Download or read book Prefaces to Shakespeare written by Tony Tanner and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final ten years of his life, Tony Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on, writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare's deployment of complex words in his plays.--[book jacket].
Download or read book New Prefaces to Shakespeare written by John Wilders and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1988 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prefaces to Shakespeare written by Harley Granville-Barker and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prefaces to Shakespeare written by Harley Granville-Barker and published by Atlantic Publishers & Dist. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harley Granville-Barker S Prefaces To Shakespeare Originally Published In Five Series Between 1927 And 1947 Covering Ten Plays Are Collected In Four Volumes:Volume I (Hamlet), Volume Ii (King Lear, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar), Volume Iii (Antony And Cleopatra, Coriolanus) And Volume Iv (Love S Labour S Lost, Romeo And Juliet, The Merchant Of Venice, Othello).An Actor, Dramatist, Producer And A Profound Shakespearean Scholar, Granville-Barker Brought About A Revolution In His Shakespearean Productions In The First Decade Of The Twentieth Century By Recapturing, With His Experience And Expertise, The Spirit And Vitality Of The Plays As They Were Produced On The Elizabethan Stage. He Saw Shakespeare As A Man Of The Theatre And Gave A Lie To Lamb That The Plays Of Shakespeare Were Less Calculated For Performance On A Stage Than Those Of Any Dramatist Whatsoever. About The Productions G.B. Harrison Remarks That They Were The Most Important Productions For A Hundred Years Not Only Because They Were Beautiful In Themselves, But Because For The First Time Since The Seventeenth Century Shakespeare S Plays Were Played Just As They Were Written, And Not Cut And Rearranged To Suit The Scene-Shifter. The Prefaces Are Elaborate Explications Of What Shape The Productions, And How And Why Granville-Barker S Alert Attention To The Minutiae Of A Text And Threadbare Discussions Of Various Aspects Of The Plays Reveal The Dramatic Wealth Of A Shakespearean Play. The Prefaces With Their Focus On The Integrity And Vitality Of A Play Have Become A Landmark In Shakespearean Criticism. T.S. Eliot Has Rightly Remarked: Perhaps More Than Any Other Single Writer, H. Granville-Barker By His Prefaces, Illuminating The Plays With The Understanding Of The Producer, Has Suggested The Need For A Synthesis Of The Several Points Of View From Which Shakespeare Can Be Studied. Any Teacher And Student Of Shakespeare Will Find These Books Immensely Valuable.
Download or read book Preface to Shakespeare written by Samuel Johnson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-05-23 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson
Download or read book A Preface to Shakespeare s Comedies written by Michael Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-06 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in the early part of Shakespeare's career. As well as supplying dramatic and critical analysis, this study sets the plays within their wider social and artistic context. Michael Mangan begins by considering the social function of laughter, the use of humour in drama for handling social tensions in Elizabethan and Jacobean society and the resulting expectations the audience would have had about comedy in the theatre. In the second section he discusses the individual plays in the light of recent critical and theoretical research. The useful reference section at the end gives the reader a short bibliographic guide to key historical figures relevant to a study of Shakespeare's comedies and a detailed critical bibliography.
Download or read book Preface written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1805 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Preface to Shakespeare written by George Herbert Cowling and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Prefaces to Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 1995-04-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of twelve volumes for the student of Shakespeare, whether in the theatre class or the literature class, for the actors, and for the directors.
Download or read book Prefaces to Shakespeare written by Tony Tanner and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final ten years of his life, Tony Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on, writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare's deployment of complex words in his plays.--[book jacket].
Download or read book A Preface to Shakespeare s Tragedies written by Michael Mangan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of four of Shakespeare's major tragedies - "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth". It looks at these plays in a variety of contexts - both in isolation and in relation to each other and to the cultural, ideological, social and political contexts which produced them.
Download or read book Prefaces to Shakespeare written by Harley Granville-Barker and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 543 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Soliloquy written by William Shakespeare and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1988 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of all of Shakespeare's greatest soliloquies, monologues and set speeches classified for use by the general reader or working actor; with notes and performance commentary.
Download or read book A New Mimesis written by Anthony David Nuttall and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In pursuit of a powerful, common-sense argument about realism, renowned scholar A. D. Nuttall discusses English eighteenth-century and French neo-classical conceptions of realism, and considers Julius Caesar, Coriolanus, The Merchant of Venice, Othello, and both parts of King Henry IV as a prolonged feat of mimesis, with particular emphasis on Shakespeare’s perception of society and culture as subject to historical change. Shakespeare is chosen as the great example of realism because he addresses not only the stable characteristics but also the flux of things, and he is thus seen as a perceiver of that flux and not a mere specimen. An acknowledged classic of literary studies, A New Mimesis is reissued here with a new preface by the author.
Download or read book Contested Will written by James Shapiro and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Download or read book Prefaces to Shakespeare written by Harley Granville-Barker and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare Marlowe Jonson written by J.R. Mulryne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable resurgence of interest has taken place over recent years in a biographical approach to the work of early modern poets and dramatists, in particular to the plays and poems of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Jonson. The contributors to this volume approach the topic in a manner that is at once critically and historically alert. They acknowledge that the biographical evidence for all three authors is limited, thus throwing the emphasis acutely on interpretation. In addition to new scholarship, the essays are valuable for their awareness of the challenges posed by recent redirections of critical methodology. Scepticism and self-criticism are marked features of the writing gathered here.
