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Shakespeare's Pluralistic Concepts of Character
Author | : Imtiaz H. Habib |
Publisher | : Susquehanna University Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780945636373 |
The presentation of a complex character such as Shylock bears resemblance to the technique of anamorphic portraiture and trick perspective in the sense that, seen one way he appears a villain, but seen another way he appears a persecuted victim. The clashing and merging of opposed frames of ideological reference that cannot be held apart or resolved and that remain in a kind of uneasy balance may be a technique of comic characterization that exploits relativism and ambiguity in the presentation of human personality and self on stage. A similar technique can be seen at work in the Histories in the characters of Richard and Bolingbroke, who, as has long been noted, compete contrarily for the audience's ideological sympathies over the course of the play.
The Rhythms of English Poetry
Author | : Derek Attridge |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2014-07-10 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1317869508 |
Examines the way in which poetry in English makes use of rhythm. The author argues that there are three major influences which determine the verse-forms used in any language: the natural rhythm of the spoken language itself; the properties of rhythmic form; and the metrical conventions which have grown up within the literary tradition. He investigates these in order to explain the forms of English verse, and to show how rhythm and metre work as an essential part of the reader's experience of poetry.
Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England
Author | : John Huntington |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780252026287 |
"Ambition, Rank, and Poetry in 1590s England focuses on the early work of George Chapman and on the writings of others who shared his social agenda and his nonprivileged status, including Christopher Marlowe, Ben Jonson, and Edmund Spenser as well as neglected writers such as Matthew Roydon and Aemilia Lanyer. Rather than placing poetry in the service of traditional social purposes - pleasing a patron, wooing a woman, displaying one's courtly skill, teaching morality - these writers held up poetry as important for its own sake: an idea taken for granted in much modern aesthetics."--Jacket.
Echoes of Desire
Author | : Heather Dubrow |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2018-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1501722840 |
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Spenser and Literary Pictorialism
Author | : John B. Bender |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2015-03-08 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 140086724X |
Focusing, framing, scanning—the language of film—and Gombrich's studies in the psychology of perception are used by John Bender to isolate pictorial effects and devices in literature. The theory that he proposes, grounded in his analysis of Spenser, "the painter of poets," discriminates between the descriptive and the pictorial in poetry. Originally published in 1972. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Critical Approaches to Six Major English Works
Author | : R. M. Lumiansky |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2016-11-11 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1512804142 |
In each of these six essays, treating the greatest literary accomplishments of medieval and renaissance England, the author is concerned with the literary work as a whole and with a survey of recent critical approaches to it. Beowulf, by R. E. Kaske; The Canterbury Tales, by Richard L. Hoffman; Le Morte Darthur, by Larry D. Benson; The Faerie Queen, by A. C. Hamilton, King Lear, by Ernest William Talbert; and Paradise Lost, by Irene Samuel.
Jacobean City Comedy
Author | : Brian Gibbons |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2017-03-27 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 135198229X |
The first decade of the Jacobean age witnessed a sudden profusion of comedies satirizing city life; among these were comedies by Ben Jonson, John Marston and Thomas Middleton, as well as the bulk of the repertory of the newly-established children’s companies at Blackfriars and Paul’s. The playwrights self-consciously forged a new genre which attracted London audiences with its images of folly and vice in Court and City, and hack-writing dramatists were prompt to cash in on a new theatrical fashion. This study, first published in 1980, examines ways in which the Jacobean city comedy reflect on the self-consciousness of audiences and the concern of the dramatists with Jacobean society. This title will be of interest of students of Renaissance Drama, English Literature and Performance.