Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies
Author: Peter G. Phialas
Publisher:
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 9780783703169
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Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies
Author: Peter G. Phialas
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2012-06-01
Total Pages: 379
ISBN-13: 0807836974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhialas provides commentaries on Shakespeare's romantic comedies, treats in detail individual scenes and characters, and makes illuminating comparisons and contrasts of character with character. The chief concern of the book is with the action of each play, the nature and relationship of its parts, and the meaning that the action dramatizes. Originally published in 1966. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Comedies
Author: Penny Gay
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-04-07
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1139469770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.
The Comedy of Errors
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1898
Total Pages: 86
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe World Must be Peopled
Author: Michael D. Friedman
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780838639412
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book surveys the impact of these recent productions and suggests additional ways in which a feminist approach to performance might produce theatrical versions of these plays more consistent with their generic features."--BOOK JACKET.
Shakespeare's Comedies of Love
Author: Richard Paul Knowles
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0802039537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare's Comedies of Love is a tribute to Alexander Leggatt, a critic who has shaped the way the world understands Shakespeare and his comedies.
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1909
Total Pages: 160
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains the work "Two gentlemen of Verona" by William Shakespeare along with notes and commentary by Shakespearean authorities.
The Two Noble Kinsmen
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Standard Ebooks
Published: 2022-10-17T20:00:57Z
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Two Noble Kinsmen is Shakespeare’s final play written before his death in 1616. He collaborated on it with John Fletcher; later, Fletcher took over as playwright for the King’s Men. The plot derives from “The Knight’s Tale” in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Thebes and Athens are at war. The tyrant Creon of Thebes commands Arcite and Palamon to fight for him. After a battle against Theseus, they end up captured and imprisoned. From their cell window, they see a beautiful woman named Emilia. Arcite and Palamon’s friendship turns into rivalry when they challenge each other to a fight to the death—with the victor claiming Emilia. This Standard Ebooks edition is based on the 1894 Royal Shakespeare edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Faith and Folly in Shakespeare's Romantic Comedies
Author: R. Chris Hassel, Jr.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Published: 2011-05-01
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 0820338532
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn enduring debate among scholars has focused on the degree to which Shakespeare's plays are indebted to the Christian culture in which they were created and the manner of demonstrating that indebtedness. R. Chris Hassel, Jr. points out informed allusions to familiar Pauline and Erasmian Christian passages and themes present in Love's Labor's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado about Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice. He argues that not only did Shakespeare's audience understand these allusions but also that these allusions led the audience to recognize their pertinence to the playwright's uniquely Christian comic vision. Furthermore, Hassel feels this understanding of the relationship between Shakespeare's comic artistry and Christianity leads to a greater appreciation of the plays.
Shakespeare and the Nature of Love
Author: Marcus Nordlund
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2007-08-27
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0810124238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe best conception of love, Marcus Nordlund contends, and hence the best framework for its literary analysis, must be a fusion of evolutionary, cultural, and historical explanation. It is within just such a bio-cultural nexus that Nordlund explores Shakespeare’s treatment of different forms of love. His approach leads to a valuable new perspective on Shakespearean love and, more broadly, on the interaction between our common humanity and our historical contingency as they are reflected, recast, transformed, or even suppressed in literary works. After addressing critical issues about love, biology, and culture raised by his method, Nordlund considers four specific forms of love in seven of Shakespeare’s plays. Examining the vicissitudes of parental love in Titus Andronicus and Coriolanus, he argues that Shakespeare makes a sustained inquiry into the impact of culture and society upon the natural human affections. King Lear offers insight into the conflicted relationship between love and duty. In two problem plays about romantic love, Troilus and Cressida and All’s Well that Ends Well, the tension between individual idiosyncrasies and social consensus becomes especially salient. And finally, in Othello and The Winter’s Tale, Nordlund asks what Shakespeare can tell us about the dark avatar of jealousy.
