Author: A. W. Ward
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781331258964
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Excerpt from Shakespeare and the Makers of Virginia Through the munificence of Sir Charles Wakefield, our Academy has since, as has been stated to you this afternoon, been enabled to commemorate the Raleigh Tercentenary by administering a Fund singularly adapted for advancing the cooperation of American and English historical scholarship. One other recent manifestation of this sense of international unity I venture to note, before entering on my immediate theme, to which it seems peculiarly germane. Two years ago, 1917, the Royal Historical Society published a volume of very great interest, introduced by a weighty preface from the hand of our honoured late President, Viscount Bryce, and containing a series of essays by historical scholars of high eminence, commemorating, in connexion with the seven hundredth-anniversary, in 1915, of the grant of our great English Charter at Runnymede. None of these essays, I think, surpassed in value that by a distinguished American jurist, now a member of our Cambridge Professorial Body (Dr. H. D. Hazeltine), who in this paper showed with perfect clearness how 'the growth of the colonies in America meant, from the very beginning, the extension of English institutions and laws to these little Englands across the sea. To their birthright of the English traditions of the sixteenth and earlier centuries was now added the gift of the constitutional and legal principles established in seventeenth-century England.' Thus it came to pass - and this is a feature of English colonial life without a parallel in the history of modern colonization - that 'in the political and constitutional controversy of the colonial period' (of American history) 'the rights of the colonists as Englishmen played a vitally important part'; that 'Magna Carta and other English statutory guarantees of the subject were relied upon as the source of political privilege and civil right'; and that, as Professor Hazeltine told a Cambridge audience last summer, 'from the very beginning of effective colonization in the early seventeenth century, Englishmen in America... regarded the English Common Law as their own birthright'; so that 'this incorporation of the English conception of law into colonial thought and practice constitutes one of the most fundamental of all the influences of England upon America'. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Lewis Walker
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317943376
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 920
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This bibliography will give comprehensive coverage to published commentary in English on Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition during the period from 1961-1985. Doctoral dissertations will also be included. Each entry will provide a clear and detailed summary of an item's contents. For pomes and plays based directly on classical sources like Antony and Cleopatra and The Rape of Lucrece, virtually all significant scholarly work during the period covered will be annotated. For other works such as Hamlet, any scholarship that deals with classical connotations will be annotated. Any other bibliographies used in the compiling of this volume will be described with emphasis on their value to a student of Shakespeare and the Classics.
Author: Roger A. Stritmatter
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786471042
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
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This book challenges a longstanding and deeply ingrained belief in Shakespearean studies that The Tempest--long supposed to be Shakespeare's last play--was not written until 1611. In the course of investigating this proposition, which has not received the critical inquiry it deserves, a number of subsidiary and closely related interpretative puzzles come sharply into focus. These include the play's sources of New World imagery; its festival symbolism and structure; its relationship to William Strachey's True Reportory account of the 1609 Bermuda wreck of the Sea Venture (not published until 1625)--and the tangled history of how and why scholars have for so long misunderstood these matters. Publication of some preliminary elements of the authors' arguments in leading Shakespearean journals (starting in 2007) ignited a controversy that became part of the critical history. This book presents the case in full for the first time.
Author: Alice Walker
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Editing
Languages : en
Pages : 24
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Author: E. Nesbit
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486114007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 82
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Twelve of the Bard's most famous plays, delightfully adapted for young readers: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear, As You Like It, and eight others.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Author: Richard David
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Actors
Languages : en
Pages : 30
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Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Author: Richards Jennifer Richards
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 147447201X
Category : LITERARY CRITICISM
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays performed between 1608 and 1613: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True (Henry VIII), The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Cardenio. It offers a broad range of new, historicist approaches, touching upon key topics in current Shakespearean studies, such as kinship relations, manliness, magic, medico-politics, nationalism, rhetoric, schism, sexuality and staging conventions. The plays are explored both individually and within generic, thematic and chronological groups. Each author combines new research with their experience of teaching the plays, offering innovative approaches to some well-known works, as well as encouraging readers to explore less familiar dramas such as Pericles, Cymbeline, All is True and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The volume is unusual in its coverage of the lost 'late' play Cardenio, and considers its significance for our conception of the 'lateness' of these plays. This book will fill a large gap in the market for a broad-ranging critical introduction to this important and increasingly popular area in Shakespeare's work, and is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate, graduate and more general readers.
Author: Leland Ryken
Publisher: Crossway Books
ISBN: 9781433526121
Category : Christianity and literature
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Guides readers through the last of Shakespeare's magnificent tragedies, Macbeth, and explores the keys to virtuous behavior as well as the psychology of guilt. Part of the Christian Guides to the Classics series.
