Author: Robert E. HUNTER (of Stratford-upon-Avon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford-upon-Avon (Warwickshire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon, a “Chronicle of the time”: comprising the salient facts and traditions, biographical, topographical and historical, connected with the Poet and his birth-place; together with a full record of the tercentenary celebration
Author: Robert E. HUNTER (of Stratford-upon-Avon.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford-upon-Avon (Warwickshire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon, a "chronicle of the Time"
Author: Robert E. HunterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon; with a record of the tercentenary celebration
Author: Robert E. HunterShakespeare's Shrine
Author: Julia ThomasPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812206622
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon—and there are some 700,000 a year who do so—might be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted. The house, as the official guidebooks state, was purchased by Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, in two stages in 1556 and 1575, and William was born and brought up there. The street itself might have changed through the centuries—it is now largely populated by gift and tea shops—but it is easy to imagine little Will playing in the garden of this ancient structure, sitting in the inglenook in the kitchen, or reaching up to turn the Gothic handles on the weathered doors. In Shakespeare's Shrine Julia Thomas reveals just how fully the Birthplace that we visit today is a creation of the nineteenth century. Two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, the run-down house on Henley Street was home to a butcher shop and a pub. Saved from the threat of an ignominious sale to P. T. Barnum, it was purchased for the English nation in 1847 and given the picturesque half-timbered façade first seen in a fanciful 1769 engraving of the building. A perfect confluence of nationalism, nostalgia, and the easy access afforded by rail travel turned the house in which the Bard first drew breath into a major tourist attraction, one artifact in a sea of Shakespeare handkerchiefs, eggcups, and door-knockers. It was clear to Victorians on pilgrimage to Stratford just who Shakespeare was, how he lived, and to whom he belonged, Thomas writes, and the answers were inseparable from Victorian notions of class, domesticity, and national identity. In Shakespeare's Shrine she has written a richly documented and witty account of how both the Bard and the Warwickshire market town of his birth were turned into enduring symbols of British heritage—and of just how closely contemporary visitors to Stratford are following in the footsteps of their Victorian predecessors.
Shakespeare Jubilees: 1769-2014
Author: Christa JansohnPublisher: LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN: 3643905904
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
This volume contains a collection of essays on Shakespeare Jubilees around the world, from 1769 to 2014. The contributions range from the elaborate celebrations in Shakespeare's hometown to more modest festivities elsewhere; and from ambitious, theatrical, and politically loaded demonstrations to nationally colored, culturally distinct, and idiosyncratic commemorations. The variety of ways in which geographically distant countries have remembered Shakespeare has never before been the object of a comparative study. The book's essays will throw new light on Shakespeare as a shared international heritage. (Series: Studies on English Literature / Studien zur englischen Literatur - Vol. 27) [Subject: Literary Studies, Shakespearean Studies, Theater Studies]
Celebrating Shakespeare
Author: Clara CalvoPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107042771
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 405
Book Description
This book explores how Shakespeare is still alive as a global cultural icon, on the 400th anniversary of his death.
Festival Cities
Author: John R. GoldPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000318923
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Festivals have always been part of city life, but their relationship with their host cities has continually changed. With the rise of industrialization, they were largely considered peripheral to the course of urban affairs. Now they have become central to new ways of thinking about the challenges of economic and social change, as well as repositioning cities within competitive global networks. In this timely and thought-provoking book, John and Margaret Gold provide a reflective and evidence-based historical survey of the processes and actors involved, charting the ways that regular festivals have now become embedded in urban life and city planning. Beginning with David Garrick’s rain-drenched Shakespearean Jubilee and ending with Sydney’s flamboyant Mardi Gras celebrations, it encompasses the emergence and consolidation of city festivals. After a contextual historical survey that stretches from Antiquity to the late nineteenth century, there are detailed case studies of pioneering European arts festivals in their urban context: Venice’s Biennale, the Salzburg Festival, the Cannes Film Festival and Edinburgh’s International Festival. Ensuing chapters deal with the worldwide proliferation of arts festivals after 1950 and with the ever-increasing diversifycation of carnival celebrations, particularly through the actions of groups seeking to assert their identity. The conclusion draws together the book’s key themes and sketches the future prospects for festival cities. Lavishly illustrated, and copiously researched, this book is essential reading not just for urban geographers, social historians and planners, but also for anyone interested in contemporary festival and events tourism, urban events strategy, urban regeneration regeneration, or simply building a fuller understanding of the relationship between culture, planning and the city.
Remarks on Shakespeare, His Birth-place, Etc
Author: Charles Roach SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Stratford-upon-Avon (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Henry James and the Abuse of the Past
Author: P. RawlingsPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230504965
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Henry James and the Abuse of the Past explores the complex uses to which James puts his oblique experience of the American Civil War. Why does James use and abuse the past by fabricating and distorting people and events in his autobiographical work? The study integrates four elements: history, the past and problems of narration and representation; the homoerotics of the Civil war tales and other soldiering fiction; a life-long pre-occupation with Shakespeare as a historical figure; and theories of time as they come under the pressure of trauma and war. This well-written, insightful and persuasive study is an important contribution to James scholarship and will be of interest to any students and scholars of James
The Bookseller
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 1178
Book Description
Official organ of the book trade of the United Kingdom.