Book Description
A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet.
Author : Lindsay Ann Reid
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 29,77 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1843845180
A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet.
Author : Julia Boffey
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 33,29 MB
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781843844976
A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse.
Author : Seeta Chaganti
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,46 MB
Release : 2018-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 022654818X
For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval poetry, Strange Footing argues that the intersection of texts and dance produced an experience of poetic form based in disorientation, asymmetry, and even misstep. Medieval dance guided audiences to approach poetry not in terms of the body’s regular marking of time and space, but rather in the irregular and surprising forces of virtual motion around, ahead of, and behind the dancing body. Reading medieval poems through artworks, paintings, and sculptures depicting dance, Seeta Chaganti illuminates texts that have long eluded our full understanding, inviting us to inhabit their strange footings askew of conventional space and time. Strange Footing deploys the motion of dance to change how we read medieval poetry, generating a new theory of poetic form for medieval studies and beyond.
Author : Patricia Phillippy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 27,61 MB
Release : 2018-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1108422985
A study of remembrance in post-Reformation England in religious and secular artworks and texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and women writers.
Author : Colin Burrow
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 34,83 MB
Release : 2020-09-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3110699699
This volume shows the pervasiveness over a millennium and a half of the little-studied phenomenon of multi-tier intertextuality, whether as ‘linear’ window reference – where author C simultaneously imitates or alludes to a text by author A and its imitation by author B – or as multi-directional imitative clusters. It begins with essays on classical literature from Homer to the high Roman empire, where the feature first becomes prominent; then comes late antiquity, a lively area of research at present; and, after a series of essays on European neo-Latin literature from Petrarch to 1600, another area where developments are moving rapidly, the volume concludes with early modern vernacular literatures (Italian, French, Portuguese and English). Most papers concern verse, but prose is not ignored. The introduction to the volume discusses the relevant methodological issues. An Afterword outlines the critical history of ‘window reference’ and includes a short essay by Professor Richard Thomas, of Harvard University, who coined the term in the 1980s.
Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 34,79 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0691210144
"This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn of 2013 at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, under the title, "Ancient Strength: Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition"--Preface, page ix.
Author : Toria Johnson
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 36,90 MB
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1843845741
Exploring a wide range of material including dramatic works, medieval morality drama, and lyric poetry this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the history of emotions. Early modern English writing about pity evidences a social culture built specifically around emotion, one (at least partially) defined by worries about who deserves compassion and what it might cost an individual to offer it. Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare positions early modern England as a place that sustains messy and contradictory views about pity all at once, bringing together attraction, fear, anxiety, positivity, and condemnation to paint a picture of an emotion that is simultaneously unstable and essential, dangerous and vital, deceptive and seductive. The impact of this emotional burden on individual subjects played a major role in early modern English identity formation, centrally shaping the ways in which people thought about themselves and their communities. Taking in a wide range of material - including dramatic works by William Shakespeare, Thomas Heywood, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley; medieval morality drama; and lyric poetry by Philip Sidney, Thomas Wyatt, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Lodge, Barnabe Barnes, George Rodney and Frances Howard - this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the broader history of emotions, a field which has thus far remained largely the concern of social and cultural historians. Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare shows that both literary materials and literary criticism can offer new insights into the experience and expression of emotional humanity.
Author : Jonathan F. S. Post
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198717571
Jonathan Post introduces all of Shakespeare's poetry, including the sonnets and his great narrative poems, and explores themes of love and lust in these works. He also considers the debates surrounding their disputed authorship, and the impact these poems had, from contemporary readers right up to today.
Author : John Alan Roe
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780859917643
The study concludes with two chapters on the Roman plays and assesses Shakespeare's representation of the problem of conscience (Julius Caesar) and magnanimity (Antony and Cleopatra) in the light of Machiavelli's republicanism."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Sarah C. E. Ross
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2020-07-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 3030429466
This collection examines early modern women’s contribution to the culturally central mode of complaint. Complaint has largely been understood as male-authored, yet, as this collection shows, early modern women used complaint across a surprising variety of forms from the early-Tudor period to the late-seventeenth century. They were some of the mode’s first writers, most influential patrons, and most innovative contributors. Together, these new essays illuminate early modern women’s participation in one of the most powerful rhetorical modes in the English Renaissance, one which gave voice to political, religious and erotic protest and loss across a diverse range of texts. This volume interrogates new texts (closet drama, song, manuscript-based religious and political lyrics), new authors (Dorothy Shirley, Scots satirical writers, Hester Pulter, Mary Rowlandson), and new versions of complaint (biblical, satirical, legal, and vernacular). Its essays pay specific attention to politics, form, and transmission from complaint’s first circulation up to recent digital representations of its texts. Bringing together an international group of experts in early modern women’s writing and in complaint literature more broadly, this collection explores women’s role in the formation of the mode and in doing so reconfigures our understanding of complaint in Renaissance culture and thought.