Shakespeares Practical Jokes

Author : David Ellis
Publisher : Associated University Presse
ISBN 13 : 9780838756805
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Practical Jokes written by David Ellis and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female victims and female jokers -- The privileges of rank -- Falstaff -- The ideal victim -- How far can you go? -- The triumph over shame -- Practical jokes and evil practices.

Author : Stephen Longstaffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441170421
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1 Henry IV written by Stephen Longstaffe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-18 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to Shakespeare's I Henry IV - introducing its critical and performance history, current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play.

Author : Michael Mangan
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317895037
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( 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 282 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 : Robert Hornback
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843843560
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( 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 DS Brewer. This book was released on 2013 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the late-medieval period through to the seventeenth century, English theatrical clowns carried a weighty cultural significance, only to have it stripped from them, sometimes violently, by the close of the Renaissance when the famed "license" of fooling was effectively revoked. This groundbreaking survey of clown traditions in the period looks both at their history, and reveals their hidden cultural contexts and legacies; it has far-reaching implications not only for our general understanding of English clown types, but also their considerable role in defining social, religious and racial boundaries. It begins with an exploration of previously un-noted early representations of blackness in medieval psalters, cycle plays, and Tudor interludes, arguing that they are emblematic of folly and ignorance rather than of evil. Subsequent chapters show how protestants at Cambridge and at court, during the reigns of Henry VIII and Edward, patronised a clownish, iconoclastic Lord of Misrule; look at the Elizabethan puritan stage clown; and move on to a provocative reconsideration of the Fool in King Lear, drawing completely fresh conclusions. Finally, the epilogue points to the satirical clowning which took place surreptitiously in the Interregnum, and the (sometimes violent) end of "licensed" folly. Professor ROBERT HORNBACK teaches in the Departments of Literature and Theatre at Oglethorpe University.

Author : Henry I. Christ
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595193560
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare for the Modern Reader written by Henry I. Christ and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare for the Modern Reader provides a sound scholarly introduction to the man and his work in a user-friendly and accessible way.

Author : R. Bell
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230337724
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools written by R. Bell and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-09-26 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438116497
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the plot, characters, and themes of five Shakespearean tragedies.

Author : Bridget Escolme
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1408179687
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage written by Bridget Escolme and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage demonstrates the links made between excess of emotion and madness in the early modern period. It argues that the ways in which today's popular and theatrical cultures judge how much is too much can distort our understanding of early modern drama and theatre. It argues that permitting the excesses of the early modern drama onto the contemporary stage might free actors and audiences alike from assumptions that in order to engage with the drama of the past, its characters must be just like us. The book deals with characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries who are sad for too long, or angry to the point of irrationality; people who laugh when they shouldn't or make their audiences do so; people whose selfhood has broken down into an excess of fragmentary extremes and who are labelled mad. It is about moments in the theatre when excessive emotion is rewarded and applauded - and about moments when the expression of emotion is in excess of what is socially acceptable: embarrassing, shameful, unsettling or insane. The book explores the broader cultures of emotion that produce these theatrical moments, and the theatre's role in regulating and extending the acceptable expression of emotion. It is concerned with the acting of excessive emotion and with acting emotion excessively. And it asks how these excesses are produced or erased, give pleasure or pain, in versions of early modern drama in theatre, film and television today. Plays discussed include Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, The Spanish Tragedy, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, and Coriolanus.

Author : David Schalkwyk
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351963554
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean International Yearbook written by David Schalkwyk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare' throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece, France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance, issues of character, and other topics.

Author : Zoe Bramley
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445656256
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare in 100 Facts written by Zoe Bramley and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2016-03-15 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare in 100 Facts guides us through the lesser-known stories surrounding the ‘Sweet Swan of Avon’.