Author: Henry Joseph RugglesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
The Plays of Shakespeare Founded on Literary Forms
Author: Henry Joseph RugglesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth
Author: Louis B. WrightPublisher: Associated University Presse
ISBN: 9780918016553
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE
Author: HENRY J. RUGGLESPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033219409
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shakespeare and Social Theory
Author: BRADD. SHOREPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781032017174
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book provides a bridge between Shakespeare Studies and classical social theory, opening up readings of Shakespeare to a new audience outside of literary studies and the humanities. Shakespeare has long been known as a 'great thinker' and this book reads his plays through the lens of an anthropologist, revealing new connections between Shakespeare's plays and the lives we now lead. Close readings of a selection of frequently studied plays - Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar and King Lear - engage with the plays in detail while connecting them with some of the biggest questions we all ask ourselves, about love, friendship, ritual, language, human interactions and the world around us. The plays are examined through various social theories including performance theory, cognitive theory, semiotics, exchange theory and structuralism. The book concludes with a consideration of how "the new astronomy" of his day and developments in optics changed the very idea of "perspective," and shaped Shakespeare's approach to embedding social theory in his dramatic texts. This accessible and engaging book will appeal to those approaching Shakespeare from outside literary studies, but will also be valuable to literature students approaching Shakespeare for the first time, or looking for a new angle on the plays.
The Literary Era
Author: Shakespeare Unlearned
Author: Adam ZuckerPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198906781
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Shakespeare Unlearned dances along the borderline of sense and nonsense in early modern texts, revealing overlooked opportunities for understanding and shared community in words and ideas that might in the past have been considered too silly to matter much for serious scholarship. Each chapter pursues a self-knowing, gently ironic study of the lexicon and scripting of words and acts related to what has been called 'stupidity' in work by Shakespeare and other authors. Each centers significant, often comic situations that emerge -- on stage, in print, and in the critical and editorial tradition pertaining to the period -- when rigorous scholars and teachers meet language, characters, or plotlines that exceed, and at times entirely undermine, the goals and premises of scholarly rigor. Each suggests that a framing of putative 'stupidity' pursued through lexicography, editorial glossing, literary criticism, and pedagogical practice can help us put Shakespeare and semantically obscure historical literature more generally to new communal ends. Words such as 'baffle' in Twelfth Night or 'twangling' and 'jingling' in The Tempest, and characters such as Sir Andrew Aguecheek and Holofernes the pedant, might in the past have been considered unworthy of critical attention -- too light or obvious to matter much for our understanding of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Adam Zucker's meditation on the limits of learnedness and the opportunities presented by a philology of stupidity argues otherwise.
Bulletin
Author: Cincinnati (Ohio), Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Literary News
Author: Literary News
Author: L. PylodetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Literary News
Author: Frederick LeypoldtPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description