Shakespeare And The Culture Of Romanticism

Author : Joseph M. Ortiz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135190079X
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Culture of Romanticism written by Joseph M. Ortiz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The idea of Shakespearean genius and sublimity is usually understood to be a product of the Romantic period, promulgated by poets such as Coleridge and Byron who promoted Shakespeare as the supreme example of literary genius and creative imagination. However, the picture looks very different when viewed from the perspective of the myriad theater directors, actors, poets, political philosophers, gallery owners, and other professionals in the nineteenth century who turned to Shakespeare to advance their own political, artistic, or commercial interests. Often, as in John Kemble’s staging of The Winter’s Tale at Drury Lane or John Boydell’s marketing of paintings in his Shakespeare Gallery, Shakespeare provided a literal platform on which both artists and entrepreneurs could strive to influence cultural tastes and points of view. At other times, Romantic writers found in Shakespeare’s works a set of rhetorical and theatrical tools through which to form their own public personae, both poetic and political. Women writers in particular often adapted Shakespeare to express their own political and social concerns. Taken together, all of these critical and aesthetic responses attest to the remarkable malleability of the Shakespearean corpus in the Romantic period. As the contributors show, Romantic writers of all persuasions”Whig and Tory, male and female, intellectual and commercial”found in Shakespeare a powerful medium through which to claim authority for their particular interests.

Author : Paul A. Cantor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521258319
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creature and Creator written by Paul A. Cantor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-03-15 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vocabulary text helps beginning students gain knowledge of basic North American English vocabulary. This North American English edition of the popular English Vocabulary in Use series is appropriate for classroom use and for self-study reference and practice. An easy-to-use format presents a content or grammar-based area of vocabulary on the left-hand page and innovative practice activities on the right-hand page. Sixty units cover approximately 1,200 new vocabulary items. Firmly based on current vocabulary acquisition theory, Vocabulary in Use promotes good learning habits and teaches students how to discover rules for using vocabulary correctly. Both an intermediate and upper-intermediate level are also available. Each level offers an index with phonetic transcriptions and a complete answer key, as well as an edition without answers.

Author : Dirk Delabastita
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9027221308
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Shakespeares written by Dirk Delabastita and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where, when, and why did European Romantics take to Shakespeare? How about Shakespeare's reception in enduring Neoclassical or in popular traditions? And above all: which Shakespeare did these various groups promote? This collection of essays leaves behind the time-honoured commonplaces about Shakespearean translation (the 'translatability' of Shakespeare's forms and meanings, the issue of 'loss' and 'gain' in translation, the distinction between 'translation' and 'adaptation', translation as an 'art'. etc.) and joins modern Shakespearean scholarship in its attempt to lay bare the cultural mechanisms endowing Shakespeare's texts with their supposedly inherent meanings. The book presents a fresh approach to the subject by its radically descriptive stance, by its search for an adequate underlying theory along interdisciplinary lines, and not in the least by its truly European scope. It traces common trends and local features not just in France and Germany, but also in Hungary, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Russia, Scandinavia, and the West Slavic cultures.

Author : David Fuller
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191668311
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Romantics written by David Fuller and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic criticism, of which Shakespeare is the central figure, invented many of the modes of modern criticism. It is also distinct from many contemporary academic norms. Engaged with the social and intellectual currents of an age of revolutionary change, it is experimental, writerly, and individually expressive. Above all it is creative in response to the difficulties of understanding aesthetic experience in new ways, and in setting those experiences in new cultural and political contexts that Shakespeare's work helped to shape. This book presents the main currents of these exciting but relatively little known engagements with Shakespeare, and through Shakespeare with the theory and practice of criticism, in England, Germany, and France, from the 1760s in Germany to the aftermath of the Romanticism in France. It also discusses Shakespeare in the theatre of the period—realist stagings which prefigure Shakespeare films; adaptations which fitted Shakespeare to contemporary tastes; and bare-stage experiments which foreshadow modes of contemporary theatre. A chapter on scholarship in the period shows Shakespeare as central to modern editing and historical criticism. Much of the writing discussed is by men and women whose focus is not primarily critical but creative—poetry (Coleridge, Keats, Heine), fiction (Stendhal), drama (Lessing), or all three (Goethe, Hugo), cultural critique (Jameson, de Staël), philosophy (Hamann, Herder), politics (Hazlitt, Guizot), aesthetics (the Schlegel circle), or new original work in other media (Berlioz, Delacroix, Chassériau). It is writing directed to new modes of creating as well as new modes of understanding.

Author : E. Pechter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230119360
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Studies Today written by E. Pechter and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romantics invented Shakespeare studies, and in losing contact with our origins, we have not been able to develop an adequate alternative foundation on which to build our work. This book asserts that among Shakespeareans at present, the level of conviction required to sustain a healthy critical practice is problematically if not dangerously low, and the qualities which the Romantics valued in an engagement with Shakespeare are either ignored these days or fundamentally misunderstood.

Author : Mary Ellen Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135895252
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Staging Early Modern Romance written by Mary Ellen Lamb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-01-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection recovers the continuities between two modes of romance that have long been separated from one another in critical discourse: the prose fictions that early moderns often referred to as romances, and Shakespeare's late plays, which have often been termed 'romances' since Dowden.

Author : Michael Neill
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191036145
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy written by Michael Neill and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-08-18 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced actor. The collection is organised in five sections. The substantial opening section introduces the plays by placing them in a variety of illuminating contexts: as well looking at ways in which later generations of critics have shaped our idea of 'Shakespearean' tragedy, it addresses questions of genre by examining the playwright's inheritance from the classical and medieval past, by considering tragedy's relationship to other genres (including history plays, tragicomedy, and satiric drama), and by showing how Shakespeare's tragedies respond to the pressures of early modern politics, religion, and ideas about humanity and the natural world. The second section is devoted to current textual issues; while the third offers new critical readings of each of the tragedies, from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus. This is set beside a group of essays that deal with performance history, with screen productions, and with versions devised for the operatic stage, as well as with the extraordinary diversity of twentieth and twenty-first century re-workings of Shakespearean tragedy. The thirteen essays of the book's final section seek to expand readers' awareness of Shakespeare's global reach, tracing histories of criticism and performance across Europe, the Americas, Australasia, the Middle East, Africa, India, and East Asia. Offering the richest and most diverse collection of approaches to Shakespearean tragedy currently available, the Handbook will be an indispensable resource for students both undergraduate and graduate levels, while the lively and provocative character of its essays make will it required reading for teachers of Shakespeare everywhere.

Author : Younglim Han
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838638736
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Shakespeare written by Younglim Han and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These two criticisms are based on the presumption that only a socially and intellectually elite reader is able to view the author's language in terms of its organic relationship with the text as a whole. The Romantics focused on the interpretive reproduction of Shakespeare through sympathetic identification with his characters."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Thora Brylowe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108426409
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Romantic Art in Practice written by Thora Brylowe and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the developing cultural tensions and connections that created a 'sister-art' movement between creative visual art and its literary counterparts.

Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780191671883
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination written by Jonathan Bate and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers an account of the way Shakespeare influenced the creative practice and imaginative theories of the English Romantic movement. It shows Shakespeare's powerful presence in the letters and poetry of Keats, Byron, Blake and Coleridge and particularly in Shelley's "The Cenci".