Kategoria BISAC: Literary Criticism >> Shakespeare

"Quintessence of Dust" now explains how Shakespeare meticulously crafted every scene to convey, through our emotional involvement in the drama, a central spiritual message. The book also explains by a single coherent theme practically every aspect of the play that has...

Recent interest in who Shakespeare's Muse may have been prompts one to come forthto dispel the drastically simplistic notions that have been brought forward.In this essay John O'Meara suggests where our concern with Shakespeare shouldactually lie or what form of Muse we can suppose it was that commanded hisdevelopment the way it did.

Shakespeare was fated for a certain experience from which he could not extricatehimself, even if he had wished to. Highlighted is his struggle with Martin Luther'sinjunction to imagine human depravity to the fullest, with which O'Meara comparesthe route...

Language and desire, Terry Eagleton argues, are seen by Shakespeare as a kind of 'surplus' over and above the body, stable and social roles and a...

• Introduces students to Shakespeare's plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater.
  
• Focuses on the material conditions of playing and of playgoing.
  
• Covers venues, audiences, actors, society, government and regulation.
  
• Each topic is considered in relation to a selection of Shakespeare's plays.
  
• Shows students how the plays and the context in which they were...

• Introduces beginning students and general readers to Shakespeare's plays by highlighting the connections between the issues addressed by the plays and those of our own time.


• Focuses on the characters, situations and stories in Shakespeare which are still familiar today.


• Shows how Shakespeare's plays illustrate some of life's most familiar stories - love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering...

This magisterial work links the literary and intellectual history of England, Scotland, Ireland, and Britain's overseas colonies during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries to redraw our picture of the origins of cultural nationalism, the lineages of the novel, and the literary history of the English-speaking world. Katie Trumpener recovers and recontextualizes a vast body of fiction to describe the history of the novel during a period of formal experimentation and political engagement, between its eighteenth-century "rise" and its Victorian "heyday."

During the...

Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive theory--a theory which argues that language is produced by a reciprocal interaction of body and environment, brain and culture, and which refocuses attention on the role of the author in the making of meaning. Crane reveals in Shakespeare's texts a web of structures and categories through which meaning is created. The approach yields fresh insights into a wide...