Shakespeare And Milton Reader
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Love And Its Critics
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Author : Michael Bryson
language : en
Publisher: Saint Philip Street Press
Release Date : 2020-10-09
Love And Its Critics written by Michael Bryson and has been published by Saint Philip Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-09 with categories.
"This book is a history of love and the challenge love offers to the laws and customs of its times and places, as told through poetry from the Song of Songs to John Milton's Paradise Lost. It is also an account of the critical reception afforded to such literature, and the ways in which criticism has attempted to stifle this challenge. Bryson and Movsesian argue that the poetry they explore celebrates and reinvents the love the troubadour poets of the eleventh and twelfth centuries called fin'amor: love as an end in itself, mutual and freely chosen even in the face of social, religious, or political retribution. Neither eros nor agape, neither exclusively of the body, nor solely of the spirit, this love is a middle path. Alongside this tradition has grown a critical movement that employs a 'hermeneutics of suspicion', in Paul Ricoeur's phrase, to claim that passionate love poetry is not what it seems, and should be properly understood as worship of God, subordination to Empire, or an entanglement with the structures of language itself - in short, the very things it resists. The book engages with some of the seminal literature of the Western canon, including the Bible, the poetry of Ovid, and works by English authors such as William Shakespeare and John Donne, and with criticism that stretches from the earliest readings of the Song of Songs to contemporary academic literature. Lively and enjoyable in its style, it attempts to restore a sense of pleasure to the reading of poetry, and to puncture critical insistence that literature must be outwitted. It will be of value to professional, graduate, and advanced undergraduate scholars of literature, and to the educated general reader interested in treatments of love in poetry throughout history." This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare
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Author : Nigel Smith
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2008
Is Milton Better Than Shakespeare written by Nigel Smith and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Business & Economics categories.
Poetics and poetic strategies -- Divorce -- Free will -- Tyranny and kingship -- Free states -- Imagining creation -- The lover, the poem, and the critics
Reading Class Through Shakespeare Donne And Milton
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Author : Christopher Warley
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2014-01-23
Reading Class Through Shakespeare Donne And Milton written by Christopher Warley and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-01-23 with Literary Criticism categories.
Why study Renaissance literature? Reading Class through Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton examines six canonical Renaissance works to show that reading literature also means reading class. Warley demonstrates that careful reading offers the best way to understand social relations and in doing so he offers a detailed historical argument about what class means in the seventeenth century. Drawing on a wide range of critics, from Erich Auerbach to Jacques Rancière, from Cleanth Brooks to Theodor Adorno, and from Raymond Williams to Jacques Derrida, the book implicitly defends literary criticism. It reaffirms six Renaissance poems and plays, including poems by Donne, Shakespeare's Hamlet, and Milton's Paradise Lost, as the sophisticated and moving works of art that generations of readers have loved. These accessible interpretations also offer exciting new directions for the roles of art and criticism in the contemporary, post-industrial world.
Shakespeare And Milton Reader Being Scenes And Other Extracts From The Writings Of Shakespeare And Milton With Introductory Explanations And Notes Also Miscellaneous Chapters Relating To The Lives And Works Of The Same Authors
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
Shakespeare And Milton Reader Being Scenes And Other Extracts From The Writings Of Shakespeare And Milton With Introductory Explanations And Notes Also Miscellaneous Chapters Relating To The Lives And Works Of The Same Authors 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 1883 with categories.
Radical Religion From Shakespeare To Milton
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Author : Kristen Poole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000-06-15
Radical Religion From Shakespeare To Milton written by Kristen Poole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-06-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The figure of the puritan has long been conceived as dour and repressive in character, an image which has been central to ways of reading sixteenth- and seventeenth-century history and literature. Kristen Poole's original study challenges this perception arguing that, contrary to current critical understanding, radical reformers were most often portrayed in literature of the period as deviant, licentious and transgressive. Through extensive analysis of early modern pamphlets, sermons, poetry and plays, the fictional puritan emerges as a grotesque and carnivalesque figure; puritans are extensively depicted as gluttonous, sexually promiscuous, monstrously procreating, and even as worshipping naked. By recovering this lost alternative satirical image, Poole sheds new light on the role played by anti-puritan rhetoric. Her book contends that such representations served an important social role, providing an imaginative framework for discussing familial, communal and political transformations that resulted from the Reformation.
Reading And Writing In Shakespeare
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Author : David M. Bergeron
language : en
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Release Date : 1996
Reading And Writing In Shakespeare written by David M. Bergeron and has been published by Associated University Presse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Drama categories.
