Representing Shakespeare
Author: Murray M. Schwartz
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780783733920
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Author: Murray M. Schwartz
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780783733920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Graham Holderness
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9780719014888
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mirko Ilic
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Published: 2015-10-20
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781616892920
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA skull held aloft, a lovesick donkey, a bloodied dagger—these familiar icons are instantly recognizable shorthand for the plays of William Shakespeare. In the four hundred years since his death, the Bard of Avon's exalted place in the pantheon of theater and poetry—indeed, all of Western culture—is unequaled. As Ben Jonson proclaimed, Shakespeare "is not of an age but for all time!" And just as centuries of theatrical artists have reimagined his works through the lens of their own time and culture, so too have illustrators and designers been inspired to create posters that reinvent Shakespeare's well-known themes for each new generation of theatergoers. Presenting Shakespeare collects 1,100 posters for Shakespeare's plays, designed by an international roster of artists representing 55 countries, from Japan to Colombia, India, Russia, Australia, and beyond. A fascinating trove of theatrical artifacts, Presenting Shakespeare is a necessary volume for theater and design lovers alike.
Author: Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-07-15
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1317866754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text traces the changing theatrical and cultural identity of the History plays in the context of postwar social and political conflict, crisis and change. Since the company's inception in the early 1960s, the RSC's commitment to relevance has fostered close relationships between Shakespearean criticism and performance, and between the theatre and its audiences. Through a detailed discussion of key productions, from "The War of the Roses" in 1963 to "The Plantegenets" in 1988, Robert Shaughnessy emphasizes the political dimension of contemporary theatrical representations of Shakespeare, and of the "Shakespearean" modes of history that these plays have been employed to promote; individualist, cyclical, male-dominated, and driven by essentialised, transcendent human nature.
Author: Stephen Orgel
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 1317796217
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this lavishly illustrated book, one of the most important and influential scholars of the Renaissance stage brings together essays that have changed the way we think about the age of Shakespeare. His subjects are varied and interconnected: the theater as social phenomenon, the development of the stage as an architectural presence and a cultural institution, the changing use of setting and costume, the changing status of the acting profession, the complex relation of theater to the political life of the age. Most of all, The Authentic Shakespeare is about how the modern constructs the past, how the texts that were performed on the Elizabethan stage became the books and editions that are, for our time, Renaissance drama. Many essays in The Authentic Shakespeare have become classics. Collected here for the first time, they essential reading for students of the Renaissance stage and the history of the book.
Author: Sophie Chiari
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2018-10-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1474442552
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive history of Byzantine warfare in the tenth century
Author: BRADD. SHORE
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2021-08-23
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781032017174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a bridge between Shakespeare Studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a 'great thinker' and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare's plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays - Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and King Lear - engage with the plays in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how "the new astronomy" of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of "perspective," and shaped Shakespeare's approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies, but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.
Author: Bernard J. Paris
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780838634295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare's history and Roman plays are usually discussed in terms of their political themes; their leading characters are imagined human beings who must be understood in motivational terms. Analyzing these characters with the aid of modern psychology (the theories of Karen Horney), this story attempts both to make sense of inconsistencies within the plays and the controversies they have produced.
Author: George Koppelman
Publisher: Axletree Books
Published: 2015-10-01
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 0692500324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA study of manuscript annotations in a curious copy of John Baret's ALVEARIE, an Elizabethan dictionary published in 1580. This revised and expanded second edition presents new evidence and furthers the argument that the annotations were written by William Shakespeare. This ebook contains text in color, and images. We recommend reading it on a device that displays both.