Download or read book There s No Clock In the Forest a Comedy In Two Parts written by Julian Scutts and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-11-08 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting of this play is projected into the near future when we might envisage a global pilot scheme to establish an ideal campus. But what could that be? In German there is a saying "Unter den Talaren ist der Muff von Tausend Jahren." Under the scholar's gown is the stale fluff of a thousand years. Can the new age campus retain the best of ancient tradition and liberate itself from much in that tradition which is in dire need of reform? The clash of personalities coincides with a clash of attitudes and philosophies. On a more personal level two ambitious members of the academic faculty contend for the hand of a young student, who happens to be the daughter of the Head of the English department. The student body is enraged by the imposition of a video-controlled surveillance system known as the BEAST, and, taking a lead from Shakespeare, they retreat to the green wood.
Download or read book The Last Trump written by Julian Scutts and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-10-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word "Trump" in the title serves as a nexus for ideas, associations and thoughts, some of a purely personal nature, thus giving rise to a medley of forms, essays, dialogues that hang together in some way.
Download or read book There s No Clock in the Forest written by Julian Scutts and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this play is a quotation from As You Like It by William Shakespeare, a delightful comedy in the fullest sense of that word. Comedy involves more than humour and funny scenes but presents an optimistic view of life and of the world. In As You Like It even the wicked usurper who forces the rightful ruler into exile finally repents and becomes a religious recluse. Come to think of it, all major religions share this optimism, be this expressed in the notion of the New Jerusalem or the concluding prayer in Jewish liturgy, the Aleinu, that looks forward to the day when even the most evil will submit to God. Is such optimism eyewash? At the darkest of times a sign of hope appears in some form or other, the Madonna of Stalingrad or the poetry of Paul Celan, a Holocaust survivor, who wrote on despite Adorno's statement that there could be no poetry after Auschwitz. What Shakespeare meant by the "clock" we discover in all systems that seek total control by precise measurements and surveillance. This play confronts that very issue in depicting the flight of university students to the woodlands near Glastonbury to escape the BEAST, Big Brother's ever watchful eye.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Comedies written by Kiernan Ryan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking book one of the most original and compelling voices in contemporary Shakespeare criticism undertakes a detailed study of the ten extraordinary comedies Shakespeare wrote during his first decade as a dramatist: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night. Through close readings of these plays Kiernan Ryan reveals Shakespeare's deepening disenchantment with his world and his dream of that world transfigured. Ryan engages with each comedy as a unique work of dramatic and poetic art, with its own distinctive concerns and critical challenges, paying special attention to its language and form. As the haunting vision shared by the plays emerges from Ryan's acute analysis of each of them, the book transforms our understanding and appreciation of Shakespearean comedy. Written in a lively, accessible style, Shakespeare's Comedies is essential reading not only for students and teachers, but also for anyone keen to consider these plays from a fresh perspective.
Download or read book A Cultural History of Comedy in the Early Modern Age written by Andrew McConnell Stott and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-12-30 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing together scholars with a wide range of expertise across the early modern period, this volume explores the rich field of early modern comedy in all its variety. It argues that early modern comedy was shaped by a series of cultural transformations that included the emergence of the entertainment industry, the rise of the professional comedian, extended commentaries on the nature of comedy and laughter, and the development of printed jestbooks. It was the prime site from which to satirize a rapidly-changing world and explore the formation of new social relations around questions of gender, authority, identity, and commerce, amongst others. Yet even as it reacted to the novel and the new, comedy also served as a receptacle for the celebration of older social rituals such as May games and seasonal festivities. The result was a complex and contested mix of texts, performances, and concepts providing a deep tradition that abides to this day. Each chapter takes a different theme as its focus: form, theory, praxis, identities, the body, politics and power, laughter and ethics. These eight different approaches to early modern comedy add up to an extensive, synoptic coverage of the subject.
Download or read book Shakespeare Survey Volume 56 Shakespeare and Comedy written by Peter Holland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of Shakespeare's comedies, as well as the comedy in Shakespeare's other works.
Download or read book As You Like It A Comedy As it is Acted at the Theatres Royal in Drury Lane and Covent Garden written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1777 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Moving Picture World written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An index to the remarkable passages and words made use of by Shakespeare written by Samuel Ayscough and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words Made Use of by Shakspeare written by Samuel Ayscough and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Shakespeare s Comedies A Very Short Introduction written by Bart van Es and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a Shakespearean comedy? We associate these plays with such themes as mistaken identities, happy marriages, and exuberant cross dressing, but how representative are these of the oeuvre as a whole? In this Very Short Introduction, Bart van Es explores the full range of the playwright's comic writing, from the neat classical plotting of early works like The Comedy of Errors to the corrupt world of the so-called problem plays, written in the middle years of Shakespeare's life. Examining Shakespeare's influences and sources, van Es compares his plays to those of his rivals, and looks at the history of the plays in performance, from the biographies of Shakespeare's original actors to the plays' endless reinvention in modern stage productions and in films. Identifying the key qualities that make Shakespearean comedy distinctive, van Es traces the changing nature of Shakespeare's comic writing over the course of a career that spanned nearly a quarter century of theatrical change. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Download or read book Moving Picture World and View Photographer written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1630 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s Living Art written by Rosalie Littell Colie and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-08 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"—verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres—to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection and organization of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what he is, and is enabled to do what he does. She is particularly concerned with uncovering the ways in which Shakespeare used, misused, criticized, re-created, and sometimes revolutionized the received topics and devices of his craft. In this sense, Shakespeare's plays are seen as problem plays, each exploring the problematics of his craft and revealing his assessment of what was problematical. The author has chosen for study topics which connect Shakespeare with the long and rich continental Renaissance, in the hope that in the future Shakespeare might be, like Dante and Cervantes, an essential author in a comparatist's education. Usually a single topic dealing with some formal aspect of a play—the use of stereotypes to create a character highly original in stage practice, or the various manipulations of a mode (the pastoral, for example) rich in potentialities—is used to try to see in what particular ways Shakespeare shaped works that are still unique. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Download or read book The Columbia Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quotations are arranged by topic and indexed by character, play, poem, and keyword.
Download or read book Forest Leaves written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
