Reading Shakespeares Soliloquies

Author : Neil Corcoran
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474253520
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading Shakespeare's Soliloquies written by Neil Corcoran and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Now I am alone,' says Hamlet before speaking a soliloquy. But what is a Shakespearean soliloquy? How has it been understood in literary and theatrical history? How does it work in screen versions of Shakespeare? What influence has it had? Neil Corcoran offers a thorough exploration and explanation of the origin, nature, development and reception of Shakespeare's soliloquies. Divided into four parts, the book supplies the historical, dramatic and theoretical contexts necessary to understanding, offers extensive and insightful close readings of particular soliloquies and includes interviews with eight renowned Shakespearean actors providing details of the practical performance of the soliloquy. A comprehensive study of a key aspect of Shakespeare's dramatic art, this book is ideal for students and theatre-goers keen to understand the complexities and rewards of Shakespeare's unique use of the soliloquy.

Author : Wolfgang Clemen
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415352772
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Soliloquies written by Wolfgang Clemen and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven soliloquies are examined in this work, illustrating how the spectator or reader is led to the soliloquy and how the drama is continued afterwards.

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Soliloquies written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ingeborg Boltz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135032904
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Soliloquies written by Ingeborg Boltz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1987. Often the best known and most memorable passages in Shakespeare's plays, the soliloquies, also tend to be the focal points in the drama. Twenty-seven soliloquies are examined in this work, illustrating how the spectator or reader is led to the soliloquy and how the drama is continued afterwards. The detailed structure of each soliloquy is discussed, as well as examining them within the structure of the entire play - thereby extending the interpretation of the work as a whole.

Author : Rhona Silverbush
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429998490
Total Pages : 1088 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Speak the Speech! written by Rhona Silverbush and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2002-09-18 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive sourcebook of Shakespeare's monologues ever available in one volume. A detailed guide to approaching Shakespearean text, Speak the Speech! contains everything an actor needs to select and prepare a Shakespeare monologue for classwork, auditions, or performance. Included herein are over 150 monologues. Each one is placed in context with a brief introduction, is carefully punctuated in the manner that best illustrates its meaning, and is painstakingly and thoroughly annotated. Each is also accompanied by commentary that will spark the actor's imagination by exploring how the interrelationship of meter and the choice of words and sounds yields clues to character and performance. And throughout the book sidebars relate historical, topical, technical, and other useful and entertaining information relevant to the text. In addition, the authors include an overview of poetic and rhetorical elements, brief synopses of all the plays, and a comprehensive index along with other guidelines that will help readers locate the perfect monologue for their needs. More than just an actor's toolkit, Speak the Speech! is also an entertaining resource that will help demystify Shakespeare's language for the student and theater lover alike.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524748552
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Is Shakespeare written by Emma Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn’t tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith—an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer—takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities.

Author : James E. Hirsh
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838639719
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies written by James E. Hirsh and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the conventions governing soliloquies in Western drama from ancient times to the twentieth century. Over the course of theatrical history, there have been several kinds of soliloquies. Shakespeare's soliloquies are not only the most interesting and the most famous, but also the most misunderstood, and several chapters examine them in detail. The present study is based on a painstaking analysis of the actual practices of dramatists from each age of theatrical history. This investigation has uncovered evidence that refutes long-standing commonplaces about soliloquies in general, about Shakespeare's soliloquies in particular, and especially about the to be, or not to be episode. 'Shakespeare and the history of Soliloquies' casts new lights on historical changes in the artistic representation of human beings and, because representations cannot be entirely disentangled from perception, on historical changes in the ways human beings have perceived theselves.

Author : Morris LeRoy Arnold
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Soliloquies of Shakespeare written by Morris LeRoy Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collective study of all of Shakespeare's soliloquies by defining the soliloquy, classifying the soliloquies and presenting them as revelations of thought and feeling.

Author : Wolfgang Clemen
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780416058628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Soliloquies written by Wolfgang Clemen and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1987 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486449408
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Great Soliloquies written by William Shakespeare and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This superlative collection offers timeless speeches from A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Richard III, and more.