Shakespeare's Stage Traffic - 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's Stage Traffic write by Janet Clare. This book was released on 2014-01-09. Shakespeare's Stage Traffic available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contesting the notion of Shakespeare as originator, Clare demonstrates how Shakespeare adapted, imitated and borrowed from the work of others.
Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men
Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men - 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 in the Theatre: The King's Men write by Lucy Munro. This book was released on 2020-04-16. Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Created when James I granted royal patronage to the former Chamberlain's Men in 1603, the King's Men were the first playing company to exercise a transformative influence on Shakespeare's plays. Not only did Shakespeare write his plays with them in mind, but they were also the first group to revive his plays, and the first to have them revised, either by Shakespeare himself or by other dramatists after his retirement. Drawing on theatre history, performance studies, cultural history and book history, Shakespeare in the Theatre: The King's Men reappraises the company as theatre artists, analysing in detail the performance practices, cultural contexts and political pressures that helped to shape and reshape Shakespeare's plays between 1603 and 1642. Reconsidering casting and acting styles, staging and playing venues, audience response, influence and popularity, and local, national and international politics, the book presents case-studies of performances of Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, Richard II, Henry VIII, Othello and Pericles alongside a broader reappraisal of the repertory of the company and the place of Shakespeare's plays within it.
Shakespeare Studies, volume 45
Shakespeare Studies, volume 45 - 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, volume 45 write by James R. Siemon. This book was released on 2017-12-31. Shakespeare Studies, volume 45 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare Studies is an annual volume featuring the work of scholars, critics, and cultural historians from across the globe. This issue includes a Forum on the drama of the 1580s, from eleven contributors; a Next Gen Plenary, from four contributors, three articles, and reviews of sixteen books.
Shakespeare's Once and Future Child
Shakespeare's Once and Future Child - 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's Once and Future Child write by Joseph Campana. This book was released on 2024. Shakespeare's Once and Future Child available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of Shakespeare's child figures in relation to their own political moment, as well as our own. Politicians are fond of saying that "children are the future." How did the child become a figure for our political hopes? Joseph Campana's book locates the source of this idea in transformations of childhood and political sovereignty during the age of Shakespeare, changes spectacularly dramatized by the playwright himself. Shakespeare's works feature far more child figures--and more politically entangled children--than other literary or theatrical works of the era. Campana delves into this rich corpus to show how children and childhood expose assumptions about the shape of an ideal polity, the nature of citizenship, the growing importance of population and demographics, and the question of what is or is not human. As our ability to imagine viable futures on our planet feels ever more limited, and as children take up legal proceedings to sue on behalf of the future, it behooves us to understand the way past child figures haunt our conversations about intergenerational justice. Shakespeare offers critical precedents for questions we still struggle to answer.
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages - 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 Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages write by Tanya Pollard. This book was released on 2017-09-15. Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts' invisibility, the book shows not only that the plays were more prominent than we have believed, but that early modern readers and audiences responded powerfully to specific plays and themes. The Greek plays most popular in the period were not male-centered dramas such as Sophocles' Oedipus, but tragedies by Euripides that focused on raging bereaved mothers and sacrificial virgin daughters, especially Hecuba and Iphigenia. Because tragedy was firmly linked with its Greek origin in the period's writings, these iconic female figures acquired a privileged status as synecdoches for the tragic theater and its ability to conjure sympathetic emotions in audiences. When Hamlet reflects on the moving power of tragic performance, he turns to the most prominent of these figures: 'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba/ That he should weep for her?' Through readings of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporary dramatists, this book argues that newly visible Greek plays, identified with the origins of theatrical performance and represented by passionate female figures, challenged early modern writers to reimagine the affective possibilities of tragedy, comedy, and the emerging genre of tragicomedy.
