Author : Shirley Nelson Garner
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 24,13 MB
Release : 1996-02-22
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780253210272
While considering Shakespeare's earliest attempts at tragedy in Richard III and Titus Andronicus, this volume covers the major tragic period, giving special attention to Othello.
Author : Tanya Pollard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 25,87 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198793111
"The book argues that rediscovered ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on sixteenth-century England's dramatic landscape, not only in academic and aristocratic settings, but also at the heart of the developing commercial theaters."--Introduction, p. 2.
Author : Philippa Berry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1134914938
Philippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory, to challenge existing critical notions of what is fundamental to Shakespearean tragedy. She shows how, through a network of images clustered around feminine or feminized characters, these plays 'disfigure' conventional ideas of death as a bodily end, as their figures of women are interwoven with provocative meditations upon matter, time, the soul, and the body. The scope of these tragic speculations was radical in Shakespeare's day; yet they also have a surprising relevance to contemporary debates about time and matter in science and philosophy.
Author : Cristina León Alfar
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 39,10 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874137811
Focuses on Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and The winter's tale. UkBU.
Author : Sarah Lewis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 38,8 MB
Release : 2020-09-24
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108842194
An original study of the ways in which temporal concepts and gendered identities intersect in early modern theatre and culture.
Author : Marguerite A. Tassi
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 35,92 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1575911310
Can there be a virtue in vengeance? Can revenge do ethical work? Can revenge be the obligation of women? This wide-ranging literary study looks at Shakespeare's women and finds bold answers to questions such as these. A surprising number of Shakespeare's female characters respond to moral outrages by expressing a strong desire for vengeance. This book's analysis of these characters and their circumstances offers incisive critical perceptions of feminine anger, ethics, and agency and challenges our assumptions about the role of gender in revenge. In this provocative book, Marguerite A. Tassi counters longstanding critical opinions on revenge: that it is the sole province of men in Western literature and culture, that it is a barbaric, morally depraved, irrational instinct, and that it is antithetical to justice. Countless examples have been mined from Shakespeare's dramas to reveal women's profound concerns with revenge and justice, honor and shame, crime and punishment. In placing the critical focus on avenging women, this book significantly redresses a gender imbalance in scholarly treatments of revenge, particularly in early modern literature.
Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 44,60 MB
Release : 2013-08-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 110701977X
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
Author : Kent Cartwright
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 18,48 MB
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271039639
Author : Maria L. Howell
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 50,61 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0761840745
"Maria Howell's Manhood and Masculine Identity in William Shakespeare's "The Tragedy of Macbeth" is an important and compelling scholarly work which seeks to examine the sixteenth century's greatest concern, echoed by Hamlet himself, "What is a man?" In an attempt to analyze the concept of manhood in Macbeth, Howell explores the contradictions and ambiguities that underlie heroic notions of masculinity dramatized throughout the play. From Lady Macbeth's capacity to control and destroy Macbeth's masculine identity, to Macbeth himself, who corrupts his military prowess to become a ruthless and murderous tyrant, Howell demonstrates that heroic notions of masculinity not only reinforce masculine power and authority, paradoxically, these ideals are also the source of man's disempowerment and destruction. Howell argues that in an attempt to attain a higher principle, the means (violence and destruction) and the ends (justice and peace) become fused and indistinguishable, so that those values that inform man's actions for good no longer provide moral clarity. Howell's poignant and timely analysis of manhood and masculine identity in Shakespeare's Macbeth will no doubt resonate with readers today."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Gwyn Daniel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0429812396
Most of Shakespeare’s tragedies have a family drama at their heart. This book brings these relationships to life, offering a radical new perspective on the tragic heroes and their dilemmas. Family Dramas: Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies focusses on the interactions and dialogues between people on stage, linking their intimate emotional worlds to wider social and political contexts. Since family relationships absorb and enact social ideologies, their conflicts often expose the conflicts that all ideologies contain. The complexities, contradictions and ambiguities of Shakespeare’s portrayals of individuals and their relationships are brought to life, while wider power structures and social discourses are shown to reach into the heart of intimate relationships and personal identity. Surveying relevant literature from Shakespeare studies, the book introduces the ideas behind the family systems approach to literary criticism. Explorations of gender relationships feature particularly strongly in the analysis since it is within gender that intimacy and power most compellingly intersect and frequently collide. For Shakespeare lovers and psychotherapists alike, this application of systemic theory opens a new perspective on familiar literary territory.
