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Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies

Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies
Author: James E. Hirsh
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2003
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 9780838639719

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Provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the conventions governing soliloquies in Western drama from ancient times to the twentieth century. Over the course of theatrical history, there have been several kinds of soliloquies. Shakespeare's soliloquies are not only the most interesting and the most famous, but also the most misunderstood, and several chapters examine them in detail. The present study is based on a painstaking analysis of the actual practices of dramatists from each age of theatrical history. This investigation has uncovered evidence that refutes long-standing commonplaces about soliloquies in general, about Shakespeare's soliloquies in particular, and especially about the to be, or not to be episode. 'Shakespeare and the history of Soliloquies' casts new lights on historical changes in the artistic representation of human beings and, because representations cannot be entirely disentangled from perception, on historical changes in the ways human beings have perceived theselves.


Commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III

Commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III
Author: Wolfgang Clemen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2013-10-11
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1136559299

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First published in 1968. Providing a detailed and rigorous analysis of Richard III, this Commentary reveals every nuance of meaning whilst maintaining a firm grasp on the structure of the play. The result is an outstanding lesson in the methodology of Shakespearian criticism as well as an essential study for students of the early plays of Shakespeare.


Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory
Author: Julian Real
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2024-01-31
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1003837255

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Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory posits three startling points: that we have today forgotten a cultural icon that helped to bring about the Renaissance; that this character, used to distil classical wisdom regarding how to raise children to become moral adults, consistently appeared in plays performed between 1350 and 1650; and that the character was often utilised by the likes of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, and therefore adds a long forgotten allegorical narrative to their works. This evidence-based reappraisal of some of the most iconic works in Western literature suggests that a core element of their content has been ‘lost’ for centuries. This text will appeal to anyone with an interest in late medieval and early modern drama, especially the works of Shakespeare; to those interested in the history of teaching and child rearing; to anyone curious about the practical application of philosophy in society; to anyone that would like to know more about the crucial and defining period today known as the Renaissance, and how and why society was redesigned by those with influence; and to all those who would like to know more about how history, which though sometimes misplaced, continues to influenced our modern world.


Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil

Shakespeare and the Allegory of Evil
Author: Bernard Spivack
Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 508
Release: 1958
Genre: English drama
ISBN: 9780231019125

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Trope and Allegory

Trope and Allegory
Author: Francis Fergusson
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0820338494

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At odds with the view that Shakespeare was a religious skeptic who only paid lip service to religious beliefs to pacify his less perceptive audience, Francis Fergusson investigates a relationship between Shakespeare and Dante, whom he sees as writing out of the same classical Christian heritage. Fergusson explores analogous themes from several Shakespearean plays and parts of Dante's Divine Comedy. These themes are romantic love and faith in it; treachery and its recognition; a commonsense view of secular government and a belief in the necessity of right rule for right government; and poetry as evidence of things not seen and its relation to religious belief.


Shakespeare's Philosophy of Evil

Shakespeare's Philosophy of Evil
Author: Lloyd Cline Sears
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1974
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics

Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2018-05-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0393635767

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"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable."—Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblatt explores the playwright’s insight into bad (and often mad) rulers. Examining the psyche—and psychoses—of the likes of Richard III, Macbeth, Lear, and Coriolanus, Greenblatt illuminates the ways in which William Shakespeare delved into the lust for absolute power and the disasters visited upon the societies over which these characters rule. Tyrant shows that Shakespeare’s work remains vitally relevant today, not least in its probing of the unquenchable, narcissistic appetites of demagogues and the self-destructive willingness of collaborators who indulge them.


From Chaucer's Pardoner to Shakespeare's Iago

From Chaucer's Pardoner to Shakespeare's Iago
Author: Maik Goth
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2009
Genre: Iago (Fictitious character)
ISBN: 9783631564653

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In The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages the American critic Harold Bloom claims that Shakespeare drew on Chaucer's Pardoner when creating the villain Iago for his Othello. This book turns Bloom's observation of influences within the canon of Western literature into a more complex intermedial analysis of dramatic and literary traditions at the waning of the Middle Ages and the dawn of the Renaissance. The discussion of verbal and non-verbal codes in Chaucer's presentation of the Pardoner and Shakespeare's depiction of Iago sheds light on the various strands of the Vice's development, and shows that Chaucer's pilgrim, who descends obliquely from the stage Vices, stands at the very beginning of the Vice tradition, while Iago is a late development of him, who adapts his role to new dramatic challenges.