Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994 write by John Ripley. This book was released on 1998. Coriolanus on Stage in England and America, 1609-1994 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing upon promptbooks and other theater documents, engravings and photographs, reviews, interviews, letters, diaries, and memoirs, he creates a richly layered account of a play persistently denied its character and rarely staged without explicit or implicit apology.
Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean
Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean write by Peter Holland. This book was released on 2014-03-27. Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of David Garrick, John Philip Kemble, Sarah Siddons and Edmund Kean to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.
Romantic Antiquity
Romantic Antiquity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Romantic Antiquity write by Jonathan Sachs. This book was released on 2010-02-04. Romantic Antiquity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work argues that Rome is relevant to the Romantic period not as the continuation of an earlier neoclassicism, but rather as a concept that is simultaneously transformed and transformative: transformed in the sense that new models of historical thinking produced a changed understandings of historicity itself.
Coriolanus
Coriolanus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Coriolanus write by William Shakespeare. This book was released on 2000-03-09. Coriolanus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This generously annotated edition offers a thorough reconsideration of Shakespeare's remarkable, and probably his last, tragedy.
Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia
Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia write by Yuichi Tsukada. This book was released on 2019-07-25. Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1603, Queen Elizabeth I died and King James I inherited the English throne. During James's reign, England continued to hark back to Elizabeth, comparing him with his predecessor – not always in a way that was either flattering or pleasing to James. Critics have traditionally assumed that Shakespeare avoided involving himself in this discourse. In this study of Shakespeare's Jacobean plays, however, Yuichi Tsukada demonstrates that, far from not involving himself in the phenomenon of nostalgia for Elizabeth, Shakespeare interacted closely with retrospective writings on Elizabeth and illuminated the complex politics behind the nostalgia. Based upon close readings of Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline and Henry VIII, together with a range of plays by Shakespeare's contemporaries, including Thomas Heywood, Thomas Dekker, George Chapman, John Marston, Thomas Middleton and Ben Jonson, the book traces the ongoing cultural negotiation of the memory of Elizabeth. Yuichi Tsukada offers fresh insights into enigmatic aspects of Shakespeare's Jacobean drama. For instance, what was the original significance of the two contentious prophecies – 'none of woman born' and the march of Birnam Wood – in Macbeth? Or that of the seemingly out-of-place triumphal procession of Volumnia near the tragic end of Coriolanus? Although her memory recurred in all forms of discourse throughout the first decade of James's reign, the impact of this cultural undercurrent on Shakespeare's Jacobean drama has been ignored or underestimated. Shakespeare and the Politics of Nostalgia reveals the unnoticed richness of Shakespeare's Jacobean drama by focusing on the growing cultural and political nostalgia for England's dead queen.
