Shakespeare Texts And Contexts

Author : Kiernan Ryan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312230364
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare: Texts and Contexts written by Kiernan Ryan and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-03-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on both the texts of Shakespeare's plays, and the many contexts in which they have been produced, from their first performances to contemporary reproductions. This book introduces nine of Shakespeare's major plays and focuses on the critical practices of close reading, historical contextualisation, and a lively question-and-answer teaching style. There is also detailed attention to Shakespeare on stage, on film, and in the new communications technologies and to new theoretical approaches to Shakespeare's plays.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakspere's Merchant of Venice written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ian Ward
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780406988034
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination written by Ian Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work offers an analysis of constitutional law, examining Shakespeare's plays as legal texts. Professor Ward uses the plays as a starting point to investigate the development of constitutional ideas such as sovereignty, commonwealth, conscience and moral law, and the art of government. In the developing area of law and literature, this book examines how Shakespeare's work offers a rich source of textual material on legal subjects.

Author : Jonathan Gil Harris
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191614416
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and Literary Theory written by Jonathan Gil Harris and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. How is it that the British literary critic Terry Eagleton can say that 'it is difficult to read Shakespeare without feeling that he was almost certainly familiar with the writings of Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Wittgenstein and Derrida', or that the Slovenian psychoanalytic theorist Slavoj Žižek can observe that 'Shakespeare without doubt had read Lacan'? Shakespeare and Literary Theory argues that literary theory is less an external set of ideas anachronistically imposed on Shakespeare's texts than a mode - or several modes - of critical reflection inspired by, and emerging from, his writing. These modes together constitute what we might call 'Shakespearian theory': theory that is not just about Shakespeare but also derives its energy from Shakespeare. To name just a few examples: Karl Marx was an avid reader of Shakespeare and used Timon of Athens to illustrate aspects of his economic theory; psychoanalytic theorists from Sigmund Freud to Jacques Lacan have explained some of their most axiomatic positions with reference to Hamlet; Michel Foucault's early theoretical writing on dreams and madness returns repeatedly to Macbeth; Jacques Derrida's deconstructive philosophy is articulated in dialogue with Shakespeare's plays, including Romeo and Juliet; French feminism's best-known essay is Hélène Cixous's meditation on Antony and Cleopatra; certain strands of queer theory derive their impetus from Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's reading of the Sonnets; Gilles Deleuze alights on Richard III as an exemplary instance of his theory of the war machine; and postcolonial theory owes a large debt to Aimé Césaire's revision of The Tempest. By reading what theoretical movements from formalism and structuralism to cultural materialism and actor-network theory have had to say about and in concert with Shakespeare, we can begin to get a sense of how much the DNA of contemporary literary theory contains a startling abundance of chromosomes - concepts, preoccupations, ways of using language - that are of Shakespearian provenance.

Author : Hema Dahiya
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527524795
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on Shakespeare written by Hema Dahiya and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume highlights new aspects of several of Shakespeare’s plays, such as the role of women and the lower classes in the Roman tragedies, holding up a mirror to the powers that be. It also emphasizes the role of the early Shakespeare teachers at the first Indian College of Western Education. Even as it offers new perspectives on famous tragedies like Hamlet, Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony and Cleopatra, the book also includes chapters on topics like Shakespeare’s celebrated tree and Cleopatra’s enigmatic personality. As such, it will serve to be highly rewarding for Shakespeare specialists and enormously stimulating for students.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780333730768
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Macbeth written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The text of Macbeth is reproduced and, in addition, five sections of primary documents and illustrations are included to give students first hand knowledge of the historical and cultural context to the work. The primary documents are arranged thematically and include illustrations and facsimiles of period documents; excerpts from King James's writings on politics, witchcraft, and religion; contemporary writings on the nature of kingship and tyrannicide; Puritan and Catholic tracts; conduct book literature; and contemporary witchcraft pamphlets.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9780333657096
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Taming of the Shrew written by William Shakespeare and published by MacMillan. This book was released on 1996 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes a scene-by-scene synopsis, production history of the play, an overview of Shakespeare's career and more.

Author : Lars Kaaber
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443898430
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Murdering Ministers written by Lars Kaaber and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-08-17 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Murdering Ministers" integrates everything worth knowing about Shakespeare’s "Macbeth" from four centuries of criticism and performances, stage as well as film, in a scene-by-scene close reading that provides the reader with an exhaustive knowledge of the play and answers questions that have captivated us for centuries. Did Burbage, the first Macbeth, enter on horseback? When does the idea of regicide first occur to the Macbeths? Why does Macbeth withhold part of the witches’ prophecy from his wife? Is Banquo honest? Did Shakespeare believe in witchcraft? Why is the play cursed? What has happened to the baby that Lady Macbeth has given suck? Answers to this and much more come from actors, critics, and directors of countless productions since 1606. Moreover, "Murdering Ministers" is an expedition into the historical context of "Macbeth": the politico-religious turmoil of Jacobean England. It is hardly a coincidence that Shakespeare’s play of regicide and witchcraft followed hard upon an assassination attempt on James I, author of a manual on black magic and how to detect it – but did the playwright mean to praise or to provoke his king with the Scottish Play? Finally, the book questions the tradition of the play as an exclusively sombre tragedy with all humour confined to the brief appearance of the porter in Act II. Macbeth is, in fact, full of hilarious dramatic irony rarely explored or exploited since the early 19th century. Although it may be a stretch to call it a comedy, there is plenty to laugh at. It wouldn’t be Shakespeare otherwise.

Author : Jonathan Locke Hart
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000352560
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire written by Jonathan Locke Hart and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare’s trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions of binaries including theory and practice, past and present, aesthetics and ethics, freedom and tyranny, republic and empire, empires and colonies, poetry and history, rhetoric and poetics, England and America, and England and Asia. The book breaks away from traditional western-centric analysis to present a universal Shakespeare, exposing readers to the relevance and significance of Shakespeare within their local contexts and cultures. This text aims to present a global Shakespeare, utilizing a dual perspective or dialectical presentation, mainly centred on questions of (1) how Shakespeare can be viewed as both an English writer and a world writer; (2) how language operates across genres and kinds of discourse; and (3) how Shakespeare helps to articulate a poetics of both texts (literature) and contexts (cultures). The book’s originality lies in its articulation of the importance and value of Shakespeare in the emerging landscape of global culture.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bedford
ISBN 13 : 9780312398989
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Othello written by William Shakespeare and published by Bedford. This book was released on 2018-07-09 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of Othello reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by six sets of thematically arranged primary documents and illustrations designed to facilitate many different approaches to Shakespeare. The text includes tracts on marriage, travel literature, military manuals, maps, ballads, royal proclamations, early modern descriptions of Africa and the Middle East, nineteenth-century scripts for performances of Othello, and scenes from contemporary re-envisionings of the play. The primary documents contextualize race and religion in the Renaissance, gender relations, military life, the passions, the notion of the "Other" in early modern England, and the afterlife of Othello on the stage.