Shakespeare's Mystery Play
Title | Shakespeare's Mystery Play PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen T. Sohmer |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780719055669 |
Through considerable detective work, this work sets out to show that Julius Caeser was the first play performed at the new Globe Theatre on 12 June 1599. Drawing on many areas of expertise, which are rarely allied in Shakespeare scholarship to such an extent, including biblical, liturgical, social and theatrical history, the author sheds new light not only on Julius Caeser but on a variety of accepted beliefs. These include: why Hamlet was not crowned king when his father died; why Brutus would not swear to murder Caeser; why the Elizabethan authorities retained the Julian calender; and why the orthodox dates of the first composition of both Twelfth Night and Hamlet can be called into question.
Shakespeare's Medieval Craft
Title | Shakespeare's Medieval Craft PDF eBook |
Author | Kurt A. Schreyer |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2014-08-01 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 080145509X |
In Shakespeare's Medieval Craft, Kurt A. Schreyer explores the relationship between Shakespeare’s plays and a tradition of late medieval English biblical drama known as mystery plays. Scholars of English theater have long debated Shakespeare’s connection to the mystery play tradition, but Schreyer provides new perspective on the subject by focusing on the Chester Banns, a sixteenth-century proclamation announcing the annual performance of that city’s cycle of mystery plays. Through close study of the Banns, Schreyer demonstrates the central importance of medieval stage objects—as vital and direct agents and not merely as precursors—to the Shakespearean stage.As Schreyer shows, the Chester Banns serve as a paradigm for how Shakespeare’s theater might have reflected on and incorporated the mystery play tradition, yet distinguished itself from it. For instance, he demonstrates that certain material features of Shakespeare’s stage—including the ass’s head of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the theatrical space of Purgatory in Hamlet, and the knocking at the gate in the Porter scene of Macbeth—were in fact remnants of the earlier mysteries transformed to meet the exigencies of the commercial London playhouses. Schreyer argues that the ongoing agency of supposedly superseded theatrical objects and practices reveal how the mystery plays shaped dramatic production long after their demise. At the same time, these medieval traditions help to reposition Shakespeare as more than a writer of plays; he was a play-wright, a dramatic artisan who forged new theatrical works by fitting poetry to the material remnants of an older dramatic tradition.
Shakespeare's Mystery Play
Title | Shakespeare's Mystery Play PDF eBook |
Author | Colin Still |
Publisher | Literary Licensing, LLC |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2014-03-30 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781498000864 |
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
Shakespeare's Secret
Title | Shakespeare's Secret PDF eBook |
Author | Elise Broach |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2007-08-21 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 9780312371326 |
A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare—can Hero uncover the connections?
Shakespearean Whodunnits
Title | Shakespearean Whodunnits PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | Carroll & Graf Pub |
Pages | 422 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780786704828 |
A collection of Shakespearean detective stories featuring such private eyes as Falstaff, Mark Antony and Orlando. The cases they investigate range from the death of Romeo and Juliet to Cleopatra's suicide.
Shakespeare the Player
Title | Shakespeare the Player PDF eBook |
Author | John Southworth |
Publisher | The History Press |
Pages | 213 |
Release | 2011-10-21 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0752472445 |
Man of the Millennium' he may be but William Shakespeare is a shadowy historical figures. His writings have been analysed exhaustively but much of his life remains a mystery. This controversial biography aims to redress the balance. To his contemporaries, Shakespeare was known not as a playwright but as an actor, yet this has been largely ignored or marginalised by most modern writers. here John Southworth overturns traditional images of the Bard and his work, arguing that Shakespeare cannot be separated from his profession as a player any more than he can be separated from his works. Only by approaching Shakespeare's life from this new angle can we hope to learn or understand anything new about him. Following Shakespeare's life as an actor as he learns his craft and begins work on his own plays, Southworth presents the Bard and his plays in their proper context for the first time. Groundbreaking, contentious and a work of deep scholarship and understanding, 'Shakespeare the Player' should change the way we think about the English language's greatest artist.
Much Ado About Murder
Title | Much Ado About Murder PDF eBook |
Author | Simon Hawke |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780765308368 |
Fledgling playwright Will Shakespeare and Symington Smythe, ostler and would-be thespian, and are now firmly ensconced in their theater company . . . But due to the plague, all of London's theaters have been closed, its players now broke, forcing our intrepid duo to seek employment in other lines of work--Smythe smithing and Will poeting. Then a murder rocks all of London. Shakespeare and Smythe decide to solve the crime, but they must rely on their wits to survive both the conspiriacies and the cutthroat business of Elizabethan theater