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Author: Robert Weimann
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-08-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 0521895324
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book demonstrates the artful means by which Shakespeare responded to the competing claims of acting and writing in the Elizabethan era.
Author: David Bevington
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-05
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0226044793
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study examines how Shakespeare's plays have been transformed for the stage by the demands of theatrical spaces and staging conventions.
Author: Alisa Manninen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2015-10-05
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 1443884383
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWilliam Shakespeare explores political survival as a question of interaction at court in King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. Through a discussion of authority as an element that is distinct from power, this book offers a new perspective on the importance of acts of persuasion and the contribution the late tragedies make to Shakespeare’s portrayal of monarchy. It argues that the most productive uses of the material power to judge or reward are those that reinforce royal authority and establish the monarch at the centre of the web of noble relationships. In the late tragedies, rulership is exercised at court. It acquires a nature of its own as the interaction of powerful and potentially powerful individuals among the nobility. The persuasive exercise of authority complements the tangible power that is founded on the monarch’s material resources, so that consent to the monarch’s supremacy is obtained through various discourses of justification and the performance of the monarch’s social role. Shakespeare’s combination of emotional intimacy with political concerns becomes central to the tragedies of these three plays when the failure to establish control over power and authority leads to the breakdown of established values and political traditions.
Author: John Basil
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9781557836663
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a guide for actors which outlines a three-week process for performing Shakespeare's plays.
Author: S. Newstok
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-30
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 0230102166
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWeyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly fraught history of 'Macbeth' in the United States, from its appearance as the first Shakespearean play documented in the American colonies to a proposed Hollywood film version with a black diasporic cast. Over two dozen contributions explore 'Macbeth's' haunting presence in American drama, poetry, film, music, history, politics, acting, and directing — all through the intersections of race and performance.
Author: Catherine M. S. Alexander
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-12-21
Total Pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780521779388
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume, first published in 2000, draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama.
Author: Professor James A Knapp
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2015-09-28
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1472415795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs contributors to this volume prove, Shakespeare’s language of the self relies on descriptions of and reactions to facial expressions and features. An analysis of Shakespeare’s treatment of faces has implications for our understanding of the context in which he wrote, and for the ongoing interpretation and production of the plays. By bringing together historians, theorists of performance and critics interested in material culture and philosophies of self, this book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of attitudes towards embodiment in Shakespeare’s England.
Author: Delia Jarrett-Macauley
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-08-05
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 1317429443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat does it mean to study Shakespeare within a multicultural society? And who has the power to transform Shakespeare? The Diverse Bard explores how Shakespeare has been adapted by artists born on the margins of the Empire, and how actors of Asian and African-Caribbean origin are being cast by white mainstream directors. It examines how notions of 'race' define the contemporary British experience, including the demands of traditional theatre, and it looks at both the playtexts themselves and contemporary productions. Editor Delia Jarrett-Macauley assembles a stunning collection of classic texts and new scholarship by leading critics and practitioners, to provide the first comprehensive critical and practical analysis of this field.
Author: Dr Peter G Platt
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2013-04-28
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 1409475158
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.
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.
