Download or read book The Moral Universe of Shakespeare s Problem Plays written by Vivian Thomas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas’s new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. From the collapse of ‘degree’ in Troilus and Cressida to the corruption at the heart of innocence in Measure for Measure, to the puzzling status of virtue and valour in All’s Well, the most obvious feature of these plays in their capacity to prompt new questions. In a detailed discussion of each play in turn, the author traces the dominant themes that both distinguish and unite them, and provides numerous insights into the sources, background, texture and morality of the plays.
Download or read book Moral Play and Counterpublic written by Ineke Murakami and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate troupe productions of the late fifteenth century, "moral play" served not as a cloistered form, but as a volatile public forum. This book demonstrates how the genre’s apparently inert conventions—from allegorical characters to the battle between good and evil for Mankind’s soul—veiled critical explorations of topical issues. Through close analysis of plays representing key moments of formal and ideological innovation from 1465 to 1599, Murakami makes a new argument for what is at stake in the much-discussed anxiety around the entwined social practices of professional theater and the emergent capitalist market. Moral play fostered a phenomenon that was ultimately more threatening to ‘the peace’ of the realm than either theater or the notorious market--a political self-consciousness that gave rise to ephemeral, non-elite counterpublics who defined themselves against institutional forms of authority.
Download or read book Everyman written by Montrose Jonas Moses and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everyman written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of the Morality Plays written by Henriette Christiane Koren Naeseth and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Everyman a Morality Play written by Montrose Jonas Moses and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Eight Moral Plays With Song Dance written by Christine Ribeiro and published by St Pauls BYB. This book was released on with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The English Moral Plays written by Elbert Nevius Sebring Thompson and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Drama Narrative and Moral Education written by Joe Winston and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-06-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author explores how to approach moral education for children. He provides case studies to illustrate a classroom approach that uses both drama and narrative stories to explore moral issues.
Download or read book English Morality Plays and Moral Interludes written by Edgar Schell and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Moral Play and Counterpublic written by Ineke Murakami and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-02-25 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, Murakami overturns the misconception that popular English morality plays were simple medieval vehicles for disseminating conservative religious doctrine. On the contrary, Murakami finds that moral drama came into its own in the sixteenth century as a method for challenging normative views on ethics, economics, social rank, and political obligation. From its inception in itinerate troupe productions of the late fifteenth century, "moral play" served not as a cloistered form, but as a volatile public forum. This book demonstrates how the genre’s apparently inert conventions—from allegorical characters to the battle between good and evil for Mankind’s soul—veiled critical explorations of topical issues. Through close analysis of plays representing key moments of formal and ideological innovation from 1465 to 1599, Murakami makes a new argument for what is at stake in the much-discussed anxiety around the entwined social practices of professional theater and the emergent capitalist market. Moral play fostered a phenomenon that was ultimately more threatening to ‘the peace’ of the realm than either theater or the notorious market--a political self-consciousness that gave rise to ephemeral, non-elite counterpublics who defined themselves against institutional forms of authority.
Download or read book The Moro Morality Play written by Robin Wagner-Pacifici and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1986-11-15 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On March 16, 1978, the former prime minister of Italy, Aldo Moro, was kidnapped by the Red Brigades, and what followed—the fifty-five days of captivity that resulted in Moro's murder—constitutes one of the most striking social dramas of the twentieth century. In this compelling study of terrorism, Robin Wagner-Pacifici employs methods from sociology, symbolic anthropology, and literary criticism to decode the many social "texts" that shaped the event: political speeches, newspaper reports, television and radio news, editorials, photographs, Moro's letters, Red Brigade communiques, and appeals by various international figures. The analysis of these "texts" calls into question the function of politics, social drama, spectacle, and theater. Wagner-Pacifici provides a dramaturgic analysis of the Moro affair as a method for discussing the culture of politics in Italy.
Download or read book ENGLISH MORALITY PLAY written by Robert A. Potter and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1975, The English Morality Play is the extended history of the English morality play, its persistence and flourishing as a dramatic tradition. The book sheds light on the intellectual and social origins of the morality play, its relationship to the medieval Corpus Christi cycle plays, its subject, purpose, conditions of original staging, and the abstract characters of its dramatis personae. The changing tradition is revealed within Renaissance drama, in the works of Skelton and Medwall, and the Reformation plays of Lindsay, Bale and Udall, as the morality play altered under the pressure of political events, escaped from the general suppression of religious drama, and in complex ways came to influence the dramatic conceptions of Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson. Contemporary parallels to the English morality tradition in European drama are investigated, as is the rediscovery of the texts of the plays by eighteenth- and nineteenth-century critics. In the final chapter, Dr. Potter examines the revival of the morality tradition on the twentieth-century stage and its influence on such dramatists as Bernard Shaw, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats and Bertolt Brecht. This book will be of interest to students of literature and drama.
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Download or read book Four Plays written by John Fletcher and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-18 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two authors depended on a variety of earlier works and writers for source material and precedents, including the Trionfi of Petrarch, the novels of Giovanni Boccaccio and Matteo Bandello (sometimes through English translations and adaptations, as in The Palace of Pleasure by William Painter), and "The Franklin's Tale" in The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer. The four "triumphs" in Four Plays in One show a strong influence from the morality plays of the later Middle Ages, combined with influences from the Jacobean masque and the pageants and processions that were an important part of public life in Jacobean England. This combination of influences from morality play and masque makes Four Plays in One a highly unusual work for its era; for a rare similar work, consider the "moral masque" The Sun's Darling in the next generation (1625). The "triumphs" in Four Plays in One are rich in processions, dumbshows, music, and "special effects."
Download or read book The Works of the British Dramatists written by Sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An historical view of the beginnings of English comedy written by Charles Mills Gayley and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
