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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy
Author: Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy
Author: Naomi Conn LieblerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113478872X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy is a unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Naomi Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Coriolanus and King Lear as `sacrifical victims of the prevailing social order'. A fascinating examination of Shakespearean tragedy, this extraordinary book will provoke excitment and controversy alike.
Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
Author: Cesar Lombardi BarberPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691149526
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly interweaving anthropology, social history, and literary criticism, Barber traces the inward journey--psychological, bodily, spiritual--of the comedies: from confusion, raucous laughter, aching desire, and aggression, to harmony. Revealing the interplay between social custom and dramatic form, the book shows how the Elizabethan antithesis between everyday and holiday comes to life in the comedies' combination of seriousness and levity. "I have been led into an exploration of the way the social form of Elizabethan holidays contributed to the dramatic form of festive comedy. To relate this drama to holiday has proved to be the most effective way to describe its character. And this historical interplay between social and artistic form has an interest of its own: we can see here, with more clarity of outline and detail than is usually possible, how art develops underlying configurations in the social life of a culture."--C. L. Barber, in the Introduction This new edition includes a foreword by Stephen Greenblatt, who discusses Barber's influence on later scholars and the recent critical disagreements that Barber has inspired, showing that Shakespeare's Festive Comedy is as vital today as when it was originally published.
Shakespeare: The Tragedies
Author: Nicolas TredellPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1137404906
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Shakespeare's tragedies are among the greatest works of tragic art and have attracted a rich range of commentary and interpretation from leading creative and critical minds. This Reader's Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on the tragedies, from the 17th century through to the present day. In this book, Nicolas Tredell: - Introduces essential concepts, themes and debates. - Relates Shakespeare's tragedies to fi elds of study including psychoanalysis, gender, race, ecology and philosophy. - Summarises major critical texts from Dryden and Dr Johnson to Janet Adelman and Julia Reinhard Lupton, and covers influential critical movements such as New Criticism, New Historicism and poststructuralism. - Demonstrates how key critical approaches work in practice, with close reference to Shakespeare's texts. Informed and incisive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone interested in how the category of Shakespeare's tragedies has been constructed, contested and changed over the years.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy
Author: Claire McEachernPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110701977X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 156
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Shakespeare and Senecan Tragedy
Author: Curtis PerryPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108496172
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
Perry reveals Shakespeare derived modes of tragic characterization, previously seen as presciently modern, via engagement with Rome and Senecan tragedy.
Shakespeare's Feminine Endings
Author: Philippa BerryPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134914938
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Philippa Berry draws on feminist theory, postmodern thought and queer theory, to challenge existing critical notions of what is fundamental to Shakespearean tragedy. She shows how, through a network of images clustered around feminine or feminized characters, these plays 'disfigure' conventional ideas of death as a bodily end, as their figures of women are interwoven with provocative meditations upon matter, time, the soul, and the body. The scope of these tragic speculations was radical in Shakespeare's day; yet they also have a surprising relevance to contemporary debates about time and matter in science and philosophy.
William Shakespeare Tragedies
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1645171868
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Twelve of Shakespeare’s most profound and moving dramas in one elegant volume. William Shakespeare’s tragedies introduced the world to some of the most well-known characters in literature, including Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. This handsome Word Cloud volume includes all twelve works from the First Folio that are commonly classified as tragedies—but the feelings that Shakespeare’s words can evoke range across the spectrum of human emotion.
Shakespeare's Tragedies and Modern Critical Theory
Author: James CunninghamPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838637111
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Individual chapters deal with cultural materialism, new historicism, poststructuralism, and feminist criticism. The theoretical basis of each critical mode is examined and some representative critiques analyzed. Most importantly, in each chapter the various interpretations are tested against Shakespeare's texts, and the strengths and weaknesses of the different readings are assessed.
