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Revisiting Shakespeare s Lost Play
Author | : Deborah C. Payne |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2017-02-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783319465142 |
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This collection of essays centres on Double Falsehood, Lewis Theobald’s 1727 adaptation of the “lost” play of Cardenio, possibly co-authored by John Fletcher and William Shakespeare. In a departure from most scholarship to date, the contributors fold Double Falsehood back into the milieu for which it was created rather than searching for traces of Shakespeare in the text. Robert D. Hume’s knowledge of theatre history permits a fresh take on the forgery question as well as the Shakespeare authorship controversy. Diana Solomon’s understanding of eighteenth-century rape culture and Jean I. Marsden’s command of contemporary adaptation practices both emphasise the play’s immediate social and theatrical contexts. And, finally, Deborah C. Payne’s familiarity with the eighteenth-century stage allows for a reconsideration of Double Falsehood as integral to a debate between Theobald, Alexander Pope, and John Gay over the future of the English drama.
Shakespeare and Lost Plays
Author | : David McInnis |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2021-03-25 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781108843263 |
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Explores Shakespeare's plays in their most immediate context: the hundreds of plays known to original audiences, but lost to us.
Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study
Author | : Dennis Austin Britton,Melissa Walter |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2018-03-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317302889 |
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This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare studies. The essays demonstrate that source study remains an indispensable mode of inquiry for understanding Shakespeare, his authorship and audiences, and early modern gender, racial, and class relations, as well as for considering how new technologies have and will continue to redefine our understanding of the materials Shakespeare used to compose his plays. Although source study has been used in the past to construct a conservative view of Shakespeare and his genius, the volume argues that a rethought Shakespearean source study provides opportunities to examine models and practices of cultural exchange and memory, and to value specific cultures and difference. Informed by contemporary approaches to literature and culture, the essays revise conceptions of sources and intertextuality to include terms like "haunting," "sustainability," "microscopic sources," "contamination," "fragmentary circulation" and "cultural conservation." They maintain an awareness of the heterogeneity of cultures along lines of class, religious affiliation, and race, seeking to enhance the opportunity to register diverse ideas and frameworks imported from foreign material and distant sources. The volume not only examines print culture, but also material culture, theatrical paradigms, generic assumptions, and oral narratives. It considers how digital technologies alter how we find sources and see connections among texts. This book asserts that how critics assess and acknowledge Shakespeare’s sources remains interpretively and politically significant; source study and its legacy continues to shape the image of Shakespeare and his authorship. The collection will be valuable to those interested in the relationships between Shakespeare’s work and other texts, those seeking to understand how the legacy of source study has shaped Shakespeare as a cultural phenomenon, and those studying source study, early modern authorship, implications of digital tools in early modern studies, and early modern literary culture.
Lost Plays in Shakespeare s England
Author | : D. McInnis,M. Steggle |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2014-10-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781137403971 |
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Lost Plays in Shakespeare's England examines assumptions about what a lost play is and how it can be talked about; how lost plays can be reconstructed, particularly when they use narratives already familiar to playgoers; and how lost plays can force us to reassess extant plays, particularly through ideas of repertory studies.
Rethinking Theatrical Documents in Shakespeare s England
Author | : Tiffany Stern |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2019-11-14 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781350051355 |
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This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Knowledge Unlatched. Rethinking Theatrical Documents brings together fifteen major scholars to analyse and theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a play in Shakespeare's England. Showing how the playhouse frantically generated paratexts, it explores a rich variety of entangled documents, some known and some unknown: from before the play (drafts, casting lists, actors' parts); during the play (prologues, epilogues, title-boards); and after the play (playbooks, commonplace snippets, ballads) – though 'before', 'during' and 'after' intertwine in fascinating ways. By using collective intervention to rethink both theatre history and book history, it provides new ways of understanding plays critically, interpretatively, editorially, practically and textually.
Special Section Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited
Author | : Graham Bradshaw,T. G. Bishop,Peter Holbrook |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 980 |
Release | : 2006-01-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 075465589X |
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This year including a special section on "Shakespeare and Montaigne Revisited," The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Canada, Sweden, Japan and Australia. This issue includes an interview with veteran American actor Alvin Epstein during his recent acclaimed performance of King Lear for the Actors' Shakespeare project in Boston.
The Business of English Restoration Theatre 1660 1700
Author | : Deborah C. Payne |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 2024-05-31 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781009398213 |
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Deborah C. Payne explores how the duopoly of 1660 impacted company practices, stagecraft, the box office, and actors and writers.
Music Books and Theatre in Eighteenth Century Exton
Author | : Colin Timms |
Publsiher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 117 |
Release | : 2023-12-20 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 9781003860075 |
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This book establishes the cultural background to the productions of Milton’s Comus that were staged in the 1740s by Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough, at Exton Hall, his country seat in the East Midlands of England. The author reveals that Handel’s visit in 1745 occurred in a richer and fuller context of cultural interests among the Noel family. Most of the music at Exton was selected from existing works by Handel, but the four movements of the finale were new, written by the composer specifically for the occasion. The study is based on receipted bills and other documents in an archival collection of Noel family papers that provide evidence of the Earl’s purchase of books and music and of the musical and theatrical activities undertaken on his Exton estate. The author discusses the Earl’s interests in music, books and theatre, indicating a belief in performance as a valuable and enjoyable experience and as a vehicle for the education of the young. In addition to creating a context for Comus, this book sheds light on cultural life in a mid-eighteenth-century English country house and how the Earl’s productions made a significant contribution to the cultural life of the East Midlands. The book will be of great value to cultural musicologists, historians and Handelians, as the documentation sheds a huge amount of light on a variety of cultural practices in eighteenth-century England.