The All's Well Story from Boccaccio to Shakespeare
Author | : Howard C. Cole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Howard C. Cole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Howard C. Cole |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : William Shakespeare |
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Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1883 |
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Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2018-07-18 |
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ISBN | : 9781723242021 |
It's William Shakespeare's comedy, All's Well That Ends Well, of course. Written between 1603 and 1606, the play is based on a popular medieval story from Giovanni Boccaccio's Decameron (c. 1350-1353), a collection of 100 tales (mostly love stories with boatloads of dirty jokes). Shakespeare probably read an English translation of Boccaccio's story in a book called The Palace of Pleasure (1595) by a guy named William Painter.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
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Total Pages | : 430 |
Release | : 1899 |
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Author | : William Shakespeare |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : William Shakespeare |
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Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 1926 |
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Author | : Charlotte Artese |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2015-06-03 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1644530449 |
Shakespeare’s Folktale Sources argues that seven plays—The Taming of the Shrew, Titus Andronicus, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Cymbeline—derive one or more of their plots directly from folktales. In most cases, scholars have accepted one literary version of the folktale as a source. Recognizing that the same story has circulated orally and occurs in other medieval and early modern written versions allows for new readings of the plays. By acknowledging that a play’s source story circulated in multiple forms, we can see how the playwright was engaging his audience on common ground, retelling a story that may have been familiar to many of them, even the illiterate. We can also view the folktale play as a Shakespearean genre, defined by source as the chronicle histories are, that spans and traces the course of Shakespeare’s career. The fact that Shakespeare reworked folktales so frequently also changes the way we see the history of the literary folk- or fairy-tale, which is usually thought to bypass England and move from Italian novella collections to eighteenth-century French salons. Each chapter concludes with a bibliography listing versions of each folktale source as a resource for further research and teaching. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Author | : Gary Waller |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2006-12-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135872074 |
Described as one of Shakespeare’s most intriguing plays, All’s Well That Ends Well has only recently begun to receive the critical attention it deserves. Noted as a crucial point of development in Shakespeare’s career, this collection of new essays reflects the growing interest in the play and presents a broad range of approaches to it, including historical, feminist, performative and psychoanalytical criticisms. In addition to fourteen essays written by leading scholars, the editor’s introduction provides a substantial overview of the play’s critical history, with a strong focus on performance analysis and the impact that this has had on its reception and reputation. Demonstrating a variety of approaches to the play and furthering recent debates, this book makes a valuable contribution to Shakespeare criticism.
Author | : Gabriel Egan |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2007-11-21 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748630163 |
This book helps the reader make sense of the most commonly studied writer in the world. It starts with a brief explanation of how Shakespeare's writings have come down to us as a series of scripts for actors in the early modern theatre industry of London. The main chapters of the book approach the texts through a series of questions: 'what's changed since Shakespeare's time?', 'to what uses has Shakespeare been put?', and 'what value is there in Shakespeare?' These questions go to the heart of why we study Shakespeare at all, which question the book encourages the readers to answer for themselves in relation to their own critical writing.