Shakespearean Sensations
Title | Shakespearean Sensations PDF eBook |
Author | Katharine A. Craik |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 255 |
Release | 2013-02-07 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1107028000 |
Shakespearean Sensations explores the ways Shakespeare and his contemporaries imagined literature affecting audiences' bodies, minds and emotions.
Shakespeare and Emotions
Title | Shakespeare and Emotions PDF eBook |
Author | R. White |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 270 |
Release | 2015-06-29 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1137464755 |
This collection of essays approaches the works of Shakespeare from the topical perspective of the History of Emotions. Contributions come from established and emergent scholars from a range of disciplines, including performance history, musicology and literary history.
Shakespeare / Space
Title | Shakespeare / Space PDF eBook |
Author | Isabel Karremann |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 218 |
Release | 2024-02-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350282987 |
Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual spaces in which they are enacted. With contributions from 14 leading and emergent experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, memory studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, theatre history and performance studies. Each chapter offers methodological reflections on intersections such as space/mobility, space/emotion, space/supernatural, space/language, space/race and space/digital, whose critical purchase is demonstrated in close readings of plays like King Lear, The Comedy of Errors, Othello and Shakespeare's history plays. They testify to the importance of space for our understanding of Shakespeare's creative and theatrical practice, and at the same time enlarge our understanding of space as a critical concept in the humanities. It will prove useful to students, scholars, teachers and theatre practitioners of Shakespeare and early modern studies.
The Shakespearean International Yearbook
Title | The Shakespearean International Yearbook PDF eBook |
Author | Tiffany Werth |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2017-05-15 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1351963430 |
This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare' throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece, France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance, issues of character, and other topics.
Shakespeare Studies, vol. 43
Title | Shakespeare Studies, vol. 43 PDF eBook |
Author | Diana E. Henderson |
Publisher | Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2015-09-30 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0838644767 |
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy
Title | The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Hirschfeld |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 592 |
Release | 2018-09-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0191043451 |
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.
Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body
Title | Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body PDF eBook |
Author | Sujata Iyengar |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 292 |
Release | 2014-12-05 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1317620089 |
This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering and historicizing the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's literary and material world. The volume visits a series of questions about the history of the body and how early modern cultures understand physical ability or vigor, emotional competence or satisfaction, and joy or self-fulfillment. Individual essays investigate the purported disabilities of the "crook-back" King Richard III or the "corpulent" Falstaff, the conflicts between different health-care belief-systems in The Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet, the power of figurative language to delineate or even instigate puberty in the Sonnets or Romeo and Juliet, and the ways in which the powerful or moneyed mediate the access of the poor and injured to cure or even to care. Integrating insights from Disability Studies, Health Studies, and Happiness Studies, this book develops both a detailed literary-historical analysis and a provocative cultural argument about the emphasis we place on popular notions of fitness and contentment today.