Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 44,67 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521779425
An accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies, dark comedies and romances, first published in 2001.
Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 12,29 MB
Release : 2001-12-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494397
First published in 2001, this is an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare's practice and the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited. The first section puts Shakespeare in the context of classical and Renaissance comedy and comic theory, the work of his Elizabethan predecessors and the traditions of popular festivity. The second section traces a number of themes through Shakespeare's early and middle comedies, dark comedies and late romances, establishing the key features of his comedy as a whole and illuminating particular plays by close analysis. Individual chapters draw on contemporary politics, rhetoric, and the history of Shakespeare production. Written by experts in the relevant fields, the chapters frequently challenge long-standing critical assumptions.
Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 15,52 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 : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 10,38 MB
Release : 2021-02-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108623298
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus on the concepts of sexuality, lineage, nationality, and globalization. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a non-specialist, student audience.
Author : Michael Hattaway
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,67 MB
Release : 2002-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521775397
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.
Author : Margreta De Grazia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 16,81 MB
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521886325
Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.
Author : Margreta de Grazia
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2001-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139825984
This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.
Author : Ton Hoenselaars
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494338
While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, John Webster, Thomas Middleton and John Ford, this book devotes particular attention to their personal and professional relationships, occupational rivalries and collaborations. Overturning the popular misconception that Shakespeare wrote in isolation, it offers a new perspective on the most impressive body of drama in the history of the English stage.
Author : Richard Harp
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 2000-11-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521646789
An accessible, up-to-date introduction to the life and works of poet and dramatist Ben Jonson.
Author : Penny Gay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 23,57 MB
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139469770
Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.
