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Author |
: Various |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 3794 |
Release |
: 2021-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000519389 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000519384 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Routledge Library Editions: Study of Shakespeare by : Various
This 14-volume set contains titles originally published between 1926 and 1992. An eclectic mix, this collection examines Shakespeare’s work from a number of different perspectives, looking at history, language, performance and more it includes references to many of his plays as well as his sonnets.
Author |
: S. C. Boorman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 281 |
Release |
: 2021-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000350128 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000350126 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Human Conflict in Shakespeare by : S. C. Boorman
Conflict is at the heart of much of Shakespeare’s drama. Frequently there is an overt setting of violence, as in Macbeth, but, more significantly there is often ‘interior’ conflict. Many of Shakespeare’s most striking and important characters – Hamlet and Othello are good examples – are at war with themselves. Originally published in 1987, S. C. Boorman makes this ‘warfare of our nature’ the central theme of his stimulating approach to Shakespeare. He points to the moral context within which Shakespeare wrote, in part comprising earlier notions of human nature, in part the new tentative perceptions of his own age. Boorman shows Shakespeare’s great skill in developing the traditional ideas of proper conduct to show the tensions these ideas produce in real life. In consequence, Shakespeare’s characters are not the clear-cut figures of earlier drama, rehearsing the set speeches of their moral types – they are so often complex and doubting, deeply disturbed by their discordant natures. The great merit of this fine book is that it displays the ways in which Shakespeare conjured up living beings of flesh and blood, making his plays as full of dramatic power and appeal for modern audiences as for those of his own day. In short, this book presents a human approach to Shakespeare, one which stresses that truth of mankind’s inner conflict which links virtually all his plays.
Author |
: John Bayley |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2021-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000350449 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000350444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare and Tragedy by : John Bayley
Every generation develops its own approach to tragedy, attitudes successively influenced by such classic works as A. C. Bradley’s Shakespearean Tragedy and the studies in interpretation by G. Wilson Knight. A comprehensive new book on the subject by an author of the same calibre was long overdue. In his book, originally published in 1981, John Bayley discusses the Roman plays, Troilus and Cressida and Timon of Athens as well as the four major tragedies. He shows how Shakespeare’s most successful tragic effects hinge on an opposition between the discourses of character and form, role and context. For example, in Lear the dramatis personae act in the dramatic world of tragedy which demands universality and high rhetoric of them. Yet they are human and have their being in the prosaic world of domesticity and plain speaking. The inevitable intrusion of the human world into the world of tragedy creates the play’s powerful off-key effects. Similarly, the existential crisis in Macbeth can be understood in terms of the tension between accomplished action and the free-ranging domain of consciousness. What is the relation between being and acting? How does an audience become intimate with a protagonist who is alienated from his own play? What did Shakespeare add to the form and traditions of tragedy? Do his masterpieces in the genre disturb and transform it in unexpected ways? These are the issues raised by this lucid and imaginative study. Professor Bayley’s highly original rethinking of the problems will be a challenge to the Shakespearean scholar as well as an illumination to the general reader.
Author |
: Vivian Thomas |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 2021-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000350104 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100035010X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays by : Vivian Thomas
What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas’s new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. From the collapse of ‘degree’ in Troilus and Cressida to the corruption at the heart of innocence in Measure for Measure, to the puzzling status of virtue and valour in All’s Well, the most obvious feature of these plays in their capacity to prompt new questions. In a detailed discussion of each play in turn, the author traces the dominant themes that both distinguish and unite them, and provides numerous insights into the sources, background, texture and morality of the plays.
Author |
: Kenneth Muir |
Publisher |
: Psychology Press |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415353009 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415353007 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Voyage to Illyria by : Kenneth Muir
This study argues that the plays of Shakespeare must be studied by comparison with each other and not as separate entities; that they must be related to one another, to the poems and to the Sonnets; that each individual play acquires a deeper
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: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:890436269 |
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: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis Routledge Library Editions - Shakespeare by :
Author |
: J. M. Gregson |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 329 |
Release |
: 2021-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000350135 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000350134 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Synopsis Public and Private Man in Shakespeare by : J. M. Gregson
The potential duality of human character and its capacity for dissembling was a source of fascination to the Elizabethan dramatists. Where many of them used the Machiavellian picture to draw one fair-faced scheming villain after another, Shakespeare absorbed more deeply the problem of the tensions between the public and private face of man. Originally published in 1983, this book examines the ways in which this psychological insight is developed and modified as a source of dramatic power throughout Shakespeare’s career. In the great sequence of history plays he examines the conflicting tensions of kingship and humanity, and the destructive potential of this dilemma is exploited to the full in the ‘problem plays’. In the last plays power and virtue seem altogether divorced: Prospero can retire to an old age at peace only at the abdication of all his power. This theme is central to the art of many dramatists, but in the context of Renaissance political philosophy it takes on an added resonance for Shakespeare.
Author |
: Chris Fitter |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 394 |
Release |
: 2013-07-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781136575822 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1136575820 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Radical Shakespeare by : Chris Fitter
This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor censorship, supplemented by the relatively depoliticizing aesthetic traditions of later centuries, have together obscured the consistent subversiveness of his work. Traditionally, Shakespeare’s political attitudes have been construed either as primarily conservative, or as essays in richly imaginative ambiguation, irreducible to settled viewpoints. Fitter contends that government censorship forced superficial acquiescence upon Shakespeare in establishment ideologies — monarchic, aristocratic and patriarchal — that were enunciated through rhetorical set pieces, but that Shakespeare the dramatist learned from Shakespeare the actor a variety of creative methods for sabotaging those perspectives in performance in the public theatres. Using historical contextualizations and recuperation of original performance values, the book argues that Shakespeare emerged as a radical writer not in middle age with King Lear and Coriolanus — plays whose radicalism is becoming widely recognized — but from his outset, with Henry VI and Taming of the Shrew. Recognizing Shakespeare’s allusiveness to 1590s controversies and dissident thought, and recovering the subtextual politics of Shakespeare’s distinctive stagecraft reveals populist, at times even radical meaning and a substantially new, and astonishingly interventionist, Shakespeare.
Author |
: Lena Ashwell |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 267 |
Release |
: 2021-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000350098 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000350096 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis Reflections From Shakespeare by : Lena Ashwell
Originally published in 1926, this title was edited from a series of lectures the author gave to raise money for her theatre group the Lena Ashwell Players. Through her work as a producer the author gained a deeper knowledge of a number of Shakespeare’s plays and in order to support her work gave a number of lectures on "Women in Shakespeare". This title was perhaps the first book by a woman of the profession, appealing to the public for a larger and deeper understanding of Shakespeare: the man, his life, and that group of tragedies in which he fathomed Hell, then scaled the Heavens.
Author |
: Ruth Nevo |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 211 |
Release |
: 2021-03-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000350418 |
ISBN-13 |
: 100035041X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Other Language by : Ruth Nevo
Shakespeare’s last plays, the tragicomic Romances, are notoriously strange plays, riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences, magic and dream. These features have sometimes been interpreted as the carelessness of an of an aging dramatist weary of his craft, or justified as folklore motifs, suitable to the romance tale. But neither view explains the fascination and power these plays still exert. Originally published in 1987, Ruth Nevo’s book offers a reading of the plays which invokes the findings and methods of post-psychoanalytic semiotics. Drawing on a Lacanian model of the "textual unconscious", she embarks on searching analyses of Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest, brilliantly illuminating their apparent absurdities and anomalies, their bizarre or preposterous events and obscurely motivated actions, their often puzzling syntax. Her investigation of the plays’ informing fantasies produces unified and enriched readings which serve both to rehabilitate those plays which have been less than highly thought of, and to disclose new significance in the acknowledged masterpieces.