the thought processes and motivations of his characters, often in ways those characters themselves don''t recognise; it analyses how Shakespeare''s language works within or sometimes against various historical contexts, the contexts of stage performance, of genre and of discourses of his day (of religion, law, commerce, and friendship); and it explores how the peculiarities of Shakespeare''s language often point to broad issues, themes, or ways of thinking that trTrade ReviewLemon’s guide displays…breadth and insight, even as it touches down on quite different categories, including the forms and features of the play in print, the discourse of conscience, the device of murder, and the array of Richards brought forth by modernity (Fascist, Libyan, Digital, and Documentary, among others). This choice for discretion over consistency in format and emphasis is no doubt a reason that the series, under the editorship of Dympna Callaghan, has attracted such excellent contributors. Its latest companions are boons for those teaching writing-intensive courses, as well as for those simply seeking better essays from their students. * Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 *Table of ContentsSeries Preface Introduction 1. Language in Print: Words, Lines, Speeches 2. Language: Forms and Uses 3. Language Through Time 4.Writing Skills and Topics
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iUniverse Moniment
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Pearson Education (US) Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Book Synopsis"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition, Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships: that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.Trade Review"The most original literary critic in America." --The New York Times"No critic in the English language since Samuel Johnson has been more prolific." --The Paris Review"Bloom is all literature, (he) positively lives it." --Alfred Kazin
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Fairleigh Dickinson University Press The Horse in Early Modern English Culture:
Book SynopsisKevin De Ornellas argues that in Renaissance England the relationship between horse and rider works as an unambiguous symbol of domination by the strong over the weak. There was little sentimental concern for animal welfare, leading to the routine abuse of the material animal. This unproblematic, practical exploitation of the horse led to the currency of the horse/rider relationship as a trope or symbol of exploitation in the literature of the period. Engaging with fiction, plays, poems, and non-fictional prose works of late Tudor and early Stuart England, De Ornellas demonstrates that the horse—a bridled, unwilling slave—becomes a yardstick against which the oppression of England’s poor, women, increasingly uninfluential clergyman, and deluded gamblers is measured. The status of the bitted, harnessed horse was a low one in early modern England—to be compared to such a beast is a demonstration of inferiority and subjugation. To think anything else is to be naïve about the realities of horse management in the period and is to be naïve about the realities of the exploitation of horses and other mammals in the present-day world.Trade ReviewEach chapter contains a wealth of contextual and textual references, and De Ornellas characteristically moves across a variety of forms of writing and historical evidence. . . .There is analysis in each chapter that illuminates the main texts considered (the reading of Shirley’s Hide Park is particularly successful and stimulating) and that enables greater understanding of the importance of horse talk. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsAcknowledgments and Preface, i. Introduction Chapter One, “Pricked More with the Spur then the Provender”: Hungry Horses and Woodstock Chapter Two, Agency and/or Containment? Man/Woman and Horse/Rider Relationships in Early Modern England Chapter Three, Trampling on the Bald Pate: Morocco the Wonder Horse and the Humiliation of St Paul’s Chapter Four, Laying the World on Your Mare: the Corrupt Horse-Race in Shirley’s Hide Parke Chapter Five, Constructed Combatants: Political Steeds Before, During, and After the Civil Wars Conclusion Bibliography
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Rowman & Littlefield Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays
Book SynopsisThe hundreds of biblical references in Shakespeare's plays give ample evidence that he was well acquainted with Scripture. Not only is the range of his biblical references impressive, but also the aptness with which he makes them. Hamlet and Othello each have more than fifty biblical references. No study of Shakespeare's plays is complete that ignores Shakespeare's use of scripture. The Bibles that Shakespeare knew, however, were not those that are in use today. By the time the King James Bible appeared in 1611, Shakespeare's career was all but over, and the Anglican liturgy that is evident in his plays is likewise one that few persons are acquainted with. This volume provides a comprehensive survey of the English Bibles of Shakespeare's day, notes their similarities and differences, and indicates which version the playwright knew best. The thorny question of what constitutes a valid biblical reference is also discussed. This study of Shakespeare's biblical references is not based on secondary sources. The author owned one of the world's largest collections of early English bibles, including over one hundred copies of the Geneva bible and numerous editions of other Bibles, prayer books, and books of homilies of Shakespeare's day. To be of real worth, a study of Shakespeare's biblical references should also enable the reader to determine which references Shakespeare borrowed from his plot sources and which he added from his own memory as part of his design for the play. The author studies every source that Shakespeare is known to have read or consulted before writing each play and has examined the biblical references in those sources. Shaheen then points out which biblical references in his literary sources Shakespeare accepted, and how he adapted them in his plays. This information is especially valuable when assessing the theological meanings that are sometimes imposed on his plays, meanings that often go beyond what Shakespeare intended or what his audience must have understood. Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays is considerably broader in scope than any other study of its kind and provides the scholarly checks and balances in dealing with the subject that previous studies lacked.
