Download or read book Early Modern Tragedy Gender and Performance 1984 2000 written by Roberta Barker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-08-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using nine recent theatrical and cinematic productions as case studies, it considers the productive contradictions and tensions that occur when contemporary actors perform the gender norms of previous cultures. It will be of interest to theatre practitioners as well as to students of early modern drama, of performance, and of gender studies.
Download or read book A Woman Killed With Kindness written by Thomas Heywood and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this startling domestic tragedy offers the standard, depth and range associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary notes explain the language, references and staging issues posed by the text while the lengthy, illustrated introduction offers a lively overview of the play's historical, performance and critical contexts. This is the ideal edition for study and performance.
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 and London A Dictionary written by Sarah Dustagheer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and London: A Dictionary is a topographical reference book of all the London locations, allusions and colloquial terms mentioned in Shakespeare's complete works. For many years critics have argued that Shakespeare did not engage with the city in which he lived, however London's topography and life is present in all his work, in its language, its locations and its characters. This dictionary offers a concise and fascinating insight into the city's impact on the Shakespearean imagination and provides readers with a wide-ranging guide to early modern London, its contemporary meanings and the ways in which Shakespeare employs these throughout the canon.
Download or read book The works of the British dramatists selected with notes biographies and intr by J S Keltie written by sir John Scott Keltie and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hunger on the Stage written by Elisabeth Angel-Perez and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2009-10-02 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his short story “The Hunger Artist,” Kafka imagined the theatrical career of a “professional faster” whose performance consists merely in displaying his own starving body before an avid audience. Kafka thus paradoxically suggested that hunger, mere emptiness working its way through declining bodies, may be a privileged theatrical object. Hunger often signals an anchorage in socio-historical reality, and invites extreme situations on stage, articulating large-scale cataclysms (famines, the devastation of war) with personal tragedies (hunger-strikes, anorexia, etc.) in which characters experience the tenuousness of their own lives. Whether in the comic or in the tragic mode, staged hunger metaphorizes various kinds of starvation – material greed, spiritual, emotional, sexual starvation, and even linguistic insufficiency. This volume explores the aesthetic and ethical issues raised by hunger on the stage in the English-speaking world. It investigates the paradox of the hypervisibility of the thinning body and shows how, throughout history, hunger has given shape to innovative, powerfully transgressive dramaturgies.
Download or read book The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists Excluding Shakespeare written by William Allan Neilson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Public and Private Playhouses in Renaissance England The Politics of Publication written by Eoin Price and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the start of the seventeenth century a distinction emerged between 'public', outdoor, amphitheatre playhouses and 'private', indoor, hall venues. This book is the first sustained attempt to ask: why? Theatre historians have long acknowledged these terms, but have failed to attest to their variety and complexity. Assessing a range of evidence, from the start of the Elizabethan period to the beginning of the Restoration, the book overturns received scholarly wisdom to reach new insights into the politics of theatre culture and playbook publication. Standard accounts of the 'public' and 'private' theatres have either ignored the terms, or offered insubstantial explanations for their use. This book opens up the rich range of meanings made available by these vitally important terms and offers a fresh perspective on the way dramatists, theatre owners, booksellers, and legislators, conceived the playhouses of Renaissance London.
Download or read book A dictionary of old English plays written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary of Old English Plays Existing Either in Print Or in Manuscript from the Earliest Times to the Close of the Seventeenth Century written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Digest Shakespearean written by Appleton Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Peterhouse Bibliography written by Thomas Alfred Walker and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Women on the Early Modern Stage written by Emma Smith and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New Mermaids Anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster) and The Witch of Edmonton (William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford) with a new introduction by leading scholar Emma Smith. A Woman Killed with Kindness is a domestic tragedy of property and marriage, adultery and revenge, and strips bare two women's lives in one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. The Tamer Tamed is a free-wheeling and witty comedy in which the place and status of women, and the nature of marriage, are subjected to sustained attention, demonstrating one way in which early modern writers were able to challenge and invert social convention, and to at least imagine alternative modes of behaviour. The Duchess of Malfi is a classic revenge tragedy and masterpiece of the Jacobean bizarre, featuring a severed hand, a wolf-man, and a poisoned Bible. The Witch of Edmonton is a domestic tragedy in which Elizabeth Sawyer sells her soul to the Devil to revenge her neighbours. These four early modern plays plays upset old certainties about gender ideology: less 'chaste, silent and obedient' and more diverse, eloquent, and complex.
