Still Harping on Daughters
Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780710809360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher:
Published: 1983
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780710809360
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Lisa Hopkins
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2005-05-06
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780719064234
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This textbook offers to introduce students to the study of Shakespeare and to ground their understandings of his work in theoretical discourses.
Author: Frank Whigham
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1996-01-26
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521564496
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Seizures of the Will in Early Modern English Drama Frank Whigham combines an analysis of English Renaissance plays with an enriched sense of their social surroundings. He traces the violent gestures of social self-construction that animate many such plays, and the ways in which drama interacts with the conflict-ridden discourses of social, rank, gender, kinship, and service relationships. In Whigham's view, The Spanish Tragedy initiates the 'matter of court,' a complex and marauding discourse of gender warfare and master-servant manipulations; Arden of Faversham explores linked redefinitions of land, service, and marriage in county culture; The Miseries of Enforced Marriage and A Yorkshire Tragedy present a powerful critique of the traditional imperialism of kinship in northern England; and The Duchess of Malfi explores metaphors of erotic transgression.
Author: Lisa Jardine
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780231070638
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: George Alexander Kennedy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13: 9780521300148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This ninth volume in The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism presents a wide-ranging survey of developments in literary criticism and theory during the last century. Drawing on the combined expertise of a large team of specialist scholars, it offers an authoritative account of the various movements of thought that have made the late twentieth century such a richly productive period in the history of criticism. The aim has been to cover developments which have had greatest impact on the academic study of literature, along with background chapters that place those movements in a broader, intellectual, national and socio-cultural perspective. In comparison with Volumes Seven and Eight, also devoted to twentieth-century developments, there is marked emphasis on the rethinking of historical and philosophical approaches, which have emerged, especially during the past two decades, as among the most challenging areas of debate.
Author: Timothy J. Reiss
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 9780801499470
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Winner of the sixth annual Morris Forkosch Prize, given by the Journal of the History of Ideas, for the best book published in intellectual history in 1992. In this searching and wide-ranging book, Timothy J. Reiss seeks to explain how the...
Author: Valerie Wayne
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780801499654
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This lively volume investigates Shakespeare's plays in terms of the relations between material conditions of Renaissance culture and differences of gender, class, race, and erotic practice.
Author: Meredith Anne Skura
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 9780226761800
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →For the Renaissance, all the world may have been a stage and all its people players, but Shakespeare was also an actor on the literal stage. Meredith Anne Skura asks what it meant to be an actor in Shakespeare's England and shows why a knowledge of actual theatrical practices is essential for understanding both Shakespeare's plays and the theatricality of everyday life in early modern England. Despite the obvious differences between our theater and Shakespeare's, sixteenth-century testimony suggests that the experience of acting has not changed much over the centuries. Beginning with a psychoanalytically informed account of acting today, Skura shows how this intense and ambivalent experience appears not only in literal references to acting in Shakespearean drama but also in recurring narrative concerns, details of language, and dramatic strategies used to engage the audience. Looking at the plays in the context of both public and private worlds outside the theater, Skura rereads the canon to identify new configurations in the plays and new ways of understanding theatrical self-consciousness in Renaissance England. Rich in theatrical, psychoanalytic, biographical, and historical insight, this book will be invaluable to students of Shakespeare and instructive to all readers interested in the dynamics of performance.
Author: David F. McCandless
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1997-12-22
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780253113344
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This is exactly the kind of work, with its synthesis of theory, close reading, and deconstructive performance criticism that many of us in the profession have been looking for." -- Joel B. Altman, University of California, Berkeley "McCandless's book represents an inventive and illuminating account that not only produces a theoretically activated text but also explores a range of options for staging it, turning theoretical into theatrical meanings." -- Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University "The writing is clear, snappy, wonderfully informed with a vivid and experienced theatrical imagination... a book that taught me a good deal about the problem comedies, especially from the vantage point of performance, though the insights into performance are fully and incisively integrated with, and they richly illuminate, formal, thematic, and psychological vantage points on the play." -- Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois Composed at a critical moment in English history, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida -- Shakespeare's problem plays -- dramatize a crisis in the sex-gender system. They register a male dread of emasculation and engulfment, a fear of female authority and sexuality. In these plays males identify desire for a female as dangerous and unmanly, females contend and confound traditional femininity. David McCandless's book is a unique and invigorating example of performance criticism that illuminates these difficult, sometimes-overlooked tragicomedies. It is an original and timely contribution to Shakespearean theater scholarship.
Author: Susan Bruce
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2009-12-10
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 1441161090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed from the beginning of a course through to developing more advanced knowledge and skills. Written in clear language by leading academics, they provide an indispensable introduction to key topics, including: • Introduction to authors, texts, historical and cultural contexts • Guides to key critics, concepts and topics • An overview of major critical approaches, changes in the canon and directions of current and future research • Case studies in reading literary and critical texts • Annotated bibliography (including websites), timeline, glossary of critical terms. The Renaissance Literature Handbook is a comprehensive introduction to literature and culture in the "English Renaissance" or "Early Modern" period.