| 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 | : L. Leigh |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 211 |
| 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 | : Julián Jiménez Heffernan |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| 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 | : 236 |
| 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 | : 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 | : 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.
| Author | : Kavita Mudan Finn |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 523 |
| Release | : 2018-07-20 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3319745182 |
Of Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays, fifteen include queens. This collection gives these characters their due as powerful early modern women and agents of change, bringing together new perspectives from scholars of literature, history, theater, and the fine arts. Essays span Shakespeare’s career and cover a range of famous and lesser-known queens, from the furious Margaret of Anjou in the Henry VI plays to the quietly powerful Hermione in The Winter’s Tale; from vengeful Tamora in Titus Andronicus to Lady Macbeth. Early chapters situate readers in the critical concerns underpinning any discussion of Shakespeare and queenship: the ambiguous figure of Elizabeth I, and the knotty issue of gender presentation. The focus then moves to analysis of issues such as motherhood, intertextuality, and contemporary political contexts; close readings of individual plays; and investigations of rhetoric and theatricality. Featuring twenty-five chapters with a rich variety of themes and methodologies, this handbook is an invaluable reference for students and scholars, and a unique addition to the fields of Shakespeare and queenship studies. Winner of the 2020 Royal Studies Journal book prize
| Author | : Amanda Eubanks Winkler |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 245 |
| Release | : 2023-01-31 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1009241249 |
Performing Restoration Shakespeare embraces the performative and musical qualities of Restoration Shakespeare (1660–1714), drawing on the expertise of theatre historians, musicologists, literary critics, and - importantly - theatre and music practitioners. The volume advances methodological debates in theatre studies and musicology by advocating an alternative to performance practices aimed at reviving 'original' styles or conventions, adopting a dialectical process that situates past performances within their historical and aesthetic contexts, and then using that understanding to transform them into new performances for new audiences. By deploying these methodologies, the volume invites scholars from different disciplines to understand Restoration Shakespeare on its own terms, discarding inhibiting preconceptions that Restoration Shakespeare debased Shakespeare's precursor texts. It also equips scholars and practitioners in theatre and music with new - and much needed - methods for studying and reviving past performances of any kind, not just Shakespearean ones.
| Author | : Dympna Callaghan |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 584 |
| Release | : 2016-03-23 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 111850125X |
The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day
