Shakespeare 1964

Author : J. Lawrence Guntner
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874136043
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Redefining Shakespeare written by J. Lawrence Guntner and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This collection consists of essays on literary theory and history from a Marxist perspective, interviews with directors and dramaturgs on theater practice on the East German stage before 1990, and interviews with women who were active in the East German theater and are even more active since reunification."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Louis B. Wright
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1612309917
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's England written by Louis B. Wright and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When William Shakespeare was about twenty, his life changed forever. He left Stratford and walked to London, where he became the world's greatest playwright. Here is his little-told story of Shakespeare, presented against the colorful tapestry of his England, the kingdom under Elizabeth I and James I. In the reigns of those monarchs, the nation was emerging from centuries of medieval turmoil. The small island that had changed so little since the Norman Conquest of 1066 suddenly became a center of international adventure, political experimentation, and artistic development. Young Shakespeare was fortunate to be in England, and in London, when he was. The first professional theatre opened in the capital in 1576; he arrived, stage-struck and in search of a job, around 1587. He retired to Stratford as a wealthy gentleman in 1611, only a generation before the theatres of England were closed by the Puritans. During Shakespeare's London years, England seethed with plots and intrigue and throbbed with pageantry; everywhere a writer looked there was a scene to fire his imagination. Like Sir Walter Raleigh and other daring contemporaries, William Shakespeare was, indeed, an Elizabethan who took advantage of his time.

Author : Nicolas Tredell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 113707583X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream written by Nicolas Tredell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating and comprehensive critical survey of the responses to A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the key debates and developments, from the seventeenth century to the present day. Leading the reader through material chronologically, the Guide explores the main themes and interpretations and draws on a rich range of critical writings.

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523547
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317866746
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Representing Shakespeare written by Robert Shaughnessy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-15 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kenneth Muir
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523554
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Kenneth Muir and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

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Publisher : PediaPress
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare written by and published by PediaPress. This book was released on with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roland Mushat Frye
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136561536
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare written by Roland Mushat Frye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition first published in 1982. Previous edition published in 1972 by Houghton Mifflin. Outlining methods and techniques for reading Shakespeare's plays, Roland Frye explores and develops a comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare's drama, focussing on the topics which must be kept in mind: the formative influence of the particular genre chosen for telling a story, the way in which the story is narrated and dramatized, the styles used to convey action, character and mood, and the manner in which Shakespeare has constructed his living characterizations. As well as covering textual analysis, the book looks at Shakespeare's life and career, his theatres and the actors for whom he wrote and the process of printing and preserving Shakespeare's plays. Chapters cover: King Lear in the Renaissance; Providence; Kind; Fortune; Anarchy and Order; Reason and Will; Show and Substance; Redemption and Shakespeare's Poetics.

Author : Nicholas Brooke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136567488
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Early Tragedies written by Nicholas Brooke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1968. Shakespeare's Early Tragedies contains studies of six plays: Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Julius Caesar and Hamlet. The emphasis is on the variety of the plays, and the themes, a variety which has been too often obscured by the belief in a single 'tragic experience'. The kind of experience the plays create and their quality as dramatic works for the stage are also examined. These essays develop an understanding of Shakespeare's use of the stage picture in relation to the emblematic imagery of Elizabethan poetry.

Author : Allan Bloom
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226060411
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Politics written by Allan Bloom and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. He aims to recover Shakespeare's ideas and beliefs and to make his work once again a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems. In essays looking at Julius Caesar, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, Bloom shows how Shakespeare presents a picture of man that does not assume privileged access for only literary criticism. With this claim, he argues that political philosophy offers a comprehensive framework within which the problems of the Shakespearean heroes can be viewed. In short, he argues that Shakespeare was an eminently political author. Also included is an essay by Harry V. Jaffa on the limits of politics in King Lear. "A very good book indeed . . . one which can be recommended to all who are interested in Shakespeare." —G. P. V. Akrigg "This series of essays reminded me of the scope and depth of Shakespeare's original vision. One is left with the impression that Shakespeare really had figured out the answers to some important questions many of us no longer even know to ask."-Peter A. Thiel, CEO, PayPal, Wall Street Journal Allan Bloom was the John U. Nef Distinguished Service Professor on the Committee on Social Thought and the co-director of the John M. Olin Center for Inquiry into the Theory and Practice of Democracy at the University of Chicago. Harry V. Jaffa is professor emeritus at Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate School.