Author: Arthur Hallam EltonPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Herbert Chauncey: a Man More Sinned Against Than Sinning
Author: Arthur Hallam EltonHerbert Chauncey: a Man More Sinned Against Than Sinning
Author: Sir Arthur Hallam Elton (Bart.)Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 318
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More Sinned Against Than Sinning
Author: Liz DobsonShakespeare Attacks Bigotry
Author: Elaine L. RobinsonPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786453648
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
The author argues that Renaissance humanism created a system of bigotry and eroded the practice of Christianity, and that Shakespeare attempted to expose and condemn that shift. The book examines six of his plays--Titus Andronicus, The Merchant of Venice, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth--and explores how they satirized humanism's grounding in Aristotle's philosophy of slavery and supremacy. Shakespeare used characters like Hamlet and Aaron the Moor to attack that bigotry, and his stance against racism and humanism revealed his Catholic faith.
Tess of the d'Ubervilles
Author: Thomas HardyPublisher: Xist Publishing
ISBN: 1681959658
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy from Coterie Classics All Coterie Classics have been formatted for ereaders and devices and include a bonus link to the free audio book. “Did it never strike your mind that what every woman says, some women may feel?” ― Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles Tess of the d'Urbervilles is a heartbreaking tale of a woman going to every length to try and do what is right, only to have fate tease her at each turn.
The Appeal
Author: Oedipus at Colonus and King Lear: Classical and Early Modern Intersections
Author: Silvia BigliazziPublisher: Skenè. Texts and Studies
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 454
Book Description
The story of King Lear seems to fill in the blank space separating the end of Oedipus Tyrannus and the beginning of Oedipus at Colonus. In both Oedipus at Colonus and the latter part of King Lear we are presented with an old man who was once a King and, following his expulsion from his kingdom on account of a crime or of an error, is turned into a ‘no-thing’. This happens in the time of the division of the kingdom, which is also the time of the genesis of intraspecific conflict and, consequently, of the end of the dynasty. This collection of essays offers a range of perspectives on the many common concerns of these two plays, from the relation between fathers and sons/daughters to madness and wisdom, from sinning and suffering to ‘being’ and ‘non-being’ in human and divine time. It also offers an overarching critical frame that interrogates questions of ‘source’ and ‘reception’, probing into the possible exchangeability of perspectives in a game of mirrors that challenges ideas of origin.
Making Trifles of Terrors
Author: Harry BergerPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804728522
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
This collection of essays includes some of the most recent work of a master critic at the height of his powers. Of the fourteen essays, written from the late 1970's to the present, three have never before been published; the essays' appearance in a single volume makes available for the first time the full scope of Berger's unique approach to ethical discourses in Shakespeare's plays. The sequence of essays displays both the continuity and the revisionary development that mark his critical practice since the early work on The Tempest, Troilus and Cressida, and the Elizabethan theater. When one compares Berger's earlier work from the 1960's with the writing from the 1980's and 1990's in the present collection, one sees that the difference stems primarily from the impact on the later work of his encounters with the whole range of structuralist and poststructuralist theory. Much of the excitement and vitality of Berger's current work comes from his efforts to incorporate new methodological influences into his previous system. Because he comes to poststructuralism as a mature critic whose larger interpretive framework is already in place, his response is not simply to immerse himself in the new theoretical modes and adopt them wholesale, but rather to make them his own. Among the plays discussed are The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Macbeth, 2 Henry IV, Richard II--and, in two of the new essays, 1 Henry IV and Measure for Measure. Also new is Berger's retrospective account of his critical development in the extensive opening "Acknowledgments."
The Biblical Counseling Movement
Author: David PowlisonPublisher: New Growth Press
ISBN: 193676850X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Beginning in the late 1960s, a biblical counseling movement sought to reclaim counseling for the church and provide a Christian alternative to mainstream psychiatry and psychotherapy. The Biblical Counseling Movement: History and Context is an informative and thought-provoking account of that movement. David Powlison's historical account ...
Green Shakespeare
Author: Gabriel EganPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134351232
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Pushing ecocriticism beyond the typical boundaries of ‘nature’ writing, this interdisciplinary account introduces one of the most lively areas of Shakespeare studies and presents a convincing case for his continuing relevance to contemporary theory.