Libels And Theater In Shakespeares England

Author : Joseph Mansky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781009362771
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England written by Joseph Mansky and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, Joseph Mansky traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, outlining a viral and often virulent media ecosystem. During the 1590s, a series of crises - simmering xenophobia, years of dearth and hunger, surges of religious persecution - sparked an extraordinary explosion of libeling. The same years also saw the first appearances of libels on London stages. Defamatory, seditious texts were launched into the sky, cast in windows, recited in court, read from pulpits, and seized by informers. Avatars of sedition, libels nonetheless empowered ordinary people to pass judgment on the most controversial issues and persons of the day. They were marked by mobility, swirling across the early modern media and across class, confessional, and geographical lines. Ranging from Shakespearean drama to provincial pageantry, this book charts a public sphere poised between debate and defamation, between free speech and fake news.

Author : Joseph Mansky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009362763
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England written by Joseph Mansky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of the Elizabethan libel, this interdisciplinary account traces a viral and often virulent media ecosystem.

Author : D. McInnis
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137403977
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England written by D. McInnis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England examines assumptions about what a lost play is and how it can be talked about; how lost plays can be reconstructed, particularly when they use narratives already familiar to playgoers; and how lost plays can force us to reassess extant plays, particularly through ideas of repertory studies.

Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152618415X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Shakespeare written by Richard Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family. Whether to suffer outrageous fortune or take up arms in suicidal resistance was, as Hamlet says, 'the question' that fired Shakespeare's stage. In 'Secret Shakespeare' Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the atrocities he survived. Shakespeare constructed a drama not of discovery, like his rivals, but of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise, where, for all his hopes of a 'golden time' of future toleration, 'What's to come' is always unsure. Whether or not 'He died a papist', it is because we can never 'pluck out the heart' of his mystery that Shakespeare's plays retain their unique potential to resist. This is a fascinating work, which will be essential reading for all scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies.

Author : Frederick Samuel Boas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1Z/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare & the Universities written by Frederick Samuel Boas and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Weimann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521895324
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Power of Performance written by Robert Weimann and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the artful means by which Shakespeare responded to the competing claims of acting and writing in the Elizabethan era.

Author : Brian Jay Corrigan
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838640227
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playhouse Law in Shakespeare's World written by Brian Jay Corrigan and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a human face to Shakespeare's theatrical world. It has been captured and preserved in the amber of litigious activity. Contracts for playhouses represent human aspiration: an avaricious hope for profit or an altruistic desire to provide for a family. Lawsuits have preserved the declarations of rights and the righteous indignations as well as the fictions and half-truths under which the Renaissance theater flourished. Leases and agreements preserve the intentions, honest or dishonest, of the men who wrote, performed, and bankrolled the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The period 1590-1623, the limits of the original Shakespearean enterprise, resemble nothing so much as a third of a century of the sort of squabbling, shoving, and place-seeking familiar to every modern theatrical professional.

Author : Gerald Eades Bentley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780803202207
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and His Theatre written by Gerald Eades Bentley and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Marchette Chute
Publisher : Plume Books
ISBN 13 : 9780525482451
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare of London written by Marchette Chute and published by Plume Books. This book was released on 1964 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chute's account of Shakespeare's life and times is based solely on contemporary documents which emphasize the famed playwright's life as a working member of the London theater - as an actor, a director, a producer, a playwright and theater owner. Of equal importance in this book is the city of London itself - that brilliant, lively, creative city in which Shakespeare's art was roated and through which it flourished.

Author : G.B. Harrison
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317646223
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare at Work, 1592-1603 written by G.B. Harrison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-08-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare against the background of his times, his world of the theatre and his dramatic development through the last years of Elizabeth’s reign. Originally published in 1933 and republished in 1958, this great work is an imagining, in plain narrative, of the life of Shakespeare backed with evidence of the history of the stage. Whatever wider significances modern critics distill from Shakespeare’s plays, it remains an elementary fact that he wrote plays to interest and entertain his contemporaries and this book takes a look at the immediate interests of his audience and how his work responded to them.