The Cambridge Introduction To Shakespeares Tragedies
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| Author | : Janette Dillon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 147 |
| Release | : 2007-03-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139462431 |
Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this 2007 book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.
| Author | : Claire McEachern |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 325 |
| Release | : 2013-08-08 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 110701977X |
This updated Companion has been fully revised and includes an extensively overhauled bibliography and four new chapters by leading scholars.
| Author | : Janette Dillon |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 39 |
| Release | : 2006-06-12 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 0521834740 |
An accessible introduction to early English theatre, from the late medieval period to 1642.
| Author | : Penny Gay |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 197 |
| Release | : 2008-04-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139469770 |
Why did theatre audiences laugh in Shakespeare's day? Why do they still laugh now? What did Shakespeare do with the conventions of comedy that he inherited, so that his plays continue to amuse and move audiences? What do his comedies have to say about love, sex, gender, power, family, community, and class? What place have pain, cruelty, and even death in a comedy? Why all those puns? In a survey that travels from Shakespeare's earliest experiments in farce and courtly love-stories to the great romantic comedies of his middle years and the mould-breaking experiments of his last decade's work, this book addresses these vital questions. Organised thematically, and covering all Shakespeare's comedies from the beginning to the end of his career, it provides readers with a map of the playwright's comic styles, showing how he built on comedic conventions as he further enriched the possibilities of the genre.
| Author | : Emma Smith |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 6 |
| Release | : 2007-03-08 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139462393 |
This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next?' sections at the end of each chapter. The book draws on scholarship without being overwhelmed by it, and unlike other introductory guides to Shakespeare it emphasizes that there is space for new and fresh thinking by students and readers, even on the most-studied and familiar plays.
| Author | : Emma Whipday |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 275 |
| Release | : 2019-01-03 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 1108474039 |
Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.
| Author | : H. B. Charlton |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1948 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0521081041 |
H. B. Charlton focuses on Shakespeare's tragedies specifically as plays along with the themes of man and morality.
| Author | : Dieter Mehl |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 286 |
| Release | : 1986 |
| Genre | : Drama |
| ISBN | : 9780521316903 |
Twelve plays are examined individually regarding their origins, stage and critical histories and the problems associated with their categorization as tragedy.
| Author | : Ayanna Thompson |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 518 |
| Release | : 2021-02-25 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1108623298 |
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus on the concepts of sexuality, lineage, nationality, and globalization. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a non-specialist, student audience.
| Author | : Margreta de Grazia |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 2001-04-05 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1139825984 |
This book offers a comprehensive, readable and authoritative introduction to the study of Shakespeare, by means of nineteen newly commissioned essays. An international team of prominent scholars provide a broadly cultural approach to the chief literary, performative and historical aspects of Shakespeare's work. They bring the latest scholarship to bear on traditional subjects of Shakespeare study, such as biography, the transmission of the texts, the main dramatic and poetic genres, the stage in Shakespeare's time and the history of criticism and performance. In addition, authors engage with more recently defined topics: gender and sexuality, Shakespeare on film, the presence of foreigners in Shakespeare's England and his impact on other cultures. Helpful reference features include chronologies of the life and works, illustrations, detailed reading lists and a bibliographical essay.
