Author: A. P. Riemer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719008122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Antic Fables
Author: A. P. Riemer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719008122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719008122
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Fables Ancient and Modern
Author: William Wallbeck
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Fables, in verse.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Fables, in verse.
Fables
Author: George Moir Bussey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fables
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
Twelfth Night
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107126274
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The third New Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, updated by Penny Gay for the contemporary student reader.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107126274
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 195
Book Description
The third New Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, updated by Penny Gay for the contemporary student reader.
Shakespeare and the Nature of Women
Author: Juliet Dusinberre
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349245313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Shakespeare and the Nature of Women was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, ushering in a new era in research and criticism. Its arguments for the feminism both of the drama and the early modern period caused instant controversy, which still engrosses scholars. Dusinberre argues that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated. Using a critical language which predates Foucault and other major theorists, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women argues that Renaissance drama highlights ways in which the feminine and the masculine are socially constructed. The presence of the boy actor on stage created an awareness of gender as performance, now crucial to contemporary feminist thought. Shakespeare and the Nature of Women claimed for women a right to speak about the literary text from their own place in history and culture. The author's Preface to the second edition traces contemporary developments in feminist scholarship, which still wrestles with the book's main thesis: Renaissance feminism, feminist Shakespeare.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349245313
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 375
Book Description
Shakespeare and the Nature of Women was the first full-length feminist analysis of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, ushering in a new era in research and criticism. Its arguments for the feminism both of the drama and the early modern period caused instant controversy, which still engrosses scholars. Dusinberre argues that Puritan teaching on sexuality and spiritual equality raises questions about women which feed into the drama, where the role of women in relation to authority structures is constantly renegotiated. Using a critical language which predates Foucault and other major theorists, Shakespeare and the Nature of Women argues that Renaissance drama highlights ways in which the feminine and the masculine are socially constructed. The presence of the boy actor on stage created an awareness of gender as performance, now crucial to contemporary feminist thought. Shakespeare and the Nature of Women claimed for women a right to speak about the literary text from their own place in history and culture. The author's Preface to the second edition traces contemporary developments in feminist scholarship, which still wrestles with the book's main thesis: Renaissance feminism, feminist Shakespeare.
Stranger Magic
Author: Marina Warner
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674065077
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 577
Book Description
Our foremost theorist of myth, fairytale, and folktale explores the magical realm of the imagination where carpets fly and genies grant prophetic wishes. Stranger Magic examines the profound impact of the Arabian Nights on the West, the progressive exoticization of magic, and the growing acceptance of myth and magic in contemporary experience.
Shakspere's Werke
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
The King’S a Beggar
Author: David Young
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480849065
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Shakespeare enjoys an enduring curiosity. While epilogues are rare in his work, the ones we have can bring us the authors perspective in a more direct fashion than is the case with the plays they conclude. Since we are naturally curious about Shakespeares thoughts and attitudes as a working actor and playwright, might not these moments of stepping out from the story to address the audience directly give us some direct insight into what he was thinking and what he was like as a person? In The Kings a Beggar: A Study of Shakespeares Epilogues, author, poet, and actor David Young explores the liminal, in-between space of the epilogue in Shakespeares plays. Inspired in part by his performance with Patrick Stewart in a production of The Tempest, Young offers a chronological survey of the nine plays with epilogues and draws a conjectural portrait of Shakespeare as a working dramatist. Written both for experts and for the general reader, The Kings a Beggar is succinct, lively, and informative, and it is the first and only study of Shakespeares epilogues as a group. Though the point is not that Shakespeare himself spoke these epilogues (though in some cases he might have), the epilogue in Shakespeares plays represents those times when he felt the necessity of direct address to the audience and broke his usual habit of ending his plays inside the story. Exploring this liminal space between play, actor, and audience can reveal fascinating insights into Shakespeares mind and art.
Publisher: Archway Publishing
ISBN: 1480849065
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
Shakespeare enjoys an enduring curiosity. While epilogues are rare in his work, the ones we have can bring us the authors perspective in a more direct fashion than is the case with the plays they conclude. Since we are naturally curious about Shakespeares thoughts and attitudes as a working actor and playwright, might not these moments of stepping out from the story to address the audience directly give us some direct insight into what he was thinking and what he was like as a person? In The Kings a Beggar: A Study of Shakespeares Epilogues, author, poet, and actor David Young explores the liminal, in-between space of the epilogue in Shakespeares plays. Inspired in part by his performance with Patrick Stewart in a production of The Tempest, Young offers a chronological survey of the nine plays with epilogues and draws a conjectural portrait of Shakespeare as a working dramatist. Written both for experts and for the general reader, The Kings a Beggar is succinct, lively, and informative, and it is the first and only study of Shakespeares epilogues as a group. Though the point is not that Shakespeare himself spoke these epilogues (though in some cases he might have), the epilogue in Shakespeares plays represents those times when he felt the necessity of direct address to the audience and broke his usual habit of ending his plays inside the story. Exploring this liminal space between play, actor, and audience can reveal fascinating insights into Shakespeares mind and art.
Modern Criticism
Author: Walter E. Sutton
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
Author: Cesar Lombardi Barber
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691149526
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward journey--psychological, bodily, spiritual--of the comedies: from confusion, raucous laughter, aching desire, and aggression, to harmony. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, the book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity. "I have been led into an exploration of the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy. To relate this drama to holiday has proved to be the most effective way to describe its character. And this historical interplay between social and artistic form has an interest of its own: we can see here, with more clarity of outline and detail than is usually possible, how art develops underlying configurations in the social life of a culture."--C. L. Barber, in the Introduction This new edition includes a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt, who discusses Barber's influence on later scholars and the recent critical disagreements that Barber has inspired, showing that Shakespeare's Festive Comedy is as vital today as when it was originally published.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691149526
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward journey--psychological, bodily, spiritual--of the comedies: from confusion, raucous laughter, aching desire, and aggression, to harmony. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, the book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity. "I have been led into an exploration of the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy. To relate this drama to holiday has proved to be the most effective way to describe its character. And this historical interplay between social and artistic form has an interest of its own: we can see here, with more clarity of outline and detail than is usually possible, how art develops underlying configurations in the social life of a culture."--C. L. Barber, in the Introduction This new edition includes a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt, who discusses Barber's influence on later scholars and the recent critical disagreements that Barber has inspired, showing that Shakespeare's Festive Comedy is as vital today as when it was originally published.