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Liverpool University Press Samia Classical Texts Aris Phillips Classical Texts
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Liverpool University Press Ion Classical Texts Aris Phillips Classical
Book SynopsisIon is generally regarded as one of Euripides’ most attractive plays. A skilfully organised plot, charming characters, exciting situations and thought-provoking themes make it an excellent introduction to the study of Greek drama generally and of Euripides in particular. Greek text with facing translation, introduction and commentary.Table of ContentsGeneral Editor’s ForewordPrefaceAbbreviationsAddenda 2007Updated General BibliographyIntroduction to Ion 1. Plot and meaning 2. Structure 3. Characters 4. Themes and Issues 5. Myth 6. Staging 7. Date 8. Text and TranslationManuscripts and Editorial SymbolsText and Translation of Ion CommentaryBibliography for IonIndex
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Liverpool University Press Sophocles Ajax
Book SynopsisAjax, perhaps the earliest surviving tragedy of Sophocles, presents the downfall and disgrace of a great hero whose suicide leads to his rehabilitation through the enlightened magnanimity of one of his enemies.Table of Contents Preface Introduction Bibliography Ajax: Text and translation Commentary Metrical Appendix Index
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Liverpool University Press Aristophanes Peace 05 Aris Phillips Classical
Book SynopsisIn Peace, produced in 421 B.C., Aristophanes celebrates in anticipation the conclusion, after ten years, of the great war between Athens and Sparta. This volume presents the Greek text with facing-page translation, commentary and notes. The second edition has been substantially updated with extensive addenda to the Notes and Bibliography.Trade Review'College and university libraries should own a copy for students and faculty looking for a current, comprehensive bibliography to the play.'Martha Habash, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2007‘For an overall series of the entire corpus, including critical text, commentary, translation, and full introduction, all subsumed to one man’s intelligent analysis and wide-ranging scholarship, Sommerstein stands triumphantly alone. […] Aristophanes is lucky to have so devoted, erudite, and witty a modern celebrant.’ ScholiaTable of ContentsPrefaceReferences and AbbreviationsPEACE Introductory Note Note on the Text Sigla Text and Translation Notes Addenda including Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press Lorca Blood Wedding Aris Phillips Hispanic
Book SynopsisFederico García Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artistic group, including H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling. This move towards a more literary life eventually paid off.Table of Contents Introduction Bodas de Sangre/Blood Wedding Acto Primero/Act One Acto Segundo/Act Two Acto Tercero/Act Three Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press The House of Bernarda Alba A Tragedy of the Women
Book SynopsisLa casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy.
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Liverpool University Press Lorca The House of Bernarda Alba A Drama of Women
Book SynopsisLa casa de Bernarda Alba (The House of Bernarda Alba) was one of the last plays to be written by Lorca, shortly before he was executed by the Franco regime at the age of 38, in 1936. It was not performed until 1945 several years after his death. Along with Blood Wedding and Yerma it forms Lorca's Rural Trilogy.
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Liverpool University Press Blood Wedding Hispanic Classics Aris Phillips
Book SynopsisFederico García Lorca was born near Granada in 1898. Initially set on studying music in Paris, after his piano teacher died in 1916 he became involved in a literary and artistic group, including H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling. This move towards a more literary life eventually paid off.Table of Contents Introduction Bodas de Sangre/Blood Wedding Acto Primero/Act One Acto Segundo/Act Two Acto Tercero/Act Three Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press Sophocles Selected Fragmentary Plays Volume 2
Book SynopsisFollowing the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven more.Trade ReviewSommerstein and Talboy should be thanked for this useful, instructive and stimulating piece of scholarship. Laura Carrara, Gnomon 7/2016
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Liverpool University Press Sophocles Selected Fragmentary Plays Volume 2
Book SynopsisFollowing the volume of six fragmentary Sophoclean tragedies published in this series in 2006, Alan Sommerstein and Thomas Talboy now present seven more.Trade ReviewSommerstein and Talboy should be thanked for this useful, instructive and stimulating piece of scholarship. Laura Carrara, Gnomon 7/2016
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Seagull Books London Ltd The Crime of Jean Genet
Book SynopsisNow in paperback,The Crime of Jean Genetis a powerful personal account of the influence of one writer on anotherandone of the most penetrating explorations yet of Genet's work and achievement. Dominique Eddé met novelist and playwright Jean Genet in the 1970s. And she never forgot him. His presence, she writes, gave me the sensation of icy fire. Like his words, his gestures were full, calculated, and precise. . . . Genet's movements mimicked the movement of time, accumulating rather than passing. This book is Eddé's account of that meeting and its ripples through her years of engaging with Genet's life and work. Rooted in personal reminiscences, it is nonetheless much broader, offering a subtle analysis of Genet's work and teasing out largely unconsidered themes, like the absence of the father, which becomes a metaphor for Genet's perpetual attack on the law. Tying Genet to Dostoevsky through their shared fascination with crime, Eddé helps us more clearly understand Genet's relation
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Seagull Books London Ltd Critical Essays
Book SynopsisCritical Essays (Situations I) contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of French philosopher and leading existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's life, the years between 1938 and 1946. This period is particularly interesting because it is before Sartre published the magnum opus that would solidify his name as a philosopher, Being and Nothingness. Instead, during this time Sartre was emerging as one of France's most promising young novelists and playwrights he had already published Nausea, The Age of Reason, The Flies, and No Exit. Not content, however, he was meanwhile consciously attempting to revive the form of the essay via detailed examinations of writers who were to become central to European cultural life in the immediate aftermath of World War II. Collected here are Sartre's experiments in reimagining the idea and structure of the essay. Among the distinguished writers he analyzes are Francis Ponge, Georges Bataille, Vladimir Nabokov, Maurice Blancho
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US As You Like It
Book SynopsisActor and directorDavidIverspresentsAs You Like It, as you'd like to hear it today.Presentinganew translationof Shakespeare into contemporary English,Iversreimagines Shakespeare's comedy from an actor's point of view.Analyzingthe play line by linetouncover the meaning of every joke, pun,and witty aside,IversrepurposesShakespeare'slanguagewhile maintaining an homagetothe originalrhythm, cadence,and structure.An accomplished actoranddirector, anda lifelonglover of the Bard,Iversis the perfect writer to bringAs You Like Itinto the present moment.This translation ofAs You Like Itwas writtenas part of the Play On! Shakespeare project, an ambitious undertaking from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival that commissioned new translations of 39 Shakespeare plays. These translations present the Bard's work in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse.Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Tempest
Book SynopsisConsidered by most scholars to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote,The Tempestis a stormy tale of betrayal and forgiveness. After being banished by his brother Antonio, Prospero harnesses the magic of an otherworldly island full of monsters and spirits to seek revenge. In reworking this play for a twenty-first-century audience, Kenneth Cavander focuses on the humor and the magic in the tale, much of which has largely escaped modern audiences in recent years. Cavander'stranslation ofThe Tempest,whichpremiered at the Alabama ShakespeareFestivalin 2017,was written as part of the Play On! Shakespeare project, an ambitious undertaking from the Oregon Shakespeare Festival that commissioned new translations of 39 Shakespeare plays. These translations present the Bard's work in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse.Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrou
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Richard II
Book SynopsisShakespeare's history play reimagined by Naomi Iizuka. Following the events of the final two years of his life, Richard II interrogates royal power and the forces that threaten it. After banishing his cousin Henry Bolingbroke, Richard begins to lose grip of his throne and strives to find meaning in the churn and chaos of the events unfolding around him. In her new translation, Naomi Iizuka ventures into the mystery of the work, scraping away the layers of received wisdom and cracking the play open for contemporary audiences. This translation of Richard II was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse.Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this projectreenviTable of ContentsAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Winters Tale
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Henry VI Part 2
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Romeo and Juliet
Book SynopsisShakespeare's famous play finds new life with a translation into contemporary American English. For never was a story of more woe / Than this of Juliet and her Romeo. In this new version of Romeo and Juliet, written in accessible modern English, Hansol Jung breathes new life into Shakespeare's famous tragedy. By closely examining the familiar language and focusing on the subtleties of the text, Jung illuminates a surprising and more nuanced world than many of us have come to expect from the well-known tale of star-crossed lovers. This translation ofRomeo and Juliet was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse.Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this proTable of ContentsAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Pericles
Book SynopsisThe heroic story of Pericles adapted for new audiences by Ellen McLaughlin. Shakespeare's romance Pericles follows Pericles, the Prince of Tyre, on a series of adventures across the Mediterranean Sea. Navigating one heroic challenge after another, Pericles strives to be reunited with his wife and child. Ellen McLaughlin's translation of Pericles illuminates Shakespeare's text, untangling syntax and bringing forth the poetry of the verse. An encounter between the contemporary and the iconic, this translation brings the play to life as audiences would have experienced it in Shakespeare's time. This translation of Pericles was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse.Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriTable of ContentsAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Comedy of Errors
Book SynopsisShakespeare's archetypal slapstick comedy, now with updated jokes and wordplay. One of Shakespeare's earliest plays, The Comedy of Errors is a farcical tale of separated twins and mistaken identities. This slapstick play is a staple of the genre, including madcap bawdiness, love at first sight, reunions, and happily-ever-afters. Christina Anderson's translation dives deep into the joy of the original text, reinterpreting the metaphor, antiquated slang, and double and triple entendre for a contemporary audience. This translation of The Comedy of Errors was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse.Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this projectreenvisionTable of ContentsAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Taming of the Shrew
Book SynopsisAmy Freed rewrites The Taming of the Shrew, one of the more problematic plays in the Shakespeare canon. While beloved for its sharp dialogue and witty banter, The Taming of the Shrew offers a problematic storyline that many have deemed misogynistic. The play contains insensitive gags and uneasy politics, making it difficult for modern audiences to connect with the text. Amy Freed's new translation reactivates the original story, blowing away the dust and cobwebs. As Freed's text reminds us, at its heart The Taming of the Shrew is a story about courage and authenticity. This translation of The Taming of the Shrew was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse.Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, anTable of ContentsInductionAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5Appendix
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Antony and Cleopatra
Book SynopsisA lively contemporary translation of Shakespeare's sexiest play. In Antony and Cleopatra, Christopher Chen tackles the sweeping epic of love and betrayal at the center of the story of the rulers Antony of Rome and Cleopatra of Egypt. In this contemporary translation of the play, Chen brings the political intrigue and historical storytelling of Shakespeare to modern audiences while preserving the poetic foundation of the play's language. This translation of Antony and Cleopatra was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these wTable of ContentsAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Julius Caesar
Book SynopsisA fresh, contemporary translation of one of Shakespeare's most dramatic and popular plays. Julius Caesar, Shakespeare's famous Roman tragedy, chronicles the chaos leading up to the fateful murder of Caesar and the ensuing political fallout upon his death. Shishir Kurup's translation updates Shakespeare's language to allow more of the playwright's ideas to come through; it opens the wonders and blazing relevance of the play's rhetorical brilliance to the twenty-first century. This translation of Julius Caesar was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present the work of The Bard in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first centuTable of ContentsAct 1Act 2Act 3Act 4Act 5
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US Twelfth Night
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Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies,US The Bard in the Borderlands An Anthology of
Book SynopsisThis volume features a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands perspectives. For several decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theatermakers have been repurposing Shakespeare's plays to reflect the histories and lived realities of the USMexico Borderlands and to create space to tell stories of and for La Frontera. Celebrating this rich tradition, The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera brings a wide range of Borderlands Shakespeare plays together for the first time in a multi-volume open-access scholarly edition. This anthology celebrates the dynamic, multilingual reworking of canon and place that defines Borderlands Shakespeare, and it situates these geographically and temporally diverse plays within the robust study of Shakespeare's global afterlives. The editors offer a critical framework for understanding the artistic and political traditions that shape these plays and the place of Shakespeare within the mulTrade Review"The Bard in the Borderlands: An Anthology of Shakespeare Appropriations en La Frontera, Volume 1 features a wide range of plays that deftly re-imagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands perspectives. Unique, ground-breaking, exceptional, thought-provoking, and inherently fascinating, The Bard in the Borderlands is a distinctive, ground-breaking, and unreservedly recommended as an addition to personal, professional, community, college, and university library Shakespeare studies collections. Of special appeal and value for readers with an interest in Hispanic American Dramas & Plays." * Midwest Book Review *Table of ContentsGeneral Introduction: Tracing the Traditions of Borderlands Shakespeare, by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero SantosIntroduction to Volume I, by Katherine Gillen, Adrianna M. Santos, and Kathryn Vomero SantosPlaytexts and Introductions1. The Language of Flowers by Edit Villarreal2. Kino and Teresa by James Lujan3. The Tragic Corrido of Romeo and Lupe by Seres Jaime Magaña4. Hamlet, El Príncipe de Denmark by Tara Moses5. Ofélio by Joshua Inocéncio6. ¡O Romeo! by Olga Sanchez SaltveitGlossaryBibliography
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Michigan State University Press From Page to Performance
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MP-MLA Modern Lanuage Assoc Approaches to Teaching English Renaissance Drama
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Cornell University Press Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Book SynopsisThe Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard''s genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as Chicago Shakes, this vanguard of Chicago''s rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this bracing collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors, and critics.Chicago Shakespeare Theater unveils the artistic visions and decisions that helped shape this venerable institution and examines the theater''s international reputation for staging such remarkable and provocative performances. The volume brings together works by such heralded drama critics as Terry Teachout, Jonathan Abarbanel, and Michael Billington; theater industry giants like Michael Bogdanov, Edward Hall, and Simon Callow; interviews with the Chicago Shakespeare Theater''s own Artistic Director Barbara Gaines and
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Cornell University Press Chicago Shakespeare Theater
Book SynopsisThe Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as "Chicago Shakes," this vanguard of Chicago's rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver...
