Author : David M. Bevington
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 37,72 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874131291
This collection of essays represents, in the view of the editors, the best critical work represented at the World Shakespeare Congress in 1976. The work of leading Shakespeareans is represented, along with the work of several younger scholars and critics on a wide variety of subjects.
Author : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 11,46 MB
Release : 2002-11-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521523714
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
Author : Nicholas Grene
Publisher : Springer
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,36 MB
Release : 2016-01-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230379192
The world of Macbeth, with its absolutes of good and evil, seems very remote from the shifting perspectives of Antony and Cleopatra, or the psychological and political realities of Coriolanus. Yet all three plays share similar thematic concerns and preoccupations: the relation of power to legitimating authority, for instance, or of male and female roles in the imagination of (male) heroic endeavour. In this acclaimed study, Nicholas Grene shows how all nine plays written in Shakespeare's main tragic period display this combination of strikingly different milieu balanced by thematic interrelationships. Taking the English history play as his starting point, he argues that Shakespeare established two different modes of imagining: the one mythic and visionary, the other sceptical and analytic. In the tragic plays that followed, themes and situations are dramatised, alternately, in sacred and secular worlds. A chapter is devoted to each tragedy, but with a continuing awareness of companion plays: the analysis of Julius Caesar informing that of Hamlet, discussion of Troilus and Cressida counterpointed by the critique of Othello and the treatment of King Lear growing out from the limitations of Timon of Athens. The aim is to resist homogenising the plays but to recognise and explore the unique imaginative enterprise from which they arose.
Author : Michael D. Bristol
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 40,89 MB
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 131774828X
First published in 1990, this title explores the nature of the interaction between Shakespeare and American culture. Shakespeare stands at the center of an elaborate institutional reality, closely tied to both cultural and ideological production. His plays, Michael Bristol asserts, help to constitute a primary affirmative theme of much American culture criticism, specifically the celebration of individuality and the values of expressive autonomy. This reissue will be of particular value to Literature students and researchers with an interest in Shakespeare, as well as those interested in American cultural history more generally.
Author : John Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780198186885
Why did Shakespeare revise his plays? In a brilliant and pioneering analysis, the distinguished critic John Jones explores the critical and dramatic significance of Shakespeare's revisions. Analyzing such plays as Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Troilus and Cressida, he reveals the artistic impact of the revisions and their importance for our understanding of each play's moral and metaphysical foundations.
Author : S. Nagarajan
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 42,42 MB
Release : 2017-05-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1443893455
Shakespeare’s King Lear is often called his mightiest play. This comprehensive edition by S. Nagarajan (who edited the evergreen Signet edition of Measure for Measure) presents a lifetime of scholarship on Shakespeare and fifteen years of research specifically on Lear. Accessibly written, this edition serves the reader who has access to well-stocked libraries and lively theatres, as well as the student whose resources are more limited. The play-text is a conflation of the Quarto text and the First Folio text, and the notes provide a generous but discreet selection of alternative readings of lines and contexts. In ten erudite essays, Nagarajan provides a thoroughly researched picture of Shakespeare’s sources for the play, his unique use of language, Elizabethan theatre, history and values of the play, analysis of enigmatic scenes, glimpses into its performance history and other subjects, with special attention to Indian dramatic art theory. This edition is the first to bring together both the best scholarship on Lear to date and perspectives from Indian poetics and philosophy. The result is a text that robustly includes, but goes beyond, Anglophone cultures and Euro-American experiences, making it truly representative of Lear’s global stage.
Author : Kate Chedgzoy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2000-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350310263
Over the last quarter-century, feminist criticism of Shakespeare has greatly expanded and enriched the range of interpretations of the Shakespearean texts, their original historical location, and subsequent reinterpretation. Characteristically it weaves between past and present, driven by a commitment both to intervene in contemporary cultural politics and to recover a fuller sense of the sexual politics of the literary heritage. Collecting together essays which offer detailed accounts of particular plays with others that take a broader overview of the field, this Casebook showcases the range of critical strategies used by feminist criticism, and illustrates how vital attention to the politics of gender and sexuality is to a full understanding and appreciation of Shakespearean drama.
Author : Philip C Kolin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2017-02-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351984039
First published in 1991, this book is the first annotated bibliography of feminist Shakespeare criticism from 1975 to 1988 — a period that saw a remarkable amount of ground-breaking work. While the primary focus is on feminist studies of Shakespeare, it also includes wide-ranging works on language, desire, role-playing, theatre conventions, marriage, and Elizabethan and Jacobean culture — shedding light on Shakespeare’s views on and representation of women, sex and gender. Accompanying the 439 entries are extensive, informative annotations that strive to maintain the original author’s perspective, supplying a careful and thorough account of the main points of an article.
Author : Robin Headlam Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 38,37 MB
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521662044
Reviews Shakespeare's view of masculinity through The Tempest, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and others.
Author : John Drakakis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 38,66 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1317899903
Shakespearean Tragedy brings together fifteen major contemporary essays on individual plays and the genre as a whole. Each piece has been carefully chosen as a key intervention in its own right and as a representative of an influential critical approach to the genre. The collection as a whole, therefore, provides both a guide and explanation to the various ways in which contemporary criticism has determined our understanding of the tragedies, and the opportunity for assessing the wider issues such criticism raises. The collection begins by considering the impact of social semiotics on approaches to the tragedies, before moving on to deal, in turn, with the various forms of Marxist criticism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and Poststructuralism.
