Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre
Author: Kent Lehnhof
Publisher: EUP
Published: 2023-09-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781474499040
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Shakespeare and Virtue
Author: Julia Reinhard Lupton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-01-31
Total Pages: 796
ISBN-13: 1108910432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume maps Shakespearean virtue in all its plasticity and variety, providing thirty-eight succinct, wide-ranging essays that reveal a breadth and diversity exceeding any given morality or code of behaviour. Clearly explaining key concepts in the history of ethics and in classical, theological, and global virtue traditions, the collection reveals their presence in the works of Shakespeare in interpersonal, civic, and ecological scenes of action. Paying close attention to individual identity and social environment, chapters also consider how the virtuous horizons broached in Shakespearean drama have been tested anew by the plays' global travels and fresh encounters with different traditions. Including sections on global wisdom, performance and pedagogy, this handbook affirms virtue as a resource for humanistic education and the building of human capacity.
Shakespeare’s Things
Author: Brett Gamboa
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-11-19
Total Pages: 251
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.
Shakespeare on Theatre
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
Published: 2013-04-01
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 1623160332
DOWNLOAD EBOOK(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces including "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals. De Somogyi's commentary takes us through the entire process of Shakespeare's theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception. Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the "tiring-house" and inhales the heady aroma of the Globe's first audiences.
Shakespeare's Theatre
Author: Hugh Macrae Richmond
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2004-01-01
Total Pages: 590
ISBN-13: 9780826477767
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUnder an alphabetical list of relevant terms, names and concepts, the book reviews current knowledge of the character and operation of theatres in Shakespeare's time, with an explanation of their origins>
Shakespeare and Wisdom
Author: Unhae Park Langis
Publisher:
Published: 2024-10-31
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781399516563
DOWNLOAD EBOOK[headline]Explores how Shakespeare uses global wisdom literatures to encourage spiritual and moral growth and the arts of living in a connected world This volume interweaves Shakespeare's wisdom with ancient spiritual practices and the insights of a post-secular age to explore a transhistorical space of sapient knowing and living. It argues that Shakespeare inherits and participates in global wisdom literature, speaking through women, philosophers and fools about the beauty, dignity and variety of the cosmos and its creatures. Beginning in the Mediterranean with classical, biblical and Egyptian wisdom, the collection then moves to the East to consider Sufi and Buddhist wisdom and then turns to the West to reflect on Indigenous science and ways of knowing. In pursuing the delight of heart, soul and understanding in the synaesthetic experience of theatre and the meditative space of poetry, sapiential Shakespeare explores knowledge, love, beauty, nature, will and power in conversation with multiple wisdom traditions. [bio]Unhae Park Langis is a scholar-seeker-activist and a former teacher of twenty years. She is the author of Passion, Prudence, and Virtue in Shakespearean Drama (2011). Her essays have appeared in Shakespeare Studies, EMLS, Upstart Crow and Literature Compass and other journals, as well as in recent collections such as Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook (2023) and Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good (2023). Julia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Irvine. Her publications include Thinking with Shakespeare (2015); Shakespeare Dwelling (2018); Face to Face with Shakespeare (with Matthew Smith, 2019); Shakespeare and Virtue: A Handbook (with Donovan Sherman, 2023); and Shakespeare's Virtuous Theatre: Power, Capacity, and the Good (with Kent Lehnhof and Carolyn Sale, 2023).
Measure for Measure
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2010-09-14
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 0812969286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this powerful play that explores sexual hypocrisy and questions morality at all levels of society. This volume also includes more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including: • an original Introduction to Measure for Measure • incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work • commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers • photographs of key RSC productions • an overview of Shakespeare’s theatrical career and chronology of his plays Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
Published: 2024-04-01
Total Pages: 127
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.
Of Human Kindness
Author: Paula Marantz Cohen
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2021-02-09
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 0300258321
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways. Cohen takes her readers through a selection of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and clearly about how we treat "the other." Cohen argues that only through close reading of Shakespeare can we fully appreciate his empathetic response to race, class, gender, and age. Wise, eloquent, and thoughtful, this book is a forceful argument for literature's power to champion what is best in us.
Double Shakespeares
Author: Cary M. Mazer
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2015-09-10
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 1611478448
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDouble Shakespeares examines contemporary performances of Shakespeare plays that employ the “emotional realist” traditions of acting that were codified by Stanislavski over a century ago. These performances recognize the inescapable doubleness of realism: that the actor may aspire to be the character but can never fully do so. This doubleness troubled the late-nineteenth-century actors and theorists who first formulated realist modes of acting; and it equally troubles theorists and theatre practitioners today. The book first looks at contemporary performances that foreground the doubleness of the actor’s body, particularly through cross-dressing. It then examines narratives of Shakespearean rehearsal—both fictional representations of rehearsal in film and video, and eye-witness narratives of actual rehearsals—and how they show us the process by which the actor does or does not “become” the character. And, finally, it looks at modern performances that “frame” Shakespeare’s play as a play-within-a-play, showing the audience both the character in the Shakespeare play-within and the actor in the frame-play acting that character.
