Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections - 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 Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections write by Silvia Bigliazzi. This book was released on 2019-12-29. Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The story of King Lear seems to fill in the blank space separating the end of Oedipus Tyrannus and the beginning of Oedipus at Colonus. In both Oedipus at Colonus and the latter part of King Lear we are presented with an old man who was once a King and, following his expulsion from his kingdom on account of a crime or of an error, is turned into a ‘no-thing’. This happens in the time of the division of the kingdom, which is also the time of the genesis of intraspecific conflict and, consequently, of the end of the dynasty. This collection of essays offers a range of perspectives on the many common concerns of these two plays, from the relation between fathers and sons/daughters to madness and wisdom, from sinning and suffering to ‘being’ and ‘non-being’ in human and divine time. It also offers an overarching critical frame that interrogates questions of ‘source’ and ‘reception’, probing into the possible exchangeability of perspectives in a game of mirrors that challenges ideas of origin.
A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2
A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 - 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 A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 write by Marco Duranti. This book was released on 2023-12-20. A Feast of Strange Opinions: Classical and Early Modern Paradoxes on the English Renaissance Stage 1.2 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume originates as a continuation of the previous volume in the CEMP series (1.1) and aims at furthering scholarly interest in the nature and function of theatrical paradox in early modern plays, considering how classical paradoxical culture was received in Renaissance England. The book is articulated into three sections: the first, “Paradoxical Culture and Drama”, is devoted to an investigation of classical definitions of paradox and the dramatic uses of paradox in ancient Greek drama; the second, “Paradoxes in/of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama” looks at the functions and uses of paradox in the play-texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries; finally, the essays in “Paradoxes in Drama and the Digital” examine how the Digital Humanities can enrich our knowledge of paradoxes in classical and early modern drama.
Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 2: The Tempest
Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 2: The Tempest - 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 Mediterranean 2: The Tempest write by Fabio Ciambella. This book was released on 2023-08-23. Shakespeare and the Mediterranean 2: The Tempest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Is Shakespeare’s The Tempest a Mediterranean play? This volume explores the relationship between The Tempest and the Mediterranean Sea and analyses it from different perspectives. Some essays focus on close readings of the text in order to explore the importance of the Mediterranean Sea for the genesis of the play and the narration of the past and present events in which the Shakespearean characters participate. Other chapters investigate the relationship between the Shakespearean play, its resources from the Mediterranean Graeco-Latin past and its afterlives in twentieth-century poems looking at the Mediterranean dimension of the play. Moreover, influences on and of The Tempest are investigated, looking at how Italian Renaissance music may have influenced some choices concerning Ariel’s song(s) and how The Tempest has shaped the production of twentieth-century Italian directors. Finally, other chapters try to reaffirm the centrality of the Mediterranean Sea in The Tempest, bringing to the fore new textual evidence in support of the Mediterraneity of the play, by adopting and/or criticising recent approaches.
Shakespeare and Crisis
Shakespeare and Crisis - 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 Crisis write by Silvia Bigliazzi. This book was released on 2020-06-15. Shakespeare and Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare and Crisis: One hundred years of Italian narratives explores how Shakespeare intervened in the Italian socio-political and cultural scene between his third and fourth centenaries, at times which were manifestly perceived as ‘critical’. It asks which complex mythopoietic processes contributed to shaping regimes of reading Shakespeare in response to those times of crisis. Crises of national identity during the Great War and the Fascist regime, crises of history in the 1970s, and crises of representation in the second half of the twentieth century extending into the new millennium constitute the three main areas of a discussion that ultimately aims at probing into the role of literature at times of crisis. The volume situates itself at the juncture of European Shakespeare studies and studies of Shakespeare and Italy. It addresses essential questions about the position of literature in society, offering at different levels new insights for scholars, students, and the general reader.
Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson
Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson - 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 Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson write by Alessandro Grilli. This book was released on 2023-01-30. Action, Song, and Poetry: Musical and Poetical Meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This study aims to provide a comparative analysis of the dynamics of musical and poetical meta-performance as they emerge both from the surviving corpus of ancient Attic comedy (which adds up, for our purposes, to Aristophanes’ eleven extant plays) and from Ben Jonson’s comedies. As a matter of fact, both corpora show a huge presence of meta-performative elements, that is, of moments in which musical and/or poetical performance is explicitly thematized or enacted in the drama. Those moments are hardly ever fortuitous, or not significant. On the contrary, they play each time a vital role in the development of the plot, in the portrait of characters, or in the definition of the ideology of the play. By means of a comparative analysis between the two authors, the book aims at providing a taxonomy of meta-performance in Aristophanes and Ben Jonson, with particular attention to its role in the definition of the characters' poetic ability. Such comparison will show that, despite using similar comic and performative strategies, the two authors draw a completely different ideology around the crucial themes of culture and titularity.
