[PDF] The Oxford Handbook Of The Age Of Shakespeare eBook

Author : Robert Malcolm Smuts
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 15,45 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0199660840

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Rather than seeking to survey the historical 'background' to Shakespeare, the essays in the collection display a variety of perspectives, insights and methodologies found in current historical work that may also inform literary studies. In addition to Elizabethan and early seventeenth century polities, they examine such topics as the characteristics of the early modern political imagination; the growth of public controversy over religion and other issues duringthe period and ways in which this can be related to drama; attitudes about honour and shame and their relation to concepts of gender; histories of crime and murder; and ways in which changing attitudeswere expressed through architecture, printed images and the layout of Tudor gardens.

Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 45,78 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199566100

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Contains forty original essays.

Author : Heather Hirschfeld
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 17,79 MB
Release : 2018-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0191043451

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.

Author : Paulina Kewes
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 811 pages
File Size : 12,39 MB
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 0199565759

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The Handbook brings together forty articles by leading scholars of history, literature, religion, and classics, in the first full investigation of the significance of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (1577, 1587), the greatest of Elizabethan chronicles and a principal source for Shakespeare's history plays.

Author : Jonathan F. S. Post
Publisher :
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 39,62 MB
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199607745

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare's Poetry provides the widest coverage yet of Shakespeare's poetry and its afterlife in English and other languages.

Author : Thomas Betteridge
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 17,41 MB
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0191651516

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The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, its scope reflects the broad reach of Tudor drama as a subject, inviting readers to see the Tudor century as a whole, rather than made up of artificial and misleading divisions between 'medieval' and 'renaissance', religious and secular, pre- and post-Shakespeare. The contributors, both the established leaders in their fields and the brightest young scholars, attend to the contexts, intellectual, theatrical and historical within which drama was written, produced and staged in this period, and ask us to consider afresh this most vital and complex of periods in theatre history. The book is divided into four sections: Religious Drama; Interludes and Comedies, Entertainments, Masques, and Royal Entries; and Histories and political dramas.

Author : Sharon R. Steadman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1193 pages
File Size : 12,77 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0195376145

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This title provides comprehensive overviews on archaeological philological, linguistic, and historical issues at the forefront of Anatolian scholarship in the 21st century.

Author : Richard Dutton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,44 MB
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199697861

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An international team of scholars examines the theatrical world in which Shakespeare worked, tracing the social, political, and patronage pressures under which actors operated. They also explore the practicalities of playing: acquiring scripts, theatres, rehearsing, lighting, music, props, boy actors, and the role of women in an 'all-male' world.

Author : Anthony Harding
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 39,63 MB
Release : 2013-06-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0191007331

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The Oxford Handbook of the European Bronze Age is a wide-ranging survey of a crucial period in prehistory during which many social, economic, and technological changes took place. Written by expert specialists in the field, the book provides coverage both of the themes that characterize the period, and of the specific developments that took place in the various countries of Europe. After an introduction and a discussion of chronology, successive chapters deal with settlement studies, burial analysis, hoards and hoarding, monumentality, rock art, cosmology, gender, and trade, as well as a series of articles on specific technologies and crafts (such as transport, metals, glass, salt, textiles, and weighing). The second half of the book covers each country in turn. From Ireland to Russia, Scandinavia to Sicily, every area is considered, and up to date information on important recent finds is discussed in detail. The book is the first to consider the whole of the European Bronze Age in both geographical and thematic terms, and will be the standard book on the subject for the foreseeable future.

Author : T. M. Devine
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 23,59 MB
Release : 2012-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0199563691

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A landmark study which reconsiders in fresh and illuminating ways the classic themes of the nation's history since the sixteenth century, as well as a number of new topics which are only now receiving detailed attention. Places the Scottish experience firmly in an international historical experience.