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The Moral Universe of Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Author: Vivian Thomas

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-03-30

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 100035010X

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.

Shakespeare and the Problem Play

Author: E.L. Risden

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2012-10-22

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 078647243X

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Shakespeare's plays provide a rich source of genre variation as well as moral or ethical issues that invite deep study. The genre issue often proves the very moral crux where Shakespeare raises the most complex questions. He aimed to build good plays, not simple fulfillments of genre demands. To him "good plays" meant leaving his audience with problems to consider. This book begins with those works most commonly appearing in studies of problem plays, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure; moves to some comedic problem plays, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Twelfth Night; and then to tragic problem plays, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. It concludes with some problems in the history and romance genres for the issues they raise in love, adventure, and governance: Henry IV, Part 1, Henry V, Cymbeline, The Tempest, and Love's Labor's Lost.

Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-07-18

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 1627932534

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A collection containing Alls Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida

Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation

Author: Margaret Jane Kidnie

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 0415308674

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Kidnie brings current debates in performance criticism in contact with recent developments in textual studies to explore what it is that distinguishes Shakespearean work from its apparent other, the adaptation.

The Problem Plays of Shakespeare

Author: Ernest Schanzer

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13: 9780415353052

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The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon.

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-07-06

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13: 0521854482

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Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme the play is seen as a religious allegory, at the other it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege. Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the play, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises that shock the audience even to the end. The introduction describes the play's critical reception and stage history and how these have varied according to prevailing social, moral and religious issues, which were highly sensitive when Measure for Measure was written, and have remained so to the present day.

Shakespeare's Irrational Endings

Author: D. Margolies

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-07-24

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 1137031042

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Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his audience by frustrating their expectations.

Troilus and Cressida

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher:

Published: 1905

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13:

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Given the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one of the Inns of the Court. Shakespeare's treatment of the age-old tale of love and betrayal is based on many sources, from Homer and Ovid to Chaucer andShakespeare's near contemporary Robert Greene. In the introduction the various problems connected with the play, its performance, and publication, are considered succinctly; its multiple sources are discussed in detail, together with its peculiar stage history and its renewed popularity in recentyears.

Shakspere and His Predecessors

Author: Frederick Samuel Boas

Publisher:

Published: 1902

Total Pages: 618

ISBN-13:

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Shakespeare's Problem Plays

Author: Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard

Publisher:

Published: 1950

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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Discusses: Hamlet; Troilus and Cressida; All's well that ends well; Measure for measure.