[PDF] Shakespearean Melancholy eBook

Author : J.F. Bernard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474417345

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A new edition of the bestselling textbook for Scottish teacher training courses.

Author : J. F. Bernard
Publisher :
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,47 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Drama
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This richly contextualized study of Shakespeare's comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy.

Author : A. C. Bradley
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 16,26 MB
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Fiction
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"Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth" by A. C. Bradley. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Author : A. Bradley
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 24,49 MB
Release : 2005-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0141910844

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A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become "real" at all' writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, Bradley is one of the most liberating in the line of distinguished Shakespeare critics. His acute yet undogmatic and almost conversational critical method has—despite fluctuations in fashion—remained enduringly popular and influential. For, as John Bayley observes, these lectures give us a true and exhilarating sense of 'the tragedies joining up with life, with all our lives; leading us into a perspective of possibilities that stretch forward and back in time, and in our total awareness of things.

Author : John Draper
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 39,93 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780714610276

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First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Douglas Trevor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 36,26 MB
Release : 2004-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521834698

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The Poetics of Melancholy in Early Modern England explores how attitudes toward, and explanations of, human emotions change in England during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century. Typically categorized as 'literary' writers Edmund Spenser, John Donne, Robert Burton and John Milton were all active in the period's reappraisal of the single emotion that, due to their efforts, would become the passion most associated with the writing life: melancholy. By emphasising the shared concerns of the 'non-literary' and 'literary' texts produced by these figures, Douglas Trevor asserts that quintessentially 'scholarly' practices such as glossing texts and appending sidenotes shape the methods by which these same writers come to analyse their own moods. He also examines early modern medical texts, dramaturgical representations of learned depressives such as Shakespeare's Hamlet, and the opposition to materialistic accounts of the passions voiced by Neoplatonists such as Edmund Spenser.

Author : White Robert White
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 2020-09-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1474480470

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A detailed study of John Keats's classic volume of poetry published in 1820 considered in the light of the history of melancholyFirst, book-length critical study of John Keats's collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820)Considers the anthology as a poetically and thematically unified collection, instead of the more usual method of analyzing the poems in chronological order of writingProposes that the main theme running through the volume is melancholy, a very capacious medical category extending back to ancient Greco-Roman writers, through the Renaissance, and the subject of literary cults in the Romantic ageThe first detailed study of Keats's markings and annotations on his copy of Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy (1621) which was his favourite book during 1819 when he was writing the poemsThis book examines John Keats's immensely important collection of poems, Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St Agnes, And Other Poems (1820), and is published in the volume's bicentenary. It analyses the collection as an authorially organised and multi-dimensionally unified volume rather than as a collection of occasional poems. R. S. White argues that a guiding theme behind the 1820 volume is the persistent emphasis on different types of melancholy, an ancient, all-consuming medical condition and literary preoccupation in Renaissance and Romantic poetry. Melancholy was a lifelong interest of Keats's, touching on his medical training, his temperament and his delighted reading in 1819 of Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy.