Shakespeare for Freedom
Shakespeare for Freedom

Author: Ewan Fernie

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-03-16

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 1107130859

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Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Reclaiming Shakespearean Freedom -- 2 Shakespeare Means Freedom -- 3 'Freetown!' (Romeo and Juliet) -- 4 Freetown-upon-Avon -- 5 Freetown-am-Main -- 6 Free Artists of Their Own Selves! -- 7 Freetown Philosopher -- 8 Against Shakespearean Freedom -- 9 The Freedom of Complete Being -- Notes -- Index

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.

Shakespeare's Ideas
Shakespeare's Ideas

Author: David Bevington

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2011-09-23

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 1444357638

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An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind". Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, politics and political theory, writing and acting, religious controversy and issues of faith, skepticism and misanthropy, and closure Explores Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind"

What's So Special About Shakespeare?
What's So Special About Shakespeare?

Author: Michael Rosen

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 0763699950

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Originally published as: Shakespeare: his work and his world / illustrated by Robert Ingpen. 2001.

Stage Matters
Stage Matters

Author: Annalisa Castaldo

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-03-13

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1683931505

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The collection, edited by Annalisa Castaldo and Rhonda Knight, features essays by scholars interested in exploring how the material culture of sixteenth and early seventeenth English theatrical culture influenced the creation and presentation of drama and how understanding this culture can enrich scholars’ current interactions with these plays as well as offer insights to actors and directors. The essays include discussions of plays by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Middleton as well as lesser known works and playwrights. This collection is unique in that it includes the body of the actor as a material object that is encountered and manipulated by other actors on the stage. These essays demonstrate how props, bodies and the architectural dimensions of early modern stages have both practical and symbolic registers.

Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition)
Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition)

Author: Barry Edelstein

Publisher: Theatre Communications Group

Published: 2018-07-03

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 155936890X

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Thinking Shakespeare gives theater artists practical advice about how to make Shakespeare’s words feel spontaneous, passionate, and real. Based on Barry Edelstein’s thirty-year career directing Shakespeare’s plays, this book provides the tools that artists need to fully understand and express the power of Shakespeare’s language.

Shakespeare Thinking
Shakespeare Thinking

Author: Philip Davis

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-05-17

Total Pages: 118

ISBN-13: 1441129030

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Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method. Shakespeare Thinking discusses the positioning of Shakespeare as the paradigm of fully human mental creativity from the Romantics to the latest neurological experiments which show that Shakespeare can reveal new understandings of the hard-wiring of the human brain, and the sheer sudden electricity of its synaptic development.

Shakespeare
Shakespeare

Author: Gabriel Egan

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Published: 2007-11-21

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 0748630163

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This book helps the reader make sense of the most commonly studied writer in the world. It starts with a brief explanation of how Shakespeare's writings have come down to us as a series of scripts for actors in the early modern theatre industry of London. The main chapters of the book approach the texts through a series of questions: 'what's changed since Shakespeare's time?', 'to what uses has Shakespeare been put?', and 'what value is there in Shakespeare?' These questions go to the heart of why we study Shakespeare at all, which question the book encourages the readers to answer for themselves in relation to their own critical writing.