The Italian Novella And Shakespeare S Comic Heroines
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The Italian Novella And Shakespeare S Comic Heroines
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Author : Melissa Emerson Walter
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2019
The Italian Novella And Shakespeare S Comic Heroines written by Melissa Emerson Walter 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 2019 with Drama categories.
This is the first book to provide a full treatment of Shakespeare's literary and theatrical engagement with the Italian novella and female agency.
The Diva S Gift To The Shakespearean Stage
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Author : Pamela Allen Brown
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2021-11-25
The Diva S Gift To The Shakespearean Stage written by Pamela Allen Brown and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Diva's Gift traces the far-reaching impact of the first female stars on the playwrights and players of the all-male stage. When Shakespeare entered the scene, women had been acting in Italian troupes for two decades, traveling in Italy and beyond and performing in all genres, including tragedy. The ambitious actress reinvented the innamorata, making her more charismatic and autonomous, thrilling audiences with her skills. Despite fervent attacks, some actresses became the first international stars, winning royal and noble patrons and literary admirers in France and Spain. After Elizabeth and her court caught wind of their success in Paris, Italian troupes with actresses crossed the Channel to perform. The Italians' repeat visits and growing fame posed a radical challenge to English professionals just as they were building their first paying theaters. Some writers treated the actress as a whorish threat to their stage, which had long minimized female roles. Others saw a vital new model full of promise. Lyly, Marlowe, and Kyd endowed innamorata parts with hot-blooded, racialized passions, but made them self-aware agents, not counters traded between men. Shakespeare, Jonson, Webster and others followed, ringing changes on the new type in comedy, tragedy, and romance. Like the comici they recycled actress-linked theatergrams and star scenes, such as cross-dressing, the mad scene, and the sung lament. In this way, the diva's prodigious virtuosity and stardom altered the horizons of playmaking even on the womanless stage. Capitalizing on the talents of boy players, the best playwrights created bold new roles endowed with her alien glamour, such as Lyly's Sapho and Pandora, Marlowe's Dido, Kyd's Bel-Imperia, Webster's Vittoria, and Shakespeare's Beatrice, Viola, Portia, Juliet, and Ophelia. Cleopatra is not alone in her superb theatricality and dazzling strangeness. As this book demonstrates, the diva's gifts mark them all.
Massinger S Italy
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Author : Cristina Paravano
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-08-04
Massinger S Italy written by Cristina Paravano and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-04 with Literary Criticism categories.
Massinger’s Italy: Re-Imagining Italian Culture in the Plays of Philip Massinger offers the first book-length account of the pervasive influence of Italian culture on the canon of Philip Massinger, one of the most successful playwrights of the post-Shakespearean period. This volume explores the relationships between Massinger and Italian literary, dramatic and intellectual culture in the larger context of Anglo-Italian cultural exchanges. The book investigates the influence of Italian culture, considering Massinger’s engagement and appropriation of Italian texts, dramatic and political theories and ideas related to the country and his use of Italy as a setting. Massinger’s Italy offers a fresh and unexpected perspective on the development of Anglo-Italian discourse on the early modern English stage, showing to what extent Massinger contributed to the myth of Italy and to the circulation of Italian culture and shedding light on the complex system of Anglo-Italian interconnections within the corpus of Massinger’s plays as well as with the works of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
Thicker Than Water
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Author : Lauren Weindling
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2023-04-17
Thicker Than Water written by Lauren Weindling and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-17 with Drama categories.
"The proverb goes that "blood is thicker than water." But do common bloodlines in fact demand special duties or prescribe affections? Does this maxim presume that we can or should only love others biologically similar to ourselves? Are we nobler if we do, or somehow defective if we don't? "Thicker than Water" examines the roots of this belief by studying the omnipresent discourse of bloodlines and kindred relations in the literature of early modern Europe, specifically its role in the creation and maintenance of oppressive social structures. Lauren Weindling examines how drama from England, France, and Italy tests these assumptions about blood and love, exposing their underlying political function. Among the key texts that Weindling studies are Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Othello, and The Merchant of Venice, Pierre Corneille's Le Cid, Giambattista della Porta's La Sorella and its English analog, Thomas Middleton's No Wit/Help Like a Woman's, John Ford's 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, and Machiavelli's La Mandragola. Each of these plays in some way offers an extreme limit case for these beliefs in plots of love, courtship, and marriage (e.g., blood feuds or incest). They also illustrate that blood functions not as a biological basis for affinities, but discursively. Moreover, they feature the voices of marginalized groups, unprivileged by this ideology, which present significant counterpoints to this bloody worldview. Those outsiders reveal that finding alternative vocabularies to the bloody discourse of elite groups is both extremely difficult and often ineffectual, further evidenced by their persistence today. Much critical work on blood has examined this discourse as it manifests onstage: as evidence of guilt, the product of violence, or in bleeding figures. This book, instead, examines the work that blood does unseen in its connection to discourses of love and kinship-arbitrating social and emotional connections between persons, and thus underwriting our deepest forms of social organization"--
Shakespeare And The Traditions Of Comedy
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Author : Leo Salingar
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1974
Shakespeare And The Traditions Of Comedy written by Leo Salingar 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 1974 with Drama categories.
For students of English and European literature, renaissance studies, comparative literature, drama and classics.
Greek Tragic Women On Shakespearean Stages
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Author : Tanya Pollard
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2017
Greek Tragic Women On Shakespearean Stages written by Tanya Pollard and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Drama categories.
"The book argues that rediscovered ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on sixteenth-century England's dramatic landscape, not only in academic and aristocratic settings, but also at the heart of the developing commercial theaters."--Introduction, p. 2.
Comedies Two Gentlemen Of Verona Comedy Of Errors Taming Of The Shrew Much Ado About Nothing Love Labour S Lost Merchant Of Venice Merry Wives Of Windsor Twelfth Night As You Like It Midsummer Night S Dream Measure For Measure The Tempest All S Well That Ends Well Winter S Tale
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
Comedies Two Gentlemen Of Verona Comedy Of Errors Taming Of The Shrew Much Ado About Nothing Love Labour S Lost Merchant Of Venice Merry Wives Of Windsor Twelfth Night As You Like It Midsummer Night S Dream Measure For Measure The Tempest All S Well That Ends Well Winter S Tale 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 1847 with categories.
Shakespeare S Plays
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Author : William Shakespeare
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1847
Shakespeare S Plays 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 1847 with categories.
Romeo And Juliet
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Author : Hernan Carreras
language : en
Publisher: Capstone
Release Date : 2018-01-01
Romeo And Juliet written by Hernan Carreras and has been published by Capstone this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-01 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
In this graphic version of Shakespeare's play, teenagers Romeo and Juliet, from rival families in Verona, fall deeply in love, with tragic consequences for both the Montagues and the Capulets.
Shakespeare And The Italian Renaissance
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Author : Michele Marrapodi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Shakespeare And The Italian Renaissance written by Michele Marrapodi 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.
Shakespeare and the Italian Renaissance investigates the works of Shakespeare and his fellow dramatists from within the context of the European Renaissance and, more specifically, from within the context of Italian cultural, dramatic, and literary traditions, with reference to the impact and influence of classical, coeval, and contemporary culture. In contrast to previous studies, the critical perspectives pursued in this volume’s tripartite organization take into account a wider European intertextual dimension and, above all, an ideological interpretation of the 'aesthetics' or 'politics' of intertextuality. Contributors perceive the presence of the Italian world in early modern England not as a traditional treasure trove of influence and imitation, but as a potential cultural force, consonant with complex processes of appropriation, transformation, and ideological opposition through a continuous dialectical interchange of compliance and subversion.