Almost Shakespeare
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Almost Shakespeare
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Author : James R. Keller
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2014-11-04
Almost Shakespeare written by James R. Keller and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-04 with Performing Arts categories.
In the past two decades, Othello has tried out for the basketball team, Macbeth has taken over a fast food joint and King Lear has moved to an Iowa farm--Shakespeare is everywhere in popular culture. This collection of essays addresses the use of Shakespearean narratives, themes, imagery and characterizations in non-Shakespearian cinema. The essays explore how Shakespeare and his work are manipulated within the popular media and explore topics such as racism, jealousy, misogyny and nationality. The submissions concentrate on film and television programs that are adaptations of Shakespearean plays, including My Own Private Idaho, CSI-Miami, A Thousand Acres, Prospero's Books, O, 10 Things I Hate About You, Withnail and I, Get Over It, and The West Wing. Each chapter includes notes and a list of works cited. A full bibliography completes the work; it is divided into bibliographies and filmographies, general studies and essays, derivatives based on a single play, derivatives based on several, and derivatives based on Shakespeare as a character. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Romeo And Juliet
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Author : Hennie C Keulder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-26
Romeo And Juliet written by Hennie C Keulder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-26 with categories.
For many learners, reading Shakespeare is a bade experience that they would rather avoid. The reason for this aversion becomes clear when you make your first attempt to read the opening scene of Romeo and Juliet. By the end of the of the Prologue, the ordinary reader is already ready to throw in the towel. By the middle of the scene all hope is lost, and a permanent dislike of Shakespeare's works sets in. From that point on, the learner seeks help and consolation in aids of this sort, but then he finds that there are many to choose from. The question then is, Which one should I choose? In making his choice, he should bear in mind that this modernised version differs considerably from most of others in the following ways: the text deviates as little as possible from the original; each line of the original has a corresponding line in modern English; the modernised line is usually quite easy to understand; the entire work can be read and fully understood in one reading; as far as possible, the text also retains the poetic structure of the original. However, that this cannot always be the case is obvious to anyone familiar with Shakespeare's works. For example, in modern English it is simply impossible to reproduce the effect of the puns which Shakespeare uses in the opening scene of this play. Any attempt to do so is bound to be awkward - if not downright absurd. However, despite such obstacles, a text can be produced which is both modern and accurate in conveying the meaning of the original - and which is therefore a handy instrument to help him to instantly decipher the meaning of the original text. This book is an attempt to do so. It is an attempt to be an 'Almost Shakespeare', and it is the hope of this author that it achieves precisely that. He who is able to read and enjoy this text is but a small step away from reading and understanding the original.
Every Word Doth Almost Tell My Name
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Author : P.D. McIntosh
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-04-18
Every Word Doth Almost Tell My Name written by P.D. McIntosh and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? With these immortal lines Shakespeare begins his most famous sonnet and perhaps the most famous love poem of all time. But this poem, and more than 100 others, first published 400 years ago in a slim volume entitled Shakespeare's Sonnets, was written by Shakespeare not about a beautiful young woman, but about a beautiful young man, whom Shakespeare addresses as "my lovely boy." If Shakespeare was infatuated with a lovely boy, who was he? If he was a rich aristocrat, as the sonnets seem to suggest, how did Shakespeare make his acquaintance? Who was the Dark Lady described in the later sonnets? And what is the meaning of the Sonnets' enigmatic dedication that refers to the mysterious Mr.W.H.? These questions and innumerable others have perplexed scholars for centuries. No comprehensive answers to the immensely puzzling questions raised by the poems have ever been presented. This book takes a fresh approach to the difficult issues presented by the Sonnets and upsets many cherished assumptions about the handsome young man, the Dark Lady, Mr.W.H. and Shakespeare himself.
Shakespeare In Performance
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Author : Eric C. Brown
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2014-08-11
Shakespeare In Performance written by Eric C. Brown and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
The fourteen essays included in this collection offer a range of contributions from both new and well-established scholars to the topic of Shakespeare and performance. From traditional studies of theatrical history and adaptation to explorations of Shakespeare’s plays in the circus, musical extravaganzas, the cinema, and drama at large, the collection embraces a number of performance spaces, times, and media. Shakespeare in Performance includes essays looking not only at sixteenth- and seventeenth-century stagings of the plays in England, but at productions of Shakespeare across time in the United States, France, Italy, Hungary, and Africa, underscoring the multiple embodiments and voices of Shakespeare’s art and including a variety of cultural approaches. The work is ultimately occupied with a number of questions generated by these continual iterations of Shakespeare. How can we write and trace what is ephemeral? To what purpose do we maintain the memory of past performances? How does the transmediation of Shakespeare inform the most basic interpretive acts? What motivates Shakespearean theatre across political borders? What kinds of meaning are produced by décor, movement, the actor’s virtuosity, the producer’s choices, or the audience’s response? Each essay thus, to some degree, describes and voices the now unseen.
