Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Merchant of Venice (7th ed.)
Author: William ShakespeareA New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespeareThe Merchant of Venice
Author: Boika SokolovaPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526150085
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
Boika Sokolova and Kirilka Stavreva’s second edition of the stage history of The Merchant of Venice interweaves into the chronology of James Bulman’s first edition richly contextualised chapters on Max Reinhardt, Peter Zadek, and the first production of the play in Mandatory Palestine, directed by Leopold Jessner. While the focus of the book is on post-1990s productions across Europe and the USA, and on film, the Segue provides a broad survey of the interpretative shifts in the play’s performance from the 1930s to the second decade of the twenty-first century. Individual chapters explore productions by Peter Zadek, Trevor Nunn, Robert Sturua, Edward Hall, Rupert Goold, Daniel Sullivan, and Karin Coonrod. An extensive film section including silent film offers close analysis of Don Selwyn’s Te Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti and Michael Radford’s adaptation. Accessible and engaging, the book will interest students, academics, and general readers.
Francis Bacon’s Hidden Hand in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice
Author: Christina G. WaldmanPublisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 1628943327
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
The Merchant of Venice: Language and Writing
Author: Douglas M. LanierPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472571509
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 217
Book Description
Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The books' core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's complex dramatic language, and expanding your own critical vocabulary, as you respond to his plays. Each guide in the series will empower you to read and write about Shakespeare with increased confidence and enthusiasm. A notoriously disturbing play, The Merchant of Venice explores how the discourses of racial and religious prejudice and of business intertwine and shape how characters understand themselves and their relationships with one another. The intersections between religious, racial and economic language in The Merchant of Venice can be challenging to grasp, but in this guide Douglas Lanier showcases a range of approaches to understanding its language, all based on close reading and attention to Shakespeare's style. The volume will equip you to analyze Shakespeare's troubling portrayal of anti-Semitism for yourself and to articulate your views on The Merchant of Venice with greater insight and confidence.
Shakespeare's Folktale Sources
Author: Charlotte ArtesePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1611495563
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Shakespeare’s Folktale Sources examines how Shakespeare adapted folktales for one or more plots in seven of his plays. When we acknowledge that Shakespeare constructed his plays from traditional stories with wide written and oral circulation, we can see how he used his folktale sources to engage his audience on common ground.
A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Palala Press
ISBN: 9781347986202
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
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Sick Economies
Author: Jonathan Gil HarrisPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202198
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
From French Physiocrat theories of the blood-like circulation of wealth to Adam Smith's "invisible hand" of the market, the body has played a crucial role in Western perceptions of the economic. In Renaissance culture, however, the dominant bodily metaphors for national wealth and economy were derived from the relatively new language of infectious disease. Whereas traditional Galenic medicine had understood illness as a state of imbalance within the body, early modern writers increasingly reimagined disease as an invasive foreign agent. The rapid rise of global trade in the sixteenth century, and the resulting migrations of people, money, and commodities across national borders, contributed to this growing pathologization of the foreign; conversely, the new trade-inflected vocabularies of disease helped writers to represent the contours of national and global economies. Grounded in scrupulous analyses of cultural and economic history, Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare's England teases out the double helix of the pathological and the economic in two seemingly disparate spheres of early modern textual production: drama and mercantilist writing. Of particular interest to this study are the ways English playwrights, such as Shakespeare, Jonson, Heywood, Massinger, and Middleton, and mercantilists, such as Malynes, Milles, Misselden, and Mun, rooted their conceptions of national economy in the language of disease. Some of these diseases—syphilis, taint, canker, plague, hepatitis—have subsequently lost their economic connotations; others—most notably consumption—remain integral to the modern economic lexicon but have by and large shed their pathological senses. Breaking new ground by analyzing English mercantilism primarily as a discursive rather than an ideological or economic system, Sick Economies provides a compelling history of how, even in our own time, defenses of transnational economy have paradoxically pathologized the foreign. In the process, Jonathan Gil Harris argues that what we now regard as the discrete sphere of the economic cannot be disentangled from seemingly unrelated domains of Renaissance culture, especially medicine and the theater.
A.L.A. Catalog, 1926
Author: Isabella Mitchell CooperPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 1302
Book Description
Catalogue of the Mark Skinner Library with a Subject Index
Author: Mark Skinner Library (Manchester, Vt.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description