Author: Michael Davies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350064564
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Contributions from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making these books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance histories A keynote chapter reviewing current research and recent criticism of the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of learning and teaching resources for both instructors and students This volume offers a thought-provoking guide to Shakespeare's Richard II, surveying its critical heritage and the ways in which scholars, critics, and historians have approached the play, from the 17th to the 21st century. It provides a detailed, up-to-date account of the play's rich performance history on stage and screen, looking closely at some major British productions, as well as a guide to learning and teaching resources and how these might be integrated into effective pedagogic strategies in the classroom. Presenting four new critical essays, this collection opens up fresh perspectives on this much-studied drama, including explorations of: the play's profound preoccupation with earth, ground and land; Shakespeare's engagement with early modern sermon culture, 'mockery' and religion; a complex network of intertextual and cultural references activated by Richard's famous address to the looking-glass; and the long-overlooked importance to this profoundly philosophical drama of that most material of things: money.
Author: Jeremy Lopez
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136479767
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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Arguably the first play in a Shakespearean tetralogy, Richard II is a unique and compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. It is one of the few Shakespeare plays written entirely in verse and its format presents unique theatrical challenges. Politically engaged and controversial, it raises crucial debates about the relationship between early modern art, audience response and state power. This collection provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the critical and theatrical history of the play. The substantial introduction surveys the history of critical interpretations of Richard II since the eighteenth century. The eleven newly written critical essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field then adopt an eclectic range of critical approaches that encourage scholars and students to pursue new and imaginative directions with the text.
Author: Martin Coyle
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780231115360
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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This "Columbia Critical Guide" steers a clear path through the huge body of critical material on "Richard II" that has accrued over the past three centuries, elucidating the play's reception by audiences, critics, and scholars since its first production. Beginning with a discussion of early commentaries, the book presents and addresses the most significant critical arguments to give the reader a clear understanding of the ways in which each generation has sought to invest "Richard II" with new meaning. The final section considers the radical new reading of Shakespeare's work provided by contemporary critics.
Author: Laura Ashe
Publisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0141979895
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Richard II (1377-99) came to the throne as a child, following the long, domineering, martial reign of his grandfather Edward III. He suffered from the disastrous combination of a most exalted sense of his own power and an inability to impress that power on those closest to the throne. Neither trusted nor feared, Richard battled with a whole series of failures and emergencies before finally succumbing to a coup, imprisonment and murder. Laura Ashe's brilliant account of his reign emphasizes the strange gap between Richard's personal incapacity and the amazing cultural legacy of his reign - from the Wilton Diptych to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Piers Plowman and The Canterbury Tales.
Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Author: William Shakespeare
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Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Author: Peter Kirwan
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350270199
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 265
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One of the earliest domestic tragedies, Arden of Faversham is a powerful Elizabethan drama based on the real-life murder of Thomas Arden. This Critical Reader presents the first collection of essays specifically focused upon Arden of Faversham. It highlights the way in which this important play from the early 1590s stands at several different critical intersections. Focused research chapters propose new directions for exploring the play in the light of ecocriticism, genre studies, critical race studies and narratives of dispossession. It also looks forward to Arden of Faversham's role and status in a less author-centred critical climate. Chapters explore how this anonymous and canonically marginal play has been approached in the past by scholars and theatre-makers and the frameworks that have offered productive insight into its unique features. The volume includes chapters covering a wide range of critical discourses and resources available for its study, as well as offering practical approaches to the play in the classroom.
Author: William J. Rolfe
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9781330021064
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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Excerpt from Shakespeare's Tragedy of King Richard the Second: Edited, With Notes This play, which I first edited in 1876, has now been thoroughly revised on the same general plan as its predecessors in the new series. While I have omitted the majority of the textual notes that appeared in the former edition, I have retained the more important of those upon the different readings of the quartos - particularly the first quarto - and the folios, on account of the variations in the best recent texts due to the preference of their editors for the one or the other authority. The Cambridge editors, who, as a rule, follow the quartos published earlier than the folios, do so almost invariably in the present play, except in the "new additions of the Parliament scene," which are not found in the first and second quartos. They say: "For this part, therefore, the first folio is our highest authority; for all the rest of the play the first quarto affords the best text." For myself, I agree with those editors who often regard the folio readings as better; but I give both in the Notes, that the student or critical reader may have the means of settling the question for himself. 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: Annaliese Connolly
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1472504968
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 267
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Introducing key themes and the history of the play's performance and critical reception, this is a comprehensive guide to Richard III by leading international scholars.
Author: Line Cottegnies
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1474280110
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into the text by presenting a range of critical perspectives, making the books ideal companions for study and research. Key features include: Essays on the play's critical and performance history A keynote essay on current research and thinking about the play A selection of new essays by leading scholars A survey of resources to direct students' further reading about the play in print and online This volume offers a thought-provoking guide to King Henry V, surveying the play's rich critical and performance history, with a particular emphasis on its reputation in France as well as Britain and the US. A chapter on non-Anglophone reactions to the play, alongside new essays on British identity, religion, medieval warfare and the questioning of Henry V's heroism, open up ground-breaking perspectives on the play. The volume also includes discussions of King Henry V's rich theatrical and filmic heritage, and a guide to learning and teaching resources and how these might be integrated into effective pedagogic strategies in the classroom.
