Author: Stanley CavellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare
Author: Stanley CavellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Knowledge, Theory of, in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Disowning Knowledge
Author: Stanley CavellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521529204
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Disowning Knowledge: in Six Plays of Shakespeare
Author: Disowning Knowledge
Author: Stanley CavellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521330329
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Since the publication of his celebrated first essay on Shakespeare, The Avoidance of Love: A reading of King Lear, Stanley Cavell has continued to explore radically new and provocative interpretations of a number of the plays. This volume collects those writings for the first time and includes pieces not previously published. The essays are bound together by a concern for scepticism. In Coriolanus' disdain, Leontes' and Othello's jealousy, Hamlet's inertia, and Lear's exorbitance, Stanley Cavell sees Shakespeare as offering, for the first time in European letters, a profound diagnosis of the sceptical refusal to acknowledge truths about oneself and one's relations to others, and as exploring the motives and tragic consequences of that refusal. His readings of the plays are subtle and challenging, and the insights they contain often startle by both their originality and their familiarity. As a whole they present a unique point of view on the plays.
Shakespeare's Tragedies
Author: Emma SmithPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470776897
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This Guide steers students through the critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies from the sixteenth century to the present day. Guides students through four centuries of critical writing on Shakespeare’s tragedies. Covers both significant early views and recent critical interventions. Substantial editorial material links the articles and places them in context. Annotated suggestions for further reading allow students to investigate further.
Living Without Philosophy
Author: Peter LevinePublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791438978
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Drawing on implications from ethics, theology, law, politics, and education, this book argues that we can decide what is right by describing particular cases in detail, without the aid of ethical theories and principles.
Drama Trauma
Author: Timothy MurrayPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136207805
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
In this engaging cross-disciplinary study, Timothy Murray examines the artistic struggle over traumatic fantasies of race, gender, sexuality, and power. Establishing a retrospective dialogue between past and present, stage and video, Drama Trauma links the impact of trauma on recent political projects in performance and video with the specters of difference haunting Shakespeare's plays. The book provides close readings of cultural formations as diverse as Shakespearean drama, the Statue of Liberty, contemporary plays by women, African-American performance, and feminist interventions in video, performance and installation. The texts discussed include: * installations by Mary Kelly and Dawn Dedeaux, * plays by Ntozake Shange, Rochelle Owens, Adrienne Kennedy, Marsha Norman and Amiri Baraka * performances by Robbie McCauley, Jordan, Orlan, and Carmelita Tropicana * stage, film and video productions of King Lear, Othello, Romeo and Juliet and All's Well that Ends Well.
William Shakespeare, King Lear
Author: Susan BrucePublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231115292
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
This Critical Guide helps students sift through and make sense of nearly three centuries of Lear criticism, providing insight into different assessments of the play's merit and its place within Shakespeare's work and the canon of English literature. Highlights include excerpts from the neoclassical and Romantic receptions of King Lear -- material from John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Victor Hugo -- and a discussion of recent and current trends in criticism of the play.
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 and Genre
Author: A. GuneratnePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137010355
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Provides a comprehensive survey of approaches to genre in Shakespeare's work. Contributors probe deeply into genre theory and genre history by relating Renaissance conceptions. In this sense, the volume proposes to read Shakespeare through genre and, just as importantly, read genre through Shakespeare.