The Shakespearean Wild

Author : Jeanne Addison Roberts
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803289505
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean Wild written by Jeanne Addison Roberts and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates is said to have thanked the gods that he was born neither barbarian nor female nor animal. His words conjure up the image of a human being, a Greek male, at the center of the universe, surrounded by "wild" and threatening forces. To the Western imagination the civilized standard has always been masculine, and taken for granted as so until recently. Shakespeare's works, for all their genius and astonishing empathy, are inevitably products of a culture that regards women, animals, and foreigners as peripheral and threatening to its chief interests. "We have been so hypnotized by the most powerful male voice in ourl anguage, interpreted for us by a long line of male critics and teachers, that we have seen nothing exceptionable in his patriarchal premises," writes Jeanne Addison Roberts. If the culture-induced hypnosis is wearing off, it is partly because of studies like The Shakespearean Wild. Plunging into a psychological jungle, Roberts examines the distinctions in various Shakespeare plays between wild nature and subduing civilization and shows how gender stereotypes are affixed to those distinctions. Taking her cue from Socrates, Roberts transports the reader to three kinds of "Wilds" that impinge on Shakespeare's literary world: the mysterious "female Wild, often associated with the malign and benign forces of [nature]; the animal Wild, which offers both reassurance of special human status and the threat of the loss of that status; and the barbarian Wild populated by marginal figures such as the Moor and the Jew as well as various hybrids." The Shakespearean Wild brims with mystery and menace, the exotic and erotic; with male and female archetypes, projections of suppressed fears and fantasies. The reader will see how the male vision of culture—exemplified in Shakespeare's work—has reduced, distorted, and oversimplified the potentiality of women.

Author : Linda Anderson
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874133196
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Kind of Wild Justice written by Linda Anderson and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study demonstrates not only that the devices of revenge are structurally useful in comedy, but also that there is a consistent conception of revenge as an ethical social instrument in the comedies of Shakespeare.

Author : Anne Barton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108394078
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean Forest written by Anne Barton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-17 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakespearean Forest, Anne Barton's final book, uncovers the pervasive presence of woodland in early modern drama, revealing its persistent imaginative power. The collection is representative of the startling breadth of Barton's scholarship: ranging across plays by Shakespeare (including Titus Andronicus, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Timon of Athens) and his contemporaries (including Jonson, Dekker, Lyly, Massinger and Greene), it also considers court pageants, treatises on forestry and chronicle history. Barton's incisive literary analysis characteristically pays careful attention to the practicalities of performance, and is supplemented by numerous illustrations and a bibliographical essay exploring recent scholarship in the field. Prepared for publication by Hester Lees-Jeffries, featuring a Foreword by Adrian Poole and an Afterword by Peter Holland, the book explores the forest as a source of cultural and psychological fascination, embracing and illuminating its mysteriousness.

Author : Jeanne Addison Roberts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean Wild written by Jeanne Addison Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Socrates is said to have thanked the gods that he was born neither barbarian nor female nor animal. His words conjure up the image of a human being, a Greek male, at the center of the universe, surrounded by "wild" and threatening forces. To the Western imagination the civilized standard has always been masculine, and taken for granted as so until recently. Shakespeare's works, for all their genius and astonishing empathy, are inevitably products of a culture that regards women, animals, and foreigners as peripheral and threatening to its chief interests. "We have been so hypnotized by the most powerful male voice in ourl anguage, interpreted for us by a long line of male critics and teachers, that we have seen nothing exceptionable in his patriarchal premises," writes Jeanne Addison Roberts. If the culture-induced hypnosis is wearing off, it is partly because of studies like The Shakespearean Wild. Plunging into a psychological jungle, Roberts examines the distinctions in various Shakespeare plays between wild nature and subduing civilization and shows how gender stereotypes are affixed to those distinctions. Taking her cue from Socrates, Roberts transports the reader to three kinds of "Wilds" that impinge on Shakespeare's literary world: the mysterious "female Wild, often associated with the malign and benign forces of [nature]; the animal Wild, which offers both reassurance of special human status and the threat of the loss of that status; and the barbarian Wild populated by marginal figures such as the Moor and the Jew as well as various hybrids." The Shakespearean Wild brims with mystery and menace, the exotic and erotic; with male and female archetypes, projections of suppressed fears and fantasies. The reader will see how the male vision of culture—exemplified in Shakespeare's work—has reduced, distorted, and oversimplified the potentiality of women.

