Author : Chris Benguhe
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0809143917
Offers practical everyday philosophy on how to apply the positive potential of problems to the seven most common cataastrophic life situations.
Author : Leland Ryken
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 15,81 MB
Release : 1993-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1585580635
In this introduction to Scripture, Leland Ryken organizes biblical passages into literary genres including narratives, poetry, proverbs, and drama, demonstrating that knowledge of a genre's characteristics enriches one's understanding of individual passages. Ryken offers a volume brimming over with wonderful insights into Old and New Testament books and passages--insights that have escaped most traditional commentators.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,64 MB
Release : 1905
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Frank Harris
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 30,27 MB
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In 'The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story' author Frank Harris traces the story of William Shakespeare through his plays, showing how the playwright painted himself in twenty different characters at different stages of his life. Harris argues that Shakespeare is more interesting than other great writers because he painted himself as a young and inexperienced artist, in his eventful maturity, and in his decline. Harris claims that previous commentators have missed the man and his story, and instead idealized him, and thus in this book, he seeks to use scientific methods to recreate Shakespeare, highlighting both his virtues and vices, and ultimately making him clearer to readers.
Author : William J. Prior
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,56 MB
Release : 2016-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1315522047
Originally published in 1991, this book focuses on the concept of virtue, and in particular on the virtue of wisdom or knowledge, as it is found in the epic poems of Homer, some tragedies of Sophocles, selected writings of Plato, Aristotle, and the Stoic and Epicurean philosophers. The key questions discussed are the nature of the virtues, their relation to each other, and the relation between the virtues and happiness or well-being. This book provides the background and interpretative framework to make classical works on Ethics, such as Plato’s Republic and Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics, accessible to readers with no training in the classics.
Author : Frank Harris
Publisher :
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN :
Author : Eric Csapo
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,37 MB
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 3110980355
Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially by the tyrants, and secondly by the democracies" (Republic 568c). For more than forty years scholars have explored the political, ideological, structural and economic links between democracy and theatre in ancient Greece. By contrast, the links between autocracy and theatre are virtually ignored, despite the fact that for the first 200 years of theatre's existence more than a third of all theatre-states were autocratic. For the next 600 years, theatre flourished almost exclusively under autocratic regimes. The volume brings together experts in ancient theatre to undertake the first systematic study of the patterns of use made of the theatre by tyrants, regents, kings and emperors. Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World is the first comprehensive study of the historical circumstances and means by which autocrats turned a medium of mass communication into an instrument of mass control.
Author : Sean Benson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 23,42 MB
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1441137661
Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, 'domestic tragedy' was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from 1580-1620. Shakespeare, 'Othello', and Domestic Tragedy is the first book to examine Shakespeare's relationship to the genre by way of the King's and Chamberlain's Men's ownership and production of many of the domestic tragedies, and of the genre's extensive influence on Shakespeare's own tragedy, Othello. Drawing in part upon recent scholarship that identifies Shakespeare as a co-author of Arden of Faversham, Sean Benson demonstrates the extensive-even uncanny-ties between Othello and the domestic tragedies. Benson argues that just as Hamlet employs and adapts the conventions of revenge tragedy, so Othello can only be fully understood in terms of its exploitation of the tropes and conventions of domestic tragedy. This book explores not only the contexts and workings of this popular sub-genre of Renaissance drama but also Othello's secure place within it as the quintessential example of the form.
Author : Jonathan Gil Harris
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521032094
This collection of essays explores the material, economic and dramatic implications of stage properties in early modern English drama. The essays in this volume, written by a team of distinguished scholars in the field, offer valuable insights and historical evidence concerning the forms of production, circulation and exchange that brought such diverse properties as sacred garments, household furnishings, pawned objects, and even false beards onto the stage.
Author : Fleeming Jenkin
Publisher :
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 14,97 MB
Release : 1887
Category : Cables, Submarine
ISBN :
