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Author: David Wiles
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2005-06-30
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780521673341
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFocusing on the clown Will Kemp, this book shows how Shakespeare and other dramatists wrote specific roles as vehicles for him.
Author: Bente Videbaek
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe majority of Shakespeare's plays have at least one clown figure making an appearance. These characters range from rogues who say only a line or two, to important figures like Touchstone and Falstaff. Videbaek examines even the smallest clown roles, showing how the clown's freedom of speech allows him to become a mediator between the audience and the action of the play, helping audience interpretation. This illuminating celebration of the stage clown's contribution to the understanding and enjoyment of Shakespeare's plays will be a valuable resource for both students and scholars alike.
Author: Kent Cartwright
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-02-03
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0198868898
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction -- Clowns, fools, and folly -- Structural doubleness and repetition -- Place, being, and agency -- The manifestation of desire -- The return from the dead -- Ending and wondering.
Author: Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-01-28
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1474252672
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy are certain words used as insults in Shakespeare's world and what do these words do and say? Shakespeare's plays abound with insults which are more often merely cited than thoroughly studied, quotation prevailing over exploration. The purpose of this richly detailed dictionary is to go beyond the surface of these words and to analyse why and how words become insults in Shakespeare's world. It's an invaluable resource and reference guide for anyone grappling with the complexities and rewards of Shakespeare's inventive use of language in the realm of insult and verbal sparring.
Author: Joseph Mansky
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-09-30
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 100936278X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first comprehensive history of libels in Elizabethan England, this interdisciplinary study traces the crime across law, literature, and culture, focusing especially on the theater. Ranging from Shakespeare to provincial pageantry, it provides a fresh account of early modern drama and the viral media ecosystem springing up around it.
Author: Robert Hornback
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new account of medieval and Renaissance clown traditions reveals the true extent of their cultural influence.
Author: Michael Mangan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-06-06
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1317895045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.
Author: Edward Berry
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1984-10-18
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0521263034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfessor Berry combines social history, anthropology and literary criticism to Shakespeare's romantic comedies.
Author: Neil Rhodes
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1408143623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile much has been written on Shakespeare's debt to the classical tradition, less has been said about his roots in the popular culture of his own time. This is the first book to explore the full range of his debts to Elizabethan popular culture. Topics covered include the mystery plays, festive custom, clowns, romance and popular fiction, folklore and superstition, everyday sayings, and popular songs. These essays show how Shakespeare, throughout his dramatic work, used popular culture. A final chapter, which considers ballads with Shakespearean connections in the seventeenth century, shows how popular culture immediately after his time used Shakespeare.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1892
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13:
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