Author: Stephen Gosson
Publisher: Dissertations-G
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Dr Peter G Platt
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 1409475158
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 440

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Author: A.C. Hamilton
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134934823
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 2447

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'This masterly work ought to be The Elizabethan Encyclopedia, and no less.' - Cahiers Elizabethains Edmund Spenser remains one of Britain's most famous poets. With nearly 700 entries this Encyclopedia provides a comprehensive one-stop reference tool for: * appreciating Spenser's poetry in the context of his age and our own * understanding the language, themes and characters of the poems * easy to find entries arranged by subject.

Author: Shakespeare Society (Great Britain)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 294

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Author: Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 556

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Author: Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: John Payne Collier
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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Author: Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Author: Stationers' Company (London, England)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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