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Author | : Dirk Delabastita |
Publisher | : Associated University Presse |
Total Pages | : 398 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780874130041 |
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"This volume's main focus is on the ways in which, over the past 400 years, Shakespeare has played a role of significance within a European framework, particularly where a series of political events and ideologically based developments were concerned, such as the early modern wars of religion, the emergence of "the nation" during the late-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the First and Second World Wars, the process of European unification during the 1990s, the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, and Britain's participation in the war in Iraq." "The whole of the collection and particularly the opening section clearly invites a European and even a global perspective." "This book convincingly demonstrates that Shakespeare, both at the level of his meaning in his own time and at that of his reception in later ages, should no longer be studied only in relation to particular nations, but as Dirk Delabastita argues, also at various supranational levels." --Book Jacket.
Author | : Andrew Hadfield |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 432 |
Release | : 2014-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1408143690 |
Download Shakespeare And Renaissance Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essays explores the diverse ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries experienced and imagined Europe. The book charts the aspects of European politics and culture which interested Renaissance travellers, thus mapping the context within which Shakespeare's plays with European settings would have been received. Chapters cover the politics of continental Europe, the representation of foreigners on the English stage, the experiences of English travellers abroad, Shakespeare's reading of modern European literature, the influence of Italian comedy, his presentation of Moors from Europe's southern frontier, and his translation of Europe into settings for his plays.
Author | : Elizabeth Frazer |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2020-08-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 019258829X |
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Studies of Shakespeare and politics often ask the question whether his dramas are on the side of aristocratic or monarchical sovereign authority, or are on the side of those who resist; whether he endorses a standard view of male and patriarchal authority, or whether his cross-dressing heroines put him among feminist thinkers. Scholars also show that Shakespeare's representations of rule, revolt, and arguments about laws and constitutions draw on and allude to stories and real events that were contemporaneous for him, as well as historical ones. Building on scholarship about Shakespeare and politics, this book argues that Shakespeare's representations and stagings of political power, sovereignty, resistance, and controversy are more complex. The merits of political life, as opposed to life governed by monetary exchange, religious truth, supernatural power, military heroism, or interpersonal love, are rehearsed in the plots. And the clashing and contradictory meanings of politics — its association with free truthful speech but also with dishonest hypocrisy, with open action and argument as much as occult behind the scenes manoevring — are dramatized by him, to show that although violence, lies, and authoritarianism do often win out in the world there is another kind of politics, and a political way that we would do well to follow when we can. The book offers original readings of the characters and plots of Shakespeare's dramas in order to illustrate the subtlety of his pictures of political power, how it works, and what is wrong and right with it.
Author | : Andrew Hadfield |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 345 |
Release | : 2014-05-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1408143682 |
Download Shakespeare And Renaissance Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This collection of essays explores the diverse ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries experienced and imagined Europe. The book charts the aspects of European politics and culture which interested Renaissance travellers, thus mapping the context within which Shakespeare's plays with European settings would have been received. Chapters cover the politics of continental Europe, the representation of foreigners on the English stage, the experiences of English travellers abroad, Shakespeare's reading of modern European literature, the influence of Italian comedy, his presentation of Moors from Europe's southern frontier, and his translation of Europe into settings for his plays.
Author | : T. Burns |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2013-04-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1137314656 |
Download Shakespeare’s Political Wisdom Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics.
Author | : Elena Bandín Fuertes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2022-06-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789027211026 |
Download Othello in European Culture Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume argues that a focus on the European reception of Othello represents an important contribution to critical work on the play. The chapters in this volume examine non-anglophone translations and performances, alternative ways of distinguishing between texts, adaptations and versions, as well as differing perspectives on questions of gender and race. Additionally, a European perspective raises key political questions about power and representation in terms of who speaks for and about Othello, within a European context profoundly divided over questions of immigration, religious, ethnic, gender and sexual difference. The volume illustrates the ways in which Othello has been not only a stimulus but also a challenge for European Shakespeares. It makes clear that the history of the play is inseparable from histories of race, religion and gender and that many engagements with the play have reinforced rather than challenged the social and political prejudices of the period.
Author | : C. Dente |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2013-03-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137311347 |
Download Shakespeare and Conflict Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of Shakespeare's myth, and in its European and then global spread? The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from this collection provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in world literature and culture.
Author | : David Armitage |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2009-09-10 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 052176808X |
Download Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Leading literary scholars and historians examine Shakespeare's engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought.
Author | : Elena Bandín Fuertes |
Publisher | : John Benjamins Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2022-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9027257825 |
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This volume argues that a focus on the European reception of Othello represents an important contribution to critical work on the play. The chapters in this volume examine non-anglophone translations and performances, alternative ways of distinguishing between texts, adaptations and versions, as well as differing perspectives on questions of gender and race. Additionally, a European perspective raises key political questions about power and representation in terms of who speaks for and about Othello, within a European context profoundly divided over questions of immigration, religious, ethnic, gender and sexual difference. The volume illustrates the ways in which Othello has been not only a stimulus but also a challenge for European Shakespeares. It makes clear that the history of the play is inseparable from histories of race, religion and gender and that many engagements with the play have reinforced rather than challenged the social and political prejudices of the period.
Author | : Andrew Hiscock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2022-02-17 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1108830188 |
Download Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Andrew Hiscock locates Shakespeare's history plays within debates over the status and function of violence in a nation's culture.