Author : Laurie Shannon
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226924181
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Accommodated Animal written by Laurie Shannon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare wrote of lions, shrews, horned toads, curs, mastiffs, and hellhounds. But the word “animal” itself only appears very rarely in his work, which was in keeping with sixteenth-century usage. As Laurie Shannon reveals in The Accommodated Animal, the modern human / animal divide first came strongly into play in the seventeenth century, with Descartes’s famous formulation that reason sets humans above other species: “I think, therefore I am.” Before that moment, animals could claim a firmer place alongside humans in a larger vision of belonging, or what she terms cosmopolity. With Shakespeare as her touchstone, Shannon explores the creaturely dispensation that existed until Descartes. She finds that early modern writers used classical natural history and readings of Genesis to credit animals with various kinds of stakeholdership, prerogative, and entitlement, employing the language of politics in a constitutional vision of cosmic membership. Using this political idiom to frame cross-species relations, Shannon argues, carried with it the notion that animals possess their own investments in the world, a point distinct from the question of whether animals have reason. It also enabled a sharp critique of the tyranny of humankind. By answering “the question of the animal” historically, The Accommodated Animal makes a brilliant contribution to cross-disciplinary debates engaging animal studies, political theory, intellectual history, and literary studies.

Author : Lori Handeland
Publisher : Lori Handeland
ISBN 13 : 0997132442
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Undead written by Lori Handeland and published by Lori Handeland. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun-filled fantasy romp through Elizabethan England . . . It has been said that one man could not possibly have created all the works attributed to William Shakespeare. However, what if Shakespeare was not a man? What if Shakespeare was an immortal vampire? What if the Dark Lady of his sonnets was a zombie hunter? What if they met, fell in love, thwarted evil together . . .

Author : Erin Nelsen Parekh
Publisher : Drivel & Drool
ISBN 13 : 9780998439716
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Behowl the Moon written by Erin Nelsen Parekh and published by Drivel & Drool. This book was released on 2017-03-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting real Shakespeare in a way sure to entertain both small children and their parents, BEHOWL THE MOON turns the memorable last words of A Midsummer Night's Dream into a romp through a wild, vibrant fairy forest. Real Shakespeare: the text is a continuous, verbatim quotation from a beloved character at the end of one of the most famous plays of all time--not random snippets or an adaptation. Gorgeous art: the award-winning illustrator turns the concrete imagery of the play into animals and fairies that will entice readers of all ages to read again and again. Perfect for bedtime: continuous action and a narrative arc take the animal troupe through a gleeful, uncanny fairyland, a thrilling frolic, and a climactic confrontation before all settles down into peaceful rest. Kickstarter success: the book was funded independently by a first-time publisher through a hugely successful Kickstarter campaign.

Author : David Rains Wallace
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781544280028
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Wilderness written by David Rains Wallace and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare is often praised for his love and understanding of nature. Less has been written about how he acquired those qualities. Biographers assume they originated from a youth in the countryside around Stratford-on-Avon. Yet relatively few Shakespeare works are set in the settled English midlands. More are set in wild places: a French forest in "As You Like It," British heaths and moors in "Macbeth" and "King Lear," a Balkan seacoast in "The Winter's Tale," a Mediterranean desert island in "The Tempest." Shakespeare's evocations of these places are brief, as befits play scripts, but they are vivid and they often contain precise details about natural features as well as original, surprisingly modern, thoughts about the man-nature relationship. Did Shakespeare simply imagine wild places during a life spent commuting between Stratford and London? Or did he experience them, and if so, how? In "Shakespeare's Wilderness," one of America's leading nature writers tackles these questions. David Rains Wallace draws on his own experience of Shakespeare and nature, and on nature-related English literature from "Beowulf" to a twentieth century poet laureate, Ted Hughes, and comes up with some surprising answers.

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521573440
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespearean Forest written by and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Martin Lings
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
ISBN 13 : 9781594771200
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Window Into the Soul written by Martin Lings and published by Inner Traditions / Bear & Co. This book was released on 2006-06-27 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's plays, argues Lings, concern far more than the workings of the human psyche; they are sacred, visionary works that, through the use of esoteric symbol and form, mirror the passage the soul must make to reach its final sacred union with the divine.