Shakespeare Among the Courtesans
Title | Shakespeare Among the Courtesans PDF eBook |
Author | Duncan Salkeld |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 261 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317056671 |
Courtesans - women who achieve wealth, status, or power through sexual transgression - have played both a central and contradictory role in literature: they have been admired, celebrated, feared, and vilified. This study of the courtesan in Renaissance English drama focuses not only on the moral ambivalence of these women, but with special attention to Anglo-Italian relations, illuminates little known aspects of their lives. It traces the courtesan from a wry comedic character in the plays of Terence and Plautus to its literary exhaustion in the seventeenth-century dramatic works of Dekker, Marston, Webster, Middleton, Shirley and Brome. The author focuses especially on the presentation of the courtesan in the sixteenth century - dramas by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Lyly view the courtesan as a symbol of social disease and decay, transforming classical conventions into English prejudices. Renaissance Anglo-Italian cultural and sexual relations are also investigated through comparisons of travel narratives, original source materials, and analysis of Aretino's representations of celebrated Italian courtesans. Amid these fascinating tales of aspiration, desire and despair lingers the intriguing question of who was the 'dark lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 27
Title | Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 27 PDF eBook |
Author | S. P. Cerasano |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | 263 |
Release | 2014-09-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0838644724 |
An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes nine new articles and reviews of three books.
Shakespeare, Music and Performance
Title | Shakespeare, Music and Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Barclay |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 303 |
Release | 2017-04-13 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1107139333 |
This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment PDF eBook |
Author | Valerie Traub |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 816 |
Release | 2016-09-08 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0191019720 |
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment brings together 42 of the most important scholars and writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of current debates.
Shakespeare / Play
Title | Shakespeare / Play PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Whipday |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 441 |
Release | 2024-07-11 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 135030445X |
What is (a) play? How do Shakespeare's plays engage with and represent early modern modes of play – from jests and games to music, spectacle, movement, animal-baiting and dance? How have we played with Shakespeare in the centuries since? And how does the structure of the plays experienced in the early modern playhouse shape our understanding of Shakespeare plays today? Shakespeare / Play brings together established and emerging scholars to respond to these questions, using approaches spanning theatre and dance history, cultural history, critical race studies, performance studies, disability studies, archaeology, affect studies, music history, material history and literary and dramaturgical analysis. Ranging across Shakespeare's dramatic oeuvre as well as early modern lost plays, dance notation, conduct books, jest books and contemporary theatre and film, it includes consideration of Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear and The Merry Wives of Windsor, among others. The subject of this volume is reflected in its structure: Shakespeare / Play features substantial new essays across 5 'acts', interwoven with 7 shorter, playful pieces (a 'prologue', 4 'act breaks', a 'jig' and a 'curtain call'), to offer new directions for research on Shakespearean playing, playmaking and performance. In so doing, this volume interrogates the conceptions of playing of/in Shakespeare that shape how we perform, read, teach and analyze Shakespeare today.
Shakespeare Studies, vol. 43
Title | Shakespeare Studies, vol. 43 PDF eBook |
Author | Diana E. Henderson |
Publisher | Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | 314 |
Release | 2015-09-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0838644767 |
The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture
Title | The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Bernadette Andrea |
Publisher | University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 2017-04-24 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1487512805 |
Bernadette Andrea’s groundbreaking study recovers and reinterprets the lives of women from the Islamic world who travelled, with varying degrees of volition, as slaves, captives, or trailing wives to Scotland and England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Andrea’s thorough and insightful analysis of historical documents, visual records, and literary works focuses on five extraordinary women: Elen More and Lucy Negro, both from Islamic West Africa; Ipolita the Tartarian, a girl acquired from Islamic Central Asia; Teresa Sampsonia, a Circassian from the Safavid Empire; and Mariam Khanim, an Armenian from the Mughal Empire. By analysing these women’s lives and their impact on the literary and cultural life of proto-colonial England, Andrea reveals that they are simultaneously significant constituents of the emerging Anglo-centric discourse of empire and cultural agents in their own right. The Lives of Girls and Women from the Islamic World in Early Modern British Literature and Culture advances a methodology based on microhistory, cross-cultural feminist studies, and postcolonial approaches to the early modern period.