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Author : Robert Weimann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,80 MB
Release : 2000-07-27
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521787352
Redefines the relationship between writing and performance in Shakespeare's theatre.
Author : Roger Apfelbaum
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 41,8 MB
Release : 1996
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Author : Douglas Bruster
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 42,9 MB
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1134313713
This remarkable study shows how prologues ushered audience and actors through a rite of passage and how they can be seen to offer rich insight into what the early modern theatre was thought capable of achieving.
Author : Graham Bradshaw
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781409408581
This issue marks the 10th anniversary of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. On this occasion, the special section celebrates the achievement of senior Shakespearean scholar Robert Weimann, whose work on the Elizabethan theatre and early modern performance culture has so influenced contemporary scholarship. Among the contributors to this issue are Shakespearean scholars from Ireland, Japan, France, Germany, South Africa, UK, and the US.
Author : Professor David Schalkwyk
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 22,87 MB
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409476278
This issue marks the 10th anniversary of The Shakespearean International Yearbook. On this occasion, the special section celebrates the achievement of senior Shakespearean scholar Robert Weimann, whose work on the Elizabethan theatre and early modern performance culture has so influenced contemporary scholarship. Ten essays in this issue of Yearbook, including one by the honoree himself, focus on those aspects of Shakespearean studies which Weimann has impacted most profoundly: the idea and practice of a "popular tradition", the materialist critique of early modern theater, the practices of early modern authorship, acting and theatricality, and his celebrated bifold articulation of authority and representation. In addition to this extensive exploration of Weimann's work, the volume includes essays on The Comedy of Errors, Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare and Lucretius, and Shakespeare on BBC television. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Among the contributors are Shakespearean scholars from Ireland, Japan, France, Germany, South Africa, UK, and the US.
Author : Susan Harlan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 47,45 MB
Release : 2016-09-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137580127
This book examines literary depictions of the construction and destruction of the armored male body in combat in relation to early modern English understandings of the past. Bringing together the fields of material culture and militarism, Susan Harlan argues that the notion of “spoiling” – or the sanctioned theft of the arms and armor of the vanquished in battle – provides a way of thinking about England’s relationship to its violent cultural inheritance. She demonstrates how writers reconstituted the spoils of antiquity and the Middle Ages in an imagined military struggle between male bodies. An analysis of scenes of arming and disarming across texts by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare and tributes to Sir Philip Sidney reveals a pervasive militant nostalgia: a cultural fascination with moribund models and technologies of war. Readers will not only gain a better understanding of humanism but also a new way of thinking about violence and cultural production in Renaissance England.
Author : Edward Gieskes
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 20,15 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780874139297
Unites literary criticism, social and legal history, and Pierre Bourdieu's sociology of culture. This book offers an exploration of the professionalization of early modern disciplines in an effort to characterize those disciplines in their social, economic, and historical contexts.
Author : Kurt A. Schreyer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2014-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0801455103
In Shakespeare’s Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage. As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.
Author : David M. Bergeron
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 47,55 MB
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351148028
Through an investigation of the dedications and addresses from various printed plays of the English Renaissance, the author recuperates the richness of these prefaces and connects them to the practice of patronage. The prefatory matter discussed ranges from the printer John Day's address to readers (the first of its kind) in the 1570 edition of Gorboduc to Richard Brome's dedication to William Seymour and address to readers in his 1640 play, Antipodes. The study includes discussion of prefaces in plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as Shakespeare himself, among them Marston, Jonson, and Heywood. The author uses these prefaces to show that English playwrights, printers and publishers looked in two directions, toward aristocrats and toward a reading public, in order to secure status for and dissemination of dramatic texts. The author points out that dedications and addresses to readers constitute obvious signs that printers, publishers and playwrights in the period increasingly saw these dramatic texts as occupying a rightful place in the humanistic and commercial endeavor of book production.
Author : B. Reynolds
Publisher : Springer
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 18,18 MB
Release : 2005-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230505031
To 'rematerialize' in the sense of Rematerializing Shakespeare: Authority and Representation on the Early Modern English Stage is not to recover a lost material infrastructure, as Marx spoke of, nor is it to restore to some material existence its priority over the imaginary. Indeed, this collection of work by some of the most highly-regarded critics in Shakespeare studies does not offer a single theoretical stance on any of the various forms of critical materialism (Marxism, cultural materialism, new historicism, transversal poetics, gender studies, or performance criticism), but rather demonstrates that the materiality of Shakespeare is multidimensional and consists of the imagination, the intended, and the desired. Nothing returns in this rematerialization, unless it is a return in the sense of the repressed, which, when it comes back, comes back as something else. An all-star line-up of contributors includes Kate McLuskie, Terence Hawkes, Catherine Belsey and Doug Bruster.