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Author | : Jeff McQuain |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : |
Download Coined by Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A dictionary of terms that were first coined in William Shakespeare's plays. Each entry explains the source of the word, how the word is used throughout history, and where each word appears in Shakespeare's works.
Author | : Terence Hawkes |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2003-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1134904991 |
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We traditionally assume that the `meaning' of each of Shakespeares plays is bequeathed to it by the Bard. It is as if, to the information which used to be given in theatrical programmes, `Cigarettes by Abdullah, Costumes by Motley, Music by Mendelssohn', we should add `Meaning by Shakespeare'. These essays rest on a different, almost opposite, principle. Developing the arguments of the same author's That Shakespearean Rag (1986), they put the case that Shakespeare's plays have no essential meanings, but function as resources which we use to generate meaning. A Midsummer Night's Dream, Measure for Measure, Coriolanus and King Lear, amongst other plays, are examined as concrete instances of the covert process whereby, in the twentieth century, Shakespeare doesn't mean: we mean by Shakespeare. Meaning by Shakespeare concludes with `Bardbiz', a review of recent critical approaches to Shakespeare, which initiated a long-running debate (1990-1991) when it first appeared in The London Review of Books.
Author | : Sigurd Burckhardt |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2015-12-08 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1400878969 |
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Mr. Burckhardt does not discuss the plays as theatre. Instead he states: "This book is concerned with what Shakespeare meant. I believe that Shakespeare's plays, to put it bluntly, have messages and that these messages are discoverable, in fact, statable.... Shakespeare not only abides our questions, he tells us what questions to ask; he took infinite pains to be precisely understood." Originally published in 1968. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Ben Crystal |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 676 |
Release | : 2004-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0141941529 |
Download Shakespeare's Words Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare's plays and on the facing page is a unique diagramatic representation of the relationships within each play.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 1909 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Bookcaps |
Publisher | : BookCaps Study Guides |
Total Pages | : 359 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 1610428943 |
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Do you ever find yourself reading Shakespeare and are completely lost because of words like Obeisance and Quiddity? This dictionary contains over 4500 Shakespearean words and their definition.
Author | : Gordon Williams |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 1650 |
Release | : 2001-09-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0485113937 |
Download A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.
Author | : Stanley Wells |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192806386 |
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Compiled by the general editor of The Oxford Shakespeare, and one of the best-known authorities on the playwright's works, this dictionary offers up-to-date information on all aspects of Shakespeare, both in his own time and in later ages. The wide-ranging entries cover Shakespeare's plays, as well as everything from famous actors, writers, and directors connected with Shakespeare, to theatres, historical figures and places of particular interest relating to his life and work. The dictionary also includes box features of passages on Shakespeare by other famous authors, from Dr Johnson and Jane Austin to Bernard Levin and Virginia Woolf. Ideal reference for the student, actor, or director, and fascinating browsing for the general reader interested in Shakespeare's life and work.
Author | : Harold C. Goddard |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2009-02-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0226300382 |
Download The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In two magnificent and authoritative volumes, Harold C. Goddard takes readers on a tour through the works of William Shakespeare, celebrating his incomparable plays and unsurpassed literary genius.
Author | : James L. Calderwood |
Publisher | : U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1971-03-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0816657173 |
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Shakespearean Metadrama was first published in 1971. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In a new approach to Shakespeare criticism, the author interprets five of Shakespeare's early plays as metadramas, dramas that are not only about the various moral, social, political, and other thematic issues with which critics have so long been concerned but also about the plays themselves. Professor Calderwood demonstrates that in these five plays Shakespeare writes about his dramatic art -- its nature, its media of language and theater, its generic forms and conventions, its relationship to truth and the social order. In an introductory chapter the author explains his theory of metadrama, placing it in a general critical context as well as in the specific framework of Shakespeare's plays. He distinguishes between the meaning of metadrama and the similar terms "metaplay" and "metatheare." He points out that the dominant metadramatic aspect of the five plays under study is the interplay of language and action in drama. A separate chapter is devoted to the interpretation of each of the plays. Professor Calderwood is aware that in presenting his critical theory and interpretations he may be met with skepticism by other scholars and critics. He anticipates such a situation in the introduction: "To the critic trying on introductory styles for a book on Shakespearean metadrama," he writes, "the plight of Falstaff at the Boar's Head Tavern comes all to readily to mind. 'What trick," he must ask himself, 'what device, what starting-hole, canst thou now find out to hide thee from this open and apparent shame?'"