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MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi Conversations with Peter Taylor
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Concise Companion to Contemporary British and
Book SynopsisFocusing on major and emerging playwrights, institutions, and various theatre practices this Concise Companion examines the key issues in British and Irish theatre since 1979.Trade Review“This volume provides valuable insight into the issues and practices of contemporary theater. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.” (Choice, 1 January 2014)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Notes on Contributors x Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1 Nadine Holdsworth and Mary Luckhurst Part I National Politics and Identities 5 1 Europe in Flux: Exploring Revolution and Migration in British Plays of the 1990s 7 Geoff Willcocks 2 ‘I’ll See You Yesterday’: Brian Friel, Tom Murphy and the Captivating Past 26 Claire Gleitman 3 Black British Drama and the Politics of Identity 48 D. Keith Peacock 4 Northern Irish Drama: Speaking the Peace 66 Tom Maguire Part II Sites, Cities and Landscapes 85 5 The Production of ‘Site’: Site-Specific Theatre 87 Fiona Wilkie 6 Staging an Urban Nation: Place and Identity in Contemporary Welsh Theatre 107 Heike Roms 7 The Landscape of Contemporary Scottish Drama: Place, Politics and Identity 125 Nadine Holdsworth Part III The Body, Text and the Real 147 8 The Body’s Cruel Joke: The Comic Theatre of Sarah Kane 149 Ken Urban 9 Physical Theatre: Complicite and the Question of Authority 171 Helen Freshwater 10 Verbatim Theatre, Media Relations and Ethics 200 Mary Luckhurst Part IV Science, Ethics and New Technologies 223 11 Theatre and Science 225 David Higgins 12 From the State of the Nation to Globalization: Shifting Political Agendas in Contemporary British Playwriting 245 Dan Rebellato 13 Theatre for a Media-Saturated Age 263 Sarah Gorman Index 283
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance
Book SynopsisThis is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical composition.Trade Review"A remarkable guide to recapturing the sights and sounds of Greek tragedy. David Raeburn draws on his long experience as teacher, translator and director to show in detail how a selection of famous plays can be studied – in English or the original Greek – as scripts for performance. He has plenty of thought-provoking discussion of the stage action to offer, and a special feature is his guidance on the rhythms of the original poetry, especially the choral lyrics, with audio recordings easily accessible online." - Pat Easterling, Cambridge University (Emeritus Regius) "An invaluable book written with love and detailed understanding. It is based on a lifetime’s unique experience of producing each of these classical plays as a teacher and scholar at the highest level, therefore without equal in its field. Again and again Raeburn sees what these plays need for their staging and interpretation, largely because he has faced the challenge of putting them on the stage, whereas most classical commentators have not. He goes clearly and concisely to the heart of them in a style which all who read,produce, or have to study them will appreciate. A landmark both for our theatres’ actors and directors and for those in schools and universities who want to be taken to the central issues of each play and the ways in which character, speech, movement, and setting interrelate." - Robin Lane Fox, Oxford UniversityTable of ContentsPreface ix About the Companion Website xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Aeschylus 15 3 Persae 21 4 The Oresteia 33 5 Sophocles 81 6 Antigone 87 7 Oedipus Tyrannus 105 8 Electra (Sophocles) 123 9 Euripides 137 10 Medea 143 11 Electra (Euripides) 157 12 Bacchae 173 Appendix A: Glossary of Greek Tragic Terms 189 Appendix B: Rhythm and Meter 191 Index 195
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance
Book SynopsisThis is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical composition.Table of ContentsPreface ix About the Companion Website xi 1 Introduction 1 2 Aeschylus 15 3 Persae 21 4 The Oresteia 33 5 Sophocles 81 6 Antigone 87 7 Oedipus Tyrannus 105 8 Electra (Sophocles) 123 9 Euripides 137 10 Medea 143 11 Electra (Euripides) 157 12 Bacchae 173 Appendix A: Glossary of Greek Tragic Terms 189 Appendix B: Rhythm and Meter 191 Index 195
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd The Life of the Author William Shakespeare
Book SynopsisDiscover an invigorating new perspective on the life and work of William Shakespeare TheLife of the Author: William Shakespearedeliversa fresh and exciting new take on the life of William Shakespeare,offeringreaders a biography that brings to the foreground his working life as a poet, playwright, and actor. It also explores the nature of his relationships with his friends, colleagues, and family, and asks important questions about the stories we tell about Shakespeare based on the evidence we actually have about the man himself. The book is written using scholarly citations and references,but with anapproachable style suitable for readers with little or no background knowledge of Shakespeare or the era in which he lived.TheLife of the Author: William Shakespeareasksprovocativequestions about the playwright-poet's preoccupation with gender roles and sexuality, and explores why it is so challenging toascertain hispolitical and religiousTable of ContentsAcknowledgments vi Prologue viii Chapter One 1 Chapter Two 14 Chapter Three 31 Chapter Four 49 Chapter Five 69 Chapter Six 87 Chapter Seven 106 Chapter Eight 129 Notes 149 References 160 Index 170
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd How to Read a Shakespeare Play
Book SynopsisThis clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare's works for pleasure.Trade Review"In just a few pages, the author manages to unearth the full richness of the Bard, opening the reader's mind and asking questions rather than providing glib, easy answers. This is a terrific beginner's volume for the novice English literature student tasked with studying the works of William Shakespeare, and a valuable re-entry point for the intermediate Shakespeare reader looking for additional analytical methods." (Simply Shakespeare, November 2009) "The first chapter is a fabulous, full-frontal, thirteen-page assault that both dispenses information and suggests effective questions that student readers might employ when reading a text in order to 'read aggressively' (p. 9). What is mildly revolutionary is that it is here, in print, ready to be easily disseminated to students and thus to more easily and readily articulate the type of engagement with a text that we hope and expect our students will undertake. Bevington challenges his readers to think in historical, theatrical, and characterological terms. Bevington's list is instructive and at times brutally honest. Schools should consider investing heavily in this text for the benefit of their pupils; college or university-level students would also be aided by Bevington's straightforward, avuncular reading advice." (Year's Work in English Studies, 2008)Table of ContentsList of Illustrations. 1. How to Read a Shakespeare Play. 2. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. 3. Romeo and Juliet. 4. Henry the Fourth, Part I. 5. Hamlet. 6. King Lear. 7. The Tempest. 8. Epilogue. Further Reading. