Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle
Title | Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Carroll |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2022-05-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476646759 |
This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of Shakespeare's history plays are not principally the plots or "facts" of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audiences. Reading Shakespeare through the lens of national identity is a study almost as old as the plays themselves, and many scholars have found various articulations of nationhood in Shakespeare's plays. This book argues that Shakespeare's histories furnished modern England with a curriculum for constructing a national identity, a confidence of language and culture, and a powerful new medium through which to communicate and express this negotiated identity. Highlighting the application of semiotics, it studies the playwright's use of symbols, metonymy, symbolic codes, and metaphor. By examining what Shakespeare and playgoers remembered and forgot, as well as the ways ideas were framed, this book explores how a national identity was crafted, contested, and circulated.
Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle
Title | Shakespeare's Sceptered Isle PDF eBook |
Author | Brian Carroll |
Publisher | McFarland |
Pages | 261 |
Release | 2022-05-18 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 1476685827 |
This work searches Shakespeare's history and Roman plays to find the raw materials of English national consciousness and identity. The messages of Shakespeare's history plays are not principally the plots or "facts" of the dramas but the attitudes and imaginings they elicited in audiences. Reading Shakespeare through the lens of national identity is a study almost as old as the plays themselves, and many scholars have found various articulations of nationhood in Shakespeare's plays. This book argues that Shakespeare's histories furnished modern England with a curriculum for constructing a national identity, a confidence of language and culture, and a powerful new medium through which to communicate and express this negotiated identity. Highlighting the application of semiotics, it studies the playwright's use of symbols, metonymy, symbolic codes, and metaphor. By examining what Shakespeare and playgoers remembered and forgot, as well as the ways ideas were framed, this book explores how a national identity was crafted, contested, and circulated.
This sceptered isle
Title | This sceptered isle PDF eBook |
Author | George Wilson Knights |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
This Scepter'd Isle
Title | This Scepter'd Isle PDF eBook |
Author | William Shakespeare |
Publisher | |
Pages | 32 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Great Britain |
ISBN | 9780285629035 |
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.
Albion
Title | Albion PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Ackroyd |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 533 |
Release | 2007-12-18 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0307424650 |
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture and music, from Anglo-Saxon times to the twentieth-century. Considering what is most English about artists as diverse as Chaucer, William Hogarth, Benjamin Britten and Viriginia Woolf, Ackroyd identifies a host of sometimes contradictory elements: pragmatism and whimsy, blood and gore, a passion for the past, a delight in eccentricity, and much more. A brilliant, engaging and often surprising narrative, Albion reveals the manifold nature of English genius.
Shakespeare and National Culture
Title | Shakespeare and National Culture PDF eBook |
Author | John J. Joughin |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Pages | 374 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | 9780719050510 |
Shakespeare continues to feature in the construction and refashioning of national cultures and identities in a variety of forms. Often co-opted to serve nationalism, Shakespeare has also served to contest it in complex and contradictory ways.