Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval

Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval
Title Shakespeare's Ovid and the Spectre of the Medieval PDF eBook
Author Lindsay Ann Reid
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 286
Release 2018
Genre Drama
ISBN 1843845180

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A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet.

Middle English Lyrics

Middle English Lyrics
Title Middle English Lyrics PDF eBook
Author Julia Boffey
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 328
Release 2018-08-17
Genre History
ISBN 9781843844976

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A collection attesting to the richness and lasting appeal of these short forms of Middle English verse.

Strange Footing

Strange Footing
Title Strange Footing PDF eBook
Author Seeta Chaganti
Publisher University of Chicago Press
Pages 318
Release 2018-05-30
Genre History
ISBN 022654818X

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For premodern audiences, poetic form did not exist solely as meter, stanzas, or rhyme scheme. Rather, the form of a poem emerged as an experience, one generated when an audience immersed in a culture of dance encountered a poetic text. Exploring the complex relationship between medieval dance and medieval poetry, Strange Footing argues that the intersection of texts and dance produced an experience of poetic form based in disorientation, asymmetry, and even misstep. Medieval dance guided audiences to approach poetry not in terms of the body’s regular marking of time and space, but rather in the irregular and surprising forces of virtual motion around, ahead of, and behind the dancing body. Reading medieval poems through artworks, paintings, and sculptures depicting dance, Seeta Chaganti illuminates texts that have long eluded our full understanding, inviting us to inhabit their strange footings askew of conventional space and time. Strange Footing deploys the motion of dance to change how we read medieval poetry, generating a new theory of poetic form for medieval studies and beyond.

Shaping Remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton

Shaping Remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton
Title Shaping Remembrance from Shakespeare to Milton PDF eBook
Author Patricia Phillippy
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 285
Release 2018-06-14
Genre History
ISBN 1108422985

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A study of remembrance in post-Reformation England in religious and secular artworks and texts by Shakespeare, Milton, and women writers.

How the Classics Made Shakespeare

How the Classics Made Shakespeare
Title How the Classics Made Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Jonathan Bate
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 378
Release 2020-10-13
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0691210144

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"This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn of 2013 at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, under the title, "Ancient Strength: Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition"--Preface, page ix.

Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare

Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare
Title Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare PDF eBook
Author Toria Johnson
Publisher Boydell & Brewer
Pages 244
Release 2021
Genre History
ISBN 1843845741

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Exploring a wide range of material including dramatic works, medieval morality drama, and lyric poetry this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the history of emotions. Early modern English writing about pity evidences a social culture built specifically around emotion, one (at least partially) defined by worries about who deserves compassion and what it might cost an individual to offer it. Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare positions early modern England as a place that sustains messy and contradictory views about pity all at once, bringing together attraction, fear, anxiety, positivity, and condemnation to paint a picture of an emotion that is simultaneously unstable and essential, dangerous and vital, deceptive and seductive. The impact of this emotional burden on individual subjects played a major role in early modern English identity formation, centrally shaping the ways in which people thought about themselves and their communities. Taking in a wide range of material - including dramatic works by William Shakespeare, Thomas Heywood, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, and William Rowley; medieval morality drama; and lyric poetry by Philip Sidney, Thomas Wyatt, Samuel Daniel, Thomas Lodge, Barnabe Barnes, George Rodney and Frances Howard - this book argues for the central significance of literary material to the broader history of emotions, a field which has thus far remained largely the concern of social and cultural historians. Pity and Identity in the Age of Shakespeare shows that both literary materials and literary criticism can offer new insights into the experience and expression of emotional humanity.

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems

Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems
Title Shakespeare's Sonnets and Poems PDF eBook
Author Jonathan F. S. Post
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 161
Release 2017
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 0198717571

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Jonathan Post introduces all of Shakespeare's poetry, including the sonnets and his great narrative poems, and explores themes of love and lust in these works. He also considers the debates surrounding their disputed authorship, and the impact these poems had, from contemporary readers right up to today.