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe extended second edition of this inspiring introduction to Shakespeare offers readers more insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works. A highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare Explores Shakespeares works through the Seven Ages of Man, from childhood to second childishness and mere oblivion Now includes more material on fathers and sons, the perils of courtship, the circumstances of Shakespeares own life, the performance history of his plays on stage and on screen, and more A new final chapter on Shakespeare Today looks at the remarkable diversity of interpretations in modern criticism and performance of Shakespeare Discusses a wide range of plays and poTrade Review"David Bevington’s knowledge of Shakespeare is formidable. In this wonderful new book, Bevington uses the “seven ages of man” speech from As You Like It to weave together Shakespeare’s plays and poems with what is known of Shakespeare’s life." Barbara Mowat, Folger Shakespeare Institute [of the first edition] "This is a book from […] one of the great Shakespeare scholars of his generation. The book is well-written, at once lively and learned, engaging and informative. It is perfectly designed to help non-specialist readers enjoy Shakespeare's plays better and yet it is also rich with insights that will challenge the specialist reader." David Scott Kastan, Columbia University [of the first edition] "Recommended for all public and academic libraries in need of fresh introductory materials on Shakespeare." Library Journal [of the first edition] "Essential. A must for lower- and upper-division undergraduates; a pleasure for graduate students through faculty and for general readers." Choice [of the first edition] "[This book] is sensible and persuasive in its linking of criticism and biography. Its primary audience is students, who will find the treatments of individual plays excellent as stand-alone studies as well as part of a larger argument." English Association Journal for Teachers of English "Objective and personal, too, the book is likely to be useful for long to come" Notes and Queries Table of ContentsList of illustrations. To the Reader. 1 All the World’s a Stage: Poetry and Theatre. 2 Creeping Like Snail: Childhood, Education, Early Friendship, Sibling Rivalries. 3 Sighing Like Furnace: Courtship and Sexual Desire. 4 Full of Strange Oaths and Bearded Like the Pard: The Coming-of-Age of the Male. 5 Jealous in Honour: Love and Friendship in Crises. 6 Wise Saws: Political and Social Disillusionment, Humankind’s Relationship to the Divine, and Philosophical Scepticism. 7 Modern Instances: Misogyny, Jealousy, Pessimism, and Midlife Crises. 8 The Lean and Slippered Pantaloon: Ageing Fathers and their Daughters. 9 Last Scene of All: Retirement from the Theatre. 10 Shakespeare Today. Notes. Further Reading. Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd How To Do Things With Shakespeare
Book SynopsisHOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference. Vive la différance! DAVID BEVINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Doing things with literature: scholarly articles are not the only way to go. Aristotle uses a lecture, Horace a letter, Sidney a mock oration. Laurie Maguire and the contributors to this book engage in a genial conversation that invites students in. Like all good conversations, this one admits first-person candor, keeps things lively by changing the subject five times, welcomes disagreements, and waits for what the reader-listener is going to do in response. BRUCE SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELESTrade Review"The contributors to Laurie Maguire's book show by doing.... They are unusually present in what they write, speaking directly to their presumed student readers. This is in some ways the sort of writing we associate with school textbooks, and it is all the better for that." (Times Literary Supplement, October 2008)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Introduction: Laurie E. Maguire (Magdalen College, University of Oxford). Part I How To Do Things with Sources. 1. French Connections: The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Montaigne and Shakespeare: Richard Scholar (Oriel College, Oxford). 2. Romancing the Greeks: Cymbeline’s Genres and Models: Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, City University of New York). 3. How the Renaissance (Mis)Used Sources: The Art of Misquotation: Julie Maxwell (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge). Part II How To Do Things with History. 4. Henry VIII, or All is True: Shakespeare’s “Favorite” Play: Chris R. Kyle (Syracuse University). 5. Catholicism and Conversion in Love’s Labour’s Lost: Gillian Woods (Wadham College, Oxford). Part III How To Do Things with Texts. 6. Watching as Reading: The Audience and Written Text in Shakespeare’s Playhouse: Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford). 7. What Do Editors Do and Why Does It Matter?: Anthony B. Dawson (University of British Columbia). Part IV How To Do Things with Animals. 8. “The dog is himself”: Humans, Animals, and Self-Control in The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Erica Fudge. (Middlesex University). 9. Sheepishness in The Winter’s Tale: Paul Yachnin (McGill University). Part V How To Do Things with Posterity. 10. Time and the Nature of Sequence in Shakespeare’s Sonnets: “In sequent toil all forwards do contend”: Georgia Brown (independent scholar). 11. Canons and Cultures: Is Shakespeare Universal? : A. E. B. Coldiron (Florida State University). 12. “Freezing the Snowman”: (How) Can We Do Performance Criticism?: Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford). Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd How To Do Things With Shakespeare
Book SynopsisHOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE HOW TO DO THINGS WITH SHAKESPEARE This is a companion to Shakespeare with a difference. Vive la différance! DAVID BEVINGTON, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Doing things with literature: scholarly articles are not the only way to go. Aristotle uses a lecture, Horace a letter, Sidney a mock oration. Laurie Maguire and the contributors to this book engage in a genial conversation that invites students in. Like all good conversations, this one admits first-person candor, keeps things lively by changing the subject five times, welcomes disagreements, and waits for what the reader-listener is going to do in response. BRUCE SMITH, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELESTrade Review“Maguire … does not seek to force the essays into convenient (and conventional) critical boxes. Rather, she asks her contributors to open their essays with discussions of the questions and contexts that drove them to pursue their topic and then write about it. Highly recommended.” (Choice Reviews, October 2008)Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Introduction: Laurie E. Maguire (Magdalen College, University of Oxford). Part I How To Do Things with Sources. 1. French Connections: The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Montaigne and Shakespeare: Richard Scholar (Oriel College, Oxford). 2. Romancing the Greeks: Cymbeline’s Genres and Models: Tanya Pollard (Brooklyn College, City University of New York). 3. How the Renaissance (Mis)Used Sources: The Art of Misquotation: Julie Maxwell (Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge). Part II How To Do Things with History. 4. Henry VIII, or All is True: Shakespeare’s “Favorite” Play: Chris R. Kyle (Syracuse University). 5. Catholicism and Conversion in Love’s Labour’s Lost: Gillian Woods (Wadham College, Oxford). Part III How To Do Things with Texts. 6. Watching as Reading: The Audience and Written Text in Shakespeare’s Playhouse: Tiffany Stern (University College, Oxford). 7. What Do Editors Do and Why Does It Matter?: Anthony B. Dawson (University of British Columbia). Part IV How To Do Things with Animals. 8. “The dog is himself”: Humans, Animals, and Self-Control in The Two Gentlemen of Verona: Erica Fudge. (Middlesex University). 9. Sheepishness in The Winter’s Tale: Paul Yachnin (McGill University). Part V How To Do Things with Posterity. 10. Time and the Nature of Sequence in Shakespeare’s Sonnets: “In sequent toil all forwards do contend”: Georgia Brown (independent scholar). 11. Canons and Cultures: Is Shakespeare Universal? : A. E. B. Coldiron (Florida State University). 12. “Freezing the Snowman”: (How) Can We Do Performance Criticism?: Emma Smith (Hertford College, Oxford). Index
