The History of English Soliloquy
Title | The History of English Soliloquy PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd A. Skiffington |
Publisher | |
Pages | 139 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN | 9780819146182 |
The History of English Soliloquy
Title | The History of English Soliloquy PDF eBook |
Author | Lloyd A. Skiffington |
Publisher | |
Pages | 160 |
Release | 1985 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
Provides a thorough survey of the history of the soliloquy, from the earliest forms found on pre-Biblical Canaanite tablets through the heights of Shakespeare. Shows how Elizabethan soliloquy evolved out of its ancient forerunners, and that Shakespeare dominates soliloquy. Of particular interest to students and scholars of language, drama and Shakespeare.
Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies
Title | Shakespeare and the History of Soliloquies PDF eBook |
Author | James E. Hirsh |
Publisher | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press |
Pages | 474 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | English drama |
ISBN | 9780838639719 |
Provides the first systematic and comprehensive account of the conventions governing soliloquies in Western drama from ancient times to the twentieth century. Over the course of theatrical history, there have been several kinds of soliloquies. Shakespeare's soliloquies are not only the most interesting and the most famous, but also the most misunderstood, and several chapters examine them in detail. The present study is based on a painstaking analysis of the actual practices of dramatists from each age of theatrical history. This investigation has uncovered evidence that refutes long-standing commonplaces about soliloquies in general, about Shakespeare's soliloquies in particular, and especially about the to be, or not to be episode. 'Shakespeare and the history of Soliloquies' casts new lights on historical changes in the artistic representation of human beings and, because representations cannot be entirely disentangled from perception, on historical changes in the ways human beings have perceived theselves.
Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama
Title | Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama PDF eBook |
Author | A. D. Cousins |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 289 |
Release | 2018-08-16 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 1107172543 |
This is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy.
Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama
Title | Shakespeare and the Soliloquy in Early Modern English Drama PDF eBook |
Author | A. D. Cousins |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 2018-02-28 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1316782034 |
Encompassing nearly a century of drama, this is the first book to provide students and scholars with a truly comprehensive guide to the early modern soliloquy. Considering the antecedents of the form in Roman, late fifteenth and mid-sixteenth century drama, it analyses its diversity, its theatrical functions and its socio-political significances. Containing detailed case-studies of the plays of Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ford, Middleton and Davenant, this collection will equip students in their own close-readings of texts, providing them with an indepth knowledge of the verbal and dramaturgical aspects of the form. Informed by rich theatrical and historical understanding, the essays reveal the larger connections between Shakespeare's use of the soliloquy and its deployment by his fellow dramatists.
Soliloquy!
Title | Soliloquy! PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1988 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780936839783 |
A collection of all of Shakespeare's greatest soliloquies, monologues and set speeches classified for use by the general reader or working actor; with notes and performance commentary.
The Spanish Tragedy
Title | The Spanish Tragedy PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Kyd |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2014-06-27 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 1472573854 |
The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history of English Renaissance drama. Hieronimo, Knight-Marshal of Spain during its war with Portugal, fails to obtain justice when his son is murdered for courting Bel-Imperia, the Duke of Castile's daughter, and decides to take justice into his own hands... This new student edition has been freshly revised by Professor Andrew Gurr to incorporate the latest stage history and critical interpretations of the play. It also appends the scenes that were added in 1602, discusses Elizabethan attitudes to revenge, the Senecan features of the play and the significance of the Anglo-Spanish conflict in the 1580s.