Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries
Studying Shakespeare's Contemporaries

Author: Lars Engle

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2013-12-05

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1118325923

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Studying Shakespeare’s Contemporaries is an accessible guide to non-Shakespearian English drama of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. Featuring works of prestigious playwrights such as Kyd, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, and Middleton, Lars Engle describes the conditions under which Renaissance plays were commissioned, written, licensed, staged, and published. Plays are organized by theme and explored individually, creating a text that can be read as a complete overview of English Renaissance drama or used as an indexed reference resource.

Shakespeare, Our Contemporary
Shakespeare, Our Contemporary

Author: Jan Kott

Publisher: Doubleday

Published: 2015-01-21

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13: 0804152195

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Shakespeare, Our Contemporary is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare. More than that, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions. Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage conceptions. Shakespeare, Our Contemporary has been translated into nineteen languages since it appeared in 1961, and readers all over the world have similarly found their responses to Shakespeare broadened and enriched.

Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare & His Contemporaries
Italian Culture in the Drama of Shakespeare & His Contemporaries

Author: Michele Marrapodi

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780754655046

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Applying recent developments in new historicism and cultural materialism-along with the new perspectives opened up by the current debate on intertextuality and the construction of the theatrical text-the essays collected here reconsider the pervasive infl

Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Author: Domenico Lovascio

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2020-04-06

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1501514202

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Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries explores the crucial role of Roman female characters in the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. While much has been written on male characters in the Roman plays as well as on non-Roman women in early modern English drama, very little attention has been paid to the issues of what makes Roman women ‘Roman’ and what their role in those plays is beyond their supposed function as supporting characters for the male protagonists. Through the exploration of a broad array of works produced by such diverse playwrights as Samuel Brandon, William Shakespeare, Matthew Gwynne, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, Thomas May, and Nathaniel Richards under three such different monarchs as Elizabeth I, James I, and Charles I, Roman Women in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries contributes to a more precise assessment of the practices through which female identities were discussed in literature in the specific context of Roman drama and a more nuanced understanding of the ways in which accounts of Roman women were appropriated, manipulated and recreated in early modern England.

Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory
Shakespeare and Contemporary Theory

Author: Neema Parvini

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-11-08

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1441193936

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A complete critical introduction to New Historicist and Cultural Materialist approaches that have dominated contemporary Shakespeare theory, as well as alternative new directions.

Spanish Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Spanish Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Author: José Manuel González Fernández de Sevilla

Publisher: University of Delaware Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13: 9780874139037

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Spanish Studies in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries offers aselection of the most significant studies on Shakespeare and hiscontemporaries from a variety of perspectives in order to present a freshand inclusive vision of Shakespearean criticism in Spain to reach aworldwide readership. Plurality, maturity, and diversity are itsoutstanding characteristics as the transition has given shape to newcritical attitudes, readings, and approaches in the analysis and study ofShakespeare in the new Spain.

Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare
Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare

Author: Hillary Caroline Eklund

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 9781474477130

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Provides diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race

Author: Ayanna Thompson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-02-25

Total Pages: 518

ISBN-13: 1108623298

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus on the concepts of sexuality, lineage, nationality, and globalization. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a non-specialist, student audience.

Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Author: Charles Nicholl

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 120

ISBN-13:

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Shakespeare belonged to a talented and influential group of writers, poets and dramatists, all of whom are illustrated throughout with portraits, engravings and documents, showing how these writers saw themselves, and how Elizabethan society valued literary talent as well

The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism
The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism

Author: Evelyn Gajowski

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2020-10-15

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 135009322X

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The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading and genre studies, through those that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s that challenged the preconceptions on which traditional liberal humanism is based, including feminism, cultural materialism and new historicism. Perspectives drawn from postcolonial, queer studies and critical race studies, besides more recent critical practices including presentism, ecofeminism and cognitive ethology all receive detailed treatment. In addition to its coverage of distinct critical approaches, the handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A–Z glossary of key terms and concepts, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field and a substantial annotated bibliography.