Author: Michael W. Shurgot
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317056019
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies in which character criticism can work. The return to character thus involves incorporating as well as contesting postmodern ideas that have radically revised our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. At the same time, by engaging theatre practitioners, this book promotes the kind of comprehensive dialogue that is necessary for the common endeavor of sustaining the vitality of Shakespeare's characters.
Shakespeare's Sense of Character
Author: Michael W. Shurgot
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317056019
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies in which character criticism can work. The return to character thus involves incorporating as well as contesting postmodern ideas that have radically revised our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. At the same time, by engaging theatre practitioners, this book promotes the kind of comprehensive dialogue that is necessary for the common endeavor of sustaining the vitality of Shakespeare's characters.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317056019
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions of what Shakespearean character is, and to extend the range of critical vocabularies in which character criticism can work. The return to character thus involves incorporating as well as contesting postmodern ideas that have radically revised our conceptions of subjectivity and selfhood. At the same time, by engaging theatre practitioners, this book promotes the kind of comprehensive dialogue that is necessary for the common endeavor of sustaining the vitality of Shakespeare's characters.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Shakespeare's Settings and a Sense of Place
Author: Ralph Berry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783168088
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this is an original and accessible synthesis of the author's conviction that many of Shakespeare's plays are powerfully shaped by their sense of place.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781783168088
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this is an original and accessible synthesis of the author's conviction that many of Shakespeare's plays are powerfully shaped by their sense of place.
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752355557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752355557
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Characters of Shakespeare's Plays by William Hazlitt
Characters of Shakespeare's Plays
Author: William Hazlitt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368338560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368338560
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character
Author: Imtiaz H. Habib
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780945636373
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The presentation of a complex character such as Shylock bears resemblance to the technique of anamorphic portraiture and trick perspective in the sense that, seen one way he appears a villain, but seen another way he appears a persecuted victim. The clashing and merging of opposed frames of ideological reference that cannot be held apart or resolved and that remain in a kind of uneasy balance may be a technique of comic characterization that exploits relativism and ambiguity in the presentation of human personality and self on stage. A similar technique can be seen at work in the Histories in the characters of Richard and Bolingbroke, who, as has long been noted, compete contrarily for the audience's ideological sympathies over the course of the play.
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
ISBN: 9780945636373
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The presentation of a complex character such as Shylock bears resemblance to the technique of anamorphic portraiture and trick perspective in the sense that, seen one way he appears a villain, but seen another way he appears a persecuted victim. The clashing and merging of opposed frames of ideological reference that cannot be held apart or resolved and that remain in a kind of uneasy balance may be a technique of comic characterization that exploits relativism and ambiguity in the presentation of human personality and self on stage. A similar technique can be seen at work in the Histories in the characters of Richard and Bolingbroke, who, as has long been noted, compete contrarily for the audience's ideological sympathies over the course of the play.
Character as a Subversive Force in Shakespeare
Author: Bernard J. Paris
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838634295
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Shakespeare's history and Roman plays are usually discussed in terms of their political themes; their leading characters are imagined human beings who must be understood in motivational terms. Analyzing these characters with the aid of modern psychology (the theories of Karen Horney), this story attempts both to make sense of inconsistencies within the plays and the controversies they have produced.
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838634295
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Shakespeare's history and Roman plays are usually discussed in terms of their political themes; their leading characters are imagined human beings who must be understood in motivational terms. Analyzing these characters with the aid of modern psychology (the theories of Karen Horney), this story attempts both to make sense of inconsistencies within the plays and the controversies they have produced.
The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism
Author: Evelyn Gajowski
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350093238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading and genre studies, through those that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s that challenged the preconceptions on which traditional liberal humanism is based, including feminism, cultural materialism and new historicism. Perspectives drawn from postcolonial, queer studies and critical race studies, besides more recent critical practices including presentism, ecofeminism and cognitive ethology all receive detailed treatment. In addition to its coverage of distinct critical approaches, the handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A–Z glossary of key terms and concepts, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field and a substantial annotated bibliography.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350093238
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on critical approaches to Shakespeare by an international team of leading scholars. It contains chapters on 20 specific critical practices, each grounded in analysis of a Shakespeare play. These practices range from foundational approaches including character studies, close reading and genre studies, through those that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s that challenged the preconceptions on which traditional liberal humanism is based, including feminism, cultural materialism and new historicism. Perspectives drawn from postcolonial, queer studies and critical race studies, besides more recent critical practices including presentism, ecofeminism and cognitive ethology all receive detailed treatment. In addition to its coverage of distinct critical approaches, the handbook contains various sections that provide non-specialists with practical help: an A–Z glossary of key terms and concepts, a chronology of major publications and events, an introduction to resources for study of the field and a substantial annotated bibliography.
Perspective in Shakespeare's English Histories
Author: Larry S. Champion
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033846X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play—one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare's dramaturgy after Richard II. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare continues to focus on the psychological analysis and internalized protagonist which lead to his major tragic achievements. In King John and Henry IV, the playwright develops a middle ground between the polarities of Henry VI, in which the flat, onedimensional characters essentially serve the purposes of the narrative, and the tragedies, in which the spectator's consuming interest is in the developing centralfigure whose critical moments they share. Champion sees Henry V as the culmination of Shakespeare's e fforts in the English history play.
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 082033846X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Larry S. Champion examines Shakespeare's English history plays and describes the structural devices through which Shakespeare controls the audience's angle of vision and its response to the pattern of historical events. Champion observes the experimentation between stage worlds and the significance of a dramatic technique unique to the history play—one that combines the detachment of a documentary necessary for a broad intellectual view of history and the simultaneous engagement between character and spectator. Champion sees a conscious bifurcation occurring in Shakespeare's dramaturgy after Richard II. In Julius Caesar, Shakespeare continues to focus on the psychological analysis and internalized protagonist which lead to his major tragic achievements. In King John and Henry IV, the playwright develops a middle ground between the polarities of Henry VI, in which the flat, onedimensional characters essentially serve the purposes of the narrative, and the tragedies, in which the spectator's consuming interest is in the developing centralfigure whose critical moments they share. Champion sees Henry V as the culmination of Shakespeare's e fforts in the English history play.