[PDF] Shakespeare And The Literary Tradition eBook

Author : Stephen Orgel
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 15,76 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780815329671

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Shakespeare has never been more ubiquitous, not only on the stage and in academic writing, but in film, video and the popular press. On television, he advertises everything from cars to fast food. His birthplace, the tiny Warwickshire village of Stratford-Upon-Avon, has been transformed into a theme park of staggering commercialism, and the New Globe, in its second season, is already a far bigger business than the old Globe could ever have hoped to be. If popular culture cannot do without Shakespeare, continually reinventing him and reimagining his drama and his life, neither can the critical and scholarly world, for which Shakespeare has, for more than two centuries, served as the central text for analysis and explication, the foundation of the western literary canon and the measure of literary excellence.The Shakespeare the essays collected in these volumes reveal is fully as multifarious as the Shakespeare of theme parks, movies and television. Indeed, it is part of the continuing reinvention of Shakespeare. The essays are drawn for the most part from work done in the past three decades, though a few essential, enabling essays from an earlier period have been included. They not only chart the directions taken by Shakespeare studies in the recent past, but they serve to indicate the enormous and continuing vitality of the enterprise, and the extent to which Shakespeare has become a metonym for literary and artistic endeavor generally.

Author : Robert Weimann
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 1987-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780801835063

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Internationally hailed upon its original publication Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater was revised and updated for this English translation.

Author : Leo Salingar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521291132

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For students of English and European literature, renaissance studies, comparative literature, drama and classics.

Author : Xiaoyang Zhang
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 10,26 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874135367

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The value of the book is not limited to the scope of Shakespeare studies and comparative literature. With the combination of the literary criticism and sociological approach, it describes and investigates a variety of social and psychological phenomena in the process of cultural exchange between the West and the East. The book also provides a brief view of the social, political, and historical changes in modern China for Western readers.

Author : Professor Paola Pugliatti
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,24 MB
Release : 2013-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1409475891

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Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's time. The book re-reads Shakespeare's representations of war in light of both the changing historical and political contexts in which they were produced and of Shakespeare's possible connection with the culture and ideology of the European just war tradition. But to discuss Shakespeare's representations of war means, for Pugliatti, not simply to examine his work from a literary point of view or to historicize those representations in connection with the discourses (and the practice) of war which were produced in his time; it also means to consider or re-consider present-day debates for or against war and the kind of war ideology which is trying to assert itself in our time in light of the tradition which shaped those discourses and representations and which still substantiates our 'moral' view of war.

Author : BRADD. SHORE
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 2021-08-23
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ISBN : 9781032017174

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This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare Studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a 'great thinker' and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare's plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays - Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and King Lear - engage with the plays in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how "the new astronomy" of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of "perspective," and shaped Shakespeare's approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies, but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.