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| Author | : G. Holderness |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 269 |
| Release | : 2016-07-27 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1349208817 |
This book examines six plays by Shakespeare (Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest) as dramatizations of the Renaissance court in its developing history - a history searched by Shakespeare to disclose its most characteristic gains and losses. For these plays do not simply celebrate Tudor and Stuart rule: they scrutinize it too, in the centre of its institutional theatre of power, the court. This book shows how, if the plays came into the court, the court also came into the plays, with its most salient features - its competitiveness, its inner tensions and its contradictions, its language, its cultural life and its entertainments - exposed to the scrutiny of an art-form that proved itself to be a new mode of historical understanding.
| Author | : Richard Dutton |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 334 |
| Release | : 2016 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0198777744 |
Shakespeare made his money from writing for public theatres like the Globe, but the companies he served only survived because the royal courts had their own uses for drama, to fill the long winter nights of their Revels seasons. Shakepeare's plays were performed there more often than those by anyone else and he revised them--making them fuller, richer, and more sophisticated for his royal patrons. Shakespeare, Court Dramatist outlines the symbioticrelationship between Shakespeare and the court and shows how it affected his writing, forging plays like Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet in the versions we know best today.
| Author | : Bradin Cormack |
| Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
| Total Pages | : 342 |
| Release | : 2016-07-11 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 022637856X |
"William Shakespeare is inextricably linked with the law. Legal documents make up most of the records we have of his life; trials, lawsuits, and legal terms permeate his plays. Gathering an extraordinary team of literary and legal scholars, philosophers, and even sitting judges, Shakespeare and the Law demonstrates that Shakespeare's thinking about legal concepts and legal practice points to a deep and sometimes vexed engagement with the law's technical workings, its underlying premises, and its social effects. Shakespeare and the Law opens with three essays that provide useful frameworks for approaching the topic, offering perspectives on law and literature that emphasize both the continuities and the contrasts between the two fields. In its second section, the book considers Shakespeare's awareness of common-law thinking and practice through examinations of Measure for Measure and Othello. Building and expanding on this question, the third part inquires into Shakespeare's general attitudes toward legal systems. A judge and former solicitor general rule on Shylock's demand for enforcement of his odd contract; and two essays by literary scholars take contrasting views on whether Shakespeare could imagine a functioning legal system. The fourth section looks at how law enters into conversation with issues of politics and community, both in the plays and in our own world. The volume concludes with a freewheeling colloquy among Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer, Judge Richard A. Posner, Martha C. Nussbaum, and Richard Strier that covers everything from the ghost in Hamlet to the nature of judicial discretion"--Jacket.
| Author | : Daniel Kornstein |
| Publisher | : U of Nebraska Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2005-01-01 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9780803278219 |
Two-thirds of Shakespeare?s plays have trial scenes, and many deal specifically with lawyers, courts, judges, and points of law. Daniel Kornstein, a practicing attorney, looks at the legal issues and aspects of Shakespeare?s plays and finds fascinating parallels with many legal and social questions of the present day. The Elizabethan age was as litigious as our own, and Shakespeare was very familiar with the language and procedures of the courts. Kill All the Lawyers? examines the ways in which Shakespeare used the law for dramatic effect and incorporated the passion for justice into his great tragedies and comedies and considers the modern legal relevance of his work. ø This is a ground-breaking study in the field of literature and the law, ambitious and suggestive of the value of both our literary and our legal inheritance.
| Author | : Anne Nichols |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 360 |
| Release | : 1927 |
| Genre | : Abie's Irish Rose (Motion picture : 1928) |
| ISBN | : |
During World War I, Abie Levy, a soldier in the A. E. F., is wounded in combat. While recovering in a hospital, he meets Rosemary Murphy, an entertainer. They fall in love, return to the United States, and get married in an Episcopal church in Jersey City. Abie takes Rosemary to his home and introduces her as his sweetheart, Rosie Murpheski; they are then married by a rabbi. Mr. Murphy arrives with a priest and, amid discord and discontent, the young people are married again, this time by the priest. Disowned by both families, Rosemary and Abie are befriended only by the Cohens. On Christmas Eve, the Cohens and their rabbi persuade Solomon to see his son and his new grandchildren; the priest urges Mr. Murphy to do the same. This surprise visit begins in acrimony, but ends peacefully as Rosemary presents her newborn twins: Patrick Joseph, named for her father, and Rebecca, named for Abie's dead mother.
| Author | : Richards Jennifer Richards |
| Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
| Total Pages | : 272 |
| Release | : 2019-08-07 |
| Genre | : LITERARY CRITICISM |
| ISBN | : 147447201X |
This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays performed between 1608 and 1613: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, All is True (Henry VIII), The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Cardenio. It offers a broad range of new, historicist approaches, touching upon key topics in current Shakespearean studies, such as kinship relations, manliness, magic, medico-politics, nationalism, rhetoric, schism, sexuality and staging conventions. The plays are explored both individually and within generic, thematic and chronological groups. Each author combines new research with their experience of teaching the plays, offering innovative approaches to some well-known works, as well as encouraging readers to explore less familiar dramas such as Pericles, Cymbeline, All is True and The Two Noble Kinsmen. The volume is unusual in its coverage of the lost 'late' play Cardenio, and considers its significance for our conception of the 'lateness' of these plays. This book will fill a large gap in the market for a broad-ranging critical introduction to this important and increasingly popular area in Shakespeare's work, and is suitable as a textbook for undergraduate, graduate and more general readers.
| Author | : Kenneth Muir |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2002-11-28 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521523646 |
The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.
| Author | : Edwin Robert Courtney Brinkworth |
| Publisher | : Chichester : Phillimore |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 1972 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : |
"New discoveries of the first importance about Shakespeare and his Stratford background have emerged from the first thorough examination of the Acts Books of the Ecclesiastical Court of Stratford. The finding of these 'long lost' original records among the Sackville MSS by the Kent Archives Office was first announced in an article by Hugh Hanley in The Time Literary Supplement of 21 May 1964. Since then Dr. Brinkworth has methodically analyzed the records to produce not myths, imaginings or far-fetched theories, but a mass of solid facts. Usually called 'The Bawdy Courts' because they were so occupied with sexual offences, the Church Courts in fact covered a wide area of the whole life. They were held regularly, everywhere, and everyone was answerable to them. The Stratford records throw a flood of light upon an aspect of Shakespeare's life hitherto unrealised and never before discussed. They show how intimately the courts were part and parcel of his mind and experience which, in turn, went into the making of his plays. Here also are new facts about many of Shakespeare's nearest relatives and friends and a host of contemporaries well known to him. Life in Shakespeare's Stratford is revealed in vivid detail and in all its naked reality. There is fresh evidence on Shakespeare's religion and on the circumstances of his death: evidence which calls for a critical look at long-established traditions. The book also contains a full precis, or Calendar, of the original records on which it is based. All the many parts of the original which are in England are given in full, retaining the contemporary spelling, and are of great interest as examples of the languages in use at Stratford in Shakespeare's lifetime. They convey the flavor of the age as nothing else can. Entirely new Shakespearian documents are thus made available in considerable detail, and together with the map, the facsimiles and the illustrations (including a little-known drawing of the now long-demolished New Place, home of Shakespeare in the last years of his life), make a work of permanent value." -Publisher.
| Author | : Nicholas Potter |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 2009-07-28 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1350316970 |
Shakespeare's late plays are a 'mixed bag' with a common theme: from the fiendishly jealous Leontes to the saintly Pericles; from the ineffectual Cymbeline to the omnipotent Propspero; from the 'sprites and goblins' of The Tempest to the famous bear of The Winter's Tale, the characters have excited wonder and contempt while the range of incident is almost irresponsibly extravagant. Was Shakespeare losing his grip, or his interest, or both? Was he striking out in some bold new theatrical direction? This Guide provides a critical survey of the major debates and issues surrounding the late plays, from the earliest published accounts to the present day. Nicholas Potter offers a clear guiding narrative and an exploration of literary history, focusing on how criticism of these remarkable works, and attempts to make sense of them, have developed over the years.
| Author | : J.R. Mulryne |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 328 |
| Release | : 2016-03-09 |
| Genre | : Architecture |
| ISBN | : 131702964X |
The guild buildings of Shakespeare’s Stratford represent a rare instance of a largely unchanged set of buildings which draw together the threads of the town’s civic life. With its multi-disciplinary perspectives on this remarkable group of buildings, this volume provides a comprehensive account of the religious, educational, legal, social and theatrical history of Stratford, focusing on the sixteenth century and Tudor Reformation. The essays interweave with one another to provide a map of the complex relationships between the buildings and their history. Opening with an investigation of the Guildhall, which served as the headquarters of the Guild of the Holy Cross until the Tudor Reformation, the book explores the building’s function as a centre of local government and community law and as a place of entertainment and education. It is beyond serious doubt that Shakespeare was a school boy here, and the many visits to the Guildhall by professional touring players during the latter half of the sixteenth-century may have prompted his acting and playwriting career. The Guildhall continues to this day to house a school for the education of secondary-level boys. The book considers educational provision during the mid sixteenth century as well as examining the interaction between touring players and the everyday politics and social life of Stratford. At the heart of the volume is archaeological and documentary research which uses up-to-date analysis and new dendrochronological investigations to interpret the buildings and their medieval wall paintings as well as proposing a possible location of the school before it transferred to the Guildhall. Together with extensive archival research into the town’s Court of Record which throws light on the commercial and social activities of the period, this rich body of research brings us closer to life as it was lived in Shakespeare’s Stratford.
