| Author | : Alfred Thomas |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2014-07-22 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1137438959 |
Shakespeare, Dissent and the Cold War is the first book to read Shakespeare's drama through the lens of Cold War politics. The book uses the Cold War experience of dissenting artists in theatre and film to highlight the coded religio-political subtexts in Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth and The Winter's Tale.
| Author | : Alfred Thomas |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 268 |
| Release | : 2018-06-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 3319902180 |
Whereas traditional scholarship assumed that William Shakespeare used the medieval past as a negative foil to legitimate the present, Shakespeare, Catholicism, and the Middle Ages offers a revisionist perspective, arguing that the playwright valorizes the Middle Ages in order to critique the oppressive nature of the Tudor-Stuart state. In examining Shakespeare’s Richard II, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and The Winter’s Tale, the text explores how Shakespeare repossessed the medieval past to articulate political and religious dissent. By comparing these and other plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries with their medieval analogues, Alfred Thomas argues that Shakespeare was an ecumenical writer concerned with promoting tolerance in a highly intolerant and partisan age.
| Author | : Victoria Bladen |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 277 |
| Release | : 2019-09-26 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1108426921 |
An up-to-date survey of Shakespeare's King Lear on screen and the aesthetic, social and political issues raised by screen versions.
| Author | : Julián Jiménez Heffernan |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 246 |
| Release | : 2015-08-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137523581 |
Shakespeare's Extremes is a controversial intervention in current critical debates on the status of the human in Shakespeare's work. By focusing on three flagrant cases of human exorbitance - Edgar, Caliban and Julius Caesar - this book seeks to limn out the domain of the human proper in Shakespeare.
| Author | : Rob Pensalfini |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2016-01-26 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137450215 |
This book explores the development of the global phenomenon of Prison Shakespeare, from its emergence in the 1980s to the present day. It provides a succinct history of the phenomenon and its spread before going on to explore one case study the Queensland Shakespeare Ensemble's (Australia) Shakespeare Prison Project in detail. The book then analyses the phenomenon from a number of perspectives, and evaluates a number of claims made about the outcomes of such programs, particularly as they relate to offender health and behaviour. Unlike previous works on the topic, which are largely individual case studies, this book focuses not only on Prison Shakespeare's impact on the prisoners who directly participate, but also on prison culture and on broader social attitudes towards both prisoners and Shakespeare.
| Author | : Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 214 |
| Release | : 2015-05-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137380020 |
Shakespearean Echoes assembles a global cast of established and emerging scholars to explore new connections between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, reflecting the complexities and conflicts of Shakespeare's current international afterlife.
| Author | : D. Farabee |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 155 |
| Release | : 2014-12-04 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137427159 |
This engaging study offers fresh readings of canonical Shakespeare plays, illuminating ways stagecraft and language of movement create meaning for playgoers. The discussions engage materials from the period, present revelatory readings of Shakespeare's language, and demonstrate how these continually popular texts engage all of us in making meaning.
| Author | : L. Leigh |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2014-10-10 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137465999 |
Shakespeare and the Embodied Heroine is a bold new investigation of Shakespeare's female characters using the late plays and the early adaptations written and staged during the seventeenth and eighteenth century.
| Author | : Bettina Boecker |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 190 |
| Release | : 2016-04-29 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1137379960 |
Comparatively little is known about Shakespeare's first audiences. This study argues that the Elizabethan audience is an essential part of Shakespeare as a site of cultural meaning, and that the way criticism thinks of early modern theatregoers is directly related to the way it thinks of, and uses, the Bard himself.
