Author: Ernest Schanzer
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415353052
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon.
The Problem Plays of Shakespeare
Author: Ernest Schanzer
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415353052
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415353052
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon.
Shakespeare
Author: Russell Fraser
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351491040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 825
Book Description
Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Fraser's previously published two-volume biography (Young Shakespeare, 1988, and Shakespeare: The Later Years, 1992). This volume includes a new introduction, which looks back on the author's lifelong commitment to Shakespeare's work and seeks to find the pattern in his carpet.Fraser's approach places Shakespeare's work first but shows how the life and art interpenetrate, like the yolk and white of one shell. What Shakespeare was doing in Stratford and London underlies what he was writing, or more exactly, the two flow together. Most of the book is devoted to Shakespeare the man and artist, but it simultaneously throws light on his literary and personal relations with contemporaries such as Jonson, Marlowe, and others known as the University Wits. His experience as an actor and man of theater is absorbingly recounted here, as well as his relations to well-born patrons like the Earl of Southampton and Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon (England's Lord Chamberlain). In 1603 when James I ascended the throne, the Chamberlain's Men became the King's Men, passing under the sovereign's protection. How Shakespeare responded to his ambiguous role--he was both servant to the great and their remorseless critic--is another of Fraser's subjects. In short, Fraser's principal purpose is to advance our understanding of Shakespeare, at the same time throwing light on the work of the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul. John Dryden, Shakespeare's first great critic, said that, and Fraser tries to estimate what he meant.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351491040
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 825
Book Description
Shakespeare: A Life in Art brings together in a single volume Fraser's previously published two-volume biography (Young Shakespeare, 1988, and Shakespeare: The Later Years, 1992). This volume includes a new introduction, which looks back on the author's lifelong commitment to Shakespeare's work and seeks to find the pattern in his carpet.Fraser's approach places Shakespeare's work first but shows how the life and art interpenetrate, like the yolk and white of one shell. What Shakespeare was doing in Stratford and London underlies what he was writing, or more exactly, the two flow together. Most of the book is devoted to Shakespeare the man and artist, but it simultaneously throws light on his literary and personal relations with contemporaries such as Jonson, Marlowe, and others known as the University Wits. His experience as an actor and man of theater is absorbingly recounted here, as well as his relations to well-born patrons like the Earl of Southampton and Henry Carey, Lord Hunsdon (England's Lord Chamberlain). In 1603 when James I ascended the throne, the Chamberlain's Men became the King's Men, passing under the sovereign's protection. How Shakespeare responded to his ambiguous role--he was both servant to the great and their remorseless critic--is another of Fraser's subjects. In short, Fraser's principal purpose is to advance our understanding of Shakespeare, at the same time throwing light on the work of the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets had the largest and most comprehensive soul. John Dryden, Shakespeare's first great critic, said that, and Fraser tries to estimate what he meant.
The Complete Concordance to Shakspeare
Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 888
Book Description
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Languages : en
Pages : 888
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The new Shaksperian dictionary of quotations, by G.S. Bellamy
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
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The Works of Thomas Goodwin ... With General Preface by John C. Miller ... and Memoir by Robert Halley
Author: Thomas GOODWIN (D.D.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Languages : en
Pages : 608
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The Complete Concordance to Shakespeare
Author: Mary Cowden Clarke
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Languages : en
Pages : 894
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Twelfth Night
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408143461
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre of critical debate surrounding gender and sexuality. The Introduction explores the multiple factors that make up the play's rich textual, theatrical, critical and cultural history. Keir Elam surveys the play's production and reception, emphasising the role of the spectator both within the comedy and the playhouse.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408143461
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre of critical debate surrounding gender and sexuality. The Introduction explores the multiple factors that make up the play's rich textual, theatrical, critical and cultural history. Keir Elam surveys the play's production and reception, emphasising the role of the spectator both within the comedy and the playhouse.
The Works of the English Reformers
Author: William Tyndale
Publisher:
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Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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Category : Reformation
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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The Works of the English Reformers: William Tyndale and John Frith. Edited by T. Russell, Etc
Author: William Tyndale
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Languages : en
Pages : 498
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The Works of the English and Scottish Reformers: The works of Tyndale continued. The works of Frith
Author: Thomas Russell
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Languages : en
Pages : 494
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 494
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