Shakespeare And Carnival
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Shakespeare And Carnival
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Author : R. Knowles
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1998-05-11
Shakespeare And Carnival written by R. Knowles and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This collection of essays is the first to reassess a range of Shakespeare's plays in relation to carnivalesque theory. Contributors re-historicize the carnivalesque in different ways, offering both a developed application, or critique of, Bakhtin's thought.
The Bottom Translation
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Author : Jan Kott
language : en
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Release Date : 1987
The Bottom Translation written by Jan Kott and has been published by Northwestern University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with Drama categories.
The Bottom Translation represents the first critical attempt at applying the ideas and methods of the great Russian critic, Mikhail Bakhtin, to the works of Shakespeare and other Elizabethans. Professor Kott uncovers the cultural and mythopoetic traditions underlying A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Dr. Faustus, and other plays. His method draws him to interpret these works in the light of the carnival and popular tradition as it was set forth by Bakhtin. The Bottom Translation breaks new ground in critical thinking and theatrical vision and is an invaluable source of new ideas and perspectives. Included in this volume is also an extraordinary essay on Kurosawa's "Ran" in which the Japanese filmmaker recreates King Lear.
Carnival And Literature In Early Modern England
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Author : Jennifer C. Vaught
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-08
Carnival And Literature In Early Modern England written by Jennifer C. Vaught and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Carnival and Literature in Early Modern England explores the elite and popular festive materials appropriated by authors during the English Renaissance in a wide range of dramatic and non-dramatic texts. Although historical records of rural, urban, and courtly seasonal customs in early modern England exist only in fragmentary form, Jennifer Vaught traces the sustained impact of festivals and rituals on the plays and poetry of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English writers. She focuses on the diverse ways in which Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Dekker, Jonson, Milton and Herrick incorporated the carnivalesque in their works. Further, she demonstrates how these early modern texts were used-and misused-by later writers, performers, and inventors of spectacles, notably Mardi Gras krewes organizing parades in the American Deep South. The works featured here often highlight violent conflicts between individuals of different ranks, ethnicities, and religions, which the author argues reflect the social realities of the time. These Renaissance writers responded to republican, egalitarian notions of liberty for the populace with radical support, ambivalence, or conservative opposition. Ultimately, the vital, folkloric dimension of these plays and poems challenges the notion that canonical works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries belong only to 'high' and not to 'low' culture.
Shakespeare And The Culture Of Paradox
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Author : Peter G. Platt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Shakespeare And The Culture Of Paradox written by Peter G. Platt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Exploring Shakespeare's intellectual interest in placing both characters and audiences in a state of uncertainty, mystery, and doubt, this book interrogates the use of paradox in Shakespeare's plays and in performance. By adopting this discourse-one in which opposites can co-exist and perspectives can be altered, and one that asks accepted opinions, beliefs, and truths to be reconsidered-Shakespeare used paradox to question love, gender, knowledge, and truth from multiple perspectives. Committed to situating literature within the larger culture, Peter Platt begins by examining the Renaissance culture of paradox in both the classical and Christian traditions. He then looks at selected plays in terms of paradox, including the geographical site of Venice in Othello and The Merchant of Venice, and equity law in The Comedy of Errors, Merchant, and Measure for Measure. Platt also considers the paradoxes of theater and live performance that were central to Shakespearean drama, such as the duality of the player, the boy-actor and gender, and the play/audience relationship in the Henriad, Hamlet, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and The Tempest. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of paradox, Platt offers an exciting and innovative investigation of Shakespeare's cognitive and affective power over his audience.
Carnival And Theater Routledge Revivals
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Author : Michael D. Bristol
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-18
Carnival And Theater Routledge Revivals written by Michael D. Bristol and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-18 with History categories.
In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in the work of Victor Turner; and on the history of social life and material culture as practiced by the Annales school. This valuable work is an important contribution to literary criticism, theatre studies and social history and has particular importance for scholars interested in the dramatic literature of Elizabethan England.
Henry Iv Part I
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2008
Henry Iv Part I written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Electronic books categories.
Contains a selection of the criticism through the centuries on the play. This study guide includes: an accessible summary, analysis of key passages, a comprehensive list of characters, and a biography of Shakespeare.
Carnival
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Author : Milla Cozart Riggio
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004-10-14
Carnival written by Milla Cozart Riggio and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-14 with History categories.
This beautifully illustrated volume features work by leading writers and experts on carnival from around the world, and includes two stunning photo essays by acclaimed photographers Pablo Delano and Jeffrey Chock. Editor Milla Cozart Riggio presents a body of work that takes the reader on a fascinating journey exploring the various aspects of carnival - its traditions, its history, its music, its politics - and prefaces each section with an illuminating essay. Traditional carnival theory, based mainly on the work of Mikhail Bakhtin and Victor Turner, has long defined carnival as inversive or subversive. The essays in this groundbreaking anthology collectively reverse that trend, offering a re-definition of 'carnival' that focuses not on the hierarchy it temporarily displaces or negates, but a one that is rooted in the actual festival event. Carnival details its new theory in terms of a carnival that is at once representative and distinctive: The Carnival of Trinidad - the most copied yet least studied major carnival in the world.
A Midsummer Night S Dream
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-01-04
A Midsummer Night S Dream 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 2020-01-04 with categories.
Yet another edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream?To be honest, it's my favourite Shakespeare play. It's his funniest comedy and one of his masterpieces. It deals with a perennial concern of humans everywhere: how can you tell what is real and what is an illusion (think The Matrix)? But it's also a hilarious comedy, with two of the most farcical scenes in the history of the theatre. Unfortunately, too many stage productions fail to rise to the level of Shakespeare's humour, because the producers and actors are overawed by Shakespeare: he is such a formidable icon of 'high culture'. Another reason I like this play is that it contains, contrary to what many critics claim, strong and determined women, who greatly influence the course of events.There's another reason. Because of his eminent literary status Shakespeare is the most misunderstood writer. So I wanted to show that Shakespeare was first and foremost a superb entertainer and a master of stagecraft: writer, actor, manager and part theatre owner. The theatre in Shakespeare's time was a highly popular form of entertainment that was considered a disreputable activity, somewhat like calypso 'tents' in the Caribbean originally were. Indeed the London theatres were usually in the 'red light' district. Shakespeare became filthy rich from the theatre, something for which some academic critics have never forgiven him. That, and not having been to Oxford or Cambridge.Plays were not then considered 'literature': they were 'low culture', like calypso. Shakespeare's plays were filled with obscene sexual double entendres. For example, in the title of his play Much Ado about Nothing, the Elizabethan audience understood perfectly that 'nothing' was slang for the female genitalia. Most students' introduction to Shakespeare has, unfortunately, been one of summarising the 'characters' and memorising speeches. This makes no sense. So my commentary on Dream tries to understand it in dramatic terms as a set of conflicts between characters that will be resolved by the end of the play. To this end, I examine the stagecraft Shakespeare used to write his play.In addition to an extensive glossary of unfamiliar words along with a running commentary on the action, I have included (at the side of the text) detailed suggested stage directions throughout to show students of Shakespeare and the theatre what might be possible ways of interpreting and staging the play.This edition is dedicated mainly to students, especially Caribbean students. I realised several years ago that Dream lent itself readily to a Caribbean cultural interpretation. The chaotic and wild actions that take place in the wood outside Athens during a midsummer's night (Acts 2 to 4) are akin to what might happen during a Caribbean carnival, where people temporarily abandon the social restraints that normally govern their lives, and surrender themselves to the ecstatic possession of music and dance (and other things).So we develop the theme of carnival as a way of understanding Dream. We suggest that the fairies be seen as creatures of the Caribbean folkloric world of spirits, and that the music and dance which are an integral part of the play be portrayed as Caribbean music and dance appropriate to a carnival-type celebration. And in all of this we try to show why this is one of the most hilarious plays ever written.We hope everyone will enjoy this edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Utopia Carnival And Commonwealth In Renaissance England
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Author : Christopher Kendrick
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Utopia Carnival And Commonwealth In Renaissance England written by Christopher Kendrick and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with History categories.
With the emergence of utopia as a cultural genre in the sixteenth century, a dual understanding of alternative societies, as either political or literary, took shape. In Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England, Christopher Kendrick argues that the chief cultural-discursive conditions of this development are to be found in the practice of carnivalesque satire and in the attempt to construct a valid commonwealth ideology. Meanwhile, the enabling social-political condition of the new utopian writing is the existence of a social class of smallholders whose unevenly developed character prevents it from attaining political power equivalent to its social weight. In a detailed reading of Thomas More's Utopia, Kendrick argues that the uncanny dislocations, the incongruities and blank spots often remarked upon in Book II's description of Utopian society, amount to a way of discovering uneven development, and that the appeal of Utopian communism stems from its answering the desire of the smallholding class (in which are to be numbered European humanists) for unity and power. Subsequent chapters on Rabelais, Nashe, Marlowe, Bacon, Shakespeare, and others show how the utopian form engages with its two chief discursive preconditions, carnival and commonwealth ideologies, while reflecting the history of uneven development and the smallholding class. Utopia, Carnival, and Commonwealth in Renaissance England makes a novel case for the social and cultural significance of Renaissance utopian writing, and of the modern utopia in general.
Hyperion And The Hobbyhorse
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Author : Arthur Lindley
language : en
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Release Date : 1996
Hyperion And The Hobbyhorse written by Arthur Lindley and has been published by University of Delaware Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Drama categories.
"This book constructs a paradigm for the operation of subversive comedy - what Arthur Lindley, the author, calls the Augustinian carnivalesque - by examining some of the major texts of Ricardian and Elizabethan literature." "By identifying some common characteristics of these works, Lindley argues that they must be seen in terms of a continuous, fundamentally Augustinian, Christian culture that is marked by a pervasive anti-heroic comedy that interrogates the official secular order and the role-based social identities that comprise it. Underlying this is a common attitude of Christian skepticism and a common use of carnivalesque demystification of power. In this pattern of continuity, concern with subjectivity, the mysteries of the self, and the tension between inward consciousness and outward role long antedates, say, Hamlet. Subjection, in other words, is not an Elizabethan (or Shakespearean) invention, but a constant concern of Augustinian literature going back to Confessions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved