Download or read book The History Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-10-28 with total page 987 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is part of Shakespeare's extraordinary contribution to our culture that, through his dramas based on English history, he played a unique part in forming our view of ourselves and our nationhood. From King John, in which through Magna Carta the king's absolute power was first limited and the people's freedoms assured, to--almost in his own lifetime--Henry VIII, Shakespeare wrote a series of ten plays portraying the course of history. It represents almost one third of his entire dramatic output. The overarching theme of these plays is the vital importance of the sovereign's legitimacy if the nation is to be stable. They cover revolutionary times and events--the deposition and murder of Richard II, the Wars of the Roses, the usurping of the throne by Richard III--but they always affirm the principle that a legitimate king, circumscribed by an agreed constituion, is the only proper guarantee of the nation's liberties. There are many other ways in which Shakespeare's patriotism has become definitive. In Henry V's St. Crispin's Day speech to the troops before Agincourt, for example, or John of gaunt's 'scepter'd isle' speech, a sense of Englishness is expressed which still lives in English minds today. The E;izabethan's pride in nationhood was perfectly embodied by Shakespeare, but the poetry of it transcends its own time. In this edition the history plays are brought together with a large group of illustrations which echo and amplify their themes. Gloriously vivid images of England's story are presented here, putting the great plays in a magnificent setting.

Download or read book Pure Resistance written by Theodora A. Jankowski and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000-07-04 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Noting that though Christian thought has consistently held virginity to be purer than married life, a virgin woman has always queer been in social terms, Jankowsky (English, Washington State U.) explores the tensions behind the many representations of virgin women in English stage plays from 1590 to about 1670 and how those representations can be considered queer. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR

Download or read book Re dressing the Canon written by Alisa Solomon and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1997 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Solomon examines the relationship between gender and performance in a series of essays which combine the critique of specific live performances with an astute theoretical analysis.

Download or read book Love in a Forest written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Shakespeare Trade written by Barbara Hodgdon and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hodgdon's work should be required reading for anyone concerned with Shakespeare's cultural capital at the end of the twentieth century."—South Atlantic Review

Download or read book Players of Shakespeare 4 written by Robert Smallwood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-12-10 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1998 book is the fourth volume of essays by twelve actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Download or read book The Usurer s Daughter written by Lorna Hutson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a bold and brilliantly persuasive series of moves, Lorna Hutson draws upon new historicist and feminist theories to examine closely Renaissance literature and the cultural impact of the humanist project. The Usurer's Daughter: * provides startling new readings of Shakespeare * takes an entirely new approach to classical scholarship * focuses attention on the central importance of the history of the representation of women * illuminates how social relations between men were textualised during the early modern period.

Download or read book Homosexualities in the English Theatre written by John Franceschina and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1997-11-30 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines representations of homosexuality in the English theatre from the Renaissance to the close of the 19th century.

Download or read book Euphues written by John Lyly and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Tears of Narcissus written by Lynn Enterline and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering offers new readings of early modern texts, this book argues that contemporary psychoanalytic theory written in the light of the work of Kristeva and Lacan affords a precise understanding of the connection between melancholia, narcissism, sexual difference and literary form in the works by Tasso, Marvell, Shakespeare, and Webster. Attending to the many ways that melancholia and narcissism are interwoven - and to the pressure that such an entanglement exerts on early modern literary representations of the self - this book asks: why was melancholia frequently registered as a literary and rhetorical problem, not a psychological one? It demonstrates that a sense of irreparable sadness is inextricably bound up with each text's implicit or explicit commentary on its own poetic and rhetorical strategies. This book displays the complex, and not always intuitive, relationship between subjectivity, eros and literary form.

Download or read book Medusa s Mirrors written by Julia M. Walker and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of selfhood in Renaissance texts constitutes a scholarly and critical debate of almost unmanageable proportions. The author of this work begins by questioning the strategies with which male writers depict powerful women. Although Spenser's Britomart, Shakespeare's Cleopatra, and Milton's Eve figure selfhood very differently and to very different ends, they do have two significant elements in common: mirrors and transformations that diminish the power of the female self.

Download or read book The Wounds of Civil War written by Thomas Lodge and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book What Is Pastoral written by Paul Alpers and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-06 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the enduring traditions of Western literary history, pastoral is often mischaracterized as a catchall for literature about rural themes and nature in general. In What Is Pastoral?, distinguished literary historian Paul Alpers argues that pastoral is based upon a fundamental fiction—that the lives of shepherds or other socially humble figures represent the lives of human beings in general. Ranging from Virgil's Eclogues to Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs, from Shakespeare and Cervantes to Hardy and Frost, this work brings the story of the pastoral tradition, previously limited to classical and Renaissance literature, into the twentieth century. Pastoral reemerges in this account not as a vehicle of nostalgia for some Golden Age, nor of escape to idyllic landscapes, but as a mode bearing witness to the possibilities and problems of human community and shared experience in the real world. A rich and engrossing book, What Is Pastoral? will soon take its place as the definitive study of pastoral literature. "Alpers succeeds brilliantly. . . . [He] offers . . . a wealth of new insight into the origins, development, and flowering of the pastoral."—Ann-Maria Contarino, Renaissance Quarterly

Download or read book Shakespearean Intertextuality written by Stephen Lynch and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-11-19 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines Shakespeare's refashioning of his primary source texts in As You Like It, King Lear, Pericles, and The Winter's Tale in light of contemporary critical and theoretical interests.

Download or read book Strands Afar Remote written by Avraham Oz and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This volume, containing a representative, yet somewhat diffused gathering of Israeli Shakespearean criticism, attests to the cultural pluralism constituting the elusive construct of modern Israeli culture, still struggling for self-definition."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Download or read book The Gender of Rosalind written by Jan Kott and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theater critics and scholars around the world have long admired Jan Kott as, in Michael Holquist's words, "in the fullest sense of the term a man of the theater." In the quarter century since his landmark Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964) appeared in English, Kott has continued to challenge cenceptions of the theater, frequently using Shakespeare's plays as reference points in his broad critical studies. Sparkling with the wit and verbal agility that characterize his writing, Kott's newest volume brings together three of his most important recent essays, each of them grounded in a particular Shakespeare play.

Download or read book Shakespeare and the Japanese Stage written by Takashi Sasayama and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading Japanese and Western Shakespeare scholars study the interaction of Japanese and Western conceptions of Shakespeare.