The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1854
The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1854 with categories.
Shakespearean Resurrection
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Author : Sean Benson
language : en
Publisher: Medieval & Renaissance Literar
Release Date : 2009
Shakespearean Resurrection written by Sean Benson and has been published by Medieval & Renaissance Literar this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Drama categories.
This engaging book demonstrates Shakespeare's abiding interest in the theatrical potential of the Christian resurrection from the dead. In fourteen of Shakespeare's plays, characters who have been lost, sometimes for years, suddenly reappear seemingly returning from the dead. In the classical recognition scene, such moments are explained away in naturalistic terms a character was lost at sea but survived, or abducted and escaped, and so on. Shakespeare never invalidates such explanations, but in his manipulation of classical conventions he parallels these moments with the recognition scenes from the Gospels, repeatedly evoking Christ's resurrection from the dead. Benson's close study of the plays, as well as the classical and biblical sources that Shakespeare fuses into his recognition scenes, clearly elucidates the ways in which the playwright explored his abiding interest in the human desire to transcend death and to live reunited and reconciled with others. In his manipulation of resurrection imagery, Shakespeare conflates the material with the immaterial, the religious with the secular, and the sacred with the profane.
The Tragedy Of Hamlet Prince Of Denmarke By William Shakespeare Newly Imprinted And Enlarged To Almost As Much Againe As It Was According To The True And Perfect Coppy
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1611
The Tragedy Of Hamlet Prince Of Denmarke By William Shakespeare Newly Imprinted And Enlarged To Almost As Much Againe As It Was According To The True And Perfect Coppy written by William Shakespeare and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1611 with categories.
William Shakespeare A Very Short Introduction
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Author : Stanley Wells
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2015-04-23
William Shakespeare A Very Short Introduction written by Stanley Wells and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and theatrical profession of the time, he also considers how Shakespeare experienced this world, both as an actor and as a writer. Examining Shakespeare's narrative poems, sonnets, and all of his plays, Wells outlines their sources, style, and originality over the course of Shakespeare's career, to consider the fundamental impact his work has had for subsequent generations. Written with enthusiasm and flair by a scholar who has devoted a lifetime to the study of Shakespeare and his works, this is an engaging and authoritative introduction. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Shakespeare S Friends
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Author : Kate Emery Pogue
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2006-01-30
Shakespeare S Friends written by Kate Emery Pogue and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-01-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Taking seriously the commonplace that a man is known by the company he keeps—and particularly by the company he keeps over his lifetime—one can learn more about just about anyone by learning more about his friends. By applying this notion to Shakespeare, this book offers insight into the life of the most famous playwright in history, and one of the most elusive figures in literature. The book consists of sketches of Shakespeare's contact and relationships with the people known to have been close friends or acquaintances, revealing aspects of the poet's life by emphasizing ways in which his life was intertwined with theirs. Though it is difficult to get to know this most famous of playwrights, through this work readers can gain insight into aspects of his life and personality that may otherwise have been hidden. Shakespeare, more than any other writer in the western world, based much of his work on the consequences of friendship. Given the value placed on friends in his writing, many readers have wondered about the role friendship played in his own life. This work gives readers the chance to learn more about Shakespeare's friends, who they were and what they can tell us about Shakespeare and his times. For instance, Richard Field was a boyhood friend with whom Shakespeare went to school in Stratford. Field became a well-known London printer. The details of Field's life illuminate both the details of Shakespeare's boyhood education and the poet's relationship with the printing, publishing, and book-selling world in London. Francis Collins, a lawyer who represented Shakespeare in a number of legal dealings, drafted both versions of Shakespeare's will. This life-long friend was one of the last men eve to see Shakespeare pick up a pen to write. Through these vivid and animated sketches, readers will come to know about Shakespeare's life and times. While the book has a lively, accessible narrative tone within chapters, its organization and features make it highly useful to the school library market as well as the academic world. It contains cross references, a detailed Table of Contents and a highly organized structure with uniformity across sections and chapters. The writing is accessible and could be easily used by upper-level high school students looking to augment school assignments.
Through Shakespeare S Eyes
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Author : Joseph Pearce
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2010
Through Shakespeare S Eyes written by Joseph Pearce and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Religion categories.
Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs.