Shakespeare

This book, first published in 1985, explores the consciousness and the experience of Shakespeare’s audience. First describing the stage’s physical impact, Ralph Berry then goes on to explore the social or tribal consciousness of the audience in certain plays. The title finishes by examining the masq..

Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland..

Peter Platt here examines Renaissance culture through the lens of paradox. Specifically, he analyzes paradoxes surrounding geography, equity law, and the acting in and witnessing of the Elizabethan-Jacobean theater itself. In showing that Shakespeare's plays create and are created by a culture of ..

Using the tools of theatre history in their investigation into the phenomenology of the performance experience, the essays here also consider the social, ideological and institutional contingencies that determine the production and reception of the living spectacle. The contributors strive to bring..

This fascinating volume brings together Renaissance and eighteenth-century scholars who examine how Shakespeare gradually penetrated, and came to dominate, the culture and intellectual life of people in the English-speaking world. Approaching Shakespeare from a wide range of perspectives, including ..

This fascinating volume brings together Renaissance and eighteenth-century scholars who examine how Shakespeare gradually penetrated, and came to dominate, the culture and intellectual life of people in the English-speaking world. Approaching Shakespeare from a wide range of perspectives, including ..

Shakespeare and the Future of Theory convenes internationally renowned Shakespeare scholars, and scholars of the Early Modern period, and presents, discusses, and evaluates the most recent research and information concerning the future of theory in relation to Shakespeare’s corpus. Original in its a..

Brought to light in this study is a connection between the treatment of war in Shakespeare's plays, and the issue of the 'just war', which loomed large both in religious and in lay treatises of Shakespeare's time. The book re-reads Shakespeare's representations of war in light of both the changing ..

As contributors to this volume prove, Shakespeare’s language of the self relies on descriptions of and reactions to facial expressions and features. An analysis of Shakespeare’s treatment of faces has implications for our understanding of the context in which he wrote, and for the ongoing interpreta..

Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation addresses fundamental questions about the process of mediation, making use of the fraught category of adaptation to explore how we currently understand the Shakespearean work. Margaret Jane Kidnie argues that ‘play’ and ‘adaptation’ are provisional categorie..

Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation addresses fundamental questions about the process of mediation, making use of the fraught category of adaptation to explore how we currently understand the Shakespearean work. Margaret Jane Kidnie argues that ‘play’ and ‘adaptation’ are provisional categorie..

This challenging and lively volume contains essays by Stephen Greenblatt, Elaine Showalter, Jonathan Goldberg, Stanley Cavell, Robert Weimann, Margaret Fergusson, Howard Felperin and many others...