Download or read book Critical Responses to Hamlet 1600 1900 1600 1790 written by David Farley-Hills and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text focuses on Hamlet - its success with Elizabethan audiences, and its position as one of Shakespeare's most popular and commented on plays up to the 18th century. It aims to represent the audiences responses and how it was received critically.

Download or read book Critical Responses to Hamlet 1600 1900 1790 1838 written by David Farley-Hills and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of critical essays on Hamlet between 1790 and 1838. The aim is to feature the major critics of the day, and to give a selection of the lesser commentators who sometimes represent more typically the attitudes of their time.

Download or read book Critical Responses to Hamlet 1600 1900 written by David Farley-Hills and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Critical Responses to Hamlet 1600 1900 1839 1854 written by David Farley-Hills and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This third volume of Critical Responses covers the early Victorian years, when Hamlet was acclaimed from Cincinnati to Moscow and from London to Australia. The German contribution, already strong during the preceding generation of Romantics, was in full stride, and is given particular attention here. It was during these years that the triumph of Romanticism over the neo-classical strictures of Voltaire was achieved and Hamlet emerged, not as an irresolute weakling, but as a rational determined hero, restrained from the immediate accomplishment of his revenge simply by a need for certainty.

Download or read book Literature in the Making written by Nancy Glazener and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century, literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for interpreting and valuing literary texts. Literature in the Making examines what happened in between: how literature came to be more precisely specified and valued; how it was organized into genres, canons, and national traditions; and how it became the basis for departments of modern languages and literatures in research universities. Modern literature, the version of literature familiar today, was an international invention, but it was forged when literary cultures, traditions, and publishing industries were mainly organized nationally. Literature in the Making examines modern literature's coalescence and institutionalization in the United States, considered as an instructive instance of a phenomenon that was going global. Since modern literature initially offered a way to formulate the value of legacy texts by authors such as Homer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, however, the development of literature and literary culture in the U.S. was fundamentally transnational. Literature in the Making argues that Shakespeare studies, one of the richest tracts of nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture, was a key domain in which literature came to be valued both for fuelling modern projects and for safeguarding values and practices that modernity put at risk-a foundational paradox that continues to shape literary studies and literary culture. Bringing together the histories of literature's competing conceptualizations, its print infrastructure, its changing status in higher education, and its life in public culture during the long nineteenth century, Literature in the Making offers a robust account of how and why literature mattered then and matters now. By highlighting the lively collaboration between academics and non-academics that prevailed before the ascendancy of the research university starkly divided experts from amateurs, Literature in the Making also opens new possibilities for envisioning how academics might partner with the reading public.

Download or read book Shakespeare s Domestic Tragedies written by Emma Whipday and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic tragedy was an innovative genre, suggesting that the lives and sufferings of ordinary people were worthy of the dramatic scope of tragedy. In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre, together with neglected pamphlets, ballads, and other forms of 'cheap print' about domestic violence, informed some of Shakespeare's greatest works. Providing a significant reappraisal of Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, the book argues that domesticity is central to these plays: they stage how societal and familial pressures shape individual agency; how the integrity of the house is associated with the body of the housewife; and how household transgressions render the home permeable. Whipday demonstrates that Shakespeare not only appropriated constructions of the domestic from domestic tragedies, but that he transformed the genre, using heightened language, foreign settings, and elite spheres to stage familiar domestic worlds.

Download or read book Shakespeare Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Shakespeare s Sense of Character written by Michael W. Shurgot and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies in which character criticism can work. The return to character thus involves incorporating as well as contesting postmodern ideas that have radically revised our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. At the same time, by engaging theatre practitioners, this book promotes the kind of comprehensive dialogue that is necessary for the common endeavor of sustaining the vitality of Shakespeare's characters.

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare written by Margreta de Grazia and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-04-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.

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Download or read book Critical Responses to Hamlet 1600 1900 written by David Farley-Hills and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each age tends to reinvent Hamlet in its own image. This is no less true of the Victorians as anyone else. Not for them the effete melancholic of the Romantic age, defeated by the immensity of the task laid upon him. The Victorians wanted a strong Hamlet, and that is exactly what they gave us. The attempt of the Germans to appropriate a British national icon is finally beaten off by George Henry Lewes and others. In this age of Empire, we also have a recognition of the universality of Shakespeare's hero and his relevance for all cultures and conditions. This period was the high point of the play's popularity. For the Victorians Hamlet was a riddle, but one that the Victorians believed they could solve. In the pages of the current Critical Responses to Hamlet, we see writers bringing to bear various scientific approaches to its mysteries: textual, historical, and, above all, medical and psychological. The interest in abnormal states of mind and behavior drew writers to the play. Hamlet was not only reinvented in the Victorian scholar's study, but in the theater as well. A new Hamlet trod the boards in the shape of Henry Irving. many a time and oft attempting the role. At this time the French dared to claim this British national property as their own to the scorn of the British press. As extracts from contemporary newspapers and journals show, Hamlet was a lively and popular focus of interest. There is no better illustration of this than the extracts from the antipodean journal, The Argus, where we see correspondents from the far-flung gold-fields of Ballarat and elsewhere locked in critical debate on finer points of interpretation of Shakespeare's play. In this two-volume set we have the thoughts of the great Victorian novelists, George Eliot, Dickens, and Trollope, on the play. Perhaps only George Eliot and at this period could we have the appropriation of a potentially domestic, happily-married Hamlet seated at his fireside, with Ophelia as the angel of his house.

Download or read book Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book MLA International Bibliography of Books and Articles on the Modern Languages and Literatures written by Modern Language Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1969- include ACTFL annual bibliography of books and articles on pedagogy in foreign languages 1969-