The Cambridge Introduction To Shakespeares Tragedies

Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462431
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Janette Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this 2007 book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.

Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521793599
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy written by Claire McEachern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, and critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex and demanding theatre genre, but the thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, are clear, concise and informative.

Author : Claire McEachern
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110701977X
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy written by Claire McEachern and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.

Author : Janette Dillon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521834740
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Early English Theatre written by Janette Dillon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-06-12 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible introduction to early English theatre, from the late medieval period to 1642.

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139462393
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare written by Emma Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-08 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next?' sections at the end of each chapter. The book draws on scholarship without being overwhelmed by it, and unlike other introductory guides to Shakespeare it emphasizes that there is space for new and fresh thinking by students and readers, even on the most-studied and familiar plays.

Author : Penny Gay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139469770
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies written by Penny Gay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-07 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.

Author : Jennifer Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521671491
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy written by Jennifer Wallace and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-05-10 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introductory study into tragedy in drama and literature, and in the real world.

Author : Ayanna Thompson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108623298
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race written by Ayanna Thompson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-25 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus on the concepts of sexuality, lineage, nationality, and globalization. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a non-specialist, student audience.

Author : H. B. Charlton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521081041
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespearian Tragedy written by H. B. Charlton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1948 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: H. B. Charlton focuses on Shakespeare's tragedies specifically as plays along with the themes of man and morality.

Author : Emma Whipday
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108474039
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies written by Emma Whipday and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.