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Shakespeares Works Volume I
Book SynopsisThis four-volume Companion to Shakespeare''s Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawTrade Review"Whether for the student wishing for an overview of critical approaches or anxious to fill in the gaps in his Shakespearean culture, for those wishing to catch up on the diversity of literary theories, or for the inquisitive browser, this set of volumes assuredly charts the map of current criticism." Cahiers Elisabethains "Those who are intimidated by the publishers' grandiose claim that the set would constitute 'a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century' will breathe a sigh of relief to discover that the essays are not only readable, they are informative and stimulating. Essential." Choice Table of ContentsNotes on Contributors vii Introduction 1 1 “A rarity most beloved”: Shakespeare and the Idea of Tragedy 4David Scott Kastan 2 The Tragedies of Shakespeare’s Contemporaries 23Martin Coyle 3 Minds in Company: Shakespearean Tragic Emotions 47Katherine Rowe 4 The Divided Tragic Hero 73Catherine Belsey 5 Disjointed Times and Half-Remembered Truths in Shakespearean Traged 95Philippa Berry 6 Reading Shakespeare’s Tragedies of Love: Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and Antony and Cleopatra in Early Modern England 108Sasha Roberts 7 Hamlet Productions Starring Beale, Hawke, and Darling From the Perspective of Performance History 134Bernice W. Kliman 8 Text and Tragedy l58Graham Holderness 9 Shakespearean Tragedy and Religious Identity 178Richard C. McCoy 10 Shakespeare’s Roman Tragedies 199Gordon Braden 11 Tragedy and Geography 219Jerry Brotton 12 Classic Film Versions of Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Mirror for the Times 241Kenneth S. Rothwell 13 Contemporary Film Versions of the Tragedies 262Mark Thornton Burnett 14 Titus Andronicus: A Time for Race and Revenge 284Ian Smith 15 “There is no world without Verona walls”: The City in Romeo and Juliet 303Naomi Conn Liebler 16 “He that thou knowest thine”: Friendship and Service in Hamlet 319Michael Neill 17 Julius Caesar 339Rebecca W. Bushnell 18 Othello and the Problem of Blackness 357Kim F. Hall 19 King Lear 375Kiernan Ryan 20 Macbeth, the Present, and the Past 393Kathleen McLuskie 21 The Politics of Empathy in Antony and Cleopatra: A View from Below 411Jyotsna G. Singh 22 Timon of Athens: The Dialectic of Usury, Nihilism, and Art 430Hugh Grady 23 Coriolanus and the Politics of Theatrical Pleasure 452Cynthia Marshall Index 473
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Shakespeares Works Volume II
Book SynopsisThis four-volume Companion to Shakespeare''s Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawTrade Review"Whether for the student wishing for an overview of critical approaches or anxious to fill in the gaps in his Shakespearean culture, for those wishing to catch up on the diversity of literary theories, or for the inquisitive browser, this set of volumes assuredly charts the map of current criticism." Cahiers ElisabethainsTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Introduction. 1. The Writing of History in Shakespeare’s England (Ivo Kamps). 2. Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists of History (Richard Helgerson). 3. Censorship and the Problems with History in Shakespeare’s England (Cyndia Susan Clegg). 4. Nation Formation and the English History Plays (Patricia A. Cahill). 5. The Irish Text and Subtext of Shakespeare’s English Histories (Willy Maley). 6. Theories of Kingship in Shakespeare’s England (William C. Carroll). 7. "To beguile the time, look like the time": Contemporary Film Versions of Shakespeare’s Histories (Peter J. Smith). 8. The Elizabethan History Play: A True Genre (Paulina Kewes). 9. Damned Commotion: Riot and Rebellion in Shakespeare’s Histories (James Holstun). 10. Manliness Before Individualism: Masculinity, Effeminacy, and Homoerotics in Shakespeare’s History Plays (Rebecca Ann Bach). 11. French Marriages and the Protestant Nation in Shakespeare’s History Plays (Linda Gregerson). 12. The First Tetralogy in Performance (Ric Knowles). 13. The Second Tetralogy: Performance as Interpretation (Lois Potter). 14. 1 Henry VI (David Bevington). 15. Suffolk and the Pirates: Disordered Relations in Shakespeare’s 2 Henry VI (Thomas Cartelli). 16. Vexed Relations: Family, State, and the Uses of Women in 3 Henry VI (Kathryn Schwarz). 17. "The power of hope?" An Early Modern Reader of Richard III (James Siemon). 18. King John (Virginia Mason Vaughan). 19. The King’s Melting Body: Richard II (Lisa Hopkins). 20. 1 Henry IV (James Knowles). 21. Henry IV, Part 2: A Critical History (Jonathan Crewe). 22. Henry V (Andrew Hadfield). Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Shakespeares Works Volume IV
Book SynopsisThis four-volume Companion to Shakespeare''s Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare's plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning ofTrade Review"Whether for the student wishing for an overview of critical approaches or anxious to fill in the gaps in his Shakespearean culture, for those wishing to catch up on the diversity of literary theories, or for the inquisitive browser, this set of volumes assuredly charts the map of current criticism." Cahiers ElisabethainsTable of ContentsNotes on Contributors. Introduction. 1. Shakespeare s Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception Hisotry: Bruce R. Smith. 2. The Book of Changes in a Time of Change: Ovid s Metamorphoses in Post-Reformation England and Venus and Adonis: Dympna Callaghan. 3. Shakespeare s Problem Plays and the Drama of His Time: Troilus and Cressida, Alls Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure: Paul Yachnin. 4. The Privy and Its Double: Scatology and Satire in Shakespeares Theatre: Bruce Boehrer. 5. Hymeneal Blood, Interchangeable Women, and the Early Modern Marriage Economy in Measure for Measure and Alls Well That Ends Well: Theodora A. Jankowski. 6. Varieties of Collaboration in Shakespeares Problem Plays and Late Plays: John Jowett. 7. What s in a Name? Tragicomedy, Romance, or Late Comedy: Barbara A. Mowat. 8. Fashion: Shakespeare and Beaumont and Fletcher: Russ McDonald. 9. Place and Space in Three Late Plays: John Gillies. 10. The Politics and Technology of Spectacle in the Late Plays: David M. Bergeron. 11. The Tempest in Performance: Diana E. Henderson. 12. What It Feels Like For a Boy: Shakespeare s Venus and Adonis: Richard Rambuss. 13. Publishing Shame: The Rape of Lucrece: Copplia Kahn. 14. The Sonnets: Sequence, Sexuality, and Shakespeares Two Loves: Valerie Traub. 15. The Two-Party System in Troilus and Cressida: Linda Charnes. 16. Opening Doubts Upon the Law: Measure for Measure: Karen Cunningham. 17. Doctor She. Healing and Sex in All s Well That Ends Well: Barbara Howard Traister. 18. You not your child well loving . Text and Family Structure in Pericles: Suzanne Gossett. 19. Imagine Me, Gentle Spectators . Iconomachy and The Winters Tale: Marion O Connor. 20. Cymbeline: Patriotism and Performance: Valerie Wayne. 21. Meaner Ministers : Mastery, Bondage, and Theatrical Labor in The Tempest: Daniel Vitkus. 22. Queens and the Structure of History in Henry VIII: Susan Frye. 23. Mixed Messages: The Aesthetics of The Two Noble Kinsmen: Julie Sanders. Index.
