The Tempest
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 1720
Category :
ISBN :
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company
Author : Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher : Arden Shakespeare
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2023-05-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350273481
Book Description
Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how – and why – the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare's lifetime changed absolutely everything. Founder of the Duke's Company, Sir William Davenant influenced how Shakespeare was performed in a profound and lasting way. This open access book provides the first performance-based account of Restoration Shakespeare, exploring the precursors to Davenant's approach to Restoration Shakespeare, the cultural context of Restoration theatre, the theatre spaces in which the Duke's Company performed, Davenant's adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, acting styles, and the lasting legacy of Davenant's approach to staging Shakespeare. The eBook editions of this work are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Queen's University Belfast.
Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis
Author : Matthew Biberman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 17,75 MB
Release : 2017-01-12
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1317056264
Book Description
In Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis, Matthew Biberman analyzes early adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in order to identify and illustrate how both social mores and basic human psychology have changed in Anglo-American culture. Biberman contests the received wisdom that Shakespeare’s characters reflect essentially timeless truths about human nature. To the contrary, he points out that Shakespeare’s characters sometimes act and think in ways that have become either stigmatized or simply outmoded. Through his study of the adaptations, Biberman pinpoints aspects of Shakespeare’s thinking about behavior and psychology that no longer ring true because circumstances have changed so dramatically between his time and the time of the adaptation. He shows how the adaptors’ changes reveal key differences between Shakespeare’s culture and the culture that then supplanted it. These changes, once grasped, reveal retroactively some of the ways in which Shakespeare’s characters do not act and think as we might expect them to act and think. Thus Biberman counters Harold Bloom’s claim that Shakespeare fundamentally invents our sense of the human; rather, he argues, our sense of the human is equally bound up in the many ways that modern culture has come to resist or outright reject the behavior we see in Shakespeare’s plays. Ultimately, our current sense of 'the human' is bound up not with the adoption of Shakespeare’s psychology, perhaps, but its adaption-or, in psychoanalytic terms, its repression and replacement.
Davenant's Adaptations of Shakespeare
Author : Mongi Raddadi
Publisher : University Publishers
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,35 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Book Description
Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
Author : Fiona Ritchie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 18,78 MB
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521898609
Book Description
This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.
Measure for Measure
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2006-07-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521854482
Book Description
Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme the play is seen as a religious allegory, at the other it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege. Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the play, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises that shock the audience even to the end. The introduction describes the play's critical reception and stage history and how these have varied according to prevailing social, moral and religious issues, which were highly sensitive when Measure for Measure was written, and have remained so to the present day.
The New Oxford Shakespeare
Author : Gary Taylor
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199591164
Book Description
"Authorship Companion: Cutting-edge research in attribution studies; A new perspective on the dating of Shakespeare's plays, and on his dramatic collaborations; Combines the work of senior scholars with exciting new voices; Explores the latest developments in the understanding of Shakespeare's style and methods for detecting and describing it; Covers the entire breadth of Shakespeare's writing, across the plays and the poems; A record of all early documents relevant to authorship and chronology; A survey and synthesis of past scholarship to 2016; Individual case studies combined with broader analysis of theories and methods."--Publisher's description.
The Making of the National Poet : Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769
Author : Michael Dobson
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 17,85 MB
Release : 1992-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191591718
Book Description
The first full-length study since the 1920s of the Restoration and eighteenth-century's revisions and revaluations of Shakespeare, and the first to consider the period's much-reviled stage adaptions in the context of the profound cultural changes of their times. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, Dobson examines how and why Shakespeare was retrospectively claimed as both a respectable Enlightenment author and a crucial and contested symbol of British national identity. The book provides thorough analysis, both engaging and informative, the definitive account of the theatre's role in establishing Shakespeare as Britain's National Poet. - ;The century between the Restoration and David Garrick's Stratford Jubilee saw William Shakespeare's promotion from the status of archaic, rustic playwright to that of England's timeless Bard, and with it the complete transformation of the ways in which his plays were staged, published, and read. But why Shakespeare, and what different interests did this process serve? The Making of the National Poet is the first full-length study since the 1920s of the Restoration and eighteenth century's revisions and revaluations of Shakespeare, and the first to consider the period's much-reviled stage adaptations in the context of the profound cultural changes in which they participate. Drawing on a wide range of evidence - including engravings, prompt-books, diaries, statuary, and previously unpublished poems (among them traces of the hitherto mysterious Shakespeare Ladies' Club) - it examines how and why Shakespeare was retrospectively claimed as both a respectable Enlightenment author and a crucial and contested symbol of British national identity. It shows in particular how the deification of Shakespeare co-existed with, and even demanded, the drastic and sometimes bizarre rewriting of his plays for which the period is notorious. The book provides thorough analysis, both engaging and informative, the definitive account of the theatre's role in establishing Shakespeare as Britain's National Poet. -
Shakespeare's Rise to Cultural Prominence
Author : Emma Depledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 16,1 MB
Release : 2018-07-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108667341
Book Description
Shakespeare's rise to prominence was by no means inevitable. While he was popular in his lifetime, the number of new editions and revivals of his plays declined over the following decades. Emma Depledge uses the methodologies of book and theatre history to provide a re-assessment of the reputation and dissemination of Shakespeare during the Interregnum and Restoration. She demonstrates the crucial role of the Exclusion Crisis (1678–1682), a political crisis over the royal succession, as a foundational moment in Shakespeare's canonisation. The period saw a sudden surge of theatrical alterations and a significantly increased rate of new editions and stage revivals. In the wake of the Exclusion Crisis, Shakespeare's plays were made available on a scale not witnessed since the early seventeenth century, thus reversing what might otherwise have been a permanent disappearance of his drama from canonical familiarity and firmly establishing Shakespeare's work in the national cultural imagination.
Sir William Davenant's Relation to Shakespeare
Author : John David Ellis Williams
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,45 MB
Release : 1905
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ISBN :
