Representing Shakespeare
Author: Murray M. Schwartz
Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780783733920
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Publisher:
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780783733920
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Graham Holderness
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780719014888
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 1317866746
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social and political conflict, crisis and change. Since the company's inception in the early 1960s, the RSC's commitment to relevance has fostered close relationships between Shakespearean criticism and performance, and between the theatre and its audiences. Through a detailed discussion of key productions, from "The War of the Roses" in 1963 to "The Plantegenets" in 1988, Robert Shaughnessy emphasizes the political dimension of contemporary theatrical representations of Shakespeare, and of the "Shakespearean" modes of history that these plays have been employed to promote; individualist, cyclical, male-dominated, and driven by essentialised, transcendent human nature.
Author: Stephen Guy-Bray
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-07-09
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 0429753098
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this engaging and accessible guidebook, Stephen Guy-Bray uses queer theory to argue that in many of Shakespeare’s works representation itself becomes queer. Shakespeare often uses representation, not just as a lens through which to tell a story, but as a textual tool in itself. Shakespeare and Queer Representation includes a thorough introduction that discusses how we can define queer representation, with each chapter developing these theories to examine works that span the entire career of Shakespeare, including his sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, King John, Macbeth, and Cymbeline. The book highlights the extent to which Shakespeare’s works can be seen to anticipate, and even to extend, many of the insights of the latest developments in queer theory. This thought-provoking and evocative book is an essential guide for students studying Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, gender studies, and queer literary theory.
Author: BRADD. SHORE
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-23
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781032017174
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare Studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a 'great thinker' and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare's plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays - Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and King Lear - engage with the plays in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how "the new astronomy" of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of "perspective," and shaped Shakespeare's approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies, but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.
Author: S. Ryle
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-11-13
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 1137332069
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shakespeare, Cinema and Desire explores the desires and the futures of Shakespeare's language and cinematographic adaptations of Shakespeare. Tracing ways that film offers us a rich new understanding of Shakespeare, it highlights issues such as media technology, mourning, loss, the voice, narrative territories and flows, sexuality and gender.
Author: Sophie Chiari
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-10-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1474442552
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Author: Stephen Orgel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1317796217
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way we think about the age of Shakespeare. His subjects are varied and interconnected: the theater as social phenomenon, the development of the stage as an architectural presence and a cultural institution, the changing use of setting and costume, the changing status of the acting profession, the complex relation of theater to the political life of the age. Most of all, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Many essays in The Authentic Shakespeare have become classics. Collected here for the first time, they essential reading for students of the Renaissance stage and the history of the book.
Author: Clement Mansfield Ingleby
Publisher:
Published: 1877
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13:
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