Category: Shakespeare

By Coppélia Kahn

Within the first full-length learn of Shakespeare's Roman performs, Copp?lia Kahn brings to those texts a startling, severe point of view which interrogates the gender ideologies lurking at the back of 'Roman virtue'. performs featured comprise: * Titus Andronicus * Julius Caesar * Antony and Cleopatra * Coriolanus * Cymbeline atmosphere the Roman works within the twin context of the preferred theatre and Renaissance humanism, the writer identifies new resources which she analyzes from a historicised feminist point of view. Roman Shakespeare is written in an available variety and may attract students and scholars of Shakespeare and people attracted to feminist thought, in addition to classicists.

By Carol Chillington Rutter

Enter the Body bargains a chain of provocative case reviews of the paintings women's our bodies do on Shakespeare's intensely body-conscious level. Rutter's subject matters are intercourse, demise, race, gender, tradition, politics, and the over the top performative physique that exceeds the playtext it inhabits. in addition to drawing upon very important basic records from Shakespeare's day, Rutter bargains shut readings of women's performance's on degree and picture in Britian this day, from Peggy Ashcroft's (white) Cleopatra and Whoopi Goldberg's (whiteface) African Queen to Sally Dexter's languorous Helen and Alan Howard's raver 'Queen' of Troy.

By Thomas Hallock, Ivo Kamps, Karen L. Raber (eds.)

The essays during this quantity interrogate the original and sometimes complicated courting among early sleek cultural reports and ecocriticism, delivering theoretical insights and versions for a destiny perform that effectively wed the 2 disciplines.

By Neil Corcoran

Shakespeare is an enormous impact on poets writing in English, however the dynamics of that impression within the 20th century have by no means been as heavily analysed as they're during this vital research. greater than an account of the ways that Shakespeare is figured in either the poetry and the severe prose of contemporary poets, this booklet offers a provocative new view of poetic interrelationship. targeting W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath, Neil Corcoran uncovers the relationships - combative in addition to sympathetic - among those poets themselves as they're intertwined of their engagements with Shakespeare. Corcoran deals many enlightening shut readings, totally alert to modern theoretical debates. This unique learn of impact and reception superbly screens the character of poetic impact - either one of Shakespeare at the 20th century, and between sleek poets as they reply to Shakespeare.

By James L. Calderwood

James L. Calderwood is definitely one of the liveliest and so much insightful Shakespearean critics writing this day. during this ebook, he deals a longer meditation on Othello, utilising the idea that of estate as a fashion of studying the play.

According to Calderwood, estate strains in Shakespeare's Venice divide girls from males, black from white, outsiders from insiders, barbaric Turks from civilized Christians, land from funds, and monologue from discussion. such a lot of all, those traces draw a magic circle round the idealized id of the Moor. utilising theorists comparable to Bakhtin and Lacan, Calderwood demonstrates Othello's semiotics of self - as possessive self-capitalizer of an inviolate "I" and marital capitalist who tags Desdemona with a private "mine" that is helping materialize and reflect his internal worth. but less than the ministrations of Shakespeare and Iago, estate dissolves the limits it attracts among internal and outer, self and different, proprietor and owned. Chapters on barbarism and the evils of the Aristocracy, the prestige of ladies, the function of iterance in defining and destroying identities, and the mediating metadramatics of Iago recommend how the economic institutions of estate - possession, funding, trade, alienation - not just tell the motion of Othello yet show its creative houses in addition.

By Colin Butler

By Robert Weimann

Robert Weimann redefines the connection among writing and function, or "playing," in Shakespeare's theater. via shut examining and cautious research Weimann deals a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan functionality and creation practices. The learn reports the newest methodologies of textual scholarship, the recent historical past of the Elizabethan theater, functionality thought, and picture and video interpretation, and gives a brand new method of realizing Shakespeare. Weimann examines various performs in addition to different modern works. an enormous a part of the examine explores the duality among taking part in and writing.

By Barnard Stephen

This quantity bargains a concise and thorough advent to radio broadcasting as a space of research, putting radio in a old and modern media context and tracing the advance and daily operation of the medium from the point of view of its associations, it practitioners and its viewers. It focuses not just at the associations of radio and the ways that programming is created and formed yet at the challenging factor of the way the fabric is acquired and utilized by its listeners. Drawing on numerous educational methods, this article surveys radio progamming via its major genres and the editorial practices that tell track choice and information insurance specifically; the language and elegance of radio programming; the ideology at the back of radio's simple promise of companionship and break out; and the way and why radio output dovetails so heavily with operating and rest styles.

By Hugh Grady

This in-depth selection of essays strains the altering reception of Shakespeare during the last 400 years, within which time Shakespeare has variously been obvious because the final nice exponent of pre-modern Western tradition, a vital inaugurator of modernity, and a prophet of postmodernity. This clean examine Shakespeare's performs is a crucial contribution to the revival of the assumption of 'modernity' and the way we periodise ourselves, and Shakespeare, at the start of a brand new millennium.

By Gordon Baldwin

Roger Fentons photo Pasha and Bayadére is an engaging photo in its personal correct and is an expression of a extra basic Orientalist craze that grew progressively more suitable in the course of the 19th century in Europe. In his wealthy and unique learn, Baldwin explains how this snapshot of a seated guy and a dancing girl embodies subject matters and motifs that may be present in the paintings of nineteenth-century artists from Eugéne Delacroix to John Frederick Lewis to Alfred Lord Tennyson. He has additionally delivered to mild major new information regarding the lifestyles and profession of Fenton, the $64000 Victorian photographer most sensible identified for his photos of the Crimean warfare.