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Author : Nancy J. Doran Hazelton
Release : 1987
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Synopsis Historical Consciousness in Nineteenth-century Shakespearean Staging by : Nancy J. Doran Hazelton
Download or read book Historical Consciousness in Nineteenth-century Shakespearean Staging written by Nancy J. Doran Hazelton. This book was released on 1987. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard W. Schoch
Release : 1998-08-20
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 813/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Victorian Stage by : Richard W. Schoch
Download or read book Shakespeare's Victorian Stage written by Richard W. Schoch. This book was released on 1998-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the revivals of Shakespeare's history plays during the Victorian period, as staged by the famous actor-manager Charles Kean. Between 1852 and 1859, Kean produced celebrated productions of Henry V, Henry VIII, King John, Macbeth and Richard II, renowned for their unprecendented attention to antiquarian detail in sets, costumes, and properties (many of which are shown in the book's illustrations). These productions provided audiences with an unparalleled opportunity to participate in the Victorian obsession with history, especially of the medieval period. Using valuable primary sources, including promptbooks, scenic designs, costume sketches and contemporary reviews, Richard Schoch places mid-Victorian attitudes towards the theatre in the context of major intellectual and political movements of the age. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of theatre history, Shakespeare studies and Victorian culture.
Author : Richard Halpern
Release : 2018-09-05
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 483/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare among the Moderns by : Richard Halpern
Download or read book Shakespeare among the Moderns written by Richard Halpern. This book was released on 2018-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist writers, critics, and artists sparked a fresh and distinctive interpretation of Shakespeare's plays which has proved remarkably tenacious, as Richard Halpern explains in this lively and provocative book. The preoccupations of such high modernists as T. S. Eliot, Wyndham Lewis, and James Joyce set the tone for the critical reception of Shakespeare in the twentieth century. Halpern contends their habits of thought continue to dominate postmodern schools of criticism that claim to have broken with the modernist legacy. Halpern addresses such topics as imperialism and modernism's cult of the primitive, the rise of mass culture, modernist anti-semitism, and the aesthetic of the machine. His discussion considers figures as diverse as Orson Welles and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Shakespeare critics including Northrop Frye, Cleanth Brooks, Stephen Greenblatt, and Stanley Cavell. Shakespeare's works have been subjected to a continuing process of historical reinterpretation in which every new era has imposed its own cultural and ideological presuppositions on the plays. The most enduring contribution of modernism, Halpern suggests, has been the juxtaposition of an awareness of historical distance and a mapping of Shakespeare's plays onto the present. Using modernist themes and approaches, he constructs new readings of four Shakespeare plays.
Author : J. Richards
Release : 2009-10-09
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 890/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage by : J. Richards
Download or read book The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage written by J. Richards. This book was released on 2009-10-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.
Author : Adrian Poole
Release : 2014-03-20
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 720/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare And The Victorians by : Adrian Poole
Download or read book Shakespeare And The Victorians written by Adrian Poole. This book was released on 2014-03-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. The book features detailed discussion of the interpretations and applications of Shakespeare by major figures such as Dickens and Hardy, Tennyson and Browning, as well as those less well-known.
