Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900
Author: Ann Thompson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780719047046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprehensively rediscovers a lost tradition of women's writing on Shakespeare.
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Reading Shakespeare’s Poems in Early Modern England
Author: S. Roberts
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2002-11-19
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0230286844
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first comprehensive study of early modern texts, readings, and readers of Shakespeare's poems in print and manuscript, Reading Shakespeare's Poems in Early Modern England makes a compelling contribution both to Shakespeare studies and the history of the book. Examining gendered readerships and the use of erotic works, reading practises and manuscript culture, textual forms and transmission, literary taste and the canonisation of Shakespeare, this book argues that historicist criticism can no longer ignore histories of reading.
William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
Author: Sasha Roberts
Publisher: Northcote House Pub Limited
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13: 0746308124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis study argues that Romeo and Juliet, perhaps Shakespeare's most popularly-known play, repays thorough investigation - read afresh, the play is an extraordinary exploration of domestic conflict, social relations and linguistic practice. Drawing upon recent criticism on history and literature, and the rarely-discussed work of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century women critics, Sasha Roberts presents new readings of Romeo and Juliet and its early modern cultural context. Concisely-argued chapters address a wide range of themes - including rival texts, body politics, ethnic identity, adolescence, sexuality, masculinity, relations between women, family dynamics, ritual behaviour, language, bawdy, and the commodification of romantic love - and examine the play's striking imagery of disease, blood, beds, and wombs. Clearly written, this lively and accessible study of Romeo and Juliet will be of interest to readers both new to and familiar with the play.
Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
Author: Fiona Ritchie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-06-02
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1139868012
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFiona Ritchie analyses the significant role played by women in the construction of Shakespeare's reputation which took place in the eighteenth century. The period's perception of Shakespeare as unlearned allowed many women to identify with him and in doing so they seized an opportunity to enter public life by writing about and performing his works. Actresses (such as Hannah Pritchard, Kitty Clive, Susannah Cibber, Dorothy Jordan and Sarah Siddons), female playgoers (including the Shakespeare Ladies Club) and women critics (like Charlotte Lennox, Elizabeth Montagu, Elizabeth Griffith and Elizabeth Inchbald), had a profound effect on Shakespeare's reception. Interdisciplinary in approach and employing a broad range of sources, this book's analysis of criticism, performance and audience response shows that in constructing Shakespeare's significance for themselves and for society, women were instrumental in the establishment of Shakespeare at the forefront of English literature, theatre, culture and society in the eighteenth century and beyond.
Shakespeare and Victorian Women
Author: Gail Marshall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-03-19
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 0521515238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first full-length study of Shakespeare's influence on Victorian women writers, actresses and readers.
Girlhood of Shakespeare's Sisters
Author: Jennifer Higginbotham
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2013-01-17
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 0748655913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first sustained study of girls and girlhood in early modern literature and culture. Jennifer Higginbotham makes a persuasive case for a paradigm shift in our current conceptions of the early modern sex-gender system. She challenges the widespread assumption that the category of the 'girl' played little or no role in the construction of gender in early modern English culture. And she demonstrates that girl characters appeared in a variety of texts, from female infants in Shakespeare's late romances to little children in Tudor interludes to adult 'roaring girls' in city comedies. This monograph provides the first book-length study of the way the literature and drama of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries constructed the category of the 'girl'.
Shakespeare and the Romantics
Author: David Fuller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2021-02-11
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 0199679118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume illustrates the meanings the Romantics took from Shakespeare. It studies the critical practices and theories that evolved in England, Germany, and France, as well as the English stage and the relations between performance, criticism, and scholarship.
A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume I
Author: Richard Dutton
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2008-04-15
Total Pages: 504
ISBN-13: 0470997273
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. Brings together new essays from a mixture of younger and more established scholars from around the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Examines each of Shakespeare’s plays and major poems, using all the resources of contemporary criticism, from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analysis. Volumes are organized in relation to generic categories: namely the histories, the tragedies, the romantic comedies, and the late plays, problem plays and poems. Each volume contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category, as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre. Offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twenty-first century. This companion to Shakespeare’s tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from Titus Andronicus to Coriolanus as well as thirteen additional essays on such topics as Shakespeare’s Roman tragedies, Shakespeare’s tragedies on film, Shakespeare’s tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.
Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories
Author: Michele Marrapodi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1317056582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrowing fresh light on a much discussed but still controversial field, this collection of essays places the presence of Italian literary theories against and alongside the background of English dramatic traditions, to assess this influence in the emergence of Elizabethan theatrical convention and the innovative dramatic practices under the early Stuarts. Contributors respond anew to the process of cultural exchange, cultural transaction, and generic intertextuality involved in the debate on dramatic theory and literary kinds in the Renaissance, exploring, with special emphasis on Shakespeare's works, the level of cultural appropriation, contamination, revision, and subversion characterizing early modern English drama. Shakespeare and Renaissance Literary Theories offers a wide range of approaches and critical viewpoints of leading international scholars concerning questions which are still open to debate and which may pave the way to further groundbreaking analyses on Shakespeare's art of dramatic construction and that of his contemporaries.
Antony and Cleopatra
Author: Marga Munkelt
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2024-04-04
Total Pages: 425
ISBN-13: 1350321443
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition series increases our knowledge of how Antony and Cleopatra has been received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume provides, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, and the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. This volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.