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd Drama
Book SynopsisAn engaging book spanning the fields of drama, literary criticism, genre, and performance studies, Drama: Between Poetry and Performance teaches students how to read drama by exploring the threshold between text and performance. Draws on examples from major playwrights including Shakespeare, Ibsen, Beckett, and Parks Explores the critical terms and controversies that animate the performance and study of drama, such as the status of language, the function of character and plot, and uses of writing Engages in a theoretical, disciplinary, and cultural repositioning of drama, by exploring and contesting its position at the threshold between text and performance Table of ContentsAcknowledgments ix Preface: Drama, Poetry, and Performance xi Introduction: Between Poetry and Performance 1 i. Shakespeare 3.0 2 ii. Images of Writing/Metaphors of Performance 8 The score 8 The blueprint 12 Information/software 13 Dramatic tools, performance technologies 20 iii. Agencies of Drama: Burke, Poetry, and Performance 22 Writing as agency: “Antony in Behalf of the Play” 29 1 From Poetry to Performance 35 i. Dramatic Performance and its Discontents: The New Criticism 39 Drama, poetry, and “interpretation” 39 “An arrangement of words” 45 Acts of speech 50 Heresy, responsibility, and performance 56 ii. Dramatic Writing and its Discontents: Performance Studies, Drama Studies 64 Antigone’s bones 64 The “theater of acting” 69 Rethinking writing 77 2 Performing Writing: Hamlet 94 i. Hamlet’s Book 97 Playing the book 97 The law of writ 101 Speaking by the card 106 ii. Corrupt Stuff; or, Doing Things with (Old) Words 112 The crux of performance 113 Enseamed beds 118 iii. “OK, we can skip to the book”: The Wooster Group Hamlet 123 Theatrofilm by Electronovision 127 (Re)playing Burton, performing Hamlet 130 3 Embodying Writing: Ibsen and Parks 139 i. Can We Act What We Say?: Rosmersholm 142 Inscribing character 147 Acting the role 150 Confession, disclosure, detour 152 Doing (unspeakable) things with words 158 ii. Footnoting Performance: The America Play and Venus 161 A wink to Mr. Lincolns pasteboard cutout 172 Diggidy-diggidy-diggidy-dawg 178 4 Writing Space: Beckett and Brecht 192 i. Quad: Euclidean Dramaturgies 196 ii. By Accepting This License 205 iii. What Where: Brechtian Technologies 211 Notes 216 Works Cited 239 Further Reading 258 Index 261
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John Wiley and Sons Ltd A Companion to Aeschylus
Book SynopsisA COMPANION TO AESCHYLUS In A Companion to Aeschylus, a team of eminent Aeschyleans and brilliant younger scholars delivers an insightful and original multi-authored examinationthe first comprehensive one in Englishof the works of the earliest surviving Greek tragedian. This book explores Aeschylean drama, and its theatrical, historical, philosophical, religious, and socio-political contexts, as well as the receptions and influence of Aeschylus from antiquity to the present day. This companion offers readers thorough examinations of Aeschylus as a product of his time, including his place in the early years of the Athenian democracy and his immediate and ongoing impact on tragedy. It also provides comprehensive explorations of all the surviving plays, including Prometheus Bound, which many scholars have concluded is not by Aeschylus. A Companion to Aeschylus is an ideal resource for students encountering the work of Aeschylus for the first time as well as more advanced scholars seTable of ContentsList of Figures xii Preface and Acknowledgements xiii Notes on Contributors xiv Introduction: Aeschylus and His Place in History 1Peter Burian Part I Aeschylus in His Time 13 1 Democracy's Age of Bronze: Aeschylus's Plays and Athenian History, 508/7–454 bce 15Robert W. Wallace 2 Aeschylus, Lyric and Epic 27P. J. Finglass 3 Tragedy before Aeschylus 40P. J. Finglass 4 Aeschylean Drama and Intellectual History 47Jacques A. Bromberg 5 Aeschylus in Sicily between Tyranny and Democracy 61Malcolm Bell, III Part II Aeschylus as Playwright 75 6 Persians 77A. F. Garvie 7 Seven against Thebes 88Isabelle Torrance 8 Fear of Foreign Women in Aeschylus's Suppliants 99Rebecca Futo Kennedy 9 Disorder, Resolution and Language: The Oresteia 114David H. Porter 10 Eumenides: Justice, Gender, the Gods and the City 130Peter Burian 11 Intertheatricality and Narrative Structure in the Electra Plays 145Kirk Ormand 12 Prometheus Bound: The Principle of Hope 158I. A. Ruffell 13 Slices from Aeschylus's Feast: The Fragmentary Works 171Anthony Podlecki 14 Aeschylean Satyr Drama 185Carl Shaw 15 The Tetralogy 201Alan H. Sommerstein 16 Visualising the Stage 214A. C. Duncan 17 The Choruses of Aeschylus 230Eva Stehle 18 Music, Dance and Metre in Aeschylean Tragedy 242Naomi Weiss 19 Aeschylus: Language and Style 254R. B. Rutherford 20 The Long View in Aeschylus: Intergenerational Myth-Making through the "Other" 267Arum Park Part III Aeschylus and Greek Society 281 21 Aeschylus and Subversion of Ritual 283Richard Seaford 22 Ghosts, Demons and Gods: Supernatural Challenges 295Amit Shilo 23 Inscribing Justice in Aeschylean Drama 310Sarah Nooter 24 Race in Aeschylus's Suppliant Women and Persians 323Sarah Derbew 25 Aeschylus's Persians and the "Just War" 334Sydnor Roy 26 Aeschylus and History 346Emily Baragwanath 27 Aeschylus and Athenian Law 361F. S. Naiden 28 Aeschylus's Athens between Hegemony and Empire 373David Rosenbloom Part IV The Influence of Aeschylus 389 29 Critical Approaches to Aeschylus, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present 391Mark Griffith 30 The Reception of Aeschylus in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries 412C. W. Marshall 31 The Transmission of Aeschylus: The Miracle of Survival 425Marsh McCall 32 The Bow of Ulysses: Aeschylus and his Translators 437Deborah H. Roberts 33 Variations on a Theme: Prometheus 455Theodore Ziolkowski 34 Myth, History and Revolution in the Nineteenth-Century Reception of the Oresteia 467Adam Lecznar 35 Three Landmarks in the Reception of the Oresteia in Twentieth-Century Drama 479Vayos Liapis 36 Oresteia on Stage: Koun, Stein, Hall and Mnouchkine 491Hallie Rebecca Marshall 37 Transforming Aeschylus on the Modern Stage 505Helene P. Foley 38 Applied Aeschylus 518Peter Meineck 39 Teaching the Oresteia as a Work for the Theatre 533Robin Mitchell-Boyask Epilogue 544Jacques A. Bromberg Index 558
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Johns Hopkins University Press Collecting Shakespeare
