Download or read book A Dictionary of Sexual Language and Imagery in Shakespearean and Stuart Literature written by Gordon Williams and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2001-09-13 with total page 1650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an alphabetical listing of sexual language and locution in 16th and 17th-century English, this book draws especially on the more immediate literary modes: the theatre, broadside ballads, newsbooks and pamphlets. The aim is to assist the reader of Shakespearean and Stuart literature to identify metaphors and elucidate meanings; and more broadly, to chart, through illustrative quotation, shifting and recurrent linguistic patterns. Linguistic habit is closely bound up with the ideas and assumptions of a period, and the figurative language of sexuality across this period is highly illuminating of socio-cultural change as well as linguistic development. Thus the entries offer as much to those concerned with social history and the history of ideas as to the reader of Shakespeare or Dryden.
Download or read book The Dances of Shakespeare written by Jim Hoskins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2005. Dances of Shakespeare gives a brief introduction to how to perform all of the dance styles featured in Shakespeare's plays. Designed for the practicing director, actor, or choreographer, it gives clear instruction on how to perform popular dances of Shakespeare's day, including masques, brawls, canaries, corantos, galliards, jigs, La Volta, pavans, morris dances, and roundels. Accompanied by clear illustrations, these instructions allow even the dance-challenged to quickly master enough technique to suit amateur, community, college, or semi-professional productions. Other useful features include a chronological listing of popular dances similar in spirit to those of Shakespeare's days, designed for those staging Shakespeare's work in periods other than as written, as well as an appendix list of the plays grouped by what is called for in the text: a "dance," a "masque," or a specific dance form. Dances of Shakespeare is a "must have" for all student directors and performers interested in staging Shakespeare's works.
Download or read book Slim Chances and Unscheduled Appearances written by Edward Petherbridge and published by Indepenpress. This book was released on 2011 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this collection of essays, Petherbridge tells the story of his life in the theatre (low ebbs included), from his first acting lesson to his role in the formation of the democratic Actors' Company and his membership of the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Story of His Life written by Charles Creighton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Art Edition of the Most Popular Dramas of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Animal lore of Shakespeare s Time written by Emma Phipson and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Art Edition of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s Knowledgeable Body written by Martha Kalnin Diede and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2008 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a new approach to the metaphor of the political body, this book examines Shakespeare's representation of that body as possessing epistemological faculties. The theater is one of these faculties, and is, therefore, essential to the health and survival of the Early Modern state. By depicting the theater as an essential faculty of the body politic, Shakespeare offers a defense of the theater against anti-theatrical critics. Students and teachers interested in the body and its representations in literature will find this text illuminating as will those scholars whose work focuses on knowledge, its relationship to the body, ways of knowing, and anti-theatrical prejudice.
Download or read book Bell s Edition of Shakespeare s Plays as They are Now Performed at the Theatres Royal in London Regulated from the Prompt Books with Notes Critical and Illustrative by the Authors of the Dramatic Censor written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1774 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus written by William Shakespeare and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Principal Plays written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 976 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Readings New Renderings of Shakespeare s Tragedies written by Henry Halford Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Plays of William Shakespeare in Ten Volumes written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1778 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s Jests or the Jubilee Jester being the most curious collection of funny jokes etc written by SHAKESPEARE'S JESTS. and published by . This book was released on 1790 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare s History Plays written by Robert Watt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-11 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their relevance to central contemporary issues such as English, national identities and gender roles. Interpretations of the history plays have been transformed since the 1980s by new theoretically-informed critical approaches. Movements such as New Historicism and cultural materialism, as well as psychoanalytical and post-colonial approaches, have swept away the humanist consensus of the mid-twentieth century with its largely conservative view of the plays. The last decade has seen an emergence of feminist and gender-based readings of plays which were once thought overwhelmingly masculine in their concerns. This book provides an up-to-date critical anthology representing the best work from each of the modern theoretical perspectives. The introduction outlines the changing debate in an area which is now one of the liveliest in Shakespearean criticism.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Classical Mythology A Dictionary written by Janice Valls-Russell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-10-17 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does Bassanio compare himself to Jason? What is Hecuba to Hamlet? Is the mechanicals' staging of the Pyramus and Thisbe story funny or sad? This dictionary elucidates Shakespeare's use of mythological references in an early modern context, while bringing them to life for today's audiences and readers, at a time of renewed critical interest in the reception of the classics and fascination with classical mythology in popular culture. It is also a precious tool for practitioners who may not always know quite what to make of mythological references. Mythological figures, creatures, places and stories crowd Shakespeare's plays and poems, featuring as allusions, poetic analogies, inset shows, scene settings and characters or plots in their own right. Most of these references were familiar to Shakespeare's spectators and readers, who knew them from the writings of Ovid, Virgil and other classical authors, or indirectly through translations, commentaries, ballads and iconography. This dictionary illustrates how, far from being isolated, a mythological reference may resonate with the poetics of the text and its structure, cast light on characters and contexts, and may therefore be worth exploring onstage in a variety of ways. The 200 headings correspond to words and names actually used by Shakespeare: individual figures (Dido, Venus, Hercules), categories (Amazons, Centaurs, nymphs, satyrs), places (Colchos, Troy). Medium and longer entries also cover early modern usage and critical analysis in a cross-disciplinary approach that includes reception, textual, performance, gender and political studies.
Download or read book The Works of Shakespeare Shakespeare s poems ed by C K Pooler written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
