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Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum

Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum

First published in 1991 Shakespeare in the Changing Curriculum provides a context for debates about the place of Shakespeare within the English curriculum in the 1990s and examines the possibilities in teaching Shakespeare afforded by the application of contemporary critical approaches such as communication cultural and gender studies in the classroom and seminar room. The collection will be of particular to interest to sixth-form students secondary school teachers teacher trainers and students and lecturers in further and higher education.

GBP 105.00
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Hermeneutic Shakespeare

Hermeneutic Shakespeare

This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition providing insight into the foundations theories and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare. Central to this research this volume investigates fundamental questions including: what is philosophical hermeneutics why philosophical hermeneutics what do literary and cultural hermeneutics do and in what ways can literary and cultural hermeneutics benefit the interpretation of Shakespearean plays? Hermeneutic Shakespeare guides the reader through two main discussions. Beginning with the understanding of Philosophical Hermeneutics and the general principles of literary and cultural hermeneutics the volume includes philosophers such as Friedrich Ast Daniel Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey as well as Ludwig Wittgenstein Martin Heidegger Hans-Georg Gadamer and more recently Steven Connor. Part Two of this volume applies universal principles of philosophical hermeneutics to explicate the historical philosophical acquired and applied literary interpretations through the critical practices of Shakespeare’s plays or their adaptations including Henry V The Merchant of Venice Hamlet and The Comedy of Errors. Aimed at scholars and students alike this volume aims to contribute to contemporary understanding of Shakespeare and literature hermeneutics. Chapters 2 5 and 6 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www. routledge. com. They have been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4. 0 license. Funded by Guangdong University of Foreign Studies.

GBP 120.00
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Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism The Bard and the Raj

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism The Bard and the Raj

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ambivalent approach to the Indian Renaissance and consequent nationalist project. Showcasing the cultural politics of British imperialism this volume focuses on six early nationalist writers and their engagement with Shakespeare: Ishwarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Hemchandra Bandopadhay (1838–1903) Girishchandra Ghosh (1844–1912) Purnachandra Basu (1844–unknown) Iswarchandra Vidyasagar (1820–1891) Bankimchandra Chattopadhaya(1838–1894) and Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941). Drawing on Antonio Gramsci’s theory of hegemony and a host of prominent writers of cultural politics nationalism and Indian history this interdisciplinary approach combines postcolonial studies and Shakespeare studies in an attempt to reconcile the existence of an unbridled admiration for an English cultural icon in India alongside the rise of nationalism and a fierce resistance to British rule. The book finally moves to re-explore Shakespeare's position in academic political and popular nationalist discourses in postcolonial India. | Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism The Bard and the Raj

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Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others Finding the Heart of the Play

Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others Finding the Heart of the Play

Sidney Homan defines a pivotal line as “a moment in the script that serves as a pathway into the larger play … a magnet to which the rest of the play scenes before and after adheres. ” He offers his personal choices of such lines in five plays by Shakespeare and works by Beckett Brecht Pinter Shepard and Stoppard. Drawing on his own experience in the theatre as actor and director and on campus as a teacher and scholar he pairs a Shakespearean play with one by a modern playwright as mirrors for each other. One reviewer calls his approach “ground-breaking. ” Another observes that his “experience with the particular plays he has chosen is invaluable” since it allows us to find “a wedge into such iconic texts. ” Academics and students alike will find this volume particularly useful in aiding their own discovery of a pivotal line or moment in the experience of reading about watching or performing in a play. | Pivotal Lines in Shakespeare and Others Finding the Heart of the Play

GBP 130.00
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Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition Shakespeare Donne Herbert and Milton

Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition Shakespeare Donne Herbert and Milton

This volume adds a new dimension to authorship studies by linking the editorial tradition to the transformative reception of early modern authors and their works across time. Aleida Auld argues that the editorial tradition provides privileged access to the reception of early modern literature informing our understanding of certain reconfigurations and sometimes helping to produce them between their time and our own. At stake are reconfigurations of oeuvre and authorship the relationship between the author and work the relationship between authors and the author’s own role in establishing an editorial tradition. Ultimately this study recognizes that the editorial tradition is a stabilizing force while asserting that it may also be a source of strange and provocative reconceptions of early modern authors and their works in the present day. Scholars and students of early modern literature will benefit from this approach to editing as a form of reception that encompasses all the editorial decisions that are necessary to ‘put forth’ a text. | Early Modern Authorship and the Editorial Tradition Shakespeare Donne Herbert and Milton

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The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Special Section Pericles Prince of Tyre

The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Special Section Pericles Prince of Tyre

This year publishing its twentieth volume The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time across the whole spectrum of his literary output. Contributions are solicited from scholars across the field from both hemispheres of the globe. New trends are evaluated from the point of view of established scholarship and emerging work in the field is encouraged. Each issue includes a special section under the guidance of a specialist Guest Editor along with coverage of the current state of the field in other aspects. An essential reference tool for scholars of early modern literature and culture this annual publication captures from year to year current and developing thought in Shakespeare scholarship and theater practice worldwide. There is a particular emphasis on Shakespeare studies in global contexts. | The Shakespearean International Yearbook 20: Special Section Pericles Prince of Tyre

