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Author |
: Neema Parvini |
Publisher |
: Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2012-03-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780748646142 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0748646140 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (42 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's History Plays: Rethinking Historicism by : Neema Parvini
Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. The book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays.
Author |
: Michael Hattaway |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2002-12-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521775396 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521775397 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays by : Michael Hattaway
Publisher Description (unedited publisher data) Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.
Author |
: Robert Watt |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 253 |
Release |
: 2014-06-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317876144 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317876148 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's History Plays by : Robert Watt
Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their relevance to central contemporary issues such as English, national identities and gender roles. Interpretations of the history plays have been transformed since the 1980s by new theoretically-informed critical approaches. Movements such as New Historicism and cultural materialism, as well as psychoanalytical and post-colonial approaches, have swept away the humanist consensus of the mid-twentieth century with its largely conservative view of the plays. The last decade has seen an emergence of feminist and gender-based readings of plays which were once thought overwhelmingly masculine in their concerns. This book provides an up-to-date critical anthology representing the best work from each of the modern theoretical perspectives. The introduction outlines the changing debate in an area which is now one of the liveliest in Shakespearean criticism.
Author |
: William Shakespeare |
Publisher |
: Sta |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2024-05-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798880911455 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Problem Plays by : William Shakespeare
Comedy and Tragedy--Collected here in one binding are All's Well That Ends Well Measure for Measure and The History of Troilus and Cressida. Collectively they are known as Shakespeare's Problem Plays. While the first two are usually placed with the comedies and the later with the tragedies none of them fit neatly into either classification. Their structure subject matter and resolutions create problems for those who want simple classifications. The term was coined by critic F. S. Boas who believed that these plays each explored a moral dilemma and social problem through their main characters giving the term a layered meaning. O it is excellentTo have a giant's strength;But it is tyrannousTo use it like a giant.
Author |
: John Julius Norwich |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 438 |
Release |
: 2001-03-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780743200318 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0743200314 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (18 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Kings by : John Julius Norwich
Compares the historical kings with their portrayal in Shakespeare's plays.
Author |
: Nicholas Grene |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 302 |
Release |
: 2002-01-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0521773415 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780521773416 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's Serial History Plays by : Nicholas Grene
A re-reading of the two sequences of Shakespeare's English history plays.
Author |
: Warren Chernaik |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2007-10-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780521855075 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0521855071 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's History Plays by : Warren Chernaik
An accessible and lively 2007 introduction to Shakespeare's history plays and their tradition on stage and film.
Author |
: Elihu Pearlman |
Publisher |
: New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International |
Total Pages |
: 218 |
Release |
: 1992 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015028481714 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (14 Downloads) |
Synopsis William Shakespeare by : Elihu Pearlman
Shakespeare is manifest in the continued staging of these history plays, which first came into vogue thanks to the post-Armada nationalism that swept Tudor England. Through historical dramas such as Henry IV and Richard III, Shakespeare addressed the political, social, and religious needs of an entire nation. In William Shakespeare: The History Plays, E. Pearlman provides an indispensable tool for identifying the source of the timeless excitement provided by.
Author |
: Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: LCCN:46001754 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis Shakespeare's History Plays by : Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard
Author |
: William Shakespeare |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 276 |
Release |
: 1890 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015082147102 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (02 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Life of King Henry the Fifth by : William Shakespeare