Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance
Author: James C. Bulman
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 0415116260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Shakespeare and Social Theory
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.
Shakespeare and Feminist Performance
Author: Sarah Werner
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-07-08
Total Pages: 146
ISBN-13: 1134588038
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do performances of Shakespeare change the meanings of the plays? In this controversial new book, Sarah Werner argues that the text of a Shakespeare play is only one of the many factors that give a performance its meaning. By focusing on The Royal Shakespeare Company, Werner demonstrates how actor training, company management and gender politics fundamentally affect both how a production is created and the interpretations it can suggest. Werner concentrates particularly on: The influential training methods of Cicely Berry and Patsy Rodenburg The history of the RSC Women's Group Gale Edwards' production of The Taming of the Shrew She reveals that no performance of Shakespeare is able to bring the plays to life or to realise the playwright's intentions without shaping them to mirror our own assumptions. By examining the ideological implications of performance practices, this book will help all interested in Shakespeare's plays to explore what it means to study them in performance.
Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance
Author: William B. Worthen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-01-30
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 9780521008006
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book analyses how Shakespeare is recreated in historical performance.
Shakespeare, Theory and Performance
Author: James C. Bulman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2003-09-02
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 113481917X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare, Theory and Performance is a groundbreaking collection of seminal essays which apply the abstract theory of Shakespearean criticism to the practicalities of performance. Bringing together the key names from both realms, the collection reflects a wide range of sources and influences, from traditional literary, performance and historical criticism to modern cultural theory. Together they raise questions about the place of performance criticism in modern and often competing debates of cultural materialism, new historicism, feminism and deconstruction. An exciting and fascinating volume, it will be important reading for students and scholars of literary and theatre studies alike.
Shakespeare and the Question of Theory
Author: Geoffrey H. Hartman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2004-06-01
Total Pages: 589
ISBN-13: 1134964420
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade has called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and interpreting texts. Shakespeare has been not just the focus of a variety of divergent critical movements within recent years, but also increasingly the locus of emerging debates within, and with, theory itself. This collection of essays, written by distinguished and powerful critics in the fields of literary theory and Shakespeare studies, is intended both for those interested in Shakespeare and for those interested more generally in the emerging debates within contemporary criticism and theory.
Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance
Author: William B. Worthen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1997-09-25
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780521558990
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow the idea of Shakespearean authority is still invested in the activities of directing, acting, and scholarship.
Shakespeare’s Things
Author: Brett Gamboa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1000750922
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFloating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.
The Shakespeare Conspiracy
Author: Ted Bacino
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2010-07-13
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1452050678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTWO QUESTIONS HAVE ALWAYS PLAGUED HISTORIANS: HOW COULD Christopher Marlowe, a known spy and England's foremost playwright, be suspiciously murdered and quickly buried in an unmarked grave just days before he was to be tried for treason? HOW COULD William Shakespeare replace Marlowe as England's greatest playwright virtually overnight when Shakespeare had never written anything before and was merely an unknown actor? Historians have noted that the Bard of Stratford was better known at that time for holding horses for the gentry while they watched plays. The Shakespeare Conspiracy is a historical novel that intertwines the two mysteries and then puts the pieces together to offer the only possible resolution. The novel, a wild romp through gay 16th Century Elizabethan England, is a rapidly unfolding detective story filled with comedy, intrigue, murder and illicit love. And most importantly, all recorded events, persons, dates and documents are historically accurate. You will Get the scandalous view of the real William Shakespeare, with his sexual peccadilloes, illegitimate children and mistresses Wander through the gay world of Christopher Marlowe, when it was acceptable to be homosexual just so long as one stayed within one's own class as did Kings like James I, Edward II, and others Observe Inspector Henry Maunder matching wits with Christopher Marlowe's patron, Sir Thomas Walsingham one cleverly hiding the facts and other cunningly discovering the truth Watch the arguments unfold, showing the actual reasons that many historians believe that it could only have been Christopher Marlowe writing all those great works. It's a tale of murder, mayhem and manhunts in the underbelly of London as the Black Plague scourges the country and the greatest conspiracy plot of all time is hatched. It's The Shakespeare Conspiracy!
Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare
Author: Aureliu Manea
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-21
Total Pages: 151
ISBN-13: 1000074145
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Imaginary Performances in Shakespeare, visionary modernist theatre director Aureliu Manea analyses the theatrical possibilities of Shakespeare. Through nineteen Shakespeare plays, Manea sketches the intellectual parameters, the visual languages, and the emotional worlds of imagined stage interpretations of each; these nineteen short essays are appended by his essay ‘Confessions,’ an autobiographical meditation on the nature of theatre and the role of the director. This captivating book which will be attractive to anyone interested in Shakespeare and modern theatre.
