The Renaissance Discovery Of Violence From Boccaccio To Shakespeare
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The Renaissance Discovery Of Violence From Boccaccio To Shakespeare
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Author : Robert Appelbaum
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2021-11-16
The Renaissance Discovery Of Violence From Boccaccio To Shakespeare written by Robert Appelbaum and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Many have wondered why the works of Shakespeare and other early modern writers are so filled with violence, with murder and mayhem. This work explains how and why, putting the literature of the European Renaissance in the context of the history of violence. Personal violence was on the decline in Europe beginning in the fifteenth century, but warfare became much deadlier and the stakes of war became much higher as the new nation-states vied for hegemony and the New World became a target of a shattering invasion. There are times when Renaissance writers seem to celebrate violence, but more commonly they anatomized it and were inclined to focus on victims as well as warriors on the horrors of violence as well as the need for force to protect national security and justice. In Renaissance writing, violence has lost its innocence.
The Renaissance Discovery Of Violence From Boccaccio To Shakespeare
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Author : Robert Appelbaum
language : en
Publisher: Anthem Press
Release Date : 2021-11-16
The Renaissance Discovery Of Violence From Boccaccio To Shakespeare written by Robert Appelbaum and has been published by Anthem Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-16 with Literary Criticism categories.
Many have wondered why the works of Shakespeare and other early modern writers are so filled with violence, with murder and mayhem. This work explains how and why, putting the literature of the European Renaissance in the context of the history of violence. Personal violence was on the decline in Europe beginning in the fifteenth century, but warfare became much deadlier and the stakes of war became much higher as the new nation-states vied for hegemony and the New World became a target of a shattering invasion. There are times when Renaissance writers seem to celebrate violence, but more commonly they anatomized it and were inclined to focus on victims as well as warriors on the horrors of violence as well as the need for force to protect national security and justice. In Renaissance writing, violence has lost its innocence.
Shakespeare Against War
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Author : Robert White
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2024-05-31
Shakespeare Against War written by Robert White and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-05-31 with categories.
Whilst Shakespearean drama provides eloquent calls to war, more often than not these are undercut or outweighed by compelling appeals to peaceful alternatives conveyed through narrative structure, dramatic context and poetic utterance. Placing Shakespeare's works in the history of pacifist thought, Robert White argues that Shakespeare's plays consistently challenge appeals to heroism and revenge and reveal the brutal futility of war. White also examines Shakespeare's interest in the mental states of military officers when their ingrained training is tested in love relationships. In imagery and themes, war infiltrates love, with problematical consequences, reflected in Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies alike. Challenging a critical orthodoxy that military engagement in war is an inevitable and necessary condition, White draws analogies with the experience of modern warfare, showing the continuing relevance of Shakespeare's plays which deal with basic issues of war and peace that are still evident.
Precarious Identities
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Author : Vassiliki Markidou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-26
Precarious Identities written by Vassiliki Markidou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-26 with History categories.
This book investigates the construction of identity and the precarity of the self in the work of the Calvinist Fulke Greville (1554–1628) and the Jesuit Robert Southwell (1561–1595). For the first time, a collection of original essays unites them with the aim to explore their literary production. The essays collected here define these authors’ efforts to forge themselves as literary, religious, and political subjects amid a shifting politico-religious landscape. They highlight the authors’ criticism of the court and underscore similarities and differences in thought, themes, and style. Altogether, the essays in this volume demonstrate the developments in cosmology, theology, literary conventions, political ideas, and religious dogmas, and trace their influence in the oeuvre of Greville and Southwell.
The All S Well Story From Boccaccio To Shakespeare
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Author : Howard C. Cole
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
The All S Well Story From Boccaccio To Shakespeare written by Howard C. Cole and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981 with Drama categories.
Shakespeare Violence And Early Modern Europe
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Author : Andrew Hiscock
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-17
Shakespeare Violence And Early Modern Europe written by Andrew Hiscock 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 2022-02-17 with Drama categories.
Andrew Hiscock locates Shakespeare's history plays within debates over the status and function of violence in a nation's culture.
The Invention Of Suspicion
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Author : Lorna Hutson
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2011-04-14
The Invention Of Suspicion written by Lorna Hutson and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-04-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama. These changes gradually made evidence evaluation a popular skill: justices of peace and juries were increasingly required to weigh up the probabilities of competing narratives of facts. At precisely the same time, English dramatists were absorbing, from Latin legal rhetoric and from Latin comedy, poetic strategies that enabled them to make their plays more persuasively realistic, more 'probable'. The result of this enormously rich conjunction of popular legal culture and ancient forensic rhetoric was a drama in which dramatis personae habitually gather evidence and 'invent' arguments of suspicion and conjecture about one another, thus prompting us, as readers and audience, to reconstruct this 'evidence' as stories of characters' private histories and inner lives. In this drama, people act in uncertainty, inferring one another's motives and testing evidence for their conclusions. As well as offering an overarching account of how changes in juridical epistemology relate to post-Reformation drama, this book examines comic dramatic writing associated with the Inns of Court in the overlooked decades of the 1560s and 70s. It argues that these experiments constituted an influential sub-genre, assimilating the structures of Roman comedy to current civic and political concerns with the administration of justice. This sub-genre's impact may be seen in Shakespeare's early experiments in revenge tragedy, history play and romance comedy, in Titus Andronicus, Henry VI and The Comedy of Errors, as well as Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, Bartholomew Fair and The Alchemist. The book ranges from mid-fifteenth century drama, through sixteenth century interludes to the drama of the 1590s and 1600s. It draws on recent research by legal historians, and on a range of legal-historical sources in print and manuscript.
Shakespeare And Violence
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Author : R. A. Foakes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2003
Shakespeare And Violence written by R. A. Foakes 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 2003 with Drama categories.
Shakespeare and Violence, first published in 2002, connects to anxieties about the problem of violence, and shows how similar concerns are central in Shakespeare's plays. At first Shakespeare exploited spectacular violence for its entertainment value, but his later plays probe more deeply into the human propensity for gratuitous violence, especially in relation to kingship, government and war. In these plays and in his major tragedies he also explores the construction of masculinity in relation to power over others, to the value of heroism, and to self-control. Shakespeare's last plays present a world in which human violence appears analogous to violence in the natural world, and both kinds of violence are shown as aspects of a world subject to chance and accident. This book examines the development of Shakespeare's representations of violence and explains their importance in shaping his career as a dramatist.
English Renaissance Tragedy
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Author : T McAlindon
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1988-09-29
English Renaissance Tragedy written by T McAlindon and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-09-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book provides an introductory perspective on its subject together with detailed studies of the major non-Shakespearean tragedies. It assumes that the central and most disturbing insights of the plays were expressed in terms of the thought patterns of the time.
Shakespeare S Culture Of Violence
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Author : DEREK. COHEN
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1993
Shakespeare S Culture Of Violence written by DEREK. COHEN and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with categories.