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The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

Just as concerts emerge from the interaction of many instruments so our understanding of Shakespeare is enriched by different approaches to him. Psychoanalysis assumes that creative writers have the need to both reveal and conceal their own inner conflicts in their works. They leave residues in their works that if we pay attention can become building blocks that reveal aspects of the unconscious. Readers may find that the questions raised add to the pleasure of reading Shakespeare and that they deepens their understanding of his plays. Topics covered include the pivotal position of Hamlet the poet and his calling the Oedipus complex intrapsychic conflict the battle against paranoia and the homosexual compromise. By using psychoanalytic techniques in analyzing his plays and characters the author reveals more about Shakespeare's hidden motivations and mental health. | The Unconscious in Shakespeare's Plays

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Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory Vice Virtue and Spoilt Children

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory Vice Virtue and Spoilt Children

Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory posits three startling points: that we have today forgotten a cultural icon that helped to bring about the Renaissance; that this character used to distil classical wisdom regarding how to raise children to become moral adults consistently appeared in plays performed between 1350 and 1650; and that the character was often utilised by the likes of Shakespeare and Ben Jonson and therefore adds a long-forgotten allegorical narrative to their works. This evidence-based reappraisal of some of the most iconic works in Western literature suggests that a core element of their content has been ‘lost’ for centuries. This text will appeal to anyone with an interest in late medieval and early modern drama especially the works of Shakespeare; to those interested in the history of teaching and child-rearing; to anyone curious about the practical application of philosophy in society; to anyone that would like to know more about the crucial and defining period today known as the Renaissance and how and why society was redesigned by those with influence; and to all those who would like to know more about how history which though sometimes misplaced continues to influenced our modern world. | Shakespeare’s Forgotten Allegory Vice Virtue and Spoilt Children

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Latin Biography

Latin Biography

First published in 1967 Latin Biography contains chapters on Nepos Plutarch and Suetonius the three best-known Classical biographers. There are also accounts of the less-familiar works of Q. Curtius Rufus and the author – or authors – of the Historia Augusta and three chapters deal with the development of Latin biography in the Middle Ages. The Middle Ages were indebted to Suetonius Shakespeare to Plutarch Gibbon to the Historia Augusta. Since the Renaissance their methods have gradually been superseded by a more critical and scientific approach but the ancient biographers can always claim the credit for having established biography as a major form of literature. This book will be of interest to students of literature and classical studies.

GBP 90.00
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Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England

Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England

Taking as its focus an age of transformational development in cartographic history namely the two centuries between Columbus’s arrival in the New World and the emergence of the Scientific Revolution this study examines how maps were employed as physical and symbolic objects by thinkers writers and artists. It surveys how early modern people used the map as an object whether for enjoyment or political campaigning colonial invasion or teaching in the classroom. Exploring a wide range of literature from educational manifestoes to the plays of Marlowe and Shakespeare it suggests that the early modern map was as diverse and various as the rich culture from which it emerged and was imbued with a whole range of political social literary and personal impulses. Intellectual and Imaginative Cartographies in Early Modern England 1550-1700 will appeal to all those interested in the History of Cartography

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Mysticism in the Theater What’s Needed Right Now

Mysticism in the Theater What’s Needed Right Now

Mysticism in the Theater introduces theater makers to the power and possibility of using historical mystical ideas to influence all aspects of a production. Historical mysticism represents ideas developed by recognized spiritual thinkers in all religions and time periods: individuals who stilled their ego and perceived the unity of all hidden within the apparent multiplicity of existence. This unique manner of spiritual inlay allows theatrical presentations to find the height of artistic expression: art at the intersection of our historical moment and the eternal. This study introduces theater makers to the history of mystical inspiration within performance work and develops strategies for inserting mystical ideas into their productions. The book ties this model into theatre’s history as mystical ideas and quotes have been inserted into productions from Greek theatre through Shakespeare and into the present day. This book explores how teachings and ideas of specific historical mystical thinkers might influence all aspects of contemporary theatrical productions including writing directing acting stagecraft/set design lighting design costume design sound design and choreography. | Mysticism in the Theater What’s Needed Right Now

GBP 130.00
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Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

Approaching from bibliographical literary cultural and intercultural perspectives this book establishes the importance of Hesperides or the Muses’ Garden a largely unexplored manuscript commonplace book to early modern English literature and culture in general. Hesperides or the Muses’ Garden is a seventeenth-century manuscript commonplace book known primarily for its Shakespearean connections which extracts works by dozens of early modern English authors including Shakespeare Bacon Ben Jonson and Milton. This book sheds light on the broader significance of Hesperides that refashions our full knowledge of early modern authorship and plagiarism composition reading practice and canon formation. Following two introductory chapters are three topical chapters which respectively discuss plagiarism and early modern English writing early modern English reading practice and early modern English canon formation. The final chapter further expands the field to ancient China comparing commonplace books with Chinese leishu exploring Matteo Ricci’s cross-cultural commonplace writing and re-reading Shakespeare’s sonnets in light of Ricci’s On Friendship. The solid book will serve as a must read for scholars and students of early modern English literature manuscript study commonplace books history of the book and intercultural study. | Commonplace Reading and Writing in Early Modern England and Beyond

