This volume introduces a fresh exploration of Classical literature, examining its engagement with personal or collective tragedy, horrific events, and fear-inflicting episodes. It explores the different ways fear, terror, and horror have been manife...Loe edasi...
Late Shakespeare and the English Baroque focuses mainly on Shakespeares late (or later) works, those written from around 1607. It sets both poetry and plays within the emerging culture of the baroque, the term defined not merely by stylistic feature...Loe edasi...
Through analysis of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and Cavendish, the author reveals how this reconceptualized selfhood offered ecological benefits by valuing human rational capacities while maintaining environmental connection....Loe edasi...
Combining early modern historiography with critical race and performance studies, Masquing Blackness offers a historically-contextualized examination of the mechanics of blackness in Shakespeares The Tempest....Loe edasi...
Laughter, Power, and the Unconscious presents groundbreaking research on humors psychological and sociopolitical aspects. Based on Shakespeares Globe experiments, it proposes humor as manic defence, challenging Freudian theory while examining Re...Loe edasi...
This book highlights the stories of women from premodern history and literature through models of adaptations, retellings, and criticism such as poems, plays, and essays. In reviving these voices from the background, it widens the appeal and accessi...Loe edasi...
Acting Heightened Text: The Basics offers a foundational understanding of heightened text in drama, fused with a truthful, contemporary approach to acting....Loe edasi...
This book is the accumulation of the many Clues from the First Folio of Shakespeares plays (as opposed to any edited version) that help to inform contemporary performances and offers a complete understanding of the text....Loe edasi...
This book considers how Shakespeares theatre investigates and reveals Being-in-the-world. Through the lens of phenomenology, the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience, Johnston examines how Shakespeares texts and dramaturgy rev...Loe edasi...
This updated and revised edition of Shakespeares Heartbeat offers a step-by-step guide detailing how to demonstrate, play and perform sensory games based on two of Shakespeares most popular plays with autistic people of all ages....Loe edasi...
This volume celebrates the centrality of clowning to Shakespeares conception of theatre and how he purposefully invites the clowns anarchic energy into the heart of his dramaturgy....Loe edasi...
Shakespeare in Tongues interrogates the popular conflation of the language of Shakespeare with English by examining the role Shakespeares works have played in overlapping histories of colonialism, slavery, and migration that continue to shape the li...Loe edasi...
This new examination of Shakespeares four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra) revisits Shakespeares dramatic recreations of ancient Rome in the light of considerations of place....Loe edasi...
In the modern world, references to Shakespeare frequently mark moments of catastrophe and of the longing for restoring social order. Drawing on cases from around the world, this book interrogates the idea that performing or reading Shakespeare has s...Loe edasi...
Strategic Shakespeare demonstrates the value of humanities-trained scholars as leaders in higher education. It features contributions from Renaissance and Shakespearean scholars, who collectively aim to leverage traditional assumptions about Shakesp...Loe edasi...
Ineffable Bodies focuses on early modern heroism in drama through the notion of ineffability in order to define new dramatic forms. Drawing from Vladimir Jankélévitchs studies on the ineffable, the book focuses on heroic bodies on the early modern s...Loe edasi...
Shakespeare in the Age of Mass Incarceration brings together theatre artists, currently and formerly incarcerated actors, and college-in-prison educators and students, describing powerful encounters in classrooms and rehearsal rooms as they explore...Loe edasi...
Shakespeares Exiles addresses fundamental ethical, political, and anthropological questions by looking at two of Shakespeares most eccentric big men....Loe edasi...
This book explores the diverse means by which Shakespeares poetry enriches his drama, illustrating how particular words in a particular order render his dialogue distinctive and create supreme literary and dramatic value....Loe edasi...
