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Selling Shakespeare

Selling Shakespeare
Author: Adam G. Hooks
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2016-02-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1316495566

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Selling Shakespeare tells a story of Shakespeare's life and career in print, a story centered on the people who created, bought, and sold books in the early modern period. The interests and investments of publishers and booksellers have defined our ideas of what is 'Shakespearean', and attending to their interests demonstrates how one version of Shakespearean authorship surpassed the rest. In this book, Adam G. Hooks identifies and examines four pivotal episodes in Shakespeare's life in print: the debut of his narrative poems, the appearance of a series of best-selling plays, the publication of collected editions of his works, and the cataloguing of those works. Hooks also offers a new kind of biographical investigation and historicist criticism, one based not on external life documents, nor on the texts of Shakespeare's works, but on the books that were printed, published, sold, circulated, collected, and catalogued under his name.


Shakespeare the Historian

Shakespeare the Historian
Author: P. Pugliatti
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 273
Release: 1995-12-18
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0230373747

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In a major reassessment of Shakespeare's dominant dramatic genre, Paola Pugliatti explores the historiographical quality of Shakespeare's histories. Her main assumption is that Shakespeare's staging of English history helped to shape a new historiography. In particular, multi-perspectivism in the treatment of political issues produced a problem-oriented kind of historical perspective. This exploited the opportunities offered by the theatrical medium, and inaugurated a drama which portrayed history as a critical outlook on a world of problems and retrospective possibilities, rather than as unconditional belief in, or even worship of, a world of facts.


Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography
Author: Diana Price
Publisher: Praeger
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

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It successfully argues that "William Shakespeare" was the pen name of an aristocrat, and that William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon was a shrewd entrepreneur, not a dramatist."--BOOK JACKET.


Materialist Shakespeare

Materialist Shakespeare
Author: Ivo Kamps
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1995
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780860914631

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Receptive to influences of such diverse theorists as Derrida, Jameson, Foucault, Irigaray, Kristeva, Lacan and Althusser, materialist Shakespeare criticism has long since left behind the days of 'vulgar' Marxism and has emerged as a rich interpretive practice. The essays chosen for this book cover all of Shakespeare's dramatic genres and include works on King Lear, Othello, As You Like It, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, Henry V, Macbeth, The Taming of the Shrew and Julius Caesar. Contributors: Paul Delany; Louis Adrian Montrose; Walter Cohen; Alan Sinfield; Stephen Greenblatt; Michael D. Bristol; Katherine Eismann Maus; James R. Andreas; Robert Weimann; Graham Holderness; Lynda E. Boose; John Drakakis; Claire McEacherm; Frederic Jameson; and Ivo Kamps.


William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare
Author: Ari Berk
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Total Pages: 17
Release: 2010
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0763647942

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Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.


Shakespeare and Biography

Shakespeare and Biography
Author: Katherine Scheil
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2020-09-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9781789209037

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From Shakespeare’s religion to his wife to his competitors in the world of early modern theatre, biographers have approached the question of the Bard’s life from numerous angles. Shakespeare & Biography offers a fresh look at the biographical questions connected with the famous playwright’s life, through essays and reflections written by prominent international scholars and biographers.


Looking at Shakespeare

Looking at Shakespeare
Author: Dennis Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 468
Release: 2001-12-20
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521785488

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Most studies of the performance of Shakespeare's work concentrate on how the text has been played and what meanings have been conveyed through acting and interpretive directing. Dennis Kennedy demonstrates that much of audience response is determined by the visual representation, which is normally more immediate and direct than the aural conveyance of a text. Ranging widely over productions in Britain, Europe, Japan and North America, Kennedy gives a thorough account of the main scenographic movements of the century, investigating how the visual relates to Shakespeare on the stage. The second edition of this acclaimed history includes a new chapter on Shakespeare performance in the 1990s, bringing the story up to date by drawing on examples from a wide international field. There are more than twenty new illustrations, some of them in colour (bringing the total number of illustrations to almost 200), and previous references have been updated.


Shakespeare's English Kings

Shakespeare's English Kings
Author: Peter Saccio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2000-04-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 019988076X

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Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to the Richards, Edwards, Henrys, Warwicks and Norfolks who ruled and fought across Shakespeare's page and stage. Not only theater-goers and students, but today's film-goers who want to enrich their understanding of film adaptations of plays such as Richard III and Henry V will find this revised edition of Shakespeare's English Kings to be an essential companion. Saccio's engaging narrative weaves together three threads: medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material, that history as understood by modern scholars, and the action of the plays themselves. Including a new preface, a revised further reading list, genealogical charts, an appendix of names and titles, and an index, the second edition of Shakespeare's English Kings offers excellent background reading for all of the ten history plays.


Shakespeare's History Plays

Shakespeare's History Plays
Author: Neema Parvini
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: LITERARY CRITICISM
ISBN: 147442354X

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Shakespeare's History Plays boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies (Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays