Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare
Title | Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Christy Desmet |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2017-11-09 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 3319633007 |
This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once “be” and “not be” Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or have difficulty finding him where he is named. Douglas Lanier’s “Shakespearean rhizome,” which co-opts Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of artistic relations as rhizomes (a spreading, growing network that sprawls horizontally to defy hierarchies of origin and influence) is fundamental to this exploration. Essays discuss the fine line between “Shakespeare” and “not Shakespeare” through a number of critical lenses—networks and pastiches, memes and echoes, texts and paratexts, celebrities and afterlives, accidents and intertexts—and include a wide range of examples: canonical plays by Shakespeare, historical figures, celebrities, television performances and adaptations, comics, anime appropriations, science fiction novels, blockbuster films, gangster films, Shakesploitation and teen films, foreign language films, and non-Shakespearean classic films.
Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare
Title | Shakespeare / Not Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Christy Desmet |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-11-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 9783319632995 |
This essay collection addresses the paradox that something may at once “be” and “not be” Shakespeare. This phenomenon can be a matter of perception rather than authorial intention: audiences may detect Shakespeare where the author disclaims him or have difficulty finding him where he is named. Douglas Lanier’s “Shakespearean rhizome,” which co-opts Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of artistic relations as rhizomes (a spreading, growing network that sprawls horizontally to defy hierarchies of origin and influence) is fundamental to this exploration. Essays discuss the fine line between “Shakespeare” and “not Shakespeare” through a number of critical lenses—networks and pastiches, memes and echoes, texts and paratexts, celebrities and afterlives, accidents and intertexts—and include a wide range of examples: canonical plays by Shakespeare, historical figures, celebrities, television performances and adaptations, comics, anime appropriations, science fiction novels, blockbuster films, gangster films, Shakesploitation and teen films, foreign language films, and non-Shakespearean classic films.
Contested Will
Title | Contested Will PDF eBook |
Author | James Shapiro |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 356 |
Release | 2011-04-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1416541632 |
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Shakespeare, Not Stirred
Title | Shakespeare, Not Stirred PDF eBook |
Author | Caroline Bicks |
Publisher | TarcherPerigee |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2015-09 |
Genre | Cooking |
ISBN | 0399173005 |
Two professors mix equal parts booze and Bard to help you through your everyday dramas. It's like having Shakespeare right there in your living room, downing a great drink and putting your crappy day in perspective.
Shakespeare Beyond Doubt
Title | Shakespeare Beyond Doubt PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Edmondson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2013-04-18 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1107017599 |
Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.
This Is Shakespeare
Title | This Is Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Emma Smith |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 263 |
Release | 2020-03-31 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1524748552 |
An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn’t tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith—an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer—takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities.
Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Title | Who Wrote Shakespeare? PDF eBook |
Author | John Michell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780500281130 |
Reprinted from 1st pbk. ed., published in 1999. Originally published in hardcover in 1996.