Imagining Time In The English Chronicle Play
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Author | : Marissa Nicosia |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2023-09-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0198872666 |
Imagining Time in the English Chronicle Play: Historical Futures, 1590-1660 argues that dramatic narratives about monarchy and succession codified speculative futures in the early modern English cultural imaginary. This book considers chronicle plays—plays written for the public stage and play pamphlets composed when the playhouses were closed during the civil wars—in order to examine the formal and material ways that playwrights imagined futures in dramatic works that were purportedly about the past. Through close readings of William Shakespeare's 1&2 Henry IV, Richard III, Shakespeare's and John Fletcher's All is True, Samuel Rowley's When You See Me, You Know Me, John Ford's Perkin Warbeck, and the anonymous play pamphlets The Leveller's Levelled, 1 & 2 Craftie Cromwell, Charles I, and Cromwell's Conspiracy, the volume shows that imaginative treatments of history in plays that are usually associated with the past also had purchase on the future. While plays about the nation's past retell history, these plays are not restricted by their subject matter to merely document what happened: Playwrights projected possible futures in their accounts of verifiable historical events.
Author | : Emma Depledge |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2021-03-04 |
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ISBN | : 0198821891 |
A collection of essays exploring John Milton's rise to popularity and his status as a canonical author. The volume considers Milton's 'authorial persona' in the context of his relationships with his contemporary writers, stationers, and readers.
Author | : Paula Marantz Cohen |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300258321 |
An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways. Cohen takes her readers through a selection of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and clearly about how we treat "the other." Cohen argues that only through close reading of Shakespeare can we fully appreciate his empathetic response to race, class, gender, and age. Wise, eloquent, and thoughtful, this book is a forceful argument for literature's power to champion what is best in us.
Author | : Thomas More |
Publisher | : e-artnow |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2019-04-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 8027303583 |
Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
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Total Pages | : 1014 |
Release | : 1950 |
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Author | : Jelena Krstovic |
Publisher | : Classical and Medieval Literat |
Total Pages | : 518 |
Release | : 2001-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780787650605 |
Annotation A convenient source of wide-ranging critical opinion on classical and medieval literatures.
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Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Criticism |
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Total Pages | : 644 |
Release | : 1881 |
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Total Pages | : 1690 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Languages, Modern |
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Author | : Ari Friedlander |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0192863177 |
"The 'rogue,' a term that described criminals, prostitutes, vagrants, beggars, and the unemployed, dominated the pages of early modern popular crime literature. Rogue Sexuality resituates the rogue by focusing on how their menace-and the seductive appeal-emerged not only from their social marginality, but from their supposedly excessive sexuality and prodigious sexual reproduction. Through discussions of both familiar and little-studied early modern works by William Shakespeare, John Milton, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, Robert Greene, Thomas Harman, and the inventor of modern demography John Graunt, Friedlander posits the sexualized rogue as a new category of early modern socio-sexual identity and traces a surprising social transposition, in which socio-political elites are portrayed as appropriating the rogue's sexual vitality and performative charisma to navigate moments of crisis. By tracking the movement of rogue sexuality from a criminal to a normative discursive register, this book challenges the distinctions that literary critics and historians tend to draw between orderly and disorderly sexuality. With its focus on reproduction, the analytical category of rogue sexuality also provides a new framework for what Michel Foucault called "biopolitics," the state's focus on exercising power over life. In legal, administrative, and scientific documents, Friedlander shows that early modern writers grappled with popular pamphlets' rendering of the supposed threat of rogue reproduction. Rogue Sexuality thus offers a new approach to the political history of early modern England as a population-as a people whose aggregate sexual life and reproduction were a key part of its political imagination"