Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies

Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 275
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ISBN-10 : 9781108474030
ISBN-13 : 1108474039
Rating : 4/5 (30 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies by : Emma Whipday

Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.

Shakespeare's Tragedies

Shakespeare's Tragedies
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 153
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ISBN-10 : 9780198785293
ISBN-13 : 0198785291
Rating : 4/5 (93 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's Tragedies by : Stanley Wells

Shakespeare's tragedies contain an astonishing variety of suffering, from suicides and murders to dismemberments and grief. Stanley Wells considers how the bard's tragic plays drew on the literary and theatrical conventions of his time. Discussing the individual plays, he also explores why tragedy is regarded as a fit subject for entertainment.

At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies

At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 217
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ISBN-10 : 9781317177678
ISBN-13 : 1317177673
Rating : 4/5 (78 Downloads)

Synopsis At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies by : Geraldo U. de Sousa

Bringing together methods, assumptions and approaches from a variety of disciplines, Geraldo U. de Sousa's innovative study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, household, and family life in Shakespeare's great tragedies. Concentrating on King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, de Sousa's examination of the home provides a fresh look at material that has been the topic of fierce debate. Through a combination of textual readings and a study of early modern housing conditions, accompanied by analyses that draw on anthropology, architecture, art history, the study of material culture, social history, theater history, phenomenology, and gender studies, this book demonstrates how Shakespeare explores the materiality of the early modern house and evokes domestic space to convey interiority, reflect on the habits of the mind, interrogate everyday life, and register elements of the tragic journey. Specific topics include the function of the disappearance of the castle in King Lear, the juxtaposition of home-centered life in Venice and nomadic, 'unhoused' wandering in Othello, and the use of special lighting effects to reflect this relationship, Hamlet's psyche in response to physical space, and the redistribution of domestic space in Macbeth. Images of the house, home, and household become visually and emotionally vibrant, and thus reflect, define, and support a powerful tragic narrative.

Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy

Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 138
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ISBN-10 : 9781441137661
ISBN-13 : 1441137661
Rating : 4/5 (61 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy by : Sean Benson

Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, 'domestic tragedy' was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from 1580-1620. Shakespeare, 'Othello', and Domestic Tragedy is the first book to examine Shakespeare's relationship to the genre by way of the King's and Chamberlain's Men's ownership and production of many of the domestic tragedies, and of the genre's extensive influence on Shakespeare's own tragedy, Othello. Drawing in part upon recent scholarship that identifies Shakespeare as a co-author of Arden of Faversham, Sean Benson demonstrates the extensive-even uncanny-ties between Othello and the domestic tragedies. Benson argues that just as Hamlet employs and adapts the conventions of revenge tragedy, so Othello can only be fully understood in terms of its exploitation of the tropes and conventions of domestic tragedy. This book explores not only the contexts and workings of this popular sub-genre of Renaissance drama but also Othello's secure place within it as the quintessential example of the form.

Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies

Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 312
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ISBN-10 : 9780241961469
ISBN-13 : 0241961467
Rating : 4/5 (69 Downloads)

Synopsis Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies by : Keith Sturgess

Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery, punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and characterization often enhanced by a highly entertaining blend of realism and sensationalism. Only some half-dozen survive to offset the dramas of kings and nobles in the tragedies of Shakespeare and his peers. They combined journalism and entertainment with a didactic concern, and their plots were often derived from contemporary events. Arden of Faversham (1592) and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) are both based on chronicles or pamphlets describing authentic murders, while A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) by Thomas Heywood is a fictional creation, considered his masterpiece.

Two Lamentable Tragedies

Two Lamentable Tragedies
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 194
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ISBN-10 : IND:32000007011754
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Two Lamentable Tragedies by : Robert Yarington

Shakespeare's Kitchen

Shakespeare's Kitchen
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Publisher : The New Press
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781595585837
ISBN-13 : 1595585834
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's Kitchen by : Lore Segal

The thirteen interrelated stories of Shakespeare's Kitchen concern the universal longing for friendship, how we achieve new intimacies for ourselves, and how slowly, inexplicably, we lose them. Featuring six never-before-published pieces, Lore Segal's stunning new book evolved from seven short stories that originally appeared in the New Yorker (including the O. Henry Prize–;winning “The Reverse Bug”). Ilka Weisz has accepted a teaching position at the Concordance Institute, a think tank in Connecticut, reluctantly leaving her New York circle of friends. After the comedy of her struggle to meet new people, Ilka comes to embrace, and be embraced by, a new set of acquaintances, including the institute's director, Leslie Shakespeare, and his wife, Eliza. Through a series of memorable dinner parties, picnics, and Sunday brunches, Segal evokes the subtle drama and humor of the outsider's loneliness, the comfort and charm of familiar companionship, the bliss of being in love, and the strangeness of our behavior in the face of other people's deaths. A magnificent and deeply moving work, Shakespeare's Kitchen marks the long-awaited return of a writer at the height of her powers.

Shakespeare's Language

Shakespeare's Language
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 342
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ISBN-10 : 9780374527747
ISBN-13 : 0374527741
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis Shakespeare's Language by : Frank Kermode

In this magnum opus, Britain's most distinguished scholar of 16th-century and 17th-century literature restores Shakespeare's poetic language to its rightful primacy.

Renaissance Papers 2019

Renaissance Papers 2019
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages : 135
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ISBN-10 : 9781640140837
ISBN-13 : 1640140832
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Renaissance Papers 2019 by : Jim Pearce

Sixty-sixth annual volume, taking in a range of topics relating to the literature of the period, from the power of naming to Shakespeare and Spenser, Herbert, Margaret Tyler and Margaret Cavendish, and Ben Jonson.

A Companion to Renaissance Drama

A Companion to Renaissance Drama
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Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Total Pages : 644
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ISBN-10 : 0631219501
ISBN-13 : 9780631219507
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis A Companion to Renaissance Drama by : Arthur F. Kinney

This expansive, inter-disciplinary guide to Renaissance plays and the world they played to gives readers a colorful overview of England's great dramatic age. Provides an expansive and inter-disciplinary approach to Renaissance plays and the world they played to. Offers a colourful and comprehensive overview of the material conditions of England's most important dramatic period. Gives readers facts and data along with up-to-date interpretation of the plays. Looks at the drama in terms of its cultural agency, its collaborative nature, and its ideological complexity.