"This volume of essays explores reading and writing in Shakespeare and his culture. Shakespeare as a worker and writer straddled a margin between an oral, customary world and a literate world of specializing professionals in a way that no subsequent writer ever could. With the 1623 Folio edition, Shakespeare completed the transformation from an active dramatist to an author of a book, collected by his friends and now available to readers."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
A Reader S Guide To John Milton
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Author : Marjorie Hope Nicolson
language : en
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Release Date : 1998-02-01
A Reader S Guide To John Milton written by Marjorie Hope Nicolson and has been published by Syracuse University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-02-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
Marjorie Nicolson—one of the foremost authorities on Milton—examines Milton's work, beginning with the famous Minor Poems, "L'Allegro," "II Penseroso," "Comus" (and "Arcades"), and "Lycides." She explores Milton's middle years, when he was diverted from poetry to become Latin Secretary under Oliver Cromwell. Finally, she looks at the great poems, including a book-by-book analysis of Paradise Lost and a careful reading of Milton's poetic "closet drama," Samson Agonistes.
Reading Shakespeare
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Author : Michael Alexander
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2018-10-31
Reading Shakespeare written by Michael Alexander and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
An essential introductory text that provides students with a lively and enjoyable tour of Shakespeare's life, his writing career and the theatre of his time. Concise yet comprehensive, the guide examines the texts of twenty widely-studied plays, and the Sonnets, illuminating both their original contexts and their later reception. Lucidly written, with no jargon, this is an invaluable overview of Shakespeare's life and works for students who may be studying Shakespeare for the first time. This is an ideal set text for modules on Shakespeare, Jacobean Drama or Renaissance/ Early Modern Literature which may be offered at all levels of an undergraduate Literature degree. In addition it is a helpful resource for students who may be studying Shakespeare's plays as part of a taught postgraduate degree in Literature. New to this Edition: - New material on politics and history - Clearer chapter titles and explanation of the scope and rationale of the book - Updated and expanded bibliography with more on gender, performance, politics and history
The Biblical Presence In Shakespeare Milton And Blake
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Author : Harold Fisch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
The Biblical Presence In Shakespeare Milton And Blake written by Harold Fisch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Drama categories.
In this penetrating study of the poetics of influence the indebtedness of Shakespeare, Milton, and Blake to a common source, namely the Bible, becomes a powerful tool for displaying three fundamentally different poetic options as well as three different ways of dealing with a conflict central to western culture. In fresh and original discussions of Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet, and King Lear, Fisch discerns what he terms the metagon: not the struggle between the characters on the stage but a struggle for the control of the play between biblical and non-biblical modes of imagining. Milton seems more single-minded in his reliance on biblical sources, yet from his analysis of Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes Fisch concludes that there are unresolved contradictions, both aesthetic and theological, which threaten the coherence and balance of these poems as well. Blake in his turn perceived these contradictions in the work of his predecessors, condemning both Shakespeare and Milton for allowing their writing to be curbed by Greek and Latin models and claiming for himself a more authentic inspiration-that of 'the Sublime of the Bible'. But Blake's marvellous achievements in the sublime mode, as for instance in his Illustrations to Job, often reverse the direction of his biblical source, replacing dialogue with monologue. Harold Fisch's work combines an unremitting attention to the minutiae of the texts with a dazzling capacity for broad insights and judgements. He is equally at home in theological learning as in English literature.
The Routledge Research Companion To Shakespeare And Classical Literature
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Author : Sean Keilen
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-03-31
The Routledge Research Companion To Shakespeare And Classical Literature written by Sean Keilen and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-31 with Literary Criticism categories.
In this wide-ranging and ambitiously conceived Research Companion, contributors explore Shakespeare’s relationship to the classic in two broad senses. The essays analyze Shakespeare’s specific debts to classical works and weigh his classicism’s likeness and unlikeness to that of others in his time; they also evaluate the effects of that classical influence to assess the extent to which it is connected with whatever qualities still make Shakespeare, himself, a classic (arguably the classic) of modern world literature and drama. The first sense of the classic which the volume addresses is the classical culture of Latin and Greek reading, translation, and imitation. Education in the canon of pagan classics bound Shakespeare together with other writers in what was the dominant tradition of English and European poetry and drama, up through the nineteenth and even well into the twentieth century. Second—and no less central—is the idea of classics as such, that of books whose perceived value, exceeding that of most in their era, justifies their protection against historical and cultural change. The volume’s organizing insight is that as Shakespeare was made a classic in this second, antiquarian sense, his work’s reception has more and more come to resemble that of classics in the first sense—of ancient texts subject to labored critical study by masses of professional interpreters who are needed to mediate their meaning, simply because of the texts’ growing remoteness from ordinary life, language, and consciousness. The volume presents overviews and argumentative essays about the presence of Latin and Greek literature in Shakespeare’s writing. They coexist in the volume with thought pieces on the uses of the classical as a historical and pedagogical category, and with practical essays on the place of ancient classics in today’s Shakespearean classrooms.