Book SynopsisHe draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.Trade ReviewGrant provides not just a biography of the 'onlie begetters' of this astonishing library, but also an account of the worlds in which the Folgers lived. The result is a superlative book... Crisply written and packed with facts and anecdotes. -- Michael Dirda Washington Post This thoroughly researched and accessibly written book is first of all a fascinating biography of how a man and his wife devoted their lives to gathering the world's largest collection of the original folios of William Shakespeare, plus a range of literature from as early as 1500. It is also a meditation on why some museums endure and thrive, while others lapse into confusion and decay. -- James Srodes Washington Times This first biography of Emily Jordan Folger and Henry C. Folger... taps hitherto neglected resources to trace their joint obsession with collecting Shakespeare. Choice Grant's text is indeed well-researched and written, in a snappish and easily-readable style, even though there are many details. -- Jeffery Moser Rocky Mountain Review of Language and Literature While Collecting Shakespeare is biography intertwined with technicalities of antiquarian book and artifact collecting, it undoubtedly belongs on the Shakespeare lover's bookshelf. -- Felicia Hardison Londre Theatre Journal Stephen H. Grant tells the story of the Folgers' joint obsession clearly and efficiently; the illustrations he reproduces are particularly engaging... Shakespeareans, book collectors and all who have worked at the Library and who love and admire it will enjoy Collecting Shakespeare. -- H.R. Woudhuysen Times Literary Supplement An engrossing read... Grant has written an illuminating book that artfully places Henry and Emily Folger in their own time while showing how they helped to shape the scholarship of ours. Renaissance Quarterly Stephen H. Grant uses primary sources from within the Folger Library vault, interviews with the Folger family, and visits to nearly three dozen archives to craft a compelling narrative... This biography could be read as a perfect case study of how a cultural institution in 20th century America was conceived, created, and accomplished. It will delight students of Washington's early 20th century history and readers who are seeking background on the impact of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington History ... A good read... Chronique d'Egypte
£26.10
Johns Hopkins University Press Brechts Tradition
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1967. Literary scholars often acknowledge that Brecht borrowed from a variety of traditions, including Goethe, Schiller, expressionists, naturalists, and realists, all of whom affected his work. However, they tend not to address any single tradition as exclusively Brecht's. From these various literary traditions, Brecht borrowed formal elements only; compared with other writers to whom he is indebted, Brecht exceeds them in cynicism. They do not convey anything like his pitiless debunking attitude, his corrosive anti-romanticism, his hardheaded refusal to idealize or glorify, and his suspicion of all sentimentalities. This book discusses what the author identifies as the Brechtian sensibility. Chroniclers of drama have not totally ignored the Brechtian tradition, but too often they are content to note merely that Brecht shared with some writersparticularly Büchner and Wedekinda proclivity for open drama and episodes of racy realism tinged with poetic feeling. OtTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1. J. M. R. LenzChapter 2. Christian Dietrich GrabbeChapter 3. Georg BüchnerChapter 4. Frank WedekindChapter 5. Karl KrausChapter 6. Bertoly BrechtAppendix BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Immeasurable Outcomes
Book SynopsisWhat is the purpose of education? The answer might be found in a Shakespeare class at a small liberal arts college. In this engaging account of teaching a Shakespeare class at a small liberal arts college, Gayle Greene illustrates what is so vital and urgent about the humanities. Follow along with Greene as she introduces us to her students and showcases their strengths, needs, and vulnerabilities, so we can experience the magic of her classroom. In Immeasurable Outcomes, Greene's class builds a complex human ecosystem that pushes students to think more deeply and discover their own interests and potential, all while recognizing the inherent dignity in other people's views and values. Grounding her analyses in half a century of teaching, Greene pushes back against the demand for measurable student learning outcomes and the standardization imposed on K-12 schools in the name of reform. Instead, she draws her conclusions about education directly from the students themselves. Alumni tesTrade ReviewGreene's book is fun.The point of Greene's performances and those of her students is not to present a final view of any of Shakespeare's characters, still less of his plays. Rather, it is to show what jargon-laden course outlines cannot encompass. It is to show that over the course of a semester, students who are willing to follow a trained, dedicated teacher develop finely tuned reading skills and link what they read to their lives.—University World News[Greene's] defense of the humanities is as philosophically rigorous as it is affectingly impassioned....an important contribution to today's education debates and a sterling example of the intellectual virtues it valorizes...edifying and inspiring.—Kirkus ReviewsA spirited work in defense of a heartfelt humanist approach to teaching and learning....This book argues for the human touch in education....A tour de force in terms of capturing a hugely complicated process on the page.—ForbesAn impassioned manifesto to revive quality, democratic education that redeems college teaching and re-seeds enlightened, disaster-averting voters.—Nation of ChangeDelightful.K-12 educators will find a great deal of common ground in Greene's book and, overall, a largely shared understanding of the goals and value of a liberal arts education, as well as a keen evaluation of contemporary problems in education more generally.—ClassicalEd ReviewGayle Greene's Immeasurable Outcomes: Teaching Shakespeare in the Age of the Algorithmoffers a provocation: Good teaching matters, but it can't be measured. No one has recently captured as well as Greene the experience of being a humanities professor—what we hope to do, what happens (and doesn't) during our classes, what gives us joy, and what makes us sad. The classroom is threatened by false understandings of what can and should be assessed, by online education, and by the world's distractions. It needs to be protected.