Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994

Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994
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Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Total Pages : 444
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ISBN-10 : 0838637418
ISBN-13 : 9780838637418
Rating : 4/5 (18 Downloads)

Synopsis Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994 by : John Ripley

Drawing upon promptbooks and other theater documents, engravings and photographs, reviews, interviews, letters, diaries, and memoirs, he creates a richly layered account of a play persistently denied its character and rarely staged without explicit or implicit apology.

Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia

Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 233
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ISBN-10 : 9781350067240
ISBN-13 : 1350067245
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia by : Yuichi Tsukada

In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died and King James I inherited the English throne. During James's reign, England continued to hark back to Elizabeth, comparing him with his predecessor – not always in a way that was either flattering or pleasing to James. Critics have traditionally assumed that Shakespeare avoided involving himself in this discourse. In this study of Shakespeare's Jacobean plays, however, Yuichi Tsukada demonstrates that, far from not involving himself in the phenomenon of nostalgia for Elizabeth, Shakespeare interacted closely with retrospective writings on Elizabeth and illuminated the complex politics behind the nostalgia. Based upon close readings of Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline and Henry VIII, together with a range of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, John Marston, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson, the book traces the ongoing cultural negotiation of the memory of Elizabeth. Yuichi Tsukada offers fresh insights into enigmatic aspects of Shakespeare's Jacobean drama. For instance, what was the original significance of the two contentious prophecies – 'none of woman born' and the march of Birnam Wood – in Macbeth? Or that of the seemingly out-of-place triumphal procession of Volumnia near the tragic end of Coriolanus? Although her memory recurred in all forms of discourse throughout the first decade of James's reign, the impact of this cultural undercurrent on Shakespeare's Jacobean drama has been ignored or underestimated. Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia reveals the unnoticed richness of Shakespeare's Jacobean drama by focusing on the growing cultural and political nostalgia for England's dead queen.

Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean

Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 230
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ISBN-10 : 9781441162960
ISBN-13 : 1441162968
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Synopsis Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean by : Peter Holland

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Romantic Antiquity

Romantic Antiquity
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9780195376128
ISBN-13 : 0195376129
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis Romantic Antiquity by : Jonathan Sachs

This work argues that Rome is relevant to the Romantic period not as the continuation of an earlier neoclassicism, but rather as a concept that is simultaneously transformed and transformative: transformed in the sense that new models of historical thinking produced a changed understandings of historicity itself.

Coriolanus

Coriolanus
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 0521294029
ISBN-13 : 9780521294027
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Coriolanus by : William Shakespeare

This generously annotated edition offers a thorough reconsideration of Shakespeare's remarkable, and probably his last, tragedy.

Blood on the Stage, 1600 to 1800

Blood on the Stage, 1600 to 1800
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 830
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ISBN-10 : 9781538106167
ISBN-13 : 1538106167
Rating : 4/5 (67 Downloads)

Synopsis Blood on the Stage, 1600 to 1800 by : Amnon Kabatchnik

This volume examines the key representations of transgression drama produced between 1600 and 1800. Arranged in chronological order, the entries consist of plot summary (often including significant dialogue), performance data (if available), opinions by critics and scholars, and other features.

Great Shakespeareans Set II

Great Shakespeareans Set II
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 868
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ISBN-10 : 9781441184481
ISBN-13 : 1441184481
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis Great Shakespeareans Set II by : Adrian Poole

The second set of volumes in the eighteen-volume series Great Shakespeareans, covering the work of nineteen key figures who influenced the global understanding of Shakespeare

Coriolanus: A Critical Reader

Coriolanus: A Critical Reader
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9781350111202
ISBN-13 : 1350111201
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis Coriolanus: A Critical Reader by : Liam E. Semler

Coriolanus is the last and most intriguing of Shakespeare's Roman tragedies. Critics, directors and actors have long been bewitched by this gripping character study of a warrior that Rome can neither tolerate nor do without. Caius Martius Coriolanus is a terrifying war machine in battle, a devoted son to a wise and ambitious mother at home, and an inflammatory scorner of the rights and rites of the common people. This Critical Reader opens up the extraordinary range of interpretation the play has elicited over the centuries and offers exciting new directions for scholarship. The volume commences with a Timeline of key events relating to Coriolanus in print and performance and an Introduction by the volume editor. Chapters survey the scholarly reaction to the play over four centuries, the history of Coriolanus on stage and the current research and thinking about the play. The second half of the volume comprises four 'New Directions' essays exploring: the rhetoric and performance of the self, the play's relevance to our contemporary world, an Hegelian approach to the tragedy, and the insights of computer-assisted stylometry. A final chapter critically surveys resources for teaching the play.

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 1423
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ISBN-10 : 9780199267170
ISBN-13 : 0199267170
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by : William Shakespeare

A compact edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare. It combines impeccable scholarship with beautifully written editorial material and a user-friendly layout of the text. Also included is a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, glossary, consolidated bibliography and index of first lines of Sonnets.

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century

Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 469
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ISBN-10 : 9780521898607
ISBN-13 : 0521898609
Rating : 4/5 (07 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century by : Fiona Ritchie

This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.