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The Spectacular In and Around Shakespeare
Author | : Pascale Drouet |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 199 |
Release | : 2009-05-27 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781443812047 |
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This volume addresses the economy of the spectacular in and around Shakespeare’s plays, both in early modern England and in late-twentieth/twenty-first-century adaptations and appropriations. Apart from addressing issues such as (im)plausibility, tours de force arousing amazement, and excess for the sake of entertainment, it raises the question of intentionality—what is behind the spectacular? Is there always a manipulative purpose? How far-reaching are the political and ideological stakes? The contributors to this volume investigate a broad spectrum of particular phenomena: the spectacular sound effects and pyrotechnics displayed for the opening of the Globe theatre with Julius Caesar on performance; George Gascoigne’s lavish 1575 pageant commissioned by the Earl of Leicester for the queen at Kenilworth (The Princely Pleasures); the relationship between the spectacular and scientific discoveries, as well as their dialectics of appropriation; the impact of Mannerist art on The Winter’s Tale; Coriolanus’ resistance to ostentation and political shows; the anti-spectacular counter-current running through Timon of Athens; Julia Pascal’s innovative 2007 stage production of The Merchant of Venice; apocalyptic screen adaptations of turn-of-the-century Jacobean tragedies, and Richard III’s potential to be graphically interpreted in 2008 as political satire and as a danse macabre.
Spectacular Science Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare
Author | : Sophie Chiari |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 2017-09-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474427838 |
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To the readers who ask themselves: What is science?', this volume provides an answer from an early modern perspective, whereby science included such various intellectual pursuits as history, poetry, occultism and philosophy.
Spectacular Shakespeare
Author | : Courtney Lehmann,Lisa S. Starks |
Publsiher | : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0838639100 |
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Spectacular Shakespeare includes an introduction, nine essays, and an afterword that all address the spectacle of Shakespeare in recent Hollywood films. The essays approach the Shakespeare-as-star phenomenon from various perspectives, some applauding the popularization of the Bard, others critically questioning the appropriation of Shakespeare in contemporary mass culture.
Spectacular Science Technology and Superstition in the Age of Shakespeare
Author | : Sophie Chiari |
Publsiher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2017-11-22 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781474427845 |
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How can multicultural governance respond to our increasingly complex migratory world?
Shakespeare s Theatres and the Effects of Performance
Author | : Farah Karim Cooper,Tiffany Stern |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2015-01-05 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781408157053 |
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How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities and realities of the theatre in the early modern period.
Disability Health and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body
Author | : Sujata Iyengar |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2014-12-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781317620075 |
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This book considers early modern and postmodern ideals of health, vigor, ability, beauty, well-being, and happiness, uncovering and historicizing the complex negotiations among physical embodiment, emotional response, and communally-sanctioned behavior in Shakespeare's literary and material world. The volume visits a series of questions about the history of the body and how early modern cultures understand physical ability or vigor, emotional competence or satisfaction, and joy or self-fulfillment. Individual essays investigate the purported disabilities of the "crook-back" King Richard III or the "corpulent" Falstaff, the conflicts between different health-care belief-systems in The Taming of the Shrew and Hamlet, the power of figurative language to delineate or even instigate puberty in the Sonnets or Romeo and Juliet, and the ways in which the powerful or moneyed mediate the access of the poor and injured to cure or even to care. Integrating insights from Disability Studies, Health Studies, and Happiness Studies, this book develops both a detailed literary-historical analysis and a provocative cultural argument about the emphasis we place on popular notions of fitness and contentment today.
A Shakespearean Theatre
Author | : Jacqueline Morley |
Publsiher | : Scribo |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 1905638590 |
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Elizabethan London was a vibrant, growing city and theater, especially that of William Shakespeare, played a major role in its lively culture. There was even a different play every day of the week Here's your ticket to the Globe, the legendary 20-sided building where Shakespeare's plays were staged. Go backstage to discover how the theater was run, who chose the actors, how big an audience it could hold, and why it was build on the banks of the Thames. Extraordinary illustrations give a dramatic look at life and art in the sixteenth century. "
Stage Matters
Author | : Annalisa Castaldo,Rhonda Knight |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2018-03-13 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9781683931508 |
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This collection features nine essays that explore how the material conditions of the early modern English stage shaped the theater. Topics range from the simulation of pregnant bodies by boy actors (and the effects of those simulations) to how bruises created by make-up might have been used on stage