The Problem Plays Of Shakespeare
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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 | : 209 |
Release | : 2013-11-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781136564895 |
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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.
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 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.
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 Mannerist Tradition
Author | : Jean-Pierre Maquerlot |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521410835 |
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This 1996 book offers an original approach to Shakespeare's so-called 'problem plays' by contending that they can be viewed as experiments in the Mannerist style. The plays reappraised here are Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure. How can a term used to define a movement in art history be made relevant to theatrical analysis? Maquerlot shows how famous painters of sixteenth-century Italy cultivated structural ambiguity or dissonance in reaction to the classical canons of the High Renaissance. Close readings of Shakespeare's plays, from the period 1599 to 1604, reveal intriguing analogies with Mannerist art and the dramatist's response to Elizabethan formalism. Maquerlot concludes by examining Othello, which marks the end of Shakespeare's Mannerist experiments, and the less equivocal use of artifice in his late romances.
Shakespeare s Problem Plays
Author | : Eustace M. W. Tillyard |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 153 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Tragicomedy |
ISBN | : 0140175776 |
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Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure - these are all described by the author as Shakespeare's problem plays. In each of them, the author argues, Shakespeare is deeply interested in speculative thought and in the observance of human nature for their own sake; and each is concerned with men on the edge of manhood and of the harsh experiences which forced them to grow up.