—Chronicle of Higher EducationTable of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1. First DayChapter 2. Once Upon A Time In The Twentieth Century: How The Humanities Took A Great FallChapter 3. What's Trust Got to Do with It?Chapter 4. "The Reading Thing": Attending, Remembering, ConnectingChapter 5. The Play's The Thing: Taming Of The Shrew, A Midsummer Night's DreamChapter 6. Teaching Is an Art, Not an AlgorithmChapter 7. De-grading the Professors: Outcomes Assessment AssessedChapter 8. Growing Up Human: Hamlet, King LearChapter 9. Ask a GraduateAcknowledgmentsNotesSelect BibliographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Collecting Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe first biography of Henry and Emily Folger, who acquired the largest and finest collection of Shakespeare in the world. In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger. Shortly after marrying in 1885, the Folgers started buying, cataloging, and storing all manner of items about Shakespeare and his era. Emily earned a master's degree in Shakespeare studies. The frugal couple worked passionately as a tight-knit team during the Gilded Age, financing their hobby with the fortune Henry earned as president of Standard Oil Company of New York, where he was a trusted associate of John D. Rockefeller Sr. While a number of American universities offered to house the collection, the Folgers wanted to give it to the American people. Afraid the price of antiquarian books would soar if their names were revealed, they secretly acquired prime real estate on Capitol Hill near the Library of Congress. They commissioned the design and construction of an elegant building with a reading room, public exhibition hall, and the Elizabethan Theatre. The Folger Shakespeare Library was dedicated on the Bard's birthday on April 23, 1932. The library houses 82 First Folios, 277,000 books, and 60,000 manuscripts. It welcomes more than 100,000 visitors a year and provides professors, scholars, graduate students, and researchers from around the world with access to the collections. It is also a vibrant center in Washington, DC, for cultural programs, including theater, concerts, lectures, and poetry readings. With unprecedented access to the primary sources within the Folger vault, Grant draws on interviews with surviving Folger relatives and visits to 35 related archives in the United States and in Britain to create a portrait of the remarkable couple who ensured that Shakespeare would have a beautiful home in America.Trade ReviewGrant provides not just a biography of the 'onlie begetters' of this astonishing library, but also an account of the worlds in which the Folgers lived. The result is a superlative book . . . Crisply written and packed with facts and anecdotes.—Michael Dirda, Washington PostThis thoroughly researched and accessibly written book is first of all a fascinating biography of how a man and his wife devoted their lives to gathering the world's largest collection of the original folios of William Shakespeare, plus a range of literature from as early as 1500. It is also a meditation on why some museums endure and thrive, while others lapse into confusion and decay.—James Srodes, Washington TimesThis first biography of Emily Jordan Folger and Henry C. Folger. . . taps hitherto neglected resources to trace their joint obsession with collecting Shakespeare.—ChoiceGrant's text is indeed well-researched and written, in a snappish and easily-readable style, even though there are many details.—Jeffery Moser, Rocky Mountain Review of Language and LiteratureWhile Collecting Shakespeare is biography intertwined with technicalities of antiquarian book and artifact collecting, it undoubtedly belongs on the Shakespeare lover's bookshelf.—Felicia Hardison Londre, Theatre JournalStephen H. Grant tells the story of the Folgers' joint obsession clearly and efficiently; the illustrations he reproduces are particularly engaging. . . Shakespeareans, book collectors and all who have worked at the Library and who love and admire it will enjoy Collecting Shakespeare.—H.R. Woudhuysen, Times Literary SupplementAn engrossing read . . . Grant has written an illuminating book that artfully places Henry and Emily Folger in their own time while showing how they helped to shape the scholarship of ours.—Renaissance QuarterlyStephen H. Grant uses primary sources from within the Folger Library vault, interviews with the Folger family, and visits to nearly three dozen archives to craft a compelling narrative. . . This biography could be read as a perfect case study of how a cultural institution in 20th century America was conceived, created, and accomplished. It will delight students of Washington’s early 20th century history and readers who are seeking background on the impact of the Folger Shakespeare Library.—Washington History. . . A good read. . .—Chronique d'ÉgypteTable of ContentsPrologueAcknowledgments1. Well Read in Poetry, Fair in Knowledge: Henry and Emily Form a Team2. Thou Lovest Me, My Name Is Will: Smitten by Shakespeare3. Wise, Circumspect, and Trusted: Five Decades at Standard Oil4. Leading on to Fortune: Henry Invests to Buy the Bard5. The Hunt Is Up, the Fields Are Fragrant: Building a Collection6. Whole Volumes in Folio: The Ultimate Prize for Collectors7. What News on the Rialto: Maneuvers in the Rare Book Market8. Hotspur and Hal: Two Henrys Compete9. A Monument to Gentle Verse: Designing a Treasure House10. Dear, Blessed Plot of Land: The Folgers' Gift to AmericaEpilogue: Praise in the Eyes of Posterity: The Folger after the FolgersAppendix: Directors of the Folger Shakespeare LibraryNotesBibliographyIndex
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Temple University Press,U.S. Shakespeare and Trump
Book SynopsisRevealing the modernity of Shakespeare's politics, and the theatricality of Trump'sTrade Review“‘What means that trump?’ Jeffrey Wilson sounds the Shakespearean resonances of the presidency, from controversial productions to what he terms ‘politicitation.’ Animated by a frank, searching voice, Wilson’s book energetically chronicles our dramatic moment—and how it might end.”—Scott Newstok, author of How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education“As Wilson illustrates, the political drama that has unfolded since 2016 is tragedy, comedy, and history rolled into one—and the consequence, in part, of a failure in the humanities to instill the moral and civic lessons that bind us. Serving as a corrective, this book reveals how understanding our present moment through a Shakespearean lens offers the possibility of healing and redemption—not only for the bitter political divide among Americans but also for the American democratic experiment itself.”—Asha Rangappa, Senior Lecturer at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University
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