Shakespeare's Letters

Shakespeare's Letters
Title Shakespeare's Letters PDF eBook
Author Alan Stewart
Publisher OUP Oxford
Pages 423
Release 2008-11-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0191563560

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Shakespeare's plays are stuffed with letters - 111 appear on stage in all but five of his dramas. But for modern actors, directors, and critics they are frequently an awkward embarrassment. Alan Stewart shows how and why Shakespeare put letters on stage in virtually all of his plays. By reconstructing the very different uses to which letters were put in Shakespeare's time, and recapturing what it meant to write, send, receive, read, and archive a letter, it throws new light on some of his most familiar dramas. Early modern letters were not private missives sent through an anonymous postal system, but a vital - sometimes the only - means of maintaining contact and sending news between distant locations. Penning a letter was a serious business in a period when writers made their own pen and ink; letter-writing protocols were strict; letters were dispatched by personal messengers or carriers, often received and read in public - and Shakespeare exploited all these features to dramatic effect. Surveying the vast range of letters in Shakespeare's oeuvre, the book also features sustained new readings of Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice and Henry IV Part One.

The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare

The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare
Title The Lost Letters of William Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Terry Tamminen
Publisher
Pages
Release 2018-09
Genre
ISBN 9780999736807

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Adaptation of newly-discovered letters that may have been written by William Shakespeare and have never before been published. He writes of his journey from country youth to celebrated London playwright and some astonishing events along the way, including an attempt to travel to the Americas to seek his fortune and a love affair with a remarkable woman of Jewish descent.

Shakespeare Revealed in Oxford's Letters

Shakespeare Revealed in Oxford's Letters
Title Shakespeare Revealed in Oxford's Letters PDF eBook
Author William Plumer Fowler
Publisher
Pages 920
Release 1986
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN

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Shakespeare through Letters

Shakespeare through Letters
Title Shakespeare through Letters PDF eBook
Author David M. Bergeron
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Pages 255
Release 2020-10-14
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1793631697

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In Shakespeare through Letters, David M. Bergeron analyzes the letters found within Shakespeare’s comedies, histories, and tragedies, arguing that the letters offer the principal intertextual element in the plays as text in their own right. Bergeron posits that Shakespeare’s theater itself exists at the intersection of oral and textual culture, which the letters also exhibit as they represent writing, reading, and interpretation in a way that audiences would be familiar with, in contrast with the illustrious culture of kings, queens, and warriors. This book demonstrates that the letters, profound or perfunctory, constitute texts that warrant interpretation even as they remain material stage props, impacting narrative development, revealing character, and enhancing the play’s tone. Scholars of literature, theater, and history will find this book particularly useful.

Shakespeare and Complexity Theory

Shakespeare and Complexity Theory
Title Shakespeare and Complexity Theory PDF eBook
Author Claire Hansen
Publisher Taylor & Francis
Pages 235
Release 2017-06-27
Genre Art
ISBN 1315265524

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Shakespeare and Complexity Theory is the first book-length examination into how complexity theory may be incorporated within Shakespeare studies. The book demonstrates how complexity theory can illuminate our understanding of Shakespeare’s texts, early modern theatrical practices (from dance to co-authorship to stagecraft), pedagogy, and Shakespeare’s canonical place in contemporary culture. In its implementation of a scientific framework, this monograph taps into an area of increasing academic and research interest: the relationship between the sciences and the humanities.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy
Title The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy PDF eBook
Author Heather Hirschfeld
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 593
Release 2018-09-06
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0191043451

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Comedy offers critical and contemporary resources for studying Shakespeare's comic enterprises. It engages with perennial, yet still urgent questions raised by the comedies and looks at them from a range of new perspectives that represent the most recent methodological approaches to Shakespeare, genre, and early modern drama. Several chapters take up firmly established topics of inquiry such Shakespeare's source materials, gender and sexuality, hetero- and homoerotic desire, race, and religion, and they reformulate these topics in the materialist, formalist, phenomenological, or revisionist terms of current scholarship and critical debate. Others explore subjects that have only relatively recently become pressing concerns for sustained scholarly interrogation, such as ecology, cross-species interaction, and humoral theory. Some contributions, informed by increasingly sophisticated approaches to the material conditions and embodied experience of theatrical practice, speak to a resurgence of interest in performance, from Shakespeare's period through the first decades of the twenty-first century. Others still investigate distinct sets of plays from unexpected and often polemical angles, noting connections between the comedies under inventive, unpredicted banners such as the theology of adultery, early modern pedagogy, global exploration, or monarchical rule. The Handbook situates these approaches against the long history of criticism and provides a valuable overview of the most up-to-date work in the field.

Shakespearean Inside

Shakespearean Inside
Title Shakespearean Inside PDF eBook
Author Marcus Nordlund
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Pages 256
Release 2016-12-05
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 1474418988

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The Shakespearean Inside is a study of all soliloquies and solo asides (dubbed "e;insides"e; for short) in Shakespeare's complete plays. The first step in the research process was the creation of the Shakespearean Inside Database (SID) where these speeches were annotated according to variables of genuine literary interest (such as act, dramatic subgenre, probable time of composition, dramatic speech acts, selected figures of speech, and character attributes such as gender and class). Such comprehensive and detailed data makes it possible to generalize dependably about Shakespeare's authorial habits, and, by extension, to identify situations where the author departs in interesting ways from his habitual practices. The monograph uses these broad patterns and significant exceptions as a backdrop for fresh interpretations of various Shakespeare plays (from early works such as The Taming of the Shrew and The Two Gentlemen of Verona to mature tragedies like Hamlet and late plays like The Tempest and The Two Noble Kinsmen).