Author | : Anthony B. Dawson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2001-03-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521800167 |
A debate about the relationship between playgoing and the cultural life of Shakespeare's England.
Author | : Anthony B. Dawson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2001-03-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521800167 |
A debate about the relationship between playgoing and the cultural life of Shakespeare's England.
Author | : Simon Smith |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108489052 |
Offers a new, interdisciplinary account of early modern drama through the lens of playing and playgoing.
Author | : Robert Shaughnessy |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2007-06-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521844290 |
This book offers a collection of essays on Shakespeare's life and works in popular forms and media.
Author | : Bruce R. Smith |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 9781107057258 |
This transhistorical, international and interdisciplinary work will be of interest to students, theater professionals and Shakespeare scholars.
Author | : Ruben Espinosa |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 2016-05-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317099877 |
Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a new approach to evaluating the psychological 'loss' of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England by illustrating how, in the wake of Mary's demotion, re-inscriptions of her roles and meanings only proliferated, seizing hold of national imagination and resulting in new configurations of masculinity. The author surveys the early modern cultural and literary response to Mary's marginalization, and argues that Shakespeare employs both Roman Catholic and post-Reformation views of Marian strength not only to scrutinize cultural perceptions of masculinity, but also to offer his audience new avenues of exploring both religious and gendered subjectivity. By deploying Mary's symbolic valence to infuse certain characters, and dramatic situations with feminine potency, Espinosa analyzes how Shakespeare draws attention to the Virgin Mary as an alternative to an otherwise unilaterally masculine outlook on salvation and gendered identity formation.
Author | : Maria Teresa Micaela Prendergast |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317071719 |
Railing, Reviling, and Invective in English Literary Culture, 1588-1617 is the first book to consider railing plays and pamphlets as participating in a coherent literary movement that dominated much of the English literary landscape during the late Elizabethan/early Jacobean period. Author Prendergast considers how these crisis-ridden texts on religious, gender, and aesthetic controversies were encouraged and supported by the emergence of the professional theater and print pamphlets. She argues that railing texts by Shakespeare, Nashe, Jonson, Jane Anger and others became sites for articulating anxious emotions-including fears about the stability of England after the death of Queen Elizabeth and the increasing factional splits between Protestant groups. But, given that railings about religious and political matters often led to censorship or even death, most railing writers chose to circumvent such possible repercussions by railing against unconventional gender identity, perverse sexual proclivities, and controversial aesthetics. In the process, Prendergast argues, railers shaped an anti-aesthetics that was itself dependent on the very expressions of perverse gender and sexuality that they discursively condemned, an aesthetics that created a conceptual third space in which bitter enemies-male or female, conformist or nonconformist-could bond by engaging in collaborative experiments with dialogical invective. By considering a literary mode of articulation that vehemently counters dominant literary discourse, this book changes the way that we look at late Elizabethan and early Jacobean literature, as it associates works that have been studied in isolation from each other with a larger, coherent literary movement.
Author | : John Russell-Brown |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 2017-03-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350318388 |
In his latest book, John Russell Brown offers a new and revealing way of reading and studying Shakespeare's plays, focusing on what a play does for an audience, as well as what its text says. By considering the entire theatrical experience and not only what happens on stage, Brown takes his readers back to the major texts with a fuller understanding of their language, and an enhanced view of a play's theatrical potential. Chapters on theatre-going, playscripts, acting, parts to perform, interplay, stage space, off-stage space, and the use of time all bring recent developments in Theatre studies together with Shakespeare Studies. Every aspect of theatre-making comes into view as a dozen major plays are presented in the context for which they were written, making this an adventurous and eminently practical book for all students of Shakespeare.
Author | : Paul Yachnin |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2017-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317056493 |
Theatrical performance, suggest the contributors to this volume, can be an unpredictable, individual experience as well as a communal, institutional or cultural event. The essays collected here use the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, yet they are also careful to consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. Thus contributors combine a formalist interest in the affective and aesthetic dimensions of language and spectacle with an investment in the material cultures that both produced and received Shakespeare's plays. Six of the chapters focus on early modern cultures of performance, looking specifically at such topics as the performance of rusticity; the culture of credit; contract and performance; the cultivation of Englishness; religious ritual; and mourning and memory. Building upon and interrelating with the preceding essays, the last three chapters deal with Shakespeare and performance culture in modernity. They focus on themes including literary and theatrical performance anxiety; cultural iconicity; and the performance of Shakespearean lateness. This collection strives to bring better understanding to Shakespeare's imaginative investment in the relationship between theatrical production and the emotional, intellectual and cultural effects of performance broadly defined in social terms.
Author | : Isabel Karremann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 223 |
Release | : 2015-10-20 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131642541X |
This book analyses the drama of memory in Shakespeare's history plays. Situating the plays in relation to the extra-dramatic contexts of early modern print culture, the Reformation and an emergent sense of nationhood, it examines the dramatic devices the theatre developed to engage with the memory crisis triggered by these historical developments. Against the established view that the theatre was a cultural site that served primarily to salvage memories, Isabel Karremann also considers the uses and functions of forgetting on the Shakespearean stage and in early modern culture. Drawing on recent developments in memory studies, new formalism and performance studies, the volume develops an innovative vocabulary and methodology for analysing Shakespeare's mnemonic dramaturgy in terms of the performance of memory that results in innovative readings of the English history plays. Karremann's book is of interest to researchers and upper-level students of Shakespeare studies, early modern drama and memory studies.