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Author: Sonia Massai
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-04-09
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1108429629
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A history of the reception of Shakespeare on the English stage focusing on the vocal dimensions of theatrical performance.
Author: John Joughin
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 1134688482
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shakespeare continues to articulate the central problems of our intellectual inheritance. The plays of a Renaissance playwright still seem to be fundamental to our understanding and experience of modernity. Key philosophical questions concerning value, meaning and justice continue to resonate in Shakespeare's work. In the course of rethinking these issues, Philosophical Shakespeares actively encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy. The approach throughout is interdisciplinary, and ranges from problem-centred readings of particular plays to more general elaborations of the significance of Shakespeare in relation to individual thinkers or philosophical traditions.
Author: Ewan Fernie
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-11-16
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1134363478
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the ‘religious turn’ in recent literary theory and to the spiritualized politics of terrorism and the ‘War on Terror’. Exploring a genuinely new perspective within Shakespeare Studies, the volume suggests that experiencing the spiritual intensities of the plays could lead us back to dramatic intensity as such. It tests spirituality from a political perspective, as well as subjecting politics to an unusual spiritual critique. Amongst its controversial and provocative arguments is the idea that a consideration of spirituality might point the way forward for materialist criticism. Reaching across and beyond literary studies to offer challenging and powerful contributions from leading scholars, this book offers unique readings of some very familiar plays.
Author: John Drakakis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1134104278
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Gothic Shakespeares, Shakespeare is considered alongside major Gothic texts and writers - from Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and Mary Shelley, up to and including contemporary Gothic fiction and horror film. This volume offers a highly original and truly provocative account of Gothic reformulations of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s significance to the Gothic.
Author: Hugh Grady
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1134616384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This in-depth collection of essays traces the changing reception of Shakespeare over the past four hundred years, during which time Shakespeare has variously been seen as the last great exponent of pre-modern Western culture, a crucial inaugurator of modernity, and a prophet of postmodernity. This fresh look at Shakespeare's plays is an important contribution to the revival of the idea of 'modernity' and how we periodise ourselves, and Shakespeare, at the beginning of a new millennium.
Author: Jean E. Howard
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-01-11
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 1134633041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Marxist Shakespeares uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The book offers new insights into the historical conditions within which Shakespeare's representations of class and gender emerged, and into Shakespeare's role in the global culture industry stretching from Hollywood to the Globe Theatre. A vital resource for students of Shakespeare which includes Marx's own readings of Shakespeare, Derrida on Marx, and also Bourdieu, Bataillle, Negri and Alice Clark.
Author: Terence Hawkes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-12-16
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 1134780753
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 investigates Shakespearean criticism over a decade later, introducing new debates and new theorists into the frame. Both established scholars and new names appear here, providing a broad cross-section of contemporary Shakespearean studies, including psychoanalysis, sexual and gender politics, race and new historicism. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 represents the forefront of contemporary Shakespearean studies. This urgently-needed addition to a classic work of literary criticism is one which teachers and scholars will welcome.
Author: Wes Folkerth
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-03
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13: 1317797213
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 'Sound of Shakespeare' reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare's art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture. In this engaging study, Wes Folkerth develops listening as a critical practice, attending to the ways in which Shakespeare's plays express their author's awareness of early modern associations between sound and particular forms of ethical and aesthetic experience. Through readings of the acoustic representation of deep subjectivity in Richard III, of the 'public ear' in Antony and Cleopatra, the receptive ear in Coriolanus, the grotesque ear in A Midsummer Night's Dream, the 'greedy ear' in Othello, and the 'willing ear' in Measure for Measure, Folkerth demonstrates that by listening to Shakespeare himself listening, we derive a fuller understanding of why his works continue to resonate so strongly with is today.
Author: Christy Desmet
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0415207266
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This fascinating collection of original essays show how writer's efforts to intimate, contradict, compete with, and reproduce Shakespeare keep him in the cultural conversation.
Author: Dympna Callaghan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1134633114
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
