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The first book on Restoration Shakespeare in performance, drawing on theatre history, musicology and literary criticism.
Author : Amanda Eubanks Winkler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 2023-01-26
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1009241206
The first book on Restoration Shakespeare in performance, drawing on theatre history, musicology and literary criticism.
Author : Barbara A. Murray
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780838640562
Between 1660 and 1682 seventeen of Shakespeare's plays were altered for the new Restoration stages and times. Shakespeare Adaptations from the Restoration: Five Plays now publishes five of these plays for the first time in a critical edition.
Author : Gary Taylor
Publisher :
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 27,67 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9780099819707
Discusses changing interpretations of Shakespeare and his plays through the centuries, arguing that claims of his uniqueness reflect the characteristics of particular eras and critics more than Shakespeare.
Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317871464
The most important period in the history of English drama is revealed in Alexander Leggatt's challenging account. The author considers English drama from the beginning of Shakespeare's career to the restoration of Charles II. Focusing on Shakespeare and the development of his art, he examines all his major contemporaries: Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Beaumont, Fletcher and Ford. He combines close analysis of specific plays with a broader look at trends within drama.
Author : Emma Depledge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,27 MB
Release : 2017-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108670377
Canonising Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive reassessment of Shakespeare's afterlife as a print phenomenon, demonstrating the crucial role that the book trade played in his rise to cultural pre-eminence. 1640–1740 was the period in which Shakespeare's canon was determined, in which the poems resumed their place alongside the plays in print, and in which artisans and named editors crafted a new, contemporary Shakespeare for Restoration and eighteenth-century consumers. A team of international contributors highlight the impact of individual booksellers, printers, publishers and editors on the Shakespearean text, the books in which it was presented, and the ways in which it was promoted. From radical adaptations of the Sonnets to new characters in plays, and from elegant subscription volumes to cheap editions churned out by feuding publishers, this period was marked by eclecticism, contradiction and innovation as stationers looked to the past and the future to create a Shakespeare for their own times.
Author : Richard Schoch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2021-05-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 110878867X
This short history of Shakespeare in global performance-from the re-opening of London theatres upon the restoration of the monarchy in 1660 to our present multicultural day-provides a comprehensive overview of Shakespeare's theatrical afterlife and introduces categories of analysis and understanding to make that afterlife intellectually meaningful. Written for both the advanced student and the practicing scholar, this work enables readers to situate themselves historically in the broad field of Shakespeare performance studies and equips them with analytical tools and conceptual frameworks for making their own contributions to the field.
Author : R. Bach
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 23,2 MB
Release : 2015-12-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230603637
Shakespeare has been misread for centuries as having modern ideas about sex and gender.This book shows how in the Restoration and Eighteenth century, Shakespeare's plays and other Renaissance texts were adapted to make them conform to these modern ideas.Through readings of Shakespearean texts, including King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, and Othello, and other Renaissance drama, the book reveals a sexual world before heterosexuality. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literature Before Heterosexuality shows how revisions and criticism of Renaissance drama contributed to the emergence of heterosexuality.It also shows how changing ideas about status, adultery, friendship, and race were factors in that emergence.
Author : Martin Procházka
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 34,51 MB
Release : 2013-12-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1644530597
Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions, book culture, translations, film and television adaptations, festivals, and national heritage. The last section of the book focuses on the afterlife of Shakespeare in the work of the leading British dramatist Tom Stoppard. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author : Mark Thornton Burnett
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 42,91 MB
Release : 2011-10-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748635246
Explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to artistic practices and activities, past and presentThis substantial reference work explores the place of Shakespeare in relation to cultural processes that take in publishing, exhibiting, performing, reconstructing and disseminating.The 30 newly commissioned chapters are divided into 6 sections: * Shakespeare and the Book* Shakespeare and Music* Shakespeare on Stage and in Performance* Shakespeare and Youth Culture* Shakespeare, Visual and Material Culture* Shakespeare, Media and Culture. Each chapter provides both a synthesis and a discussion of a topic, informed by current thinking and theoretical reflection.
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Publisher :
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 1906
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