Book Description
This 1769 work is a spirited defence of Shakespeare against criticism claiming that he was inferior to modern French dramatists.
Author : Elizabeth Montagu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 30,14 MB
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108083919
This 1769 work is a spirited defence of Shakespeare against criticism claiming that he was inferior to modern French dramatists.
Author : Elizabeth Montagu
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 18,75 MB
Release : 1970
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Author : Richard Grant White
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2022-03-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 375258906X
Reprint of the original, first published in 1865. With an essay toward the expression of his genius, and an account of the rise and progress of the english drama.
Author : Scott Newstok
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 0691227691
"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416541632
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393079848
Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 19,29 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780195128239
The Genius of Shakespeare is a new kind of biography: a biography of Shakespeare's talent and reputation, beyond the limits of his actual life. Part One explores the origins and development of his works, Part Two traces their effects on succeeding generations, and demonstrates how Shakespeare came to be regarded as the supreme dramatist.
Author : Martin Bronn Ruud
Publisher :
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 1920
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Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 19,54 MB
Release : 2005-11-03
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521850742
Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of the play 'Macbeth'.
Author : Martin Bronn Ruud
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 13,11 MB
Release : 1917
Category : Fiction
ISBN :