Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater - 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 Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater write by Sara Morrison. This book was released on 2016-04-01. Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Offering the first sustained and comprehensive scholarly consideration of the dramatic potential of the blazon, this volume complicates what has become a standard reading of the Petrarchan convention of dismembering the beloved through poetic description. At the same time, it contributes to a growing understanding of the relationship between the material conditions of theater and interpretations of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The chapters in this collection are organized into five thematic parts emphasizing the conventions of theater that compel us to consider bodies as both literally present and figuratively represented through languge. The first part addresses the dramatic blazon as used within the conventions of courtly love. Examining the classical roots of the Petrarchan blazon, the next part explores the violent eroticism of a poetic technique rooted in Ovidian notions of metamorphosis. With similar attention paid to brutality, the third part analyzes the representation of blazonic dismemberment on stage and screen. Figurative battles become real in the fourth part, which addresses the frequent blazons surfacing in historical and political plays. The final part moves to the role of audience, analyzing the role of the observer in containing the identity of the blazoned woman as well as her attempts to resist becoming an objectified spectacle.
Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater
Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater - 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 Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater write by Deborah Uman. This book was released on 2013. Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theater available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theatre
Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theatre - 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 Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theatre write by Deborah Uman. This book was released on 2013. Staging the Blazon in Early Modern English Theatre available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Titus Andronicus
Titus Andronicus - 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 Titus Andronicus write by William Shakespeare. This book was released on 2018-01-25. Titus Andronicus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Titus Andronicus is one of Shakespeare's earliest and bloodiest tragedies and was hugely successful in his lifetime. Subsequent generations have struggled with its bold confrontation of violence but in the 20th and 21st centuries the play has chimed with audiences again, perhaps because of its simultaneously shocking and playful approach to violent revenge and bodily mutilation. Jonathan Bate's original Arden edition was first published in 1995 and has had a significant influence on how the play has been performed and studied in the past 20 years. This revised edition includes a new 10,000 word introductory essay in which Bate reassess his views on the play's co-authorship with George Peele in the light of contemporary textual scholarship and updates his lively account of the play's performance history, on the international stage and screen. With detailed on-page commentary notes this will continue to be the edition of choice for students, scholars and theatre-makers.
Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays
Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays - 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 Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays write by L. Starks-Estes. This book was released on 2014-07-08. Violence, Trauma, and Virtus in Shakespeare's Roman Poems and Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Employing psychoanalysis, trauma theory, and materialist perspectives, this book examines Shakespeare's appropriations of Ovid's poetry in his Roman poems and plays. It argues that Shakespeare uses Ovid to explore violence, trauma, and virtus - the traumatic effects of aggression, sadomasochism, and the shifting notions of selfhood and masculinity.
