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Shakespeare s Problem Plays
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2013-07-18 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781627932530 |
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A collection containing Alls Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida
The Moral Universe of Shakespeare s Problem Plays
Author | : Vivian Thomas |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2021-03-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781000350104 |
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What is it that makes Shakespeare’s problem plays problematic? Many critics have sought for the underlying vision or message of these puzzling and disturbing dramas. Originally published in 1987, the key to Viv Thomas’s new synthesis of the plays is the idea of fracture and dissolution in the universe. From the collapse of ‘degree’ in Troilus and Cressida to the corruption at the heart of innocence in Measure for Measure, to the puzzling status of virtue and valour in All’s Well, the most obvious feature of these plays in their capacity to prompt new questions. In a detailed discussion of each play in turn, the author traces the dominant themes that both distinguish and unite them, and provides numerous insights into the sources, background, texture and morality of the plays.
The Problem Plays of Shakespeare
Author | : Ernest Schanzer |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136564963 |
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The opening chapter traces the history of the term 'problem plays' as applied to Shakespeare and defines it more clearly and precisely than has been done in the past. Julius Caesar, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra are then discussed in separate chapters, not only as problem plays but from various points of view: such matters as themes, structural pattern, character-problems, the play's relation to its sources as well as to other plays in the canon, are all touched upon.
Shakespeare s problem plays
Author | : William B. Toole |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2015-07-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9783111392226 |
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William Shakespeare
Author | : Richard Hillman |
Publsiher | : New York : Twayne Publishers ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : UOM:49015001479527 |
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Critical discussion of three Shakespeare plays, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well that Ends Well, and Measure for Measure, that defy attempts to classify them as either comedy, romance, tragedy, or satire.
Shakespeare and the Problem Play
Author | : E.L. Risden |
Publsiher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-10-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780786472437 |
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Shakespeare's plays provide a rich source of genre variation as well as moral or ethical issues that invite deep study. The genre issue often proves the very moral crux where Shakespeare raises the most complex questions. He aimed to build good plays, not simple fulfillments of genre demands. To him "good plays" meant leaving his audience with problems to consider. This book begins with those works most commonly appearing in studies of problem plays, The Merchant of Venice, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure; moves to some comedic problem plays, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Twelfth Night; and then to tragic problem plays, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. It concludes with some problems in the history and romance genres for the issues they raise in love, adventure, and governance: Henry IV, Part 1, Henry V, Cymbeline, The Tempest, and Love's Labor's Lost.
Shakespeare s Problem Plays
Author | : William Shakespeare |
Publsiher | : Wilder Publications |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2013-09 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1627554629 |
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Comedy and Tragedy-- Collected here in one binding are All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and The History of Troilus and Cressida. Collectively they are known as Shakespeare's Problem Plays. While the first two are usually placed with the comedies and the later with the tragedies none of them fit neatly into either classification. Their structure, subject matter, and resolutions create problems for those who want simple classifications. The term was coined by critic F. S. Boas who believed that these plays each explored a moral dilemma and social problem through their main characters, giving the term a layered meaning. O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; But it is tyrannous To use it like a giant.
Gender and Performance in Shakespeare s Problem Comedies
Author | : David F. McCandless |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1997-12-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0253113342 |
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"This is exactly the kind of work, with its synthesis of theory, close reading, and deconstructive performance criticism that many of us in the profession have been looking for." -- Joel B. Altman, University of California, Berkeley "McCandless's book represents an inventive and illuminating account that not only produces a theoretically activated text but also explores a range of options for staging it, turning theoretical into theatrical meanings." -- Barbara Hodgdon, Drake University "The writing is clear, snappy, wonderfully informed with a vivid and experienced theatrical imagination... a book that taught me a good deal about the problem comedies, especially from the vantage point of performance, though the insights into performance are fully and incisively integrated with, and they richly illuminate, formal, thematic, and psychological vantage points on the play." -- Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois Composed at a critical moment in English history, All's Well That Ends Well, Measure for Measure, and Troilus and Cressida -- Shakespeare's problem plays -- dramatize a crisis in the sex-gender system. They register a male dread of emasculation and engulfment, a fear of female authority and sexuality. In these plays males identify desire for a female as dangerous and unmanly, females contend and confound traditional femininity. David McCandless's book is a unique and invigorating example of performance criticism that illuminates these difficult, sometimes-overlooked tragicomedies. It is an original and timely contribution to Shakespearean theater scholarship.