[PDF] Shakespeares Sense Of Character eBook

Author : Michael W. Shurgot
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,62 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1317056027

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Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies in which character criticism can work. The return to character thus involves incorporating as well as contesting postmodern ideas that have radically revised our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. At the same time, by engaging theatre practitioners, this book promotes the kind of comprehensive dialogue that is necessary for the common endeavor of sustaining the vitality of Shakespeare's characters.

Author : Ralph Berry
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,86 MB
Release : 2016
Category :
ISBN : 9781783168088

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Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this is an original and accessible synthesis of the author's conviction that many of Shakespeare's plays are powerfully shaped by their sense of place.

Author : Paula Marantz Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300258321

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An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways. Cohen takes her readers through a selection of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and clearly about how we treat "the other." Cohen argues that only through close reading of Shakespeare can we fully appreciate his empathetic response to race, class, gender, and age. Wise, eloquent, and thoughtful, this book is a forceful argument for literature's power to champion what is best in us.

Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 15,73 MB
Release : 2023-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368338560

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Reproduction of the original.

Author : William Hazlitt
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 18,30 MB
Release : 2020-07-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3752355557

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Reproduction of the original: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt

Author : Imtiaz H. Habib
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 33,62 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780945636373

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The presentation of a complex character such as Shylock bears resemblance to the technique of anamorphic portraiture and trick perspective in the sense that, seen one way he appears a villain, but seen another way he appears a persecuted victim. The clashing and merging of opposed frames of ideological reference that cannot be held apart or resolved and that remain in a kind of uneasy balance may be a technique of comic characterization that exploits relativism and ambiguity in the presentation of human personality and self on stage. A similar technique can be seen at work in the Histories in the characters of Richard and Bolingbroke, who, as has long been noted, compete contrarily for the audience's ideological sympathies over the course of the play.