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Book Shakespeare s Songbook

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ross W. Duffin
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780393058895
  • Pages : 536 pages

Download or read book Shakespeare s Songbook written by Ross W. Duffin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight years in the making, "Shakespeare's Songbook" is a meticulously researched collection of 160 songs--ballads and narratives, drinking songs, love songs, and rounds--that appear in, are quoted in, or alluded to in Shakespeare's plays.

Book Love and its Critics

Download or read book Love and its Critics written by Michael Bryson and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2017-07-10 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton’s Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin’amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur’s phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself – in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history.

Book Liberal Terror

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brad Evans
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2013-04-03
  • ISBN : 0745665799
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Liberal Terror written by Brad Evans and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security is meant to make the world safer. Yet despite living in the most secure of times, we see endangerment everywhere. Whether it is the threat of another devastating terrorist attacks, a natural disaster or unexpected catastrophe, anxieties and fears define the global political age. While liberal governments and security agencies have responded by advocating a new catastrophic topography of interconnected planetary endangerment, our desire to securitize everything has rendered all things potentially terrifying. This is the fateful paradox of contemporary liberal rule. The more we seek to secure, the more our imaginaries of threat proliferate. Nothing can therefore be left to chance. For everything has the potential to be truly catastrophic. Such is the emerging state of terror normality we find ourselves in today. This illuminating book by Brad Evans provides a critical evaluation of the wide ranging terrors which are deemed threatening to advanced liberal societies. Moving beyond the assumption that liberalism is integral to the realisation of perpetual peace, human progress, and political emancipation on a planetary scale, it exposes how liberal security regimes are shaped by a complex life-centric rationality which directly undermines any claims to universal justice and co-habitation. Through an incisive and philosophically enriched critique of the contemporary liberal practices of making life more secure, Evans forces us to confront the question of what it means to live politically as we navigate through the dangerous uncertainty of the 21st Century.

Book Shakespeare and the American Musical

Download or read book Shakespeare and the American Musical written by Irene G. Dash and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bard on Broadway

Book A Shakespeare Song Book

Download or read book A Shakespeare Song Book written by H. A. Chambers and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare s Use of Song

Download or read book Shakespeare s Use of Song written by Richmond Samuel Howe Noble and published by London : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1923 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare  Music and Performance

Download or read book Shakespeare Music and Performance written by Bill Barclay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-13 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.

Book Music in Shakespearean Tragedy

Download or read book Music in Shakespearean Tragedy written by Frederick William Sternfeld and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1963. When originally published this book was the first to treat at full length the contribution which music makes to Shakespeare's great tragedies, among them Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. Here the playwright's practices are studied in conjunction with those of his contemporaries: Marlowe and Jonson, Marston and Chapman. From these comparative assessments there emerges the method that is peculiar to Shakespeare: the employment of song and instrumental music to a degree hitherto unknown, and their use as an integral part of the dramatic structure.

Book Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical

Download or read book Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical written by John R. Severn and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare as Jukebox Musical is the first book-length study of a growing performance phenomenon: musical adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in which characters sing existing popular songs as one of their modes of communication. John Severn shows how these highly allusive works give rise to the pleasures of collaborative reception, and also lend themselves to political work, particularly in terms of identity politics and a valorisation of diversity. Drawing on musical theatre history, adaptation theory, Shakespeare studies and musicology, the book develops a critical approach that allows jukebox-musical versions of Shakespeare to be understood and valued both for their political potential and for the experiences they offer to audiences as artistic responses to Shakespeare. Case studies from the USA, the UK and Australia demonstrate how these works open new windows on Shakespeare’s plays and their performance traditions, on the wider jukebox musical trend, and on adaptation as an art form.

Book Pop Sonnets

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erik Didriksen
  • Publisher : Quirk Books
  • Release : 2015-10-06
  • ISBN : 1594748292
  • Pages : 129 pages

Download or read book Pop Sonnets written by Erik Didriksen and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Goodreads Choice Award nominee The Bard meets the Backstreet Boys in this collection of 100 classic pop songs reimagined as Shakespearean sonnets This hilarious book of poetry transforms disco staples, classic rock anthems, and recent chart-toppers into hilarious iambic pentameter! All your favorite songs are here, including hits by Jay-Z, Johnny Cash, Katy Perry, Michael Jackson, Talking Heads, and many others. An entertaining journey into the world of Elizabethan poetry, and based on the immensely popular Tumblr of the same name, Pop Sonnets is the perfect gift for Shakespeare fans and music lovers alike. “Ever wonder what Taylor Swift and Beyoncé would sound like in iambic pentameter? We hadn’t either, but now we can't get enough.” —TIME

Book Shakespeare Song Album

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Shakespeare Song Album written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Download or read book Songs and Sonnets by William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Shakespeare Songs

Download or read book The Shakespeare Songs written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Winter Song

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Boyds Mills Press
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9781590782750
  • Pages : 44 pages

Download or read book Winter Song written by William Shakespeare and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents an illustrated poem--featured at the end of his play "Love's Labor's Lost"--That describes a snowy English evening.

Book Shakespeare Songs

Download or read book Shakespeare Songs written by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Vocal Songs in the Plays of Shakespeare

Download or read book The Vocal Songs in the Plays of Shakespeare written by Peter J. Seng and published by Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: