Author: Hamilton Wright MabiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
In the Forest of Arden
Author: Hamilton Wright MabiePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Allegories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
The Forest of Medieval Romance
Author: Corinne J. SaundersPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 9780859913812
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Corinne J. Saunders's exploration of the topos of the forest, a familiar and ubiquitous motif in the literature of the middle ages, is a broad study embracing a range of medieval and Elizabethan exts from the twelft to the sixteenth centuries: the roman d'antiquite, Breton lay and courtly romance, the hagiographical tradition of the Vita Merlini and the Queste del Saint Graal, Spenser and Shakespeare. Saunders identifies the forest as a primary romance landscape, as a place of adventure, love, and spiritual vision... offers a pleasurable overview of the narrative function of the forest as a literary landscape. Based on a close comparative and theoretically non-partisan] reading of a broad range of literary texts drawn from the Europeqan canon, Saunders's study explores the continuity and transformation of an important motif in the corpus of medieval literature. MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEWDr CORINNE SAUNDERSteaches in the Department of English at the University of Durham. BLURBEXTRACTED FROM TLS REVIEW] ...An immense tract, not only of medieval literature but of human experience is] engagingly introduced and presented here...Corinne Saunders considers first forests in reality (a reality which keeps breaking through in romance...). She looks also at the classical and biblical models including Virgil, Statius and Nebuchadnezzar...only then does she turn to the non-real and non-Classical, i.e. the medieval and romantic. Here she follows a clear chronological plan from twelfth to fifteenth centuries also covering] the allegorized landscape of Spenser and the lovers' woods of Arden or Athens in Shakespeare. Her text-by-text layout does justice to the variety of possibilities taken up by different authors; the forest as a place where men run mad and turn into animals, a place of voluntary suffering, a focus of significance in the Grail-quests, a lovers' bower; above all and centrally, the place where the knight is tested and defined, even (as with Perceval) created.
As You Like It
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Classic Books Company
ISBN: 0742652890
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
Lively, instructive access to Shakespeare's rich and complex works.
The Guide to Nature
Author: As You Like it
Author: William ShakespeareLife
Author: John Ames MitchellThe Bellman
Author: As You Like it
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Comedy on Stage and Screen
Author: Wieland SchwanebeckPublisher: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag
ISBN: 3823303813
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1229
Book Description
This book introduces readers to the genre of comedy, both on the stage and on the screen. It chronicles the history of comedy, starting with Ancient Greece, before summarising key chapters in Anglophone literary history, such as Shakespearean comedy, Restoration comedy, and Theatre of the Absurd. The book features an overview of key comic techniques (including slapstick, puns, and wit), as well as concise summaries of major theoretical debates (including the superiority theory and the Freudian account of laughter). The book works with many examples from the history of Anglophone comedy, including Oscar Wilde, Monty Python, and classic sitcoms. It addresses current research into cringe humour and the controversial topic of diversity in the field of comedy, and it connects classical tropes of comedy (like the fool or the marriage plot) to present-day examples. The book thus serves as an up-to-date study guide for everyone interested in comedy and its various subgenres.
Author: William Shakespeare