Download or read book Renaissance Shakespeare Shakespeare Renaissances written by Martin Procházka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected contributions to the most prestigious international event in Shakespeare studies, the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress (2011), represent major trends in the field in historical and present-day contexts. Special attention is given to the impact of Shakespeare on diverse cultures, from the Native Americans to China and Japan.
Download or read book Renaissance Shakespeare Shakespeare Renaissances written by Martin Procházka and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-12 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected contributions to the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress, which took place in July 2011 in Prague, represent the contemporary state of Shakespeare studies in thirty-eight countries worldwide. Apart from readings of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, more than forty chapters map Renaissance contexts of his art in politics, theater, law, or material culture and discuss numerous cases of the impact of his works in global culture from the Americas to the Far East, including stage productions, book culture, translations, film and television adaptations, festivals, and national heritage. The last section of the book focuses on the afterlife of Shakespeare in the work of the leading British dramatist Tom Stoppard. Published by University of Delaware Press. Distributed worldwide by Rutgers University Press.
Download or read book Renaissance Shakespeare Shakespeare Renaissances written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare And Renaissance Europe written by Andrew Hadfield and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays explores the diverse ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries experienced and imagined Europe. The book charts the aspects of European politics and culture which interested Renaissance travellers, thus mapping the context within which Shakespeare's plays with European settings would have been received. Chapters cover the politics of continental Europe, the representation of foreigners on the English stage, the experiences of English travellers abroad, Shakespeare's reading of modern European literature, the influence of Italian comedy, his presentation of Moors from Europe's southern frontier, and his translation of Europe into settings for his plays.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Webs written by Arthur F. Kinney and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, renowned Renaissance drama critic Arthur F. Kinney argues that Shakespeare's method of composing plays through networks of meanings can be seen as a harbinger of today's information technology. Drawing upon hypertext and cognitive theory--areas that have for some time promised to take on more importance in the sphere of Shakespeare Studies--as well as the central metaphor of the Routledge collection The Renaissance Computer, Kinney looks in detail at four objects/images in Shakespeare's plays--mirrors, maps, clocks, and books--and explores the ways in which they make up networks of meaning within single plays and across the dramatist's body of work that anticipate in some ways the networks of meaning or "information" now possible in the computer age.
Download or read book Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics written by Andrew Hadfield and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, was concerned with the question of the succession and the legitimacy of the monarch. From the early plays through the histories to Hamlet, Shakespeare's work is haunted by the problem of political legitimacy.
Download or read book Renaissance Self fashioning written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book English Renaissance Tragedy written by Peter Holbrook and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-09-24 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective. Tragedy since the Greeks has addressed the constraints and necessities to which human life is subject (Fate, the gods, chance, the conflict between state and individual) as well as the human desire for autonomy and self-direction. In short, English Renaissance Tragedy: Ideas of Freedom shows how the tragic drama of Shakespeare's age addresses problems of freedom, slavery, and tyranny in ways that speak to us now.
Download or read book The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama written by Brinda Charry and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama is a single critical and contextual resource for students embarking on an in-depth exploration of early modern drama, providing both critical insight and accessible contextual information. This companion equips students with the information needed to situate the plays in their socio-political, intellectual and literary contexts. Divided into two parts, it introduces students to the major authors and significant dramatic texts of the period and emphasises the importance of both a historicist and close-reading approach to better engage with these works. The Guide offers: · primary texts from key early modern scholars such as Machiavelli, Heywood and Sidney · contextual information vital to a full understanding of the drama of the period · close readings of 14 of the most widely studied play texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries · a single resource to accompany any study of early modern drama This is an ideal companion for students of Renaissance drama, offering students and teachers a range of primary contextual sources to illuminate their understanding alongside close critical readings of the major plays of the period.
Download or read book The Renaissance written by Lena Cowen Orlin and published by Red Globe Press. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating collection of rare and classic documents provides students at all levels with rich source material and context for studying the literature of Shakespeare's age. Informed by the latest scholarship and meticulous original research, these documents are crucial to understanding the explosive creativity of Renaissance literature. A wide range of pedagogically designed tools help students find their way into this time of momentous social, economic, and religious transformation era, these include: • An authoritative introduction outlining historical events, religious revolution, social mobility, technological advances, global exchange, and the literary and cultural ideas that defined 'the Renaissance' • Informative headnotes, footnotes, and section introductions providing important contexts for each individual document • a timeline and a chronological list of the major literary events of the period • a guide to further reading in both early modern sources and contemporary scholarship, as well as suggestions for useful websites This book is an invaluable resource for all students of Shakespeare, the English Renaissance, and Early Modern Literature.
Download or read book English Renaissance Tragedy written by Peter Holbrook and published by . This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or 'heritage' reasons. Peter Holbrook considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical perspective.
Download or read book The Performance of Conviction written by Kenneth John Emerson Graham and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Graham shows how plainness functions not only as a literary style, but also as a mode of political and religious rhetoric that reflects powerful historical currents.
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy written by Emma Josephine Smith and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the reader to important topics in English Renaissance tragedy, this Companion presents fresh readings of key texts.
Download or read book Renaissance Shakespeare Shakespeare Renaissances written by International Shakespeare Association and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handbook conference guide to the 9th World Shakespeare Congress, held July 17-22, 2011, in Prague.
Download or read book Nation State and Empire in English Renaissance Literature written by Willy Maley and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-30 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, original in emphasis, daring in execution, maps out the shaping power of English Renaissance literature in creating and contesting national and colonial identities through the work of major canonical authors including Shakespeare, Spenser and Milton. Informed throughout by the burgeoning fields of the new British history and postcolonial criticism, this volume marks a dramatic shift in studies of the early modern period, from Irish to British concerns, thus accounting for the interplay of union, plantation, and conquest.
Download or read book The Renaissance written by Edith Helen Sichel and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Historicism and Renaissance Drama written by Richard Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-07-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance Drama, providing an important collection both for students of the genre and of literary theory.
