Author: Arthur M. EastmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A Short History of Shakespearean Criticism
Author: Arthur M. EastmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dramatists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
A Suggestion for a History of Shakespearean Criticism by Plays
Author: Julia Grace WalesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
Shakespeare and His Critics
Author: Charles F. JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Shakespeare's History Plays
Author: Neema ParviniPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 147442354X
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays
Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays
Author: Paul N. SiegelPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838632512
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Examines Shakespearean drama's Christian overtones, explaining why they have been ignored for so long and how those overtones can influence one's interpretation of Shakespeare's work.
Shakespearean Criticism
Author: Gale Research IncPublisher: Gale Cengage
ISBN: 9780028673875
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This detailed series provides comprehensive coverage of critical interpretations of the plays of Shakespeare. Volumes one through ten present critical overviews of each play and feature criticism from the 17th century to the present. Volumes 11-26 focus on the history of Shakespeares plays on the stage and in important film adaptations. Volumes 27-56 focus on criticism published after 1960 and provide readers with thematic approaches to Shakespeares works. Starting with Vol. 57, the series provides general criticism published since 1990 and historical criticism not featured in previous volumes on four to five plays or works per volume. Beginning with Vol. 60, the series replaced its annual compilation of essays representing the years most noteworthy Shakespearean scholarship with topic entries, comprised of essays that analyze various topics or themes found Shakespeares works. Approximately 90-95% of critical essays are full text. Each volume includes a cumulative character index, a topic index and a topic index arranged by play title.
Shakespearean Criticism
Author: Laurie Lanzen HarrisPublisher: Shakespearean Criticism
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 690
Book Description
The plays, theme or focus of this volume includes: The Comedy of ErrorsHamletHenry IV, Parts 1 and 2Timon of AthensTwelfth Night
Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare
Author: Kenneth BurkePublisher: Parlor Press LLC
ISBN: 1643170031
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
This volume gathers and annotates all of the Shakespeare criticism, including previously unpublished notes and lectures, by the maverick American intellectual Kenneth Burke (1897–1993). Burke’s interpretations of Shakespeare have had an impressive influence on important lines of contemporary scholarship; playwrights and directors have been stirred by his dramaturgical investigations; and many readers outside academia have enjoyed his ingenious dissections of what makes a play function. Burke’s intellectual project continually engaged with Shakespeare’s works, and Burke’s writings on Shakespeare, in turn, have had an immense impact on generations of readers. Carefully edited and annotated, with helpful cross-references, Burke’s fascinating interpretations of Shakespeare remain challenging, provocative, and accessible. Read together, these pieces form an evolving argument about the nature of Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Included are thirteen analyses of individual plays and poems, an introductory lecture explaining his approach to reading Shakespeare, and a substantial appendix of hundreds of Burke’s other references to Shakespeare. Scott L. Newstok also provides a historical introduction and an account of Burke’s legacy. Burke’s enduring familiarity with Shakespeare likely helped shape his own theory of dramatism, an ambitious elaboration of the teatrum mundi conceit. Burke is renowned for his landmark 1951 essay on Othello, which wrestles with concerns still relevant to scholars more than a half century later; his ingenious ventriloquism of Mark Antony’s address over Caesar’s body has likewise found a number of appreciative readers, as have (albeit less frequently) his many other essays on the playwright. Burke’s first and final pieces of literary criticism both examine Shakespearean plays, thereby bookending an impressive, career-long contribution to the field of Shakespeare studies. Among the many major Shakespearean critics who have gratefully acknowledged Burke’s influence are Paul Alpers, Harold Bloom, Stanley Cavell, René Girard, Stephen Greenblatt, and Patricia Parker.
Shakespeare and laughter
Author: Indira GhosePublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1847797040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study to focus specifically on laughter, not comedy. It looks at various strands of the early modern discourse on laughter, ranging from medical treatises and courtesy manuals to Puritan tracts and jestbook literature. It argues that few cultural phenomena have undergone as radical a change in meaning as laughter. Laughter became bound up with questions of taste and class identity. At the same time, humanist thinkers revalorised the status of recreation and pleasure. These developments left their trace on the early modern theatre, where laughter was retailed as a commodity in an emerging entertainment industry. Shakespeare ́s plays both reflect and shape these changes, particularly in his adaptation of the Erasmian wise fool as a stage figure, and in the sceptical strain of thought that is encapsulated in the laughter evoked in the plays.
Shakespeare
Author: David M. BergeronPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
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.
