Shakespeare`s Acts of Will, Watt Gary

Автор: Gary Watt
Название: Shakespeare`s Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance
ISBN: 1474217850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781474217859
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Shakespeare was born into a new age of will, in which individual intent had the potential to overcome dynastic expectation. The 1540 Statute of Wills had liberated testamentary disposition of land and thus marked a turning point from hierarchical feudal tradition to horizontal free trade. Focusing on Shakespeare’s late Elizabethan plays, Gary Watt demonstrates Shakespeare’s appreciation of testamentary tensions and his ability to exploit the inherent drama of performing will. Drawing on years of experience delivering rhetoric workshops for the Royal Shakespeare Company and as a prize-winning teacher of law, Gary Watt shows that Shakespeare is playful with legal technicality rather than obedient to it. The author demonstrates how Shakespeare transformed lawyers’