GBP 130.00
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Shakespeare’s Politic Histories The Italian Connection

Shakespeare’s Politic Histories The Italian Connection

This book posits that Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy draws inspiration from the Italian “politic histories” of the early modern period. These works of history influenced by the Roman historian Tacitus delve into the exploration of the machinations of power politics in governance and the shaping of historical events. The argument is that closely analysing these Italian “politic histories” can significantly enhance our understanding of the “politic” aspects dramatized in Shakespeare’s early English History plays. Specifically the writings of Niccolo Machiavelli are highlighted as contributing to this understanding. These “politic histories” were accessible (in a variety of forms) to many English early modern writers including Shakespeare. Thus they serve as foundation for political and strategic analogies enriching our interpretation of Shakespeare’s politic histories. While delving into the Italian “politic” historians can illuminate Shakespeare’s achievement it is suggested that we should regard the English History plays as “politic histories” in their own right. In essence they are dramatized versions of precisely the same kinds of “politic” historical writing with its emphasis on ragion di Stato or raison d’état. This emphasis on what the Elizabethans called “stratagems” introduces new approaches to interpreting the plays. Considering the motivation and action of its characters entails novel approaches that challenge the established reading of the plays’ ‘Machiavellian’ characters (particularly Richard III) and shed light on previously overlooked characters (particularly Buckingham and Stanley) revealing their considerably greater strategic acumen. This exploration provides fresh avenues for reading the Shakespeare’s politic histories and better appreciate their Italian connection. | Shakespeare’s Politic Histories The Italian Connection

GBP 145.00
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Prepossessing Henry James The Strange Freedom

Prepossessing Henry James The Strange Freedom

The novels of Henry James are filled with ghosts but most of them escape dramatic treatment. These elusive specters are the voices of precursors that haunt his narratives compromising their constitutive freedom. The Strange Freedom is an examination of the ways James’s fiction is prepossessed by some major voices of the English literary tradition: those of Shakespeare Richardson Fielding Gibbon Thackeray and Dickens. This subtextual arrogation sets constrains to the unfolding in James’s narratives of liberal and romantic freedom—it places limits both to the absolute exemptions of aesthetic interest and to radical Bohemian abandon. But these constrains and limits can be regarded dialectically as the enabling conditions of the very liberty they imperil. Drawing on recent research on the spectral dynamics and indirections of literary influence by scholars like Adrian Poole Philip Horne Nicola Bradbury Tamara Follini and Peter Rawlings but also on earlier deconstructive work by John Carlos Rowe Prepossessing Henry James offers a speculative account of the way James is simultaneously resourced and restrained by his sources. Along the way we discover how Hamlet’s ghost instills in James a fantasy of mental autonomy or how he adapts Gibbon’s Enlightened narrative to inhibit civic liberty with images of female sacrifice. We see the governess in The Turn of the Screw possessed by the specter of Richardson’s Pamela exposing social freedoms with liberal brutality. We encounter Gray in The Ivory Tower striving to obtain personal freedom by repressing Dickensian figures monstruous fantastic. And finally we recognize how much The Ambassadors owes to the ambiguous manner of Thackeray. Chapter 3 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4. 0 license. | Prepossessing Henry James The Strange Freedom

GBP 130.00
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The Elizabethan World Picture

The Elizabethan World Picture

This illuminating account of ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan Age and later is an indispensable companion for readers of the great writers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatists Donne and Milton among many others. The basic medieval idea of an ordered Chain of Being is studied by Tillyard in the process of its various transformations by the dynamic spirit of the Renaissance. Among his topics are: Angels; the Stars and Fortune; the Analogy between Macrocosm and Microcosm; the Four Elements; the Four Humors; Sympathies; Correspondences; and the Cosmic Dance ideas and symbols that inspirited the imaginations not only of the Elizabethans but also of the Renaissance as such. This idea of cosmic order was one of the genuine ruling ideas of the Elizabethan Age and perhaps the most characteristic. Such ideas like our everyday manners are the least disputed and the least paraded in the creative literature of the time. The province of this book is some of the notions about the world and man that were quite frequently taken for granted by the ordinary educated Elizabethan; the commonplaces too familiar for the poets to make detailed use of except in explicitly educational passages but essential as basic assumptions and invaluable at moments of high passion. The objective of The Elizabethan World Picture is to extract and explain the most ordinary beliefs about the constitution of the world as pictured in the Elizabethan Age and through this exposition to help the ordinary reader to understand and to enjoy the great writers of the age. In attempting this Tillyard has brought together a number of pieces of elementary lore. This classic text is a convenient factual aid to extant interpretations of some of Spenser Donne or Milton.

GBP 145.00
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