Shakespeares Suicides
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Author |
: Marlena Tronicke |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 357 |
Release |
: 2017-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351213172 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351213172 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare’s Suicides by : Marlena Tronicke
Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare’s dramatic suicides. It addresses all plays featuring suicides and near-suicides in chronological order from Titus Andronicus to Antony and Cleopatra, thus establishing that suicide becomes increasingly pronounced as a vital means of dramatic characterisation. In particular, the book approaches suicide as a gendered phenomenon. By taking into account parameters such as onstage versus offstage deaths, suicide speeches or the explicit denial of final words, as well as settings and weapons, the study scrutinises the ways in which Shakespeare appropriates the convention of suicide and subverts traditional notions of masculine versus feminine deaths. It shows to what extent a gendered approach towards suicide opens up a more nuanced understanding of the correlation between gender and Shakespeare’s genres and how, eventually, through their dramatisation of suicide the tragedies query normative gender discourse.
Author |
: Marlena Tronicke |
Publisher |
: Routledge Studies in Shakespeare |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2017-11-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0815380445 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780815380443 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Suicides by : Marlena Tronicke
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Textual Note -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Knitting the Cord: Titus Andronicus -- 2 Happy Daggers: Romeo and Juliet -- 3 Roman Fools: Julius Caesar -- 4 Solid Flesh: Hamlet -- 5 Before We Go: Othello -- 6 Promised Ends: King Lear -- 7 Trying the Last: Macbeth -- 8 Well Done: Antony and Cleopatra -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
Author |
: Kathryn Harkup |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 369 |
Release |
: 2020-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781472958242 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1472958241 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Death By Shakespeare by : Kathryn Harkup
William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still enjoy the same reactions – shock, sadness, fear – that they did more than 400 years ago when these plays were first performed. But how realistic are these deaths, and did Shakespeare have the knowledge to back them up? In the Bard's day death was a part of everyday life. Plague, pestilence and public executions were a common occurrence, and the chances of seeing a dead or dying body on the way home from the theatre were high. It was also a time of important scientific progress. Shakespeare kept pace with anatomical and medical advances, and he included the latest scientific discoveries in his work, from blood circulation to treatments for syphilis. He certainly didn't shy away from portraying the reality of death on stage, from the brutal to the mundane, and the spectacular to the silly. Elizabethan London provides the backdrop for Death by Shakespeare, as Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die. Was death by snakebite as serene as Shakespeare makes out? Could lack of sleep have killed Lady Macbeth? Can you really murder someone by pouring poison in their ear? Kathryn investigates what actual events may have inspired Shakespeare, what the accepted scientific knowledge of the time was, and how Elizabethan audiences would have responded to these death scenes. Death by Shakespeare will tell you all this and more in a rollercoaster of Elizabethan carnage, poison, swordplay and bloodshed, with an occasional death by bear-mauling for good measure.
Author |
: Richard Courtney |
Publisher |
: Dundurn |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 1995 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0889242615 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780889242616 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's World of Death by : Richard Courtney
Shakespeare's World of Death discusses Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet.
Author |
: Simon Palfrey |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2016 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1851242473 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781851242474 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (73 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Dead by : Simon Palfrey
[This book] reveals the unique ways inwhich Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death, with particular reference to the plague which ravaged Britain during his lifetime, and against the divisive background of the Reformation. But it also shows how death on stage is different from death in real life. The dead come to life, ghosts haunt the living, and scenes of mourning are subverted by the fact that the supposed corpse still breathes."--Back cover.
Author |
: Abner Otis Kellogg |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 224 |
Release |
: 1866 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B272457 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Delineations of Insanity, Imbecility, and Suicide by : Abner Otis Kellogg
Author |
: Eric Langley |
Publisher |
: OUP Oxford |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2009-11-12 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780191609183 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0191609188 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Narcissism and Suicide in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries by : Eric Langley
The subjects of this book are the subjects whose subjects are themselves. Narcissus so himself himself forsook, And died to kiss his shadow in the brook. In accusing the introspective Adonis of narcissistic self-absorption, Shakespeare's Venus employs a geminative construction - 'himself himself' - that provides a keynote for this study of Renaissance reflexive subjectivity. Through close analysis of a number of Shakespearean texts - including Venus and Adonis, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Othello - his book illustrates how radical self-reflection is expressed on the Renaissance page and stage, and how representations of the two seemingly extreme figures of the narcissist and self-slaughterer are indicative of early-modern attitudes to introspection. Encompassing a broad range of philosophical, theological, poetic, and dramatic texts, this study examines period descriptions of the early-modern subject characterised by the rhetoric of reciprocation and reflection. The narcissist and the self-slaughter provide models of dialogic but self-destructive identity where private interiority is articulated in terms of self-response, but where this geminative isolation is understood as self-defeating, both selfish and suicidal. The study includes work on Renaissance revisions of Ovid, classical attitudes to suicide, the rhetoric of friendship literature, discussion of early-modern optic theory, and an extended discussion of narcissism in the epyllia tradition. Sustained textual analysis offers new readings of major Shakespearean texts, allowing familiar works of literature to be seen from the unusual and anti-social perspectives of their narcissistic and suicidal protagonists.
Author |
: Ra'ed AL-Qassas |
Publisher |
: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011-04-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1453896546 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781453896549 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis "Resolution and the Briefest End" Suicide in Shakespeare's Tragedies by : Ra'ed AL-Qassas
Suicide is fundamental when it comes to characters reaching a state of immortality in Shakespeare's tragedies, and in Resolution and the Briefest End: Suicide in Shakespeare's Tragedies, Ra'ed AL-Qassas studies this theory in great detail. Dedicated to sparking a renewed interest in these plays, and resuscitating a particular tragedy that has been neglected for many years, namely Timon of Athens, he focuses on the psychology of the Shakespearean hero, which brings into play a modern appreciation of the Bard's works. Imprisoned behind university walls, Christopher Marlowe's works have consequently faded away, while Shakespeare's plays are very much alive because of their suicidal content, a component that has always intrigued and fascinated audiences throughout the ages. What makes this book such an interesting read is that the author has detected three patterns of suicide in Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Timon of Athens, Othello, and Julius Caesar, which he classifies as nihilistic, emotional, and redemptive. This thought provoking study presents a new and highly original way of looking at Shakespeare's tragedies. Unique, informative, and worthy of note, this book is both educational and a great pleasure to read.
Author |
: D. Kehler |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2009-07-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780230623354 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0230623352 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Widows by : D. Kehler
Shakespeare s Widows moves thirty-one characters appearing in twenty plays to center stage. Through nuanced analyses, grounded in the widows material circumstances, Kehler uncovers the plays negotiations between the opposed poles of residual Catholic precept and Protestant practice - between celibacy and remarriage. Reading from a feminist materialist perspective, this book argues that Shakespeare s insights into the political and economic pressures the widows face allow them to elude mechanistic ideology. Kehler s book provides extensive historical background into the various religious and cultural attitudes towards widows in early modern England.
Author |
: David N. Beauregard |
Publisher |
: Associated University Presse |
Total Pages |
: 227 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780874130027 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0874130026 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (27 Downloads) |
Synopsis Catholic Theology in Shakespeare's Plays by : David N. Beauregard
Explores and reexamines Shakespeare's theology from the standpoint of revisionist history of the English Reformation.