Author: David Farley-Hills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This text focuses on Hamlet - its success with Elizabethan audiences, and its position as one of Shakespeare's most popular and commented on plays up to the 18th century. It aims to represent the audiences responses and how it was received critically.
Critical Responses to Hamlet, 1600-1900: 1600-1790
Author: David Farley-Hills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This text focuses on Hamlet - its success with Elizabethan audiences, and its position as one of Shakespeare's most popular and commented on plays up to the 18th century. It aims to represent the audiences responses and how it was received critically.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This text focuses on Hamlet - its success with Elizabethan audiences, and its position as one of Shakespeare's most popular and commented on plays up to the 18th century. It aims to represent the audiences responses and how it was received critically.
Critical Responses to Hamlet, 1600-1900: 1790-1838
Author: David Farley-Hills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A collection of critical essays on Hamlet between 1790 and 1838. The aim is to feature the major critics of the day, and to give a selection of the lesser commentators who sometimes represent more typically the attitudes of their time.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
A collection of critical essays on Hamlet between 1790 and 1838. The aim is to feature the major critics of the day, and to give a selection of the lesser commentators who sometimes represent more typically the attitudes of their time.
Critical Responses to Hamlet, 1600-1900
Author: David Farley-Hills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hamlet (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Hamlet (Legendary character)
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Critical Responses to Hamlet, 1600-1900: 1839-1854
Author: David Farley-Hills
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This third volume of Critical Responses covers the early Victorian years, when Hamlet was acclaimed from Cincinnati to Moscow and from London to Australia. The German contribution, already strong during the preceding generation of Romantics, was in full stride, and is given particular attention here. It was during these years that the triumph of Romanticism over the neo-classical strictures of Voltaire was achieved and Hamlet emerged, not as an irresolute weakling, but as a rational determined hero, restrained from the immediate accomplishment of his revenge simply by a need for certainty.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
This third volume of Critical Responses covers the early Victorian years, when Hamlet was acclaimed from Cincinnati to Moscow and from London to Australia. The German contribution, already strong during the preceding generation of Romantics, was in full stride, and is given particular attention here. It was during these years that the triumph of Romanticism over the neo-classical strictures of Voltaire was achieved and Hamlet emerged, not as an irresolute weakling, but as a rational determined hero, restrained from the immediate accomplishment of his revenge simply by a need for certainty.
Literature in the Making
Author: Nancy Glazener
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199390134
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century, literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for interpreting and valuing literary texts. Literature in the Making examines what happened in between: how literature came to be more precisely specified and valued; how it was organized into genres, canons, and national traditions; and how it became the basis for departments of modern languages and literatures in research universities. Modern literature, the version of literature familiar today, was an international invention, but it was forged when literary cultures, traditions, and publishing industries were mainly organized nationally. Literature in the Making examines modern literature's coalescence and institutionalization in the United States, considered as an instructive instance of a phenomenon that was going global. Since modern literature initially offered a way to formulate the value of legacy texts by authors such as Homer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, however, the development of literature and literary culture in the U.S. was fundamentally transnational. Literature in the Making argues that Shakespeare studies, one of the richest tracts of nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture, was a key domain in which literature came to be valued both for fuelling modern projects and for safeguarding values and practices that modernity put at risk-a foundational paradox that continues to shape literary studies and literary culture. Bringing together the histories of literature's competing conceptualizations, its print infrastructure, its changing status in higher education, and its life in public culture during the long nineteenth century, Literature in the Making offers a robust account of how and why literature mattered then and matters now. By highlighting the lively collaboration between academics and non-academics that prevailed before the ascendancy of the research university starkly divided experts from amateurs, Literature in the Making also opens new possibilities for envisioning how academics might partner with the reading public.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199390134
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In the eighteenth century, literature meant learned writings; by the twentieth century, literature had come to be identified with imaginative, aesthetically significant works, and academic literary studies had developed special protocols for interpreting and valuing literary texts. Literature in the Making examines what happened in between: how literature came to be more precisely specified and valued; how it was organized into genres, canons, and national traditions; and how it became the basis for departments of modern languages and literatures in research universities. Modern literature, the version of literature familiar today, was an international invention, but it was forged when literary cultures, traditions, and publishing industries were mainly organized nationally. Literature in the Making examines modern literature's coalescence and institutionalization in the United States, considered as an instructive instance of a phenomenon that was going global. Since modern literature initially offered a way to formulate the value of legacy texts by authors such as Homer, Cervantes, and Shakespeare, however, the development of literature and literary culture in the U.S. was fundamentally transnational. Literature in the Making argues that Shakespeare studies, one of the richest tracts of nineteenth-century U.S. literary culture, was a key domain in which literature came to be valued both for fuelling modern projects and for safeguarding values and practices that modernity put at risk-a foundational paradox that continues to shape literary studies and literary culture. Bringing together the histories of literature's competing conceptualizations, its print infrastructure, its changing status in higher education, and its life in public culture during the long nineteenth century, Literature in the Making offers a robust account of how and why literature mattered then and matters now. By highlighting the lively collaboration between academics and non-academics that prevailed before the ascendancy of the research university starkly divided experts from amateurs, Literature in the Making also opens new possibilities for envisioning how academics might partner with the reading public.
Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies
Author: Emma Whipday
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108614787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Domestic tragedy was an innovative genre, suggesting that the lives and sufferings of ordinary people were worthy of the dramatic scope of tragedy. In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre, together with neglected pamphlets, ballads, and other forms of 'cheap print' about domestic violence, informed some of Shakespeare's greatest works. Providing a significant reappraisal of Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, the book argues that domesticity is central to these plays: they stage how societal and familial pressures shape individual agency; how the integrity of the house is associated with the body of the housewife; and how household transgressions render the home permeable. Whipday demonstrates that Shakespeare not only appropriated constructions of the domestic from domestic tragedies, but that he transformed the genre, using heightened language, foreign settings, and elite spheres to stage familiar domestic worlds.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108614787
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Domestic tragedy was an innovative genre, suggesting that the lives and sufferings of ordinary people were worthy of the dramatic scope of tragedy. In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre, together with neglected pamphlets, ballads, and other forms of 'cheap print' about domestic violence, informed some of Shakespeare's greatest works. Providing a significant reappraisal of Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, the book argues that domesticity is central to these plays: they stage how societal and familial pressures shape individual agency; how the integrity of the house is associated with the body of the housewife; and how household transgressions render the home permeable. Whipday demonstrates that Shakespeare not only appropriated constructions of the domestic from domestic tragedies, but that he transformed the genre, using heightened language, foreign settings, and elite spheres to stage familiar domestic worlds.
Shakespeare Quarterly
Hamlet
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.
The Cumulative Book Index
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2348
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2348
Book Description
A world list of books in the English language.