Download or read book Shakespeare s Dramatic Structures written by Anthony Brennan and published by London : Routledge & Kegan Paul. This book was released on 1986 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows the dramatic strategies of scenic repetition and character separation. It traces the way in which Shakespeare often presents recurring gestures, dramatic interactions and complex scenic structures at widely separated intervals.
Download or read book Discovering Shakespeare s Meaning written by Leah Scragg and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-05-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this useful guide, Leah Scragg indicates some of the ways in which meaning is generated in Shakespearian drama and the kinds of approaches that might lead to a fuller understanding of the plays. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of the dramatic composition, such as verse and prose, imagery and spectacle, and the use of soliloquy, and explores how this contributes to the overall meaning. Written in a clear and helpful style, Discovering Shakespearian Meaning enables students to discover the meaning for themselves.
Download or read book An Anatomy of Drama written by Martin Esslin and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1977-12 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Satiric Catharsis in Shakespeare written by Alice Lotvin Birney and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2022-07-15 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1973.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Dramatic Structures written by Anthony Brennan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1986. The focus of this book is the dramatic strategies of scenic repetition and character separation. The author traces the way in which Shakesperare often presents recurring gestures, dramatic interactions, and complex scenic structures at widely separated intervals in a play - thereby providing an internal system of cross-reference for an audience. He also examines the way in which Shakespeare increases the dramatic voltage in central relationships by limiting the access key characters have to each other on stage. These strategies, it is argued, are indelible marks of Shakespeare's craftsmanship which survive all attempts to obliterate it in many modern productions.
Download or read book Varieties of Dramatic Structure written by Edward Murray and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to take a fresh look at play structure from the Greeks to the present. The author approaches this task by comparing theories with plays instead of merely studying plays in the light of influential theories. In so doing, the reader discovers a variety of dramatic structures, unique forms which resist conceptual pigeonholing. The text proposes that theory rarely squares with practice, that play structures are much more various than theorists have led us to believe. Plays considered include those of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Dryden, Racine, Isben, Chekhov, Brecht, and Ionesco. Theorists discussed include Aristotle, Hegel, the Cambridge Anthropologists, Gustav Freytag, A.C. Bradley, and Francis Fergusson. The text is broken into: Structure of Greek Tragedy; Structure in Shakespearean Tragedy; Varieties of Structure in Modern Drama.
Download or read book The Dramatic Structure of Shakespeare s Plays written by Goldy Mitchell Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A drama is a presentation of an action. Action is the connection and interweaving of details, by a controlling idea, into a work of art, possessing unity; it is the train of incident, conceived as a whole. Events in themselves are not dramatic, but must be remodeled into the relations or cause and effect by an underlying dramatic idea; then it is that the drama becomes a work of art. The plot is the form which the action takes, the abstract design or pattern which is applied to the material, life. It may be simple, complex or compound. The ancient drama consisted of a single plot; the Shakespearian drama is a complex, much more elaborate, having a main action and subordinate actions; its unity is subtler, as it is a harmony of actions, each of which blends with the others; they may be connected by common personages or links, by being constantly interwoven, by being related to the same enveloping action, by being mutually dependent, or by furnishing parallels and contrasts to each other.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Tragic Perspective written by Larry S. Champion and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work directs attention to the various structural devices by which Shakespeare creates and sustains anticipation in his audience whil simultaneously provoking them to participate in the tragic protagonist's anguish.
Download or read book The New Hudson Shakespeare Julius C sar written by William Shakespeare and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-04 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar" by William Shakespeare. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book Perspective in Shakespeare s English Histories written by Larry S. Champion and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play—one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare's dramaturgy after Richard II. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare continues to focus on the psychological analysis and internalized protagonist which lead to his major tragic achievements. In King John and Henry IV, the playwright develops a middle ground between the polarities of Henry VI, in which the flat, onedimensional characters essentially serve the purposes of the narrative, and the tragedies, in which the spectator's consuming interest is in the developing centralfigure whose critical moments they share. Champion sees Henry V as the culmination of Shakespeare's e fforts in the English history play.
Download or read book Cymbeline and the Late Plays written by Michael Joseph Hackett and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater written by Robert Weimann and published by Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticism based on literary or formalist conceptions of structure or on the history of ideas, Robert Weimann contends, has removed Shakespeare from the theater, and the theater from society at large. 'It is only when Elizabethan society, theater, and language are seen as interrelated that the structure of Shakespeare's dramatic art emerges as fully functional, that is, as part of a larger, and not only literary, whole.'
