Cahiers Élisabéthains
Title | Cahiers Élisabéthains PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 626 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | English literature |
ISBN |
Études sur la pré-renaissance et la renaissance anglaises.
Shakespeare, Text and Theater
Title | Shakespeare, Text and Theater PDF eBook |
Author | Jay L. Halio |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | 356 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780874136999 |
"Jay L. Halio is internationally distinguished as an editor of Shakespeare's plays and as a critic of Shakespeare in performance. This collection, with an international list of contributors, honors both those interests and explores their interconnectedness."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Carrier's Address to the Readers and Patrons of the Ann Arbor Journal
Title | Carrier's Address to the Readers and Patrons of the Ann Arbor Journal PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 1862 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Women Beware Women
Title | Women Beware Women PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hiscock |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2011-02-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 144117771X |
A comprehensive introduction to Thomas Middleton's Women Beware Women - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research.
Reading Shakespeare on Stage
Title | Reading Shakespeare on Stage PDF eBook |
Author | Herbert R. Coursen |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780874135381 |
"Reading Shakespeare on Stage offers a straightforward set of criteria whereby anyone, from the first-time playgoer to the most experienced Shakespearean scholar, may evaluate his or her response to a production of one of Shakespeare's scripts. This articulation of response is not a by-product of going to the theater, but a central part of the experience. The "invitation to response" is a function of Shakespeare's stage, which was open to the audience on three sides, and is incorporated into his scripts through soliloquies, asides, and references to Shakespeare's stage and his dramaturgy." "The concept of "script" (as opposed to "text") makes possible an approach to Shakespeare's plays as plays, a function to which their literary quality is subordinate. That fact, however, does not mean that recent critical tendencies are irrelevant to the scripts. Feminist and historicist readings of the plays are "contextualized" in and by the ongoing energy system of production. It remains true, however, that many members of the growing audience for live performances can not determine what may have been strong or weak about a given production. The size and shape of the stage and the size of the auditorium, for example, define what can occur within the given space, but few spectators take that crucial factor into account. Reading Shakespeare on Stage provides the criteria for evaluation, while at the same time admitting that the criteria themselves are subject to debate and that their application emerges from the subjective psychology of perception of individual spectators."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare & His Contemporaries
Title | Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare & His Contemporaries PDF eBook |
Author | Michele Marrapodi |
Publisher | Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | 310 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9780754655046 |
Applying recent developments in new historicism and cultural materialism-along with the new perspectives opened up by the current debate on intertextuality and the construction of the theatrical text-the essays collected here reconsider the pervasive infl
The Theatre of the World
Title | The Theatre of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Peter H. Marshall |
Publisher | Emblem Editions |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2011-03-22 |
Genre | Holy Roman Empire |
ISBN | 0771056915 |
A captivating portrait of the crucible of magic, science, and religion at the court of the doomed dreamer Rudolf II in Renaissance Prague. At the end of the sixteenth century, the greatest philosophers, alchemists, astronomers, and mathematicians of the day flocked to Prague to work under the patronage of the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II. The Theatre of the World is the enchanting story of Rudolf II, an emperor more interested in the great talents and minds of his times than in the exercise of his power. Rarely leaving Prague Castle, he gathered around him a galaxy of famous figures: the Italian painter Giuseppe Arcimboldo, the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe, the German mathematician Johannes Kepler, and the English magus John Dee. Entranced, like Hamlet, by the new Renaissance learning, Rudolf found it nearly impossible to make decisions. He faced the threats of religious discord and the Ottoman Empire, along with deepening melancholy and an ambitious younger brother. As a result, he lost his empire and nearly his sanity, but he enabled Prague to enjoy a golden age of peace and creativity before Europe was engulfed in the Thirty Years War. "The Theatre of the World" is a beguiling and dramatic human story filled with angels and devils, high art and low cunning, talismans and stars. It offers a captivating perspective on a pivotal moment in the history of Western Civilization. "From the Hardcover edition."