Shakespeares Agonistic Comedy

Author : G. Beiner
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN 13 : 9780838634677
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Agonistic Comedy written by G. Beiner and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As the poetics is based on the texts (not derived by deduction or theoretical extension from some principle of poetics), so it is applied as a tool of analysis to the texts and used in conjunction with evaluation. The underlying assumption is that the task of poetics is instrumental, and that its usefulness has to be demonstrated and verified in practice. Hence, the division of the book into two parts. As Part I formulates a poetics on the basis of the texts, so Part II applies the poetics to the major texts - always within the dynamics of the multiple-plot and multi-layered perspective on a play. Part II focuses in detail on The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, and Twelfth Night, analyzing the agons and placing them in relation to the comedy of love and the perspective of folly."--Jacket.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523875
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Stanley Wells and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 316 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 S. Miola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135886393
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Comedy of Errors written by Robert S. Miola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors .This volume of critical essays also features a comprehensive critical history, a full bibliography, and photographs and reviews of major productions of the play around the world.

Author : Robert S. Miola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134821735
Total Pages : 574 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Comedy of Errors written by Robert S. Miola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's A Comedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these new essays are women in the play, the play's debt to contemporary theater, its critical and performance histories in Germany and Japan, the metrical variety of the play, and the distinctly modern perspective on the play as containing dark and disturbing elements. To compliment these new essays, the collection features significant scholarship and commentary on The Comedy of Errors that is published in obscure and difficulty accessible journals, newspapers, and other sources. This collection brings together these essays for the first time.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140434545
Total Pages : 692 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Four Comedies written by William Shakespeare and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994 with total page 692 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night.

Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474411355
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Worldly Shakespeare written by Richard Wilson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-02 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Worldly Shakespeare Richard Wilson proposes that the universalism proclaimed in the name of Shakespeare's playhouse was tempered by his own worldliness, the performative idea that runs through his plays, that if 'All the world's a stage', then 'all the men and women in it' are 'merely players'. Situating this playacting in the context of current concerns about the difference between globalization and mondialisation, the book considers how this drama offers itself as a model for a planet governed not according to universal toleration, but the right to offend: 'But with good will'. For when he asks us to think we 'have but slumbered' throughout his offensive plays, Wilson suggests, Shakespeare is presenting a drama without catharsis, which anticipates post-structuralist thinkers like Jacques Rancire and Slavoj A iA ek, who insist the essence of democracy is dissent, and 'the presence of two worlds in one'. Living out his scenario of the guest who destroys the host, by welcoming the religious terrorist, paranoid queen, veiled woman, papist diehard, or puritan fundamentalist into his play-world, Worldly Shakespeare concludes, the dramatist instead provides a pretext for our globalized communities in a time of Facebook and fatwa, as we also come to depend on the right to offend 'with our good will'.

Author : V. Ulea
Publisher : SIU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780809324521
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Concept of Dramatic Genre and the Comedy of a New Type written by V. Ulea and published by SIU Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applying systems theory to the comedies of Chekhov, Balzac, Kleist, Moliere, and Shakespeare, A Concept of Dramatic Genre and the Comedy of a New Type: Chess, Literature, and Film approaches dramatic genre from the point of view of the degree of richness and strength of a character’s potential. Its main focus is to establish a methodology for analyzing the potential from multidimensional perspectives, using systems thinking. The whole concept is an alternative to the Aristotelian plot-based approach and is applied to an analysis of western and eastern European authors as well as contemporary American film. This innovative study consists of three parts: The first part is mostly theoretical, proposing a new definition of the dramatic as a category linked to general systems phenomena and offering a new classification of dramatic genre. In the second part, Ulea offers a textual analysis of some works based on this new classification. She analyzes comedies, tragedies, and dramas on the same or similar topics in order to reveal what makes them belong to opposite types of dramatic genre. Additionally, she considers the question of fate and chance, with regard to tragedy and comedy, from the point of view of the predispositioning theory. In the third part, Ulea explores an analysis of the comedy of a new type—CNT. Her emphasis is on the integration of the part and the whole in approaching the protagonist’s potential. She introduces the term quasi-strong potential in order to reveal the illusory strength of protagonists of the CNT and to show the technique of CNT’s analysis and synthesis. Ulea’s research begins with the notion of the comic, traditionally considered synonymous with the laughable, and attempts to approach it as independent from the laughable and laughter. The necessity to do so is dictated by the desire to penetrate the enigmatic nature of Chekhov’s comedy. The result is A Concept of Dramatic Genre and the Comedy of a New Type: Chess, Literature, and Film, a completely new approach to potential and systems thinking—which has never been a focus of dramatic theory before. Such potential is the touchstone of the comic and comedy, their permanent basic characteristic, the heart and axis around which the comedic world spins.

Author : Peter Holland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521517010
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey: A Sixty-Year Cumulative Index written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-05-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A single-volume cumulative index covering the past six decades of Shakespeare Survey.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedy of the Taming of the Shrew written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David M. Bergeron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare written by David M. Bergeron and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confronted with the formidable and at times daunting mass of materials on Shakespeare, where does the beginning student - or even a seasoned one - turn for guidance? Answering that question remains the central aim of this guide.