Shakespeare Among the Courtesans - 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 Among the Courtesans write by Duncan Salkeld. This book was released on 2016-04-01. Shakespeare Among the Courtesans available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Courtesans - women who achieve wealth, status, or power through sexual transgression - have played both a central and contradictory role in literature: they have been admired, celebrated, feared, and vilified. This study of the courtesan in Renaissance English drama focuses not only on the moral ambivalence of these women, but with special attention to Anglo-Italian relations, illuminates little known aspects of their lives. It traces the courtesan from a wry comedic character in the plays of Terence and Plautus to its literary exhaustion in the seventeenth-century dramatic works of Dekker, Marston, Webster, Middleton, Shirley and Brome. The author focuses especially on the presentation of the courtesan in the sixteenth century - dramas by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Lyly view the courtesan as a symbol of social disease and decay, transforming classical conventions into English prejudices. Renaissance Anglo-Italian cultural and sexual relations are also investigated through comparisons of travel narratives, original source materials, and analysis of Aretino's representations of celebrated Italian courtesans. Amid these fascinating tales of aspiration, desire and despair lingers the intriguing question of who was the 'dark lady' of Shakespeare's sonnets.
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 27
Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 27 - 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 Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 27 write by S. P. Cerasano. This book was released on 2014-09-30. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, vol. 27 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An international journal committed to the publication of essays and reviews relevant to drama and theatre history to 1642. This issue includes nine new articles and reviews of three books.
Shakespeare, Music and Performance
Shakespeare, Music and Performance - 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, Music and Performance write by Bill Barclay. This book was released on 2017-04-13. Shakespeare, Music and Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume traces the uses of music in Shakespearean performance from the first Globe and Blackfriars to contemporary, global productions.
Shakespeare / Play
Shakespeare / Play - 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 / Play write by Emma Whipday. This book was released on 2024-07-11. Shakespeare / Play available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. What is (a) play? How do Shakespeare's plays engage with and represent early modern modes of play – from jests and games to music, spectacle, movement, animal-baiting and dance? How have we played with Shakespeare in the centuries since? And how does the structure of the plays experienced in the early modern playhouse shape our understanding of Shakespeare plays today? Shakespeare / Play brings together established and emerging scholars to respond to these questions, using approaches spanning theatre and dance history, cultural history, critical race studies, performance studies, disability studies, archaeology, affect studies, music history, material history and literary and dramaturgical analysis. Ranging across Shakespeare's dramatic oeuvre as well as early modern lost plays, dance notation, conduct books, jest books and contemporary theatre and film, it includes consideration of Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus, Merchant of Venice, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear and The Merry Wives of Windsor, among others. The subject of this volume is reflected in its structure: Shakespeare / Play features substantial new essays across 5 'acts', interwoven with 7 shorter, playful pieces (a 'prologue', 4 'act breaks', a 'jig' and a 'curtain call'), to offer new directions for research on Shakespearean playing, playmaking and performance. In so doing, this volume interrogates the conceptions of playing of/in Shakespeare that shape how we perform, read, teach and analyze Shakespeare today.
Shakespeare Studies, vol. 43
Shakespeare Studies, vol. 43 - 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 Studies, vol. 43 write by Diana E. Henderson. This book was released on 2015-09-30. Shakespeare Studies, vol. 43 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
