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Author | : Stephen Orgel |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2003-08-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781403911773 |
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In this beautifully illustrated book, one of the foremost Shakespeareans of our time explores the ways in which Shakespeare has been imagined from his time to ours. In a penetrating series of interpretations, Stephen Orgel explores the ironies and paradoxes that have characterized the reconstruction of Shakespeare's texts, his image, the staging and illustration of his plays over the past four centuries, as he is perennially reinvented for new cultural ends. Drawing on performance history, textual history, and the visual arts (including a fascinating chapter on portraiture), Imagining Shakespeare displays throughout the cultural versatility, elegance, lucidity, and wit which have become the hallmarks of Orgel's style.
Author | : Stephen Orgel |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2003-06-12 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 023059610X |
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In this beautifully illustrated book, one of the foremost Shakespeareans of our time explores the ways in which Shakespeare has been imagined from his time to ours. Drawing on performance history, textual history and the visual arts (including a fascinating chapter on portraiture), Imagining Shakespeare displays throughout the cultural versatility, elegance, lucidity and wit which have become the hallmarks of Stephen Orgel's style.
Author | : Tetsuhito Motoyama |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-01-28 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1350116262 |
Download Re-imagining Shakespeare in Contemporary Japan Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An anthology of three exciting Japanese adaptations of Shakespeare that engage with issues such as changing family values, racial diversity, the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and terrorism, together with a contextualizing introduction. The anthology makes contemporary Japanese adaptations of Shakespeare by three independent theatre companies available to a wider English language audience. The three texts are concerned with the social issues Japan faces today and Japan's perception of its cultural history. This unique collection is thus both a valuable resource for the fields of Shakespeare and adaptation studies as well as for a better understanding of contemporary Japanese theatre.
Author | : Ian Ward |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1999-07 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780406988034 |
Download Shakespeare and the Legal Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This work offers an analysis of constitutional law, examining Shakespeare's plays as legal texts. Professor Ward uses the plays as a starting point to investigate the development of constitutional ideas such as sovereignty, commonwealth, conscience and moral law, and the art of government. In the developing area of law and literature, this book examines how Shakespeare's work offers a rich source of textual material on legal subjects.
Author | : Katherine West Scheil |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1108416691 |
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Examines representations of Anne Hathaway from the eighteenth century to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels.
Author | : Alice Leonard |
Publisher | : Springer Nature |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2020-01-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3030351807 |
Download Error in Shakespeare Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The traditional view of Shakespeare’s mastery of the English language is alive and well today. This is an effect of the eighteenth-century canonisation of his works, and subsequently Shakespeare has come to be perceived as the owner of the vernacular. These entrenched attitudes prevent us from seeing the actual substance of the text, and the various types of error that it contains and even constitute it. This book argues that we need to attend to error to interpret Shakespeare’s disputed material text, political-dramatic interventions and famous literariness. The consequences of ignoring error are especially significant in the study of Shakespeare, as he mobilises the rebellious, marginal, and digressive potential of error in the creation of literary drama.
Author | : Philip Goldfarb Styrt |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2021-11-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1350173991 |
Download Shakespeare's Political Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Shakespeare's Political Imagination argues that to better understand Shakespeare's plays it is essential to look at the historicism of setting: how the places and societies depicted in the plays were understood in the period when they were written. This book offers us new readings of neglected critical moments in key plays, such as Malcolm's final speech in Macbeth and the Duke's inaction in The Merchant of Venice, by investigating early modern views about each setting and demonstrating how the plays navigate between those contemporary perspectives. Divided into three parts, this book explores Shakespeare's historicist use of medieval Britain and Scotland in King John and Macbeth; ancient Rome in Julius Caesar and Coriolanus; and Renaissance Europe through Venice and Vienna in The Merchant of Venice, Othello and Measure for Measure. Philip Goldfarb Styrt argues that settings are a powerful component in Shakespeare's worlds that not only function as physical locations, but are a mechanism through which he communicates the political and social orders of the plays. Reading the plays in light of these social and political contexts reveals Shakespeare's dramatic method: how he used competing cultural narratives about other cultures to situate the action of his plays. These fresh insights encourage us to move away from overly localized or universalized readings of the plays and re-discover hidden moments and meanings that have long been obscured.
Author | : Andy Amato |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 2019-02-21 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1350083682 |
Download The Ethical Imagination in Shakespeare and Heidegger Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While large bodies of scholarship exist on the plays of Shakespeare and the philosophy of Heidegger, this book is the first to read these two influential figures alongside one another, and to reveal how they can help us develop a creative and contemplative sense of ethics, or an 'ethical imagination'. Following the increased interest in reading Shakespeare philosophically, it seems only fitting that an encounter take place between the English language's most prominent poet and the philosopher widely considered to be central to continental philosophy. Interpreting the plays of Shakespeare through the writings of Heidegger and vice versa, each chapter pairs a select play with a select work of philosophy. In these pairings the themes, events, and arguments of each work are first carefully unpacked, and then key passages and concepts are taken up and read against and through one another. As these hermeneutic engagements and cross-readings unfold we find that the words and deeds of Shakespeare's characters uniquely illuminate, and are uniquely illuminated by, Heidegger's phenomenological analyses of being, language, and art.
Author | : Stuart Sillars |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2015-08-06 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1107029953 |
Download Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A fully illustrated study of Shakespeare's awareness of traditions in visual art and their presence in his plays and poems.
Author | : Suparna Roychoudhury |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2018-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501726579 |
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Representations of the mind have a central place in Shakespeare’s artistic imagination, as we see in Bottom struggling to articulate his dream, Macbeth reaching for a dagger that is not there, and Prospero humbling his enemies with spectacular illusions. Phantasmatic Shakespeare examines the intersection between early modern literature and early modern understandings of the mind’s ability to perceive and imagine. Suparna Roychoudhury argues that Shakespeare’s portrayal of the imagination participates in sixteenth-century psychological discourse and reflects also how fields of anatomy, medicine, mathematics, and natural history jolted and reshaped conceptions of mentality. Although the new sciences did not displace the older psychology of phantasms, they inflected how Renaissance natural philosophers and physicians thought and wrote about the brain’s image-making faculty. The many hallucinations, illusions, and dreams scattered throughout Shakespeare’s works exploit this epistemological ferment, deriving their complexity from the ambiguities raised by early modern science. Phantasmatic Shakespeare considers aspects of imagination that were destabilized during Shakespeare’s period—its place in the brain; its legitimacy as a form of knowledge; its pathologies; its relation to matter, light, and nature—reading these in concert with canonical works such as King Lear, Macbeth, and The Tempest. Shakespeare, Roychoudhury shows, was influenced by paradigmatic epistemic shifts of his time, and he in turn demonstrated how the mysteries of cognition could be the subject of powerful art.