Shakespeare in Theory and Practice
Title | Shakespeare in Theory and Practice PDF eBook |
Author | Catherine Belsey |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | 224 |
Release | 2008-05-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0748632158 |
In these essays, collected here for the first time, renowned critic Catherine Belsey puts theory to work in order to register Shakespeare's powers of seduction, together with his moment in history. Teasing out the meanings of the narrative poems, as well as some of the more familiar plays, she demonstrates the possibilities of an attention to textuality that also draws on the archive. A reading of the Sonnets, written specially for this book, analyses their intricate and ambivalent inscription of desire. Between them, these essays trace the progress of theory in the course of three decades, while a new introduction offers a narrative and analytical overview, from a participant's perspective, of some of its key implications. Written with verve and conviction, this book shows how texts can offer access to the dissonances of the past when theory finds an outcome in practice.
Acting Funny
Title | Acting Funny PDF eBook |
Author | Frances N. Teague |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | 204 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780838635247 |
Finally, these assumptions lead to the corollary that such hierarchies are natural and immutable and not fashioned by critics.
Shakespeare as a Way of Life
Title | Shakespeare as a Way of Life PDF eBook |
Author | James Kuzner |
Publisher | Fordham Univ Press |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2016-04-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0823269957 |
Shakespeare as a Way of Life shows how reading Shakespeare helps us to live with epistemological weakness and even to practice this weakness, to make it a way of life. In a series of close readings, Kuzner shows how Hamlet, Lucrece, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, and Timon of Athens, impel us to grapple with basic uncertainties: how we can be free, whether the world is abundant, whether we have met the demands of love and social life. To Kuzner, Shakespeare’s skepticism doesn’t have the enabling potential of Keats’s heroic “negativity capability,” but neither is that skepticism the corrosive disease that necessarily issues in tragedy. While sensitive to both possibilities, Kuzner offers a way to keep negative capability negative while making skepticism livable. Rather than light the way to empowered, liberal subjectivity, Shakespeare’s works demand lasting disorientation, demand that we practice the impractical so as to reshape the frames by which we view and negotiate the world. The act of reading Shakespeare cannot yield the practical value that cognitive scientists and literary critics attribute to it. His work neither clarifies our sense of ourselves, of others, or of the world; nor heartens us about the human capacity for insight and invention; nor sharpens our ability to appreciate and adjudicate complex problems of ethics and politics. Shakespeare’s plays, rather, yield cognitive discomforts, and it is just these discomforts that make them worthwhile.
Shakespeare and Complexity Theory
Title | Shakespeare and Complexity Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Hansen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 222 |
Release | 2017-06-27 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351967428 |
In this new monograph, Claire Hansen demonstrates how Shakespeare can be understood as a complex system, and how complexity theory can provide compelling and original readings of Shakespeare’s plays. The book utilises complexity theory to illuminate early modern theatrical practice, Shakespeare pedagogy, and the phenomenon of the Shakespeare ‘myth’. The monograph re-evaluates Shakespeare, his plays, early modern theatre, and modern classrooms as complex systems, illustrating how the lens of complexity offers an enlightening new perspective on diverse areas of Shakespeare scholarship. The book’s interdisciplinary approach enriches our understanding of Shakespeare and lays the foundation for complexity theory in Shakespeare studies and the humanities more broadly.
Shakespeare and the Question of Theory
Title | Shakespeare and the Question of Theory PDF eBook |
Author | Geoffrey H. Hartman |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 589 |
Release | 2004-06-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1134964420 |
The theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade has called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and interpreting texts. Shakespeare has been not just the focus of a variety of divergent critical movements within recent years, but also increasingly the locus of emerging debates within, and with, theory itself. This collection of essays, written by distinguished and powerful critics in the fields of literary theory and Shakespeare studies, is intended both for those interested in Shakespeare and for those interested more generally in the emerging debates within contemporary criticism and theory.
Ideological Approaches to Shakespeare
Title | Ideological Approaches to Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Robert P. Merrix |
Publisher | Edwin Mellen Press |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780889460799 |
Part One: Theory and Ideology. Part Two: Theory as Academic Practice: Part Three: Censorship and Teaching Practice.
Shakespeare on Theatre
Title | Shakespeare on Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cohen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 139 |
Release | 2015-09-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1317429389 |
In Shakespeare on Theatre, master acting teacher Robert Cohen brilliantly scrutinises Shakespeare's implicit theories of acting, paying close attention to the plays themselves and providing a wealth of fascinating historical evidence. What he finds will surprise scholars and actors alike – that Shakespeare's drama and his practice as an actor were founded on realism, though one clearly distinct from the realism later found in Stanislavski. Shakespeare on Acting is an extraordinary introduction to the way the plays articulate a profound understanding of performance and reflect the life and times of a uniquely talented theatre-maker.