Great Shakespeareans Set II
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441149237
Author : Adrian Poole
Publisher : Continuum
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781441149237
Author : Peter Rawlings
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 11,36 MB
Release : 2014-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441121072
A comprehensive analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by major American writers and poets.
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File Size : 20,93 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Criticism
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Page : 886 pages
File Size : 19,56 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Mitchell MELTZER
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674040945
The United States Constitution is a quintessentially political document. Yet, until now, no one has seriously considered the formative influence of this document on American cultural life. In this ambitious book, Mitchell Meltzer demonstrates the extent to which the Constitution is both source and inspiration for America's greatest literary masterworks.
Author : Various
Publisher : Library of America
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 28,98 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1598534637
An anthology that traces how Shakespeare has shaped American history and culture—featuring pieces by Founding Fathers, Orson Welles, and other noteworthy figures “The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues—revolution, slavery, war, social justice—were refracted and understood. In tracing the many surprising forms this influence took, Shapiro draws on many genres—poetry, fiction, essays, plays, memoirs, songs, speeches, letters, movie reviews, comedy routines—and on a remarkable range of American writers from Emerson, Melville, Lincoln, and Mark Twain to James Agee, John Berryman, Pauline Kael, and Cynthia Ozick. Americans of the revolutionary era ponder the question “to sign or not to sign;” Othello becomes the focal point of debates on race; the Astor Place riots, set off by a production of Macbeth, attest to the violent energies aroused by theatrical controversies; Jane Addams finds in King Lear a metaphor for American struggles between capital and labor. Orson Welles revolutionizes approaches to Shakespeare with his legendary productions of Macbeth and Julius Caesar; American actors from Charlotte Cushman and Ira Aldridge to John Barrymore, Paul Robeson, and Marlon Brando reimagine Shakespeare for each new era. The rich and tangled story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own is a literary and historical revelation. As a special feature, the book includes a foreword by Bill Clinton, among the latest in a long line of American presidents, including John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, who, as the collection demonstrates, have turned to Shakespeare’s plays for inspiration.
Author : Harvard University
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Page : 922 pages
File Size : 38,48 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Harvard University
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Page : 932 pages
File Size : 10,86 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Harvard University
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Page : 924 pages
File Size : 23,48 MB
Release : 1910
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Author : Harvard University
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Page : 930 pages
File Size : 50,91 MB
Release : 1910
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