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Bloomsbury Academic Excavating the Historical Memory of the American Revolution
Book SynopsisShawn Thomson is Professor of English in the Department of Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley.
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Legenda Karoline von Günderrode
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Legenda The Tremors of Translation
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Modern Humanities Research Association Hamlet
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Little, Brown Book Group A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare
Book SynopsisAn accessible and entertaining journey through the life, times, and work of the Bard - Enigma. Master of language. The greatest comedian in history? The most famous writer in the world. But isn't he a little bit boring? This is an essential guide for anyone who has previously avoided the Bard, and is the perfect introduction for first time students or seasoned theatre lovers. The book contains a full commentary of all the plays by bestselling and reknowned writer Peter Ackroyd as well as full descriptions of the cast and the drama; not forgetting the best speeches, and the wit and wisdom from across the works. There is also an opportunity to explore the poems and a complete set of sonnets, as well as an investigation of who the dark lady might have been.Contains:The complete sonnets; the greatest speeches; the best lines.Perfect for students struggling through their first play or for theatre lovers anywhere.Entertaining, accessible, Shakespeare without the boring bits.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC John Bunyan & His England, 1628-1688
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Upstart Crow Publications Twelfth Night : A Guide
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Upstart Crow Publications Macbeth : A Guide
£8.90
Upstart Crow Publications Midsummer Night's Dream : A Guide
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Upstart Crow Publications Romeo and Juliet : A Guide
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics
Book SynopsisShakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, was concerned with the question of the succession and the legitimacy of the monarch. From the early plays through the histories to Hamlet, Shakespeare's work is haunted by the problem of political legitimacy. Shakespeare and Reniassance Politics examines his works as political events and interventions, and explores the literature of the Renaissance and its relation to fundamental political issues.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Reading Shakespeare's Dramatic Language
Book SynopsisThis accessible and interdisciplinary volume addresses a fundamental need in current education in language, literature and drama. Many of today's students lack the grammatical and linguistic skills to enable them to study Shakespearean and other Renaissance texts as closely as their courses require. This practical guide will help them to understand and use the structures and strategies of written and dramatic language. Eleven short essays on aspects of literary criticism and performance by an eminent team of contributors are followed by a more detailed exploration of the history of language use, grammar and spelling, plus a glossary of terms offering definitions, contexts and examples. Together these provide an informed and engaging historical understanding of dramatic language in the early modern period.
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Pericles
Book SynopsisSuzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and female central characters, based on a reading 'through the family', and influenced by the feminist and new historicist criticism of the last two decades.The edition integrates cumulative research on Shakespeare's collaborative authorship and the transmission of the text without rewriting the play or ignoring years of emendations.
£90.00
MUSIC FOR STRINGS Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code
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The Matheson Trust To Take Upon Us the Mystery of Things: The Shakespeare Lectures
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