Macbeth Multiplied

Macbeth Multiplied
Title Macbeth Multiplied PDF eBook
Author Christoph Clausen
Publisher Rodopi
Pages 286
Release 2005
Genre Art
ISBN 9042018879

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In what sense did Shakespeare's representation of the Weird Sisters participate in the rewriting of village witchcraft? Was it likely to "encourage the Sword"? Did opera's specific medial conditions offer Verdi special opportunities to justify the presence of stage witches more than three centuries later? How valid is the parallel between 19th century opera and the voyeurism of madhouse spectacle? Was Shakespeare's play really engaged in the project of exorcizing Queen Elizabeth's cultural memory? What does Verdi's chorus of Scottish refugees have to do with shifting representations of 'the people'? These are among the questions tackled in this study. It provides the first in-depth comparison of Shakespeare's and Verdi's Macbeth that is written expressly from the perspective of current Shakespearean criticism whilst striving to do justice to the topic's musicological dimension at the same time. Exploring to what extent the play's matrix of possible readings is distinct from Verdi's two operatic versions, the book seeks to relate such differences both to the historical contexts of the works' geneses and to their respective medial conditions. In doing so, it pays particular attention to shifting negotiations of witchcraft, gender, madness, and kingship. The study eventually broadens its discussion to consider other Shakespearean plays and their operatic offshoots, reflecting on some possible relations between historical and medial difference.

Macbeth

Macbeth
Title Macbeth PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Ernst Klett Sprachen
Pages 0
Release 2008
Genre
ISBN 9783125730557

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Macbeth

Macbeth
Title Macbeth PDF eBook
Author Nick Moschovakis
Publisher Routledge
Pages 447
Release 2008-03-03
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1135870888

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This volume offers a wealth of critical analysis, supported with ample historical and bibliographical information about one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular and globally influential plays. Its eighteen new chapters represent a broad spectrum of current scholarly and interpretive approaches, from historicist criticism to performance theory to cultural studies. A substantial section addresses early modern themes, with attention to the protagonists and the discourses of politics, class, gender, the emotions, and the economy, along with discussions of significant ‘minor’ characters and less commonly examined textual passages. Further chapters scrutinize Macbeth’s performance, adaptation and transformation across several media—stage, film, text, and hypertext—in cultural settings ranging from early nineteenth-century England to late twentieth-century China. The editor’s extensive introduction surveys critical, theatrical, and cinematic interpretations from the late seventeenth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, while advancing a synthetic argument to explain the shifting relationship between two conflicting strains in the tragedy’s reception. Written to a level that will be both accessible to advanced undergraduates and, at the same time, useful to post-graduates and specialists in the field, this book will greatly enhance any study of Macbeth. Contributors: Rebecca Lemon, Jonathan Baldo, Rebecca Ann Bach, Julie Barmazel, Abraham Stoll, Lois Feuer, Stephen Deng, Lisa Tomaszewski, Lynne Bruckner, Michael David Fox, James Wells, Laura Engel, Stephen Buhler, Bi-qi Beatrice Lei, Kim Fedderson and J. Michael Richardson, Bruno Lessard, Pamela Mason.

Macbeth

Macbeth
Title Macbeth PDF eBook
Author
Publisher Routledge
Pages 376
Release
Genre
ISBN 1135870896

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Shakespeare Survey: Volume 60, Theatres for Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 60, Theatres for Shakespeare
Title Shakespeare Survey: Volume 60, Theatres for Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Peter Holland
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 370
Release 2007-11-22
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 052187839X

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Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. The theme for Shakespeare Survey 60 is 'Theatres for Shakespeare'.

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Twentieth-Century Actress

Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Twentieth-Century Actress
Title Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies, Twentieth-Century Actress PDF eBook
Author Helen Grime
Publisher Routledge
Pages 301
Release 2015-10-06
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 1317320948

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Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies is a paradox; a famous actress whose career spanned most of the twentieth century she is now largely forgotten. Drawing on material held in Ffrangcon-Davies's personal archive, Grime argues that the representation of the actress, on and off the stage, can be read in terms of its constructions of normative female behaviours.

The Tragedy of Macbeth

The Tragedy of Macbeth
Title The Tragedy of Macbeth PDF eBook
Author William Shakespeare
Publisher
Pages 260
Release 1916
Genre Drama
ISBN

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The classic Arden editions of Shakespeare's best-loved plays have been specially selected for the collector and theater-goer in a handsomely produced Playgoer's edition. With the full Arden text, as edited by an established scholar for the second series of Arden Shakespeare editions plus an authoritative introduction and a wealth of helpful and incisive explanatory notes on the same page as the text, Arden Playgoer's bring Shakespeare's dramas to life. They are sewn in simulated leather with decorative gold blocking on the spine and the cover, with a ribbon page marker (includes jacket).