Shakespeares Clown

Author : David Wiles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521673341
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Clown written by David Wiles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-30 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the clown Will Kemp, this book shows how Shakespeare and other dramatists wrote specific roles as vehicles for him.

Author : Robert Hornback
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The English Clown Tradition from the Middle Ages to Shakespeare written by Robert Hornback and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2009 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence.

Author : Kent Cartwright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198868898
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Comedy of Enchantment written by Kent Cartwright and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction -- Clowns, fools, and folly -- Structural doubleness and repetition -- Place, being, and agency -- The manifestation of desire -- The return from the dead -- Ending and wondering.

Author : Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474252672
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Insults written by Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-28 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are certain words used as insults in Shakespeare's world and what do these words do and say? Shakespeare's plays abound with insults which are more often merely cited than thoroughly studied, quotation prevailing over exploration. The purpose of this richly detailed dictionary is to go beyond the surface of these words and to analyse why and how words become insults in Shakespeare's world. It's an invaluable resource and reference guide for anyone grappling with the complexities and rewards of Shakespeare's inventive use of language in the realm of insult and verbal sparring.

Author : Bente Videbaek
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stage Clown in Shakespeare's Theatre written by Bente Videbaek and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of Shakespeare's plays have at least one clown figure making an appearance. These characters range from rogues who say only a line or two, to important figures like Touchstone and Falstaff. Videbaek examines even the smallest clown roles, showing how the clown's freedom of speech allows him to become a mediator between the audience and the action of the play, helping audience interpretation. This illuminating celebration of the stage clown's contribution to the understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays will be a valuable resource for both students and scholars alike.

Author : Joseph Mansky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 100936278X
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libels and Theater in Shakespeare's England written by Joseph Mansky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, this interdisciplinary study traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, focusing especially on the theater. Ranging from Shakespeare to provincial pageantry, it provides a fresh account of early modern drama and the viral media ecosystem springing up around it.

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317895045
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies written by Michael Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.

Author : Edward Berry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521263034
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Comic Rites written by Edward Berry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-10-18 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Berry combines social history, anthropology and literary criticism to Shakespeare's romantic comedies.

Author : Neil Rhodes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1408143623
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare And Elizabethan Popular Culture written by Neil Rhodes and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While much has been written on Shakespeare's debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full range of his debts to Elizabethan popular culture. Topics covered include the mystery plays, festive custom, clowns, romance and popular fiction, folklore and superstition, everyday sayings, and popular songs. These essays show how Shakespeare, throughout his dramatic work, used popular culture. A final chapter, which considers ballads with Shakespearean connections in the seventeenth century, shows how popular culture immediately after his time used Shakespeare.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.GC/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Tragedy of Hamlet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: