The Widows Tears Edited By Ethel M Smeak
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The Widow's Tears
Author | : George Chapman |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : English drama |
ISBN | : 9780416030204 |
Writing Renaissance Queens
Author | : Lisa Hopkins |
Publisher | : University of Delaware Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780874137866 |
This book examines writing both by and about Renaissance women rulers. It offers detailed analyses of poems, letters, and other writings by both Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots, and situates these firmly within the context of other literary figurings of Renaissance queens and queenship. It looks at a range of texts, ranging from the polemical (and largely ephemeral) treatises on the questions of female rule which were prompted by the sudden explosion of women rulers, to works by Shakespeare, Milton, and Elizabeth Cary, as well as the anonymous Arden of Faversham. The book as a whole thus explores both how Renaissance queens wrote themselves and how they were written by others.
Old, Bold and Won't be Told
Author | : Yvonne Oram |
Publisher | : Thames River Press |
Total Pages | : 147 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0857282034 |
Old women in Early Modern plays are stereotypically presented as ugly, randy, mouthy, mad. So Shakespeare is rare among dramatists of the day for his lively and empowering depictions of ageing ladies. This well-researched, accessible book looks at the way his old women subvert the stereotypes. There is particular focus on Paulina in The Winter's Tale as a uniquely powerful old woman.
Old, Bold and Wont Be Told
Author | : Yvonne Oram |
Publisher | : Anthem Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2013-06-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0857282158 |
Old women in Early Modern plays are stereotypically presented as ugly, randy, mouthy, mad. So Shakespeare is rare among dramatists of the day for his lively and empowering depictions of ageing ladies. This well-researched, accessible book looks at the way his old women subvert the stereotypes. There is particular focus on Paulina in The Winter’s Tale as a uniquely powerful old woman.
Shakespeare on the Edge
Author | : Professor Lisa Hopkins |
Publisher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013-04-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1409489566 |
When Shakespeare's John of Gaunt refers to England as 'this sceptred isle', he glosses over a fact of which Shakespeare's original audience would have been acutely conscious, which was that England was not an island at all, but had land borders with Scotland and Wales. Together with the narrow channels separating the British mainland from Ireland and the Continent, these were the focus of acute, if intermittent, unease during the early modern period. This book analyses works by not only Shakespeare but also his contemporaries to argue that many of the plays of Shakespeare's central period, from the second tetralogy to Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, and Othello, engage with the idea of England's borders. But borders, it claims, are not only of geopolitical significance: in Shakespeare's imagination and indeed in that of his culture, eschatological overtones also accrue to the idea of the border. This is because the countries of the Celtic fringe were often discussed in terms of the supernatural and fairy lore and, in particular, the rivers which were often used as boundary markers were invested with heavily mythologized personae. Thus Hopkins shows that the idea of the border becomes a potent metaphor for exploring the spiritual uncertainties of the period, and for speculating on what happens in 'the undiscovered country, from whose bourn no traveller returns'. At the same time, the idea that a thing can only really be defined in terms of what lies beyond it provides a sharply interrogating charge for Shakespeare's use of metatheatre and for his suggestions of a world beyond the confines of his plays.
National Union Catalog
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1956 |
Genre | : Union catalogs |
ISBN | : |
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Iowa State Journal of Research
Author | : Iowa. State College, Cedar Falls |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 574 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Humanities |
ISBN | : |