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Author | : JOHN R. LEIGH |
Publisher | : Paragon Publishing |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2017-09-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1782224556 |
John R Leigh, born in Bolton, Lancashire, and educated in Cambridge, was musical, mathematical, scientific and literary. At school in the 1930s, his headmaster told him there would be no more wars and no need for more scientists. His life then ranged first from languages teacher, radar technician and RAF flight lieutenant in WWII, to marriage with a talented and literary American wife. After the war, John changed career to retrain in engineering—for a married man, a brave decision. Over the years, the keen theatre-going couple saw many diverse plays. Convinced that he had found an original approach to seeing Shakespearean dramas, he spent happy years describing and refining his thoughts: what ideas, prejudices and religious beliefs would surface in the minds of Shakespeare’s own audience, the groundlings and nobles? In our day, we cannot help but react with our own beliefs and social customs; yet in Globe Theatre, how would people have responded to seeing a ghost in the early sixteenth century? Rather differently than nowadays, John thought. (Hamlet studies form the greater part of his collected work.) Suppose you were seeing Hamlet for the first time: hence the title ‘The Naïve Shakespearean’.
Author | : JOHN R. LEIGH |
Publisher | : Paragon Publishing |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2017-09-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1782225420 |
John R Leigh, born in Bolton, Lancashire, and educated in Cambridge, was musical, mathematical, scientific and literary. At school in the 1930s, his headmaster told him there would be no more wars and no need for more scientists. His life then ranged first from languages teacher, radar technician and RAF flight lieutenant in WWII, to marriage with a talented and literary American wife. After the war, John changed career to retrain in engineering—for a married man, a brave decision. Over the years, the keen theatre-going couple saw many diverse plays. Convinced that he had found an original approach to seeing Shakespearean dramas, he spent happy years describing and refining his thoughts: what ideas, prejudices and religious beliefs would surface in the minds of Shakespeare’s own audience, the groundlings and nobles? In our day, we cannot help but react with our own beliefs and social customs; yet in Globe Theatre, how would people have responded to seeing a ghost in the early sixteenth century? Rather differently than nowadays, John thought. (Hamlet studies form the greater part of his collected work.) Suppose you were seeing Hamlet for the first time: hence the title ‘The Naïve Shakespearean’.
Author | : Joseph Sobran |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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This erudite and entertaining work of literary detection sets out to solve the most puzzling mystery in all of literary history: Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? Presenting his case for a swashbuckling Elizabethan courtier, Sobran vindicates a long list of prominent skeptics, among them the great Shakespearean actors, Kenneth Branagh and Sir John Gielgud. of photos & illustrations.
Author | : Horace James Bridges |
Publisher | : Folcroft Library Editions |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Shakespeare, William |
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Author | : Charles Harold Herford |
Publisher | : London [etc.] Blackie and son limited [1923] |
Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1923 |
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Author | : Albert Harris Tolman |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1925 |
Genre | : Falstaff, John, Sir (Fictitious character) |
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Author | : Beverley Ellison Warner |
Publisher | : New York : Dodd, Mead |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Author | : Stephen Greenblatt |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393079848 |
Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
Author | : Scott Newstok |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2021-08-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0691227691 |
"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--
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Total Pages | : 444 |
Release | : 1984 |
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