The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare - 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 The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare write by Charles LaPorte. This book was released on 2020-11-05. The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How and why did Victorian culture make Shakespeare into a literary deity and his work into a secular Bible?
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare
The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare - 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 The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare write by Charles LaPorte. This book was released on 2020-11-05. The Victorian Cult of Shakespeare available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the Victorian era, William Shakespeare's work was often celebrated as a sacred text: a sort of secular English Bible. Even today, Shakespeare remains a uniquely important literary figure. Yet Victorian criticism took on religious dimensions that now seem outlandish in retrospect. Ministers wrote sermons based upon Shakespearean texts and delivered them from pulpits in Christian churches. Some scholars crafted devotional volumes to compare his texts directly with the Bible's. Still others created Shakespearean societies in the faith that his inspiration was not like that of other playwrights. Charles LaPorte uses such examples from the Victorian cult of Shakespeare to illustrate the complex relationship between religion, literature and secularization. His work helps to illuminate a curious but crucial chapter in the history of modern literary studies in the West, as well as its connections with Biblical scholarship and textual criticism.
Shakespeare and the Victorians
Shakespeare and the Victorians - 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 Victorians write by Stuart Sillars. This book was released on 2013-11. Shakespeare and the Victorians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare and the Victorians explores the place of Shakespeare in Victorian culture, and shows how the plays and the man became central to all levels of Victorian life and thought.
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.
Contested Will
Contested Will - 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 Contested Will write by James Shapiro. This book was released on 2011-04-19. Contested Will available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
