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Author | : Larry S. Champion |
Publisher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 236 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 082033846X |
Download Perspective in Shakespeare's English Histories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play—one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare's dramaturgy after Richard II. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare continues to focus on the psychological analysis and internalized protagonist which lead to his major tragic achievements. In King John and Henry IV, the playwright develops a middle ground between the polarities of Henry VI, in which the flat, onedimensional characters essentially serve the purposes of the narrative, and the tragedies, in which the spectator's consuming interest is in the developing centralfigure whose critical moments they share. Champion sees Henry V as the culmination of Shakespeare's e fforts in the English history play.
Author | : Michael Hattaway |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2002-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 113982631X |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This 2002 volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.
Author | : Richard Dutton |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 382 |
Release | : 2018-03-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1405115130 |
Download Shakespeare's Theatre: A History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shakespeare’s Theatre: A History examines the theatre spaces used by William Shakespeare, and explores these spaces in relation to the social and political framework of the Elizabethan era. The text journeys from the performing spaces of the provincial inns, guild halls and houses of the gentry of the Bard’s early career, to the purpose-built outdoor playhouses of London, including the Globe, the Theatre, and the Curtain, and the royal courts of Elizabeth and James I. The author also discusses the players for whom Shakespeare wrote, and the positioning—or dispositioning—of audience members in relation to the stage. Widely and deeply researched, this fascinating volume is the first to draw on the most recent archaeological work on the remains of the Rose and the Globe, as well as continuing publications from the Records of Early English Drama project. The book also explores the contentious view that the ‘plot’ of The Seven Deadly Sins (part II), provides unprecedented insight into the working practices of Shakespeare’s company and includes a complete and modernized version of the ‘plot’. Throughout, the author relates the practicalities of early modern playing to the evolving systems of aristocratic patronage and royal licensing within which they developed Insightful and engaging, Shakespeare’s Theatre is ideal reading for undergraduates, postgraduates, and scholars of literature and theatre studies.
Author | : Irving Ribner |
Publisher | : Psychology Press |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9780415353144 |
Download The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Recognized as one of the leading books in its field, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare presents the most comprehensive account available of the English historical drama from its beginning to the closing of the theatres in 1642.
Author | : Emma Smith |
Publisher | : Blackwell Publishing |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780631220084 |
Download Shakespeare's Histories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shakespeare’s history plays, with their insistent depictions of leadership and its discontents, have prompted very different critical views over the last four centuries. This book introduces students to the key critical debates under five headings: genre, history and politics, gender and sexuality, language, and performance. The Guide serves both to enhance students’ enjoyment of the history plays and to broaden their critical repertoire. By presenting ten recent critical interventions in the field, it provides a compendium of current scholarship. These articles are contextualised with brief critical overviews and annotated suggestions for further reading. An additional chapter on pre-twentieth-century criticism is mainly in narrative form but excerpts significant early views by Johnson, Hazlitt and Coleridge.
Author | : Warren Chernaik |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007-10-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521855071 |
Download The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's History Plays Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An accessible and lively 2007 introduction to Shakespeare's history plays and their tradition on stage and film.
Author | : Peter Davison |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 707 |
Release | : 2007-07-26 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0141961414 |
Download Four Histories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The volume contains Richard II, Henry IV Part One, henry IV Part Two, and Henry V. Each play possesses its own distinctive mood, tone and style, and together they inhabit the turbulent period of change from the usurpation of the throne of Richard II by Bolingbroke to the triumph of heroic kingship in Henry V.
Author | : Brett Gamboa |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2019-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1000750922 |
Download Shakespeare’s Things Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781383009095 |
Download The Complete Oxford Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Here in a handy paperback format are all Shakespeare's histories (there are companion volumes of the comedies and tragedies), with brief introductions, and the texts established by "The Complete Oxford Shakespeare", which was re-edited from the original editions.
Author | : Phyllis Rackin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2018-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 150172472X |
Download Stages of History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Phyllis Rackin offers a fresh approach to Shakespeare's English history plays, rereading them in the context of a world where rapid cultural change transformed historical consciousness and gave the study of history a new urgency. Rackin situates Shakespeare's English chronicles among multiple discourses, particularly the controversies surrounding the functions of poetry, theater, and history. She focuses on areas of contention in Renaissance historiography that are also areas of concern in recent criticism-historical authority and causation, the problems of anachronism and nostalgia, and the historical construction of class and gender. She analyzes the ways in which the perfoace of history in Shakespeare's theater participated—and its representation in subsequent criticism still participates—in the contests between opposed theories of history and between the different ideological interests and historiographic practices they authorize. Celebrating the heroic struggles of the past and recording the patriarchal genealogies of kings and nobles, Tudor historians provided an implicit rationale for the hierarchical order of their own time; but the new public theater where socially heterogeneous audiences came together to watch common players enact the roles of their social superiors was widely perceived as subverting that order. Examining such sociohistorical factors as the roles of women and common men and the conditions of theatrical performance, Rackin explores what happened when elite historical discourse was trans porteto the public commercial theater. She argues that Shakespeare's chronicles transformed univocal historical writing into polyphonic theatrical scripts that expressed the contradictions of Elizabethan culture.