Category: Shakespeare

By Arthur Freeman

ISBN-10: 0300096615

ISBN-13: 9780300096613

ISBN-10: 0300133308

ISBN-13: 9780300133301

John Payne Collier (1789-1883), the most arguable figures within the heritage of literary scholarship, pursued a double profession. A prolific and hugely influential author at the drama, poetry, and well known prose of Shakespeare's age, Collier used to be whilst the promulgator of an excellent physique of forgeries and fake facts, heavily affecting the textual content and biography of Shakespeare and so on. This enormous two-volume paintings for the 1st time addresses the full of Collier's task, systematically checking out his real achievements from his impostures.

By Peter Hyland

ISBN-10: 031216274X

ISBN-13: 9780312162740

ISBN-10: 0312162766

ISBN-13: 9780312162764

ISBN-10: 0333598806

ISBN-13: 9780333598801

ISBN-10: 1349249521

ISBN-13: 9781349249527

By Ruben Espinosa

ISBN-10: 1409401162

ISBN-13: 9781409401162

"Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England" bargains a brand new method of comparing the mental 'loss' of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England through illustrating how, within the wake of Mary's demotion, re-inscriptions of her roles and meanings simply proliferated, seizing carry of nationwide mind's eye and leading to new configurations of masculinity. the writer surveys the early glossy cultural and literary reaction to Mary's marginalization, and argues that Shakespeare employs either Roman Catholic and post-Reformation perspectives of Marian power not just to scrutinize cultural perceptions of masculinity, but additionally to supply his viewers new avenues of exploring either non secular and gendered subjectivity. via deploying Mary's symbolic valence to infuse yes characters, and dramatic occasions with female efficiency, Espinosa analyzes how Shakespeare attracts awareness to the Virgin Mary instead to an differently unilaterally masculine outlook on salvation and gendered id formation.

By Maurizio Calbi (auth.)

ISBN-10: 1137063769

ISBN-13: 9781137063762

ISBN-10: 1349341843

ISBN-13: 9781349341849

By David Scott Kastan

ISBN-10: 0203901665

ISBN-13: 9780203901663

ISBN-10: 041590112X

ISBN-13: 9780415901123

ISBN-10: 0415901138

ISBN-13: 9780415901130

The main favourite statement of Shakespeare scholarship is that he's our modern. Shakespeare After Theory provocatively argues that he's no longer, yet what worth he has for us needs to not less than start with a acceptance of his distance from us.

By William Shakespeare

ISBN-10: 1108000851

ISBN-13: 9781108000857

The Cambridge Shakespeare used to be released in 9 volumes among 1863 and 1866. Its cautious editorial ideas, beautiful web page layout and chic typography have withstood the try of time. this article was once in accordance with an intensive collation of the 4 Folios and of all of the 4to variations of the separate performs, the bottom textual content being the 1623 Folio. The severe equipment seems to be on the foot of the web page, yet for passages the place the 4to differs considerably the total 4to textual content seems to be in small variety after the bought textual content. Notes on the finish of every play clarify variations, emendations, and passages of surprising trouble or curiosity. Grammar and metre have been in most cases left unchanged via the editors, yet punctuation was once normalised and nineteenth-century orthography was once followed rather than the variable Elizabethan spelling. In a daring circulation for a Victorian variation, the editors restored numerous 'profane' expressions the place metre or experience demanded it.

By Adam N. McKeown

ISBN-10: 0826516637

ISBN-13: 9780826516633

English Mercuries examines conflict and literature in the course of the writings of veterans who got here domestic from their deployments to pursue literary careers. From their frequently overlooked writings emerges a brand new photo of the Elizabethan global at conflict. for hundreds of years Elizabethan England has been characterised through booming patriotism and martial power, and the literature of this era, epitomized in works like Shakespeare's Henry V, has been obvious as celebrating a proud and defiant state unified round its wars with Spain. underneath this patriotic veneer, notwithstanding, used to be a rustic withering below the prices of likely unending army commitments and ripped aside via doubts in regards to the goal of warfare and distrust of country officers who complex their very own political pursuits via battle on the price of the folk who needed to struggle and pay for it.

These misgivings are a strong undercurrent in a lot of the literature of the interval, even the main ostensibly patriotic works, however it is within the writings on battle via soldier poets the place they're such a lot basically said. Fashioning themselves as servants of either Mars and Mercury (the god of struggle and the god of writing), Elizabethan soldier poets targeted their battle tales at the gritty realities of army campaigning, the associated fee contributors paid for serving the nation, and the problems of returning to civilian existence. The ebook reconsiders a few primary writers like John Donne and Ben Jonson within the context in their army stories and gives complete experiences of a few very important yet underappreciated soldier poets like Thomas Churchyard, George Gascoigne, and John Harington.

By Antony Tatlow

ISBN-10: 0822327538

ISBN-13: 9780822327530

ISBN-10: 0822327635

ISBN-13: 9780822327639

ISBN-10: 0822380897

ISBN-13: 9780822380894

By Dennis Kezar

ISBN-10: 0195142950

ISBN-13: 9780195142952

ISBN-10: 1423762231

ISBN-13: 9781423762232

During this cutting edge and discovered research, Dennis Kezar examines how Renaissance poets conceive the subject matter of killing as a in particular representational and interpretive type of violence. heavily interpreting either significant poets and lesser identified authors of the early sleek interval, Kezar explores the moral self-consciousness and responsibility that attend literary killing, paying specific awareness to the ways that this mirrored image shows the poet's knowing of his viewers. one of several poems in which Kezar explores the idea that of authorial guilt elicited via violent illustration are Skelton's "Phyllyp Sparowe", Spenser's "Faerie Queene", Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", the multi-authored "Witch of Edmonton", and Milton's "Samson Agonistes".

By Shakespeare, William <> - Philosophie; Shakespeare, William <> - Tragédies; Cavell, Stanley; Shakespeare, William

ISBN-10: 0521529204

ISBN-13: 9780521529204

ISBN-10: 0521821894

ISBN-13: 9780521821896

Reissued with a brand new preface and a brand new essay on Macbeth, King Lear, Othello, Coriolanius, Hamlet and The Winter's story, this well-known choice of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers the performs as responses to the drawback of data and the emergence of recent skepticism