Author: David LeitchPublisher: Pan
ISBN: 9780330250085
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
God Stand Up for Bastards
Author: David LeitchPublisher: Pan
ISBN: 9780330250085
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
God Stand Up for Bastards
Author: David LeitchPublisher:
ISBN: 9780434413461
Category : Journalists
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Sovereign Shame
Author: William F. ZakPublisher: Bucknell University Press
ISBN: 9780838750568
Category : Lear, King (Legendary character), in literature
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This study of King Lear emphasizes the fact that Cordelia Kent, and the Fool create a loving community from which Lear persistently flees, and seeks to explain his bizarre behavior not, as is sometimes done, by attributing unconscious incestuous desires to him, but by demonstrating that Lear's profound and tyrannizing shame originates in his metaphysical dread of personal worthlessness and a deep sense of being unworthy of love.
Illegitimate Power
Author: Alison FindlayPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526185725
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
In Renaissance Drama, the bastard is an extraordinarily powerful and disruptive figure. We have only to think of Caliban or of Edmund to realise the challenge presented by the illegitimate child. Drawing on a wide rage of play texts, Alison Findlay shows how illegitimacy encoded and threatened to deconstruct some of the basic tenets of patriarchal rule. She considers bastards as indicators and instigators of crises in early modern England, reading them in relation to witch craft, spiritual insecurities and social unrest in family and State. The characters discussed range from demi-devils, unnatural villains and clowns to outstanding heroic or virtuous types who challenge officially sanctioned ideas of illegitimacy. The final chapter of the book considers bastards in performance; their relationship with theatre spaces and audiences. Illegitimate voices, Findlay argues, can bring about the death of the author/father and open the text as a piece of theatre, challenging accepted notions of authority.
“The” Plays of William Shakspeare ...
Author: William ShakespeareThe Plays of William Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespeareAntony and Cleopatra. King Lear
Author: William ShakespeareDream Sequences in Shakespeare
Author: Meg Harris WilliamsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 100028056X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
This book takes a new approach to Shakespeare’s plays, exploring them as dream-thought in the modern psychoanalytic sense of unconscious thinking. Through his commitment to poetic language, Shakespeare offers images and dramatic sequences that illustrate fundamental developmental conflicts, the solutions for which are not preconceived but evolve through the process of dramatisation. In this volume, Meg Harris Williams explores the fundamental distinction between the surface meanings of plot or argument and the deep grammar of dreamlife, applied not only to those plays known as ‘dream-plays’ but also to critical sequences throughout Shakespeare’s oeuvre. Through a post-Kleinian model based on the thinking of Bion, Meltzer, and Money-Kyrle, this book sheds new light on both Shakespeare’s own relation to the play and on the identificatory processes of the playwright, reader, or audience. Dream Sequences in Shakespeare is important reading for psychoanalysts, playwrights, and students.
Twelve Great Books
Author: Joseph PearcePublisher: Ignatius Press
ISBN: 1642292141
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Tap into the wealth and health of Christian civilization with the help of literary critic Joseph Pearce. After learning the true meaning of the word "civilization"—a society rooted in truth—the reader is taken on a tour of twelve of the most important books ever written, from Augustine to Shakespeare to the masterpieces of nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature. Each work played a role, for better or for worse, in shaping the civilized world. Great stories, even when flawed, are a reflection of the greatest truths ever taught, and they share in the storytelling power of God himself: Jesus Christ, who not only taught in parables, but lived out the most dramatic tale ever told. Twelve Great Books takes readers deeper into the presence of the Creator through the beauty of the fruits of his creative gifts.
Shakespeare Translated
Author: Herbert R. CoursenPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820478395
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Shakespeare's works are constantly being translated into new contexts, a fact which demonstrates the vitality of his plots in contemporary settings. Shakespeare Translated looks at the way certain plays - particularly Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear - have been recontextualized into films like O and King of Texas, or television shows such as «The Gilmore Girls», «Cheers», and «Clueless». This book illustrates how Romeo and Juliet is the most shamelessly appropriated of Shakespeare's scripts for contemporary use because its plot fits so neatly into the teenage culture that has burgeoned since the late 1950s. Shakespeare Translated looks at what has happened to Shakespeare, for better or - more often - for worse, as the new millennium begins.