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Author : Emma Whipday
Release : 2019-01-03
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 039/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies by : Emma Whipday
Download or read book Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies written by Emma Whipday. This book was released on 2019-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reassess the relationship between Shakespeare's Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, and the emerging genre of domestic tragedy by other early modern playwrights.
Author : Emma Whipday
Release : 2019-01-03
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 787/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies by : Emma Whipday
Download or read book Shakespeare's Domestic Tragedies written by Emma Whipday. This book was released on 2019-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestic tragedy was an innovative genre, suggesting that the lives and sufferings of ordinary people were worthy of the dramatic scope of tragedy. In this compelling study, Whipday revises the narrative of Shakespeare's plays to show how this genre, together with neglected pamphlets, ballads, and other forms of 'cheap print' about domestic violence, informed some of Shakespeare's greatest works. Providing a significant reappraisal of Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, the book argues that domesticity is central to these plays: they stage how societal and familial pressures shape individual agency; how the integrity of the house is associated with the body of the housewife; and how household transgressions render the home permeable. Whipday demonstrates that Shakespeare not only appropriated constructions of the domestic from domestic tragedies, but that he transformed the genre, using heightened language, foreign settings, and elite spheres to stage familiar domestic worlds.
Author : Sean Benson
Release : 2011-12-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy by : Sean Benson
Download or read book Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy written by Sean Benson. This book was released on 2011-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often set in domestic environments and built around protagonists of more modest status than traditional tragic subjects, 'domestic tragedy' was a genre that flourished on the Renaissance stage from 1580-1620. Shakespeare, 'Othello', and Domestic Tragedy is the first book to examine Shakespeare's relationship to the genre by way of the King's and Chamberlain's Men's ownership and production of many of the domestic tragedies, and of the genre's extensive influence on Shakespeare's own tragedy, Othello. Drawing in part upon recent scholarship that identifies Shakespeare as a co-author of Arden of Faversham, Sean Benson demonstrates the extensive-even uncanny-ties between Othello and the domestic tragedies. Benson argues that just as Hamlet employs and adapts the conventions of revenge tragedy, so Othello can only be fully understood in terms of its exploitation of the tropes and conventions of domestic tragedy. This book explores not only the contexts and workings of this popular sub-genre of Renaissance drama but also Othello's secure place within it as the quintessential example of the form.
Author : Geraldo U. de Sousa
Release : 2016-04-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 673/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies by : Geraldo U. de Sousa
Download or read book At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies written by Geraldo U. de Sousa. This book was released on 2016-04-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together methods, assumptions and approaches from a variety of disciplines, Geraldo U. de Sousa's innovative study explores the representation, perception, and function of the house, home, household, and family life in Shakespeare's great tragedies. Concentrating on King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, and Macbeth, de Sousa's examination of the home provides a fresh look at material that has been the topic of fierce debate. Through a combination of textual readings and a study of early modern housing conditions, accompanied by analyses that draw on anthropology, architecture, art history, the study of material culture, social history, theater history, phenomenology, and gender studies, this book demonstrates how Shakespeare explores the materiality of the early modern house and evokes domestic space to convey interiority, reflect on the habits of the mind, interrogate everyday life, and register elements of the tragic journey. Specific topics include the function of the disappearance of the castle in King Lear, the juxtaposition of home-centered life in Venice and nomadic, 'unhoused' wandering in Othello, and the use of special lighting effects to reflect this relationship, Hamlet's psyche in response to physical space, and the redistribution of domestic space in Macbeth. Images of the house, home, and household become visually and emotionally vibrant, and thus reflect, define, and support a powerful tragic narrative.
Author : Keith Sturgess
Release : 2012-02-23
Genre : Drama
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Book Rating : 467/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies by : Keith Sturgess
Download or read book Three Elizabethan Domestic Tragedies written by Keith Sturgess. This book was released on 2012-02-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elizabethan domestic tragedies depicted the workings of Fortune in the lives of ordinary people, telling stories of sin, discovery, punishment and divine mercy, with their settings and characterization often enhanced by a highly entertaining blend of realism and sensationalism. Only some half-dozen survive to offset the dramas of kings and nobles in the tragedies of Shakespeare and his peers. They combined journalism and entertainment with a didactic concern, and their plots were often derived from contemporary events. Arden of Faversham (1592) and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) are both based on chronicles or pamphlets describing authentic murders, while A Woman Killed with Kindness (1603) by Thomas Heywood is a fictional creation, considered his masterpiece.