Download or read book Arthurian Writers written by Laura Lambdin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-11-30 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: King Arthur is perhaps the central figure of the medieval world, and the lore of Camelot has captivated literary imaginations from the Middle Ages to the present. Included in this volume are extended entries on more than 30 writers who incorporate Arthurian legend in their works. Arranged chronologically, the entries trace the pervasive influence of Arthurian lore on world literature across time. Entries are written by expert contributors and discuss such writers as Geoffrey of Monmouth, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, and Margaret Atwood. Each entry provides biographical information, a discussion of the author's use of Arthurian legend and contribution to the Arthurian literary tradition, and a bibliography of primary and secondary material. The volume begins with an introductory overview and concludes with suggestions for further reading. The central figure of the medieval world, King Arthur has captivated literary imaginations from the Middle Ages to the present. This book includes extended entries on more than 30 writers in the Arthurian tradition. Arranged chronologically and written by expert contributors, the entries trace the pervasive influence of Arthurian legend from the Middle Ages to the present. Each entry provides biographical information, a discussion of the writer's use of Arthurian legend and contribution to the Arthurian literary tradition, and a bibliography of primary and secondary material. The volume begins with an introductory overview and closes with a discussion of Arthurian lore in art, along with suggestions for further reading. Students will gain a better understanding of the Middle Ages and the lasting significance of the medieval world on contemporary culture.
Download or read book Survey of English Literature and Culture written by Hartmut Ilsemann and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die ursprüngliche Version dieses Überblicks über die englische Literatur- und Kulturgeschichte bestand aus einzelnen A4-Blättern, die jeweils zwanzig Jahre abdeckten. Oben auf der Seite wurden die englischen Herrscher genannt, darunter die schottischen Könige. Es folgten Daten zur Geschichte und unten auf der Seite Daten zu Personen, die in Politik, Literatur, Musik und Kultur eine Rolle spielten. Auf diese Weise lieferten fünf Blätter Informationen über ein Jahrhundert. Die Daten 1000 n. Chr. bis 2000 n. Chr. ergaben insgesamt fünfzig Blätter, die seit Jahren im Flur des Englischen Seminars der Leibniz Universität Hannover Epochen und Zeiträume unterteilen und manchmal kurz vor Prüfungen eine letzte Orientierung boten. Die Übersicht wurde von Studenten in einem kulturwissenschaftlichen Seminar erstellt, als Computer und Textverarbeitung zum ersten Mal zur Verfügung standen. Auf Quellen wurde wegen des Übersichtscharakters und des Platzmangels weitgehend verzichtet, was bei wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten normalerweise unabdingbar ist. Erst spätere Ergänzungen stützen sich auf konkrete Quellen. Wenn diese nicht genannt wurden, sind sie der englischen Wikipedia entnommen. In der vorliegenden Fassung wurden drei Seiten mit Informationen zur Besiedlung Englands, zur altenglischen Zeit und zur Christianisierung sowie zwei Blätter zum Zeitraum von 2000 bis 2020 hinzugefügt
Download or read book Localizing Caroline Drama written by A. Zucker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book redefines the plays and theatrical culture of the years 1625 to 1642 as something more than simply post-Shakespearean in character. Scholars reveal the drama's mixture of political engagement, urbane cosmopolitanism, and commercial ingenuity. They urge us to recalibrate our histories to account for the innovations of the Caroline period.
Download or read book Elizabethan Playwrights written by Felix Emmanuel Schelling and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
