Shakespeare In Fact And In Criticism
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Author | : Irvin Leigh Matus |
Publisher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2013-09-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0486320790 |
Virtuoso presentation of available evidence of the Bard's life. "Written with wit and panache, this erudite tome dismantles the arguments claiming that someone other than Shakespeare wrote his plays." — Publishers Weekly.
Author | : Appleton Morgan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 1888 |
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Author | : David Ellis |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2013-09-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0748653880 |
A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information
Author | : James Shapiro |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416541632 |
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author | : Emma Smith |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 263 |
Release | : 2020-03-31 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1524748552 |
An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn’t tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith—an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer—takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities.
Author | : Edith Wharton |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-10-26 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681375729 |
An elegantly hair-raising collection of Edith Wharton's ghost stories, selected and with a preface written by the author herself. No history of the American uncanny tale would be complete without mention of Edith Wharton, yet many of Wharton’s most dedicated admirers are unaware that she was a master of the form. In fact, one of Wharton’s final literary acts was assembling Ghosts, a personal selection of her most chilling stories, written between 1902 and 1937. In “The Lady’s Maid’s Bell,” the earliest tale included here, a servant’s dedication to her mistress continues from beyond the grave, and in “All Souls,” the last story Wharton wrote, an elderly woman treads the permeable line between life and the hereafter. In all her writing, Wharton’s great gift was to mercilessly illuminate the motives of men and women, and her ghost stories never stray far from the preoccupations of the living, using the supernatural to investigate such worldly matters as violence within marriage, the horrors of aging, the rot at the root of new fortunes, the darkness that stares back from the abyss of one’s own soul. These are stories to “send a cold shiver down one’s spine,” not to terrify, and as Wharton explains in her preface, her goal in writing them was to counter “the hard grind of modern speeding-up” by preserving that ineffable space of “silence and continuity,” which is not merely the prerogative of humanity but—“in the fun of the shudder”—its delight. Contents All Souls’ The Eyes Afterward The Lady’s Maid’s Bell Kerfol The Triumph of Night Miss Mary Pask Bewitched Mr. Jones Pomegranate Seed A Bottle of Perrier
Author | : Lynne Bruckner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016-04-29 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317146441 |
Can reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare contribute to the health of the planet? To what degree are Shakespeare's plays anthropocentric or ecocentric? What is the connection between the literary and the real when it comes to ecological conduct? This collection, engages with these pressing questions surrounding ecocritical Shakespeare, in order to provide a better understanding of where and how ecocritical readings should be situated. The volume combines multiple critical perspectives, juxtaposing historicism and presentism, as well as considering ecofeminism and pedagogy; and addresses such topics as early modern flora and fauna, and the neglected areas of early modern marine ecology and oceanography. Concluding with an assessment of the challenges-and necessities-of teaching Shakespeare ecocritically, Ecocritical Shakespeare not only broadens the implications of ecocriticism in early modern studies, but represents an important contribution to this growing field.
Author | : Paul Edmondson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1107017599 |
Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.
Author | : John Casson |
Publisher | : Amberley Publishing Limited |
Total Pages | : 559 |
Release | : 2016-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1445654679 |
Who really wrote the plays of Shakespeare?
Author | : Joseph Sobran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
This erudite and entertaining work of literary detection sets out to solve the most puzzling mystery in all of literary history: Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? Presenting his case for a swashbuckling Elizabethan courtier, Sobran vindicates a long list of prominent skeptics, among them the great Shakespearean actors, Kenneth Branagh and Sir John Gielgud. of photos & illustrations.