Download or read book Patriarchal Structures in Shakespeare s Drama written by Peter Erickson and published by Berkeley : University of California Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-22 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic tragedy about the doomed young lovers is accompanied by historical and critical notes.
Download or read book Dramatic Structure in Shakespeare s Romantic Comedies written by John A. Hart and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Shakespeare written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) was an English poet, literary critic and philosopher who, with his friend William Wordsworth, was a founder of the Romantic Movement in England and a member of the Lake Poets. Content: Definition of Poetry Greek Drama Progress Of The Drama The Drama Generally, And Public Taste Notes on Shakespeare Shakespeare, A Poet Generally Shakespeare's Judgment equal to his Genius Recapitulation, And Summary Of the Characteristics of Shakespeare's Dramas Outline Of An Introductory Lecture Upon Shakespeare Order Of Shakespeare's Plays Notes On The "Tempest" Love's Labour's Lost Midsummer Night's Dream Comedy Of Errors As You Like It Twelfth Night All's Well That Ends Well Merry Wives Of Windsor Measure For Measure Cymbeline Titus Andronicus Troilus And Cressida Coriolanus Julius Cæsar Antony And Cleopatra Timon Of Athens Romeo And Juliet Shakespeare's English Historical Plays King John Richard II. Henry IV. Richard III. Lear Hamlet Macbeth Winter's Tale Othello Notes on Ben Jonson Whalley's Preface Whalley's 'Life Of Jonson' Every Man Out Of His Humour Poetaster Fall Of Sejanus Volpone Apicæne The Alchemist Catiline's Conspiracy Bartholomew Fair The Devil Is An Ass The Staple Of News The New Inn Notes on Beaumont And Fletcher. Harris's Commendatory Poem On Fletcher Life Of Fletcher In Stockdale's Edition, 1811.
Download or read book Romeo and Juliet written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About the play: Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare early in his career about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular plays during his lifetime and, along with Hamlet, is one of his most frequently performed plays. Today, the title characters are regarded as archetypal young lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a tradition of tragic romances stretching back to antiquity. Its plot is based on an Italian tale, translated into verse as The Tragical History of Romeus and Juliet by Arthur Brooke in 1562 and retold in prose in Palace of Pleasure by William Painter in 1567. Shakespeare borrowed heavily from both but, to expand the plot, developed supporting characters, particularly Mercutio and Paris. Believed to have been written between 1591 and 1595, the play was first published in a quarto version in 1597. This text was of poor quality, and later editions corrected it, bringing it more in line with Shakespeare's original.Shakespeare's use of his poetic dramatic structure, especially effects such as switching between comedy and tragedy to heighten tension, his expansion of minor characters, and his use of sub-plots to embellish the story, has been praised as an early sign of his dramatic skill. The play ascribes different poetic forms to different characters, sometimes changing the form as the character develops. Romeo, for example, grows more adept at the sonnet over the course of the play.About the Author: Arguably the greatest English-language playwright, William Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and is known as the Bard of Avon. Under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous narrative poems and short verses. Equally accomplished in histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare s most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and As You Like It.Like many of his contemporaries, including Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare began his career on the stage, eventually rising to become part-owner of Lord Chamberlain s Men, a popular dramatic company of his day, and of the storied Globe Theatre in London.Extremely popular in his lifetime, Shakespeare s works continue to resonate more than three hundred years after his death. His plays are performed more often than any other playwright s, have been translated into every major language in the world, and are studied widely by scholars and students.About the AuthorArguably the greatest English-language playwright, William Shakespeare was a seventeenth-century writer and dramatist, and is known as the Bard of Avon. Under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I, he penned more than 30 plays, 154 sonnets, and numerous narrative poems and short verses. Equally accomplished in histories, tragedies, comedy, and romance, Shakespeare s most famous works include Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, The Taming of the Shrew, and As You Like It.Like many of his contemporaries, including Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare began his career on the stage, eventually rising to become part-owner of Lord Chamberlain s Men, a popular dramatic company of his day, and of the storied Globe Theatre in London.Extremely popular in his lifetime, Shakespeare s works continue to resonate more than three hundred years after his death. His plays are performed more often than any other playwright s, have been translated into every major language in the world, and are studied widely by scholars and students.
