The Tempest: A Critical Reader

The Tempest: A Critical Reader

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  • Author: Alden T. Vaughan
  • Publisher: A&C Black
  • ISBN: 1472518411
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 296

The Tempest contains sublime poetry and catchy songs, magic and low comedy, while it tackles important contemporary concerns: education, power politics, the effects of colonization, and technology. In this guide, Alden T. Vaughan and Virginia Mason Vaughan open up new ways into one of Shakespeare's most popular, malleable and controversial plays.


The Tempest

The Tempest

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  • Author: Alden T. Vaughan
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9781472593962
  • Category : Tragicomedy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages :


The Tempest

The Tempest

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  • Author: Patrick M. Murphy
  • Publisher: Routledge
  • ISBN: 1136601155
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 596

The Tempest: Critical Essays traces the history of Shakespeare's controversial late romance from its early reception (and adaptation) in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the present. The volume reprints influential criticism, and it also offers eight originalessays which study The Tempest from a variety of contemporary perspectives, including cultural materialism, feminism, deconstruction, performance theory, and postcolonial studies. Unlike recent anthologies about The Tempest which reprint contemporary articles along with a few new essays, this volume contains a mixture of old and new materials pertaining to the play's use in the theater and in literary history.


The Tempest

The Tempest

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  • Author: Brinda Charry
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350284149
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 385

The Tempest: Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Shakespeare's plays were received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism from key literary figures, such as Ben Jonson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Dryden, John Ruskin and Edward Malone. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods. Thus the volume makes a major contribution to our understanding of the play and of the traditions of Shakespearean criticism surrounding it as they have developed from century to century.


The Tempest: Arden Performance Editions

The Tempest: Arden Performance Editions

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1350133965
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 256

Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Each edition offers: -Facing-page notes -Short, clear definitions of words -Easily accessible information about key textual variants -Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words -An easy-to-read layout -Space to write notes -A short introduction to the play


forum for inter-american research Vol 5

forum for inter-american research Vol 5

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  • Author: Wilfried Raussert
  • Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
  • ISBN: 3946507816
  • Category : Social Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 538

Volume 5 of 6 of the complete premium print version of journal forum for inter-american research (fiar), which is the official electronic journal of the International Association of Inter-American Studies (IAS). fiar was established by the American Studies Program at Bielefeld University in 2008. We foster a dialogic and interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Americas. fiar is a peer-reviewed online journal. Articles in this journal undergo a double-blind review process and are published in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish.


Speed and Flight in Shakespeare

Speed and Flight in Shakespeare

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  • Author: Matthew Steggle
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030936570
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 140

Shakespeare's plays are fascinated by the problems of speed and flight. They are repeatedly interested in humans, spirits, and objects that move very fast; become airborne; and in some cases even travel into space. In Speed and Flight in Shakespeare, the first study of any kind on the subject, Steggle looks at how Shakespeare’s language explores ideas of speed and flight, and what theatrical resources his plays use to represent these states. Shakespeare has, this book argues, an aesthetic of speed and flight. Featuring chapters on The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Macbeth and The Tempest, this study opens up a new field around the ‘historical phenomenology’ of early modern speed.


Hamlet: A Critical Reader

Hamlet: A Critical Reader

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  • Author: Ann Thompson
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
  • ISBN: 1472571398
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 261

Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning and teaching resources is particularly useful as a guide for further study.


What is a Playhouse?

What is a Playhouse?

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  • Author: Callan Davies
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis
  • ISBN: 1000629775
  • Category : Performing Arts
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 242

This book offers an accessible introduction to England’s sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses. It builds on recent scholarship and new documentary and archaeological discoveries to answer the questions: what did playhouses do, what did they look like, and how did they function? The book will accordingly introduce readers to a rich and exciting spectrum of "play" and playhouses, not only in London but also around England. The detailed but wide-ranging case studies examined here go beyond staged drama to explore early modern sport, gambling, music, drinking, and animal baiting; they recover the crucial influence of female playhouse owners and managers; and they recognise rich provincial performance cultures as well as the burgeoning of London’s theatre industry. This book will have wide appeal with readers across Shakespeare, early modern performance studies, theatre history, and social history.


Shakespeare’s Serial Returns in Complex TV

Shakespeare’s Serial Returns in Complex TV

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  • Author: Christina Wald
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030468518
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 267

This book examines how Shakespeare’s plays resurface in current complex TV series. Its four case studies bring together The Tempest and the science fiction-Western Westworld, King Lear and the satirical dynastic drama of Succession, Hamlet and the legal thriller Black Earth Rising, as well as Coriolanus and the political thriller Homeland. The comparative readings ask what new insights the twenty-first-century remediations may grant us into Shakespeare’s texts and, vice versa, how Shakespearean returns help us understand topical concerns negotiated in the series, such as artificial intelligence, the safeguarding of democracy, terrorism, and postcolonial justice. This study also proposes that the dramaturgical seriality typical of complex TV allows insights into the seriality Shakespeare employed in structuring his plays. Discussing a broad spectrum of adaptational constellations and establishing key characteristics of the new adaptational aggregate of serial Shakespeare, it seeks to initiate a dialogue between Shakespeare studies, adaptation studies, and TV studies.