Shakespeare
Author | : E. A. J. Honigmann |
Publisher | : New York : Barnes & Noble Books |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : E. A. J. Honigmann |
Publisher | : New York : Barnes & Noble Books |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : James R. Hartman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781491817339 |
Shakespearean Tragedies Revisited: An Actor's Edition is an eloquent restatement of three of Shakespeare's tragedies for actors, directors, professors of theatre, and the general public. Each of the plays has been edited word by word for more understandability and length. The intent of the book was to make the works more accessible without making the language modern in order to help the audience member and actors follow the plays with little difficulty in order to find the richness of plots and characters. Each of the plays was tested on stage with very positive results. In fact, a few samples of the responses from the audiences include: "Inherently accessible." "First time I could follow a Shakespearean play." "As someone new to Shakespeare, this production helped me appreciate his genius." "I believe The Bard himself would have approved this lucid revision of his work for modern English speakers." In addition to the editing word by word, the book also contains a unit on how to act Shakespeare with some tips for the actor with little or no training in Shakespearean acting. The material is also a good review for the more experienced Shakespearean actor.
Author | : Andrew Cecil Bradley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : E. Honigmann |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2002-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0230503039 |
This classic text, reprinted several times since its first publication in 1976, has been extensively revised in this new edition and includes new chapters on Henry V, As You Like It, and on 'the study of the audience and the study of response'. Both readers and actors/theatre-goers will find will find it opens up new ways of looking at the plays and at the mechanisms that underpin some of the most magical moments in Shakespeare's plays.
Author | : Nicolas Tredell |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017-09-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1137404906 |
Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creative and critical minds. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on the tragedies, from the 17th century through to the present day. In this book, Nicolas Tredell: - Introduces essential concepts, themes and debates. - Relates Shakespeare's tragedies to fi elds of study including psychoanalysis, gender, race, ecology and philosophy. - Summarises major critical texts from Dryden and Dr Johnson to Janet Adelman and Julia Reinhard Lupton, and covers influential critical movements such as New Criticism, New Historicism and poststructuralism. - Demonstrates how key critical approaches work in practice, with close reference to Shakespeare's texts. Informed and incisive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in how the category of Shakespeare's tragedies has been constructed, contested and changed over the years.
Author | : E. A. J. Honigmann |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Reader-response criticism |
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Author | : Paul A. Jorgensen |
Publisher | : Boston : Twayne Publishers |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
This volume details features of Shakespeare's tragedies.
Author | : Claire McEachern |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2013-08-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107470137 |
This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespeare's tragedies, cultural backgrounds, sub-genres and receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies and, in addition, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Essays from the first edition have been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship; the bibliography has been extensively updated; and four new chapters have been added, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare's tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.
Author | : Henry Halford Vaughan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 632 |
Release | : 1886 |
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Author | : John Hardy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2018-10-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 042975003X |
Shakespeare's great tragedies portray through their richly imagined worlds the inescapable fact of human mortality. As the work of a great creative genius, they are so diverse that critical formulas used to describe their overall impact tend to be somewhat suspect. Their impact follows from a response to the entire dramatic action, what is felt at the end with the weight or experience of the whole play behind it. It draws on how our feelings and judgement are exercised and engaged throughout the drama. Shakespeare portrays what life can be like, without pandering to the wish for something easier to contemplate. Something more invigorating than consolation is provided, such art at its greatest achieving the strength of truth. What it compels is a complex acceptance, reflected in Edgar's words, "The weight of this sad time we must obey". Not only implicit positives give value to these plays. Their significance finally results from what they imaginatively invite their audience to experience and witness. This gives a sense not only of the value of life, but also of what can threaten it.