Shakespeare In The New Europe
Title | Shakespeare In The New Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Boika Sokolova |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 402 |
Release | 2015-12-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1474247571 |
Shakespeare is the national poet of many nations besides his own, though a peculiarly subversive one in both east and west. This volume contains a score of essays by scholars from Britain, Bulgaria, Croatia, Germany, Poland, Romania, Spain, Ukraine and the USA, written to show how the momentous changes of 1989 were mirrored in the way Shakespeare has been interpreted and produced. The collection offers a valuable record of what Shakespeare has meant in the modern world and some pointers to what he may mean in the future.
Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe
Title | Four Hundred Years of Shakespeare in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Angel-Luis Pujante |
Publisher | University of Delaware Press |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780874138122 |
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Shakespeare And Renaissance Europe
Title | Shakespeare And Renaissance Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hadfield |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2014-05-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1408143690 |
This collection of essays explores the diverse ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries experienced and imagined Europe. The book charts the aspects of European politics and culture which interested Renaissance travellers, thus mapping the context within which Shakespeare's plays with European settings would have been received. Chapters cover the politics of continental Europe, the representation of foreigners on the English stage, the experiences of English travellers abroad, Shakespeare's reading of modern European literature, the influence of Italian comedy, his presentation of Moors from Europe's southern frontier, and his translation of Europe into settings for his plays.
Shakespeare in the New Europe
Title | Shakespeare in the New Europe PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Europe, Eastern |
ISBN | 9781474285278 |
Othello in European Culture
Title | Othello in European Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Elena Bandín Fuertes |
Publisher | |
Pages | 275 |
Release | 2022-06-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789027211026 |
This volume argues that a focus on the European reception of Othello represents an important contribution to critical work on the play. The chapters in this volume examine non-anglophone translations and performances, alternative ways of distinguishing between texts, adaptations and versions, as well as differing perspectives on questions of gender and race. Additionally, a European perspective raises key political questions about power and representation in terms of who speaks for and about Othello, within a European context profoundly divided over questions of immigration, religious, ethnic, gender and sexual difference. The volume illustrates the ways in which Othello has been not only a stimulus but also a challenge for European Shakespeares. It makes clear that the history of the play is inseparable from histories of race, religion and gender and that many engagements with the play have reinforced rather than challenged the social and political prejudices of the period.
Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe
Title | Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew Hiscock |
Publisher | |
Pages | 302 |
Release | 2022-02-02 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1108905978 |
Shakespeare, Violence and Early Modern Europe broadens our understanding of the final years of the last Tudor monarch, revealing the truly international context in which they must be understood. Uncovering the extent to which Shakespeare's dramatic art intersected with European politics, Andrew Hiscock brings together close readings of the history plays, compelling insights into late Elizabethan political culture and renewed attention to neglected continental accounts of Elizabeth I. With fresh perspective, the book charts the profound influence that Shakespeare and ambitious courtiers had upon succeeding generations of European writers, dramatists and audiences following the turn of the sixteenth century. Informed by early modern and contemporary cultural debate, this book demonstrates how the study of early modern violence can illuminate ongoing crises of interpretation concerning brutality, victimization and complicity today.
Shakespeare in Europe
Title | Shakespeare in Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Marta Gibińska |
Publisher | |
Pages | 342 |
Release | 2006-06-22 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9788323324669 |
The essays collected in the present volume are the result of a long-term project. An international group of scholars addressed questions connected with the relation of the changing concepts of history and the status of history in Shakespearean plays in reading and in actual representation on the stage. Especially interesting aspects of the research deal with the transposition of the time and place of Shakespeare's plays to the time and place of their reception within the context of historical awareness; equally fascinating are the studies which up the perspectives of the medieval and Renaissance contexts. Memory and how in operates (or how we operate it) turns out to be an indispensable complement to the research on the literary and dramatic representation of history. The variety of problems and aspects tackled here opens up interesting insights into the diversity of experience of and reflection on history and representation of history in Shakespeare's plays.