[PDF] The Ghost Of Shakespeare eBook

Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,85 MB
Release : 2020-11-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1000143384

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The plays of Shakespeare are filled with ghosts - and ghost writing. Shakespeare's Ghost Writers is an examination of the authorship controversy surrounding Shakespeare: the claim made repeatedly that the plays were ghost written. Ghosts take the form of absences, erasures, even forgeries and signatures - metaphors extended to include Shakespeare himself and his haunting of us, and in particular theorists such Derrida, Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud - the figure of Shakespeare constantly made and remade by contemporary culture. Marjorie Garber, one of the most eminent Shakespearean theorists writing today, asks what is at stake in the imputation that "Shakespeare" did not write the plays, and shows that the plays themselves both thematize and theorize that controversy. This Routledge Classics edition contains a new preface and new chapter by the author.

Author : Daryl Pinksen
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 0595475140

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On the morning of May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe met with three associates in the English intelligence network. Later that evening the Queen's coroner was summoned to their meeting place. A body lay on the floor. After an inquest, the dead man was taken to a nearby churchyard busy at the time receiving victims of the plague. According to the official report, England's foremost playwright was interred without fanfare or marker. Soon, plays attributed to William Shakespeare began to appear on the London stage, plays so undeniably similar to Marlowe's that noted scholars have since declared that Shakespeare wrote as if he had been Marlowe's apprentice. Marlowe's Ghost: The Blacklisting of the Man Who Was Shakespeare explores the possibility that persecution of a writer who dared to question authority may have led to the greatest literary cover-up of all time.

Author : Victoria Bladen
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,74 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Occultism in literature
ISBN : 9781526109064

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This edited collection of twelve essays from an international range of contemporary Shakespeare scholars explores the supernatural in Shakespeare from a variety of perspectives and approaches.

Author : Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 24,23 MB
Release : 2019-03-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781091550148

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Complete Unabridged Beautiful Hamlet, or The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare is one of the most influential works of world literature. Enjoy it again or for the very first time in this stylish new paperback edition.

Author : Paul Franssen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 14,81 MB
Release : 2016-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107125618

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In this book, Franssen investigates the use of Shakespeare as a fictional character in different literary genres, periods and cultures.

Author : Margaret Litvin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 26,93 MB
Release : 2011-10-23
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0691137803

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For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Journey traces the uses of Hamlet in Arabic theatre and political rhetoric, and asks how Shakespeare's play developed into a musical with a happy ending in 1901 and grew to become the most obsessively quoted literary work in Arab politics today. Explaining the Arab Hamlet tradition, Margaret Litvin also illuminates the "to be or not to be" politics that have turned Shakespeare's tragedy into the essential Arab political text, cited by Arab liberals, nationalists, and Islamists alike. On the Arab stage, Hamlet has been an operetta hero, a firebrand revolutionary, and a muzzled dissident. Analyzing productions from Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Jordan, and Kuwait, Litvin follows the distinct phases of Hamlet's naturalization as an Arab. Her fine-grained theatre history uses personal interviews as well as scripts and videos, reviews, and detailed comparisons with French and Russian Hamlets. The result shows Arab theatre in a new light. Litvin identifies the French source of the earliest Arabic Hamlet, shows the outsize influence of Soviet and East European Shakespeare, and explores the deep cultural link between Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and the ghost of Hamlet's father. Documenting how global sources and models helped nurture a distinct Arab Hamlet tradition, Hamlet's Arab Journey represents a new approach to the study of international Shakespeare appropriation.

Author : Adrian Parker-Reed
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 32,55 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 144387955X

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Shakespeare has been one of the most-cited authors since his plays were performed, and yet little attention has been paid to his views on psychic phenomena. It took another 300 years of paranormal experiences before scholars at Cambridge University helped to found the Society for Psychical Research, which brought scientific scrutiny to the area, and the UK is now a world leader in university research on this topic. This book throws new light on many historical case reports from Shakespeare’s time onwards. It identifies the core experiences that transcend time and give clues to an understanding of psychic phenomena. The book highlights Shakespeare’s insights, showing how these relate to, and even amplify, the conclusions of later and on-going research. In our time of disconnectedness from nature, the book discusses neglected human experiences which represent an important part of life and which do, in fact, occur to most of us. In doing so, the book raises awareness against the emptiness of a zombie-like existence in today’s society and offers a new approach to life and death, and their deeper meaning.

Author : Steven Strausz
Publisher :
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 28,12 MB
Release : 2015-01-25
Category :
ISBN : 9781492904434

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The ghost of Edward de Vere, the seventeenth Earlof Oxford, haunts William Shakespeare to performone final play.