Davenant's Adaptations of Shakespeare
| Author | : Mongi Raddadi |
| Publisher | : University Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1979 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : |
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The Making of the National Poet : Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769
| Author | : Michael Dobson |
| Publisher | : Clarendon Press |
| Total Pages | : 282 |
| Release | : 1992-10-22 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0191591718 |
The first full-length study since the 1920s of the Restoration and eighteenth-century's revisions and revaluations of Shakespeare, and the first to consider the period's much-reviled stage adaptions in the context of the profound cultural changes of their times. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, Dobson examines how and why Shakespeare was retrospectively claimed as both a respectable Enlightenment author and a crucial and contested symbol of British national identity. The book provides thorough analysis, both engaging and informative, the definitive account of the theatre's role in establishing Shakespeare as Britain's National Poet. - ;The century between the Restoration and David Garrick's Stratford Jubilee saw William Shakespeare's promotion from the status of archaic, rustic playwright to that of England's timeless Bard, and with it the complete transformation of the ways in which his plays were staged, published, and read. But why Shakespeare, and what different interests did this process serve? The Making of the National Poet is the first full-length study since the 1920s of the Restoration and eighteenth century's revisions and revaluations of Shakespeare, and the first to consider the period's much-reviled stage adaptations in the context of the profound cultural changes in which they participate. Drawing on a wide range of evidence - including engravings, prompt-books, diaries, statuary, and previously unpublished poems (among them traces of the hitherto mysterious Shakespeare Ladies' Club) - it examines how and why Shakespeare was retrospectively claimed as both a respectable Enlightenment author and a crucial and contested symbol of British national identity. It shows in particular how the deification of Shakespeare co-existed with, and even demanded, the drastic and sometimes bizarre rewriting of his plays for which the period is notorious. The book provides thorough analysis, both engaging and informative, the definitive account of the theatre's role in establishing Shakespeare as Britain's National Poet. -
Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis
| Author | : Matthew Biberman |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2017-01-12 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1317056264 |
In Shakespeare, Adaptation, Psychoanalysis, Matthew Biberman analyzes early adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in order to identify and illustrate how both social mores and basic human psychology have changed in Anglo-American culture. Biberman contests the received wisdom that Shakespeare’s characters reflect essentially timeless truths about human nature. To the contrary, he points out that Shakespeare’s characters sometimes act and think in ways that have become either stigmatized or simply outmoded. Through his study of the adaptations, Biberman pinpoints aspects of Shakespeare’s thinking about behavior and psychology that no longer ring true because circumstances have changed so dramatically between his time and the time of the adaptation. He shows how the adaptors’ changes reveal key differences between Shakespeare’s culture and the culture that then supplanted it. These changes, once grasped, reveal retroactively some of the ways in which Shakespeare’s characters do not act and think as we might expect them to act and think. Thus Biberman counters Harold Bloom’s claim that Shakespeare fundamentally invents our sense of the human; rather, he argues, our sense of the human is equally bound up in the many ways that modern culture has come to resist or outright reject the behavior we see in Shakespeare’s plays. Ultimately, our current sense of 'the human' is bound up not with the adoption of Shakespeare’s psychology, perhaps, but its adaption-or, in psychoanalytic terms, its repression and replacement.
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company
| Author | : Amanda Eubanks Winkler |
| Publisher | : Arden Shakespeare |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2023-05-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1350273481 |
Eubanks Winkler and Schoch reveal how – and why – the first generation to stage Shakespeare after Shakespeare's lifetime changed absolutely everything. Founder of the Duke's Company, Sir William Davenant influenced how Shakespeare was performed in a profound and lasting way. This open access book provides the first performance-based account of Restoration Shakespeare, exploring the precursors to Davenant's approach to Restoration Shakespeare, the cultural context of Restoration theatre, the theatre spaces in which the Duke's Company performed, Davenant's adaptations of Shakespeare's plays, acting styles, and the lasting legacy of Davenant's approach to staging Shakespeare. The eBook editions of this work are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Queen's University Belfast.
William Shakespeare's Macbeth
| Author | : Alexander Leggatt |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 220 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780415238250 |
This guide to Shakespeare's play presents introductory comments on the contexts, critical history and performance of the text; annotated extracts from key contextual documents; cross references between documents and sections of the guide; suggestions for further reading.
Canonising Shakespeare
| Author | : Emma Depledge |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 283 |
| Release | : 2017-09-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108670377 |
Canonising Shakespeare offers the first comprehensive reassessment of Shakespeare's afterlife as a print phenomenon, demonstrating the crucial role that the book trade played in his rise to cultural pre-eminence. 1640–1740 was the period in which Shakespeare's canon was determined, in which the poems resumed their place alongside the plays in print, and in which artisans and named editors crafted a new, contemporary Shakespeare for Restoration and eighteenth-century consumers. A team of international contributors highlight the impact of individual booksellers, printers, publishers and editors on the Shakespearean text, the books in which it was presented, and the ways in which it was promoted. From radical adaptations of the Sonnets to new characters in plays, and from elegant subscription volumes to cheap editions churned out by feuding publishers, this period was marked by eclecticism, contradiction and innovation as stationers looked to the past and the future to create a Shakespeare for their own times.
Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
| Author | : Fiona Ritchie |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 469 |
| Release | : 2012-04-19 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0521898609 |
This book examines Shakespeare's influence and popularity in all aspects of eighteenth-century literature, culture and society.
