As She Likes It : Shakespeare's Unruly Women
ISBN: 9780415096959 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Unique among both Shakespearan and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affects the production of the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on the stage.
As She Likes It is the first attempt to tackle the enduring question of how to perform those unruly women at the centre of Shakespeare's comedies. Uni...
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The Johnson-Steevens Edition of the Plays of William Shakespeare including a two volume supplement by Edmond Malone [1780]
ISBN: 9780415120708 / Angielski / Twarda Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Shakespeare's plays have attracted critical attention since his death, and editing his plays became a particularly fashionable activity in the 18th century. Originally proposed in 1745, Johnson's edition of Shakespare's Plays was abandoned, and only resurfaced after the completion of his Dictionary. The first Johnson edition of Shakespeare's Plays appeared in 8 volumes in 1765. In contrast to Pope, he not only expressed approval or disapproval in his notes but also went into detail about his reasons. Boswell spoke of the Johnson Preface in which the excellencies and defects of that immortal...
Shakespeare's plays have attracted critical attention since his death, and editing his plays became a particularly fashionable activity in the 18th ce...
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Shakespeare's Festive Tragedy : The Ritual Foundations of Genre
ISBN: 9780415131834 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Lear and Coriolanus as 'sacrificial victims of the prevailing social order'.
A unique look at the social and religious foundations of the tragic genre. Liebler asks whether it is possible to regard tragic heroes such as Lear an...
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William Shakespeare : The Critical Heritage Volume 6 1774-1801
ISBN: 9780415134095 / Angielski / Twarda / 664 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The selected sources range from important essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also...
The Critical Heritage series gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary respo...
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Reading Shakespeare Historically
ISBN: 9780415134897 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing today. Charting ten years of critical development, these challenging, witty essays shed new light on Renaissance studies. It also raises intriguing questions about how the culture and history of the past illuminates the key social and political issues of today. Lisa Jardine re-reads Renaissance drama in its historical and cultural context, from laws of defamation in Othello to the competing loyalties of companionate marriage and male friendship in... Reading Shakespeare Historically is a passionate, provocative book by one of the most renowned and popular Renaissance scholars writing to... |
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Shakespeare: First 4 Folios V 3
ISBN: 9780415162234 / Angielski / Twarda / 1032 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Post-Colonial Shakespeares
ISBN: 9780415173872 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This focused collection of essays explores the multiple possiblities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging postcolonial period. It examines the extent to which our assumption about key terms such as colonization, race, and nation derive from early modern English culture. It also looks at how such terms are themselves affected by what was established subsequently as colonial forms of knowledge. The volume features original work by some of the leading critics within the field of Shakespeare studies, including: Andreas Bertoldi; Jerry Brotton; Jonathan Burton; Jonathan Dollimore; Terence...
This focused collection of essays explores the multiple possiblities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging postcolonial period. It examines the ...
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Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations
ISBN: 9780415191340 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Repositioning Shakespeare offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare. Examining these materials within the context of 'the nation' in a postcolonial era, Thomas Cartelli considers:
* essays by Walt Whitman * the nineteenth-century play, 'Jack Cade' * novels by Aphra Behn, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Michelle Cliff, Tayeb Salih, Nadine Gordimer and Robert Stone * the 1849 Astor Place Riot Cartelli places particular emphasis on redefining the 'postcolonial' in order to find a place for America. In doing so,... Repositioning Shakespeare offers an original assessment of a broad range of texts and cultural events that appropriate Shakespeare. Examining...
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Shakespeares Last Plays
ISBN: 9780415220491 / Angielski / Twarda / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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The Sound of Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780415253765 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The 'Sound of Shakespeare' reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare's art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture.
In this engaging study, Wes Folkerth develops listening as a critical practice, attending to the ways in which Shakespeare's plays express their author's awareness of early modern associations between sound and particular forms of ethical and aesthetic experience. Through readings of the acoustic representation of deep subjectivity in Richard III, of the 'public ear' in... The 'Sound of Shakespeare' reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare's art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and disco...
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The Sound of Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780415253772 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume is about the role of sound in Shakespeare's art, about how he heard the world around him and about what it means for us to listen to him. It describes the kinds of things Shakespeare learned, through sound, about the early modern world he lived in and the people he shared it with. One of the primary goals of this book is to discover the different aesthetic and ethical dispositions Shakespeare regularly associates with sound, which include connections with vulnerability, community, access to the deeply subjective or pre-articulated self, grotesque continuity and transformation,...
This volume is about the role of sound in Shakespeare's art, about how he heard the world around him and about what it means for us to listen to him. ...
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Shakespeare's Bawdy
ISBN: 9780415255530 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: 16-18 dni roboczych This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all words and phrases used in a sexual or scatological sense, with full explanations and cross-references.
This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-...
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The Wheel of Fire
ISBN: 9780415255615 / Angielski / Twarda / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: 16-18 dni roboczych Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all other Shakespearean interpretations, Wheel of Fire is the masterwork of the brilliant English scholar G. Wilson Knight. Founding a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism, Wheel of Fire was Knight's first venture in the field - his writing sparkles with insight and wit, and his analyses are key to contemporary understandings of Shakespeare..
Originally published in 1930, this classic of modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above ...
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Shame in Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780415258272 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. Shakespeare's ultimately positive portrayal of the emotion challenges this view. Drawing on philosophers and theorists of shame, Shame in Shakespeare analyzes the shame and humiliation suffered by the tragic hero, providing not only a new approach to Shakespeare but a committed and provocative argument for reclaiming shame.
One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. S...
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Shame in Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780415258289 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. Shakespeare's ultimately positive portrayal of the emotion challenges this view. Drawing on philosophers and theorists of shame, Shame in Shakespeare analyses the shame and humiliation suffered by the tragic hero, providing not only a new approach to Shakespeare but a committed and provocative argument for reclaiming shame.
The volume provides: . an account of previous traditions of shame and of the Renaissance context . a... One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. S...
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Shakespearian Production V 6
ISBN: 9780415290753 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Post-Colonial Shakespeares
ISBN: 9780415291187 / Angielski / Twarda / 308 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Making Shakespeare : From Stage to Page
ISBN: 9780415319645 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Shakespeare gives a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history of the plays, and discusses what a Shakespeare play actually is. Assuming no prior knowledge of the subject, the book reveals how the plays were written and printed, and how they have been influenced by London, the theatres where they played and the actors who played in them. It describes how the texts evolved between composition, performance and printing, and how they retain clues to their original productions. It presents a variety of background material and tools to allow readers to...
Making Shakespeare gives a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history of the plays, and discusses what a Shakespeare play ...
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Making Shakespeare: From Stage to Page
ISBN: 9780415319652 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Making Shakespeare is a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history, whilst also raising questions about what a Shakespeare play actually is. Tiffany Stern reveals how London, the theatre, the actors and the way in which the plays were written and printed all affect the 'Shakespeare' that we now read. Concentrating on the instability and fluidity of Shakespeare's texts, her book discusses what happened to a manuscript between its first composition, its performance on stage and its printing, and identifies traces of the production system in the plays we...
Making Shakespeare is a lively introduction to the major issues of the stage and print history, whilst also raising questions about what a Sh...
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Green Shakespeare: From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism
ISBN: 9780415322959 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. Gabriel Egan's Green Shakespeare presents:
Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly i... |
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