Puzzling Shakespeare
Author | : Leah Sinanoglou Marcus |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520071919 |
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Author | : Leah Sinanoglou Marcus |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520071919 |
Author | : Adam Simpson |
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Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2019 |
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ISBN | : 9781786274250 |
Author | : International Shakespeare Association. World Congress |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780874136524 |
In close to fifty sessions, the congress theme - "Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century" - allowed for critical approaches from many directions: through twentieth-century theater history on almost every continent; through a range of media representations from film to databases; through the changing theoretical models of the period that extend to the latest politically inflected readings; and through appropriations of the play-texts by modern art forms such as recent fiction.
Author | : The Puzzle Society |
Publisher | : Andrews McMeel Publishing |
Total Pages | : 162 |
Release | : 2011-04-12 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1449401252 |
This easily portable pocket gamer features a stylish cover, elastic band closure, and lay-flat binding. Shakespeare-themed puzzles include word search, crosswords, codewords, and more.
Author | : Cedric Watts |
Publisher | : Lulu.com |
Total Pages | : 127 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1291664106 |
Professor Cedric Watts discusses 25 puzzles presented by the works of Shakespeare. For instance: The Sonnets - autobiographical or fictional? What is the plot of the long-lost Love's Labour's Won? What are the 'glass eyes' in King Lear? Prospero's epilogue: it is really Shakespeare's farewell? Repeatedly, these challenging discussions reveal and resolve problematic features of the works, and demonstrate the linkage of minor and major concerns. Cedric Watts, Emeritus Professor of English at Sussex University, was co-author (with John Sutherland) of the acclaimed book, Henry V: War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles. This new selection of puzzles was first published in Around the Globe, the magazine of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London.
Author | : Richards Jennifer Richards |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2019-08-07 |
Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
ISBN | : 147447201X |
This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays performed between 1608 and 1613: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True (Henry VIII), The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Cardenio. It offers a broad range of new, historicist approaches, touching upon key topics in current Shakespearean studies, such as kinship relations, manliness, magic, medico-politics, nationalism, rhetoric, schism, sexuality and staging conventions. The plays are explored both individually and within generic, thematic and chronological groups. Each author combines new research with their experience of teaching the plays, offering innovative approaches to some well-known works, as well as encouraging readers to explore less familiar dramas such as Pericles, Cymbeline, All is True and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The volume is unusual in its coverage of the lost 'late' play Cardenio, and considers its significance for our conception of the 'lateness' of these plays. This book will fill a large gap in the market for a broad-ranging critical introduction to this important and increasingly popular area in Shakespeare's work, and is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate, graduate and more general readers.
Author | : John Sutherland |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Literary recreations |
ISBN | : 9780192838797 |
'Shakespeare loves loose ends; Shakespeare also loves red herrings.' Stephen Orgel Loose ends and red herrings are the stuff of detective fiction, and under the scrutiny of master sleuths John Sutherland and Cedric Watts Shakespeare's plays reveal themselves to be as full of mysteries as any Agatha Christie novel. Is it summer or winter in Elsinore? Do Bottom and Titania makelove? Does Lady Macbeth faint, or is she just pretending? How does a man putrefy within minutes of his death? Is Cleopatra a deadbeat Mum? And why doesn't Juliet ask 'O Romeo Montague, wherefore art thou Montague?' As Watts and Sutherland explore these and other puzzles Shakespeare's genuius becomes ever more apparent. Speculative, critical, good-humoured and provocative, their discussions shed light on apparent anachronisms, perfromance and stagecraft, linguistics, Star Trek and much else. Shrewd andentertaining, these essays add a new dimension to the pleasure of reading or watching Shakespeare. 'Few modern academics are doing quite so much as Professor Sutherland to connect the "common reader" with great books' Independent
Author | : Leon Harold Craig |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 297 |
Release | : 2014-07-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1628920475 |
Shakespeare's famous play, Hamlet, has been the subject of more scholarly analysis and criticism than any other work of literature in human history. For all of its generally acknowledged virtues, however, it has also been treated as problematic in a raft of ways. In Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet, Leon Craig explains that the most oft-cited problems and criticisms are actually solvable puzzles. Through a close reading of the philosophical problems presented in Hamlet, Craig attempts to provide solutions to these puzzles. The posing of puzzles, some more conspicuous, others less so, is fundamental to Shakespeare's philosophical method and purpose. That is, he has crafted his plays, and Hamlet in particular, so as to stimulate philosophical activity in the "judicious" (as distinct from the "unskillful") readers. By virtue of showing what so many critics treat as faults or flaws are actually intended to be interpretive challenges, Craig aims to raise appreciation for the overall coherence of Hamlet: that there is more logical rigor to its plot and psychological plausibility to its characterizations than is generally granted, even by its professed admirers. Philosophy and the Puzzles of Hamlet endeavors to make clear why Hamlet, as a work of reason, is far better than is generally recognized, and proves its author to be, not simply the premier poet and playwright he is already universally acknowledged to be, but a philosopher in his own right.
Author | : Richard Meek |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 152618396X |
This collection of essays is part of a new phase in Shakespeare studies. The traditional view of Shakespeare is that he was a man of the theatre who showed no interest in the printing of his plays, producing works that are only fully realised in performance. This view has recently been challenged by critics arguing that Shakespeare was a literary ‘poet-playwright’, concerned with his readers as well as his audiences. Shakespeare’s Book offers a vital contribution to this critical debate, and examines its wider implications for how we conceive of Shakespeare and his works. Bringing together an impressive group of international Shakespeare scholars, the volume explores both Shakespeare’s relationship with actual printers, patrons, and readers, and the representation of writing, reading, and print within his works themselves.
Author | : Emma Smith |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470776889 |
This Guide steers students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their critical repertoire. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s history plays. Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions. Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context. Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.