The Existential Dramaturgy of William Shakespeare
Title | The Existential Dramaturgy of William Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Asloob Ahmad Ansari |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Characters and characteristics in literature |
ISBN | 9780773436039 |
An interpretation of Shakespeare through the spiritual crisis of his chief characters.
Social Shakespeare
Title | Social Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Peter J. Smith |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 256 |
Release | 1995-12-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 134924225X |
'Social Shakespeare is a thoughtful and frequently incisive book wabout an important and complex topic.' - Terence Hawkes, Cahiers Elisabethains Shakespeare studies have become increasingly politicised and clashes of opinion amongst scholars are not uncommon. Social Shakespeare, in its enthusiasm for the plays themselves, attempts to bridge the gap between rival approaches, aiming as a distinct refocusing of political criticism upon the Shakespearean text as realised in performance. Modern Shakespeare productions have the potential to make far more political impact than academic studies and yet, until now, critics have been reluctant to recognise this potential. With reference to particular productions, backed up by illustrations, Peter J. Smith integrates critical understanding of the plays with evidence of their political impact on stage.
King Richard II
Title | King Richard II PDF eBook |
Author | Charles R. Forker |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 649 |
Release | 2022-02-10 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1350287229 |
This revised edition of King Richard II: Critical Tradition increases our the play was received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. Updated with a new introduction providing a survey of critical responses to Richard II since the 1990s to the present day, this volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The updated introduction offers an overview of recent criticism on the play in relation to feminist theory, queer theory, performance theory and ecocriticism. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Featuring criticism by A.C. Swinburne, Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde and W.B. Yeats, this volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.
Dramaturgy and Dramatic Character
Title | Dramaturgy and Dramatic Character PDF eBook |
Author | William Storm |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 243 |
Release | 2016-03-17 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1107145759 |
William Storm delivers a wide-ranging investigation of character in drama from ancient beginnings to the present day.
Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning
Title | Literary Twinship from Shakespeare to the Age of Cloning PDF eBook |
Author | Wieland Schwanebeck |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 248 |
Release | 2020-01-06 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1000032736 |
Unlike previous efforts that have only addressed literary twinship as a footnote to the doppelganger motif, this book makes a case for the complexity of literary twinship across the literary spectrum. Shortlisted for the ESSE Book Award 2022 (Literatures in the English Language), it shows how twins have been instrumental to the formation of comedies of mistaken identity, the detective genre, and dystopian science fiction. The individual chapters trace the development of the category of twinship over time, demonstrating how the twin was repeatedly (re-)invented as a cultural and pathological type when other discursive fields constituted themselves, and how its literary treatment served as the battleground for ideological disputes: by setting the stage for debates regarding kinship and reproduction, or by partaking in discussions of criminality, eugenic greatness, and ‘monstrous births’. The book addresses nearly 100 primary texts, including works of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, Arthur Conan Doyle, Aldous Huxley, Christopher Priest, William Shakespeare, and Zadie Smith.
Author's Pen and Actor's Voice
Title | Author's Pen and Actor's Voice PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Weimann |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2000-07-27 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780521787352 |
Redefines the relationship between writing and performance in Shakespeare's theatre.
Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power
Title | Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power PDF eBook |
Author | John D. Cox |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 300 |
Release | |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780608064369 |