˜Theœ breath of clowns and kings
Author : Theodore Russell Weiss
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Page : 339 pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Theodore Russell Weiss
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Page : 339 pages
File Size : 14,78 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Theodore Russell Weiss
Publisher : Scribner Paper Fiction
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 11,43 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780689705168
Focusing on eight dramatic works from the first half of Shakespeare's career, the author traces his artistic development.
Author : Gina Bloom
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 40,14 MB
Release : 2013-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812201310
Voice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early modern ideas about the efficacy of spoken communication spring from an understanding of the voice's materiality. Voices can be cracked by the bodies that produce them, scattered by winds when transmitted as breath through their acoustic environment, stopped by clogged ears meant to receive them, and displaced by echoic resonances. The early modern theater underscored the voice's volatility through the use of pubescent boy actors, whose vocal organs were especially vulnerable to malfunction. Reading plays by Shakespeare, Marston, and their contemporaries alongside a wide range of late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century texts—including anatomy books, acoustic science treatises, Protestant sermons, music manuals, and even translations of Ovid—Bloom maintains that cultural representations and theatrical enactments of the voice as "unruly matter" undermined early modern hierarchies of gender. The uncontrollable physical voice creates anxiety for men, whose masculinity is contingent on their capacity to discipline their voices and the voices of their subordinates. By contrast, for women the voice is most effective not when it is owned and mastered but when it is relinquished to the environment beyond. There, the voice's fragile material form assumes its full destabilizing potential and becomes a surprising source of female power. Indeed, Bloom goes further to query the boundary between the production and reception of vocal sound, suggesting provocatively that it is through active listening, not just speaking, that women on and off the stage reshape their world. Bringing together performance theory, theater history, theories of embodiment, and sound studies, this book makes a significant contribution to gender studies and feminist theory by challenging traditional conceptions of the links among voice, body, and self.
Author : Herbert Grabes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 13,23 MB
Release : 2020-05-18
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 3112322363
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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 13,42 MB
Release : 2006-04-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0300191200
While England is threatened by the Earl of Northumberland, Young Prince Hal cavorts in London's taverns, accompanied by the dissolute, entertaining Falstaff and his band of rogues. Much of this play's tension involves Prince Hal and Falstaff, as the former tries to live up to his duties and responsibilities. In creating Falstaff Shakespeare gave us one of the theater's most enduring and memorable characters.
Author : Marija Knežević
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2015-10-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1443884189
This volume revisits the most important issues that Anglo-American studies are facing at the beginning of the twenty-first century, with regards to both research and teaching. Given the English language’s status as a lingua franca, the culture that produced it, and that has been changing it, the literature written in English, and relevant linguistic and literary discourse have come to largely dominate critical theory globally. Therefore, the subjects of Anglo-American studies, and their traditional and modern concepts, must be approached from a multidisciplinary perspective, and must also be problematized in, and determined by, other spheres of the world, especially at the universities at which they are studied. This book, consequently, approaches both mainstream cultural, literary, linguistic and academic achievements and, often by way of comparison, those smaller, more distant, and marginalized fields, traditionally subordinate studies, as well as instances of cultural hybridization. Given its concern with a broad field of culture, literature, linguistics, and methodology of teaching English as a foreign language, this book consists of two main parts comprising the closest research and teaching fields; one attending to culture and literature, and the other approaching linguistics and methodology.
Author : Alexander Leggatt
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 38,32 MB
Release : 2013-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136556494
First published in 1987. This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each play is a new combination of essentially similar ingredients, so that, for example, the boy/girl changes in The Merchant of Venice are seen to have a quite different significance from those in As You Like It.
Author : Lewis Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 23,29 MB
Release : 2019-05-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317943376
This bibliography will give comprehensive coverage to published commentary in English on Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition during the period from 1961-1985. Doctoral dissertations will also be included. Each entry will provide a clear and detailed summary of an item's contents. For pomes and plays based directly on classical sources like Antony and Cleopatra and The Rape of Lucrece, virtually all significant scholarly work during the period covered will be annotated. For other works such as Hamlet, any scholarship that deals with classical connotations will be annotated. Any other bibliographies used in the compiling of this volume will be described with emphasis on their value to a student of Shakespeare and the Classics.
Author : Ben Siegel
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,73 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780874133363
Author : Hamish Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,31 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136413537
Who's Who in Shakespeare presents a complete and handy guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare's plays. It provides: * detailed biographical information on each leading figure * analyses of the role and significance of each minor figure * a reliable guide to the huge Shakespearian canon for student and teacher * quotations from famous critics * useful information on some of Shakespeare's sources. From Antonio to Yorick, Macbeth to Mercutio, this book embraces the breadth and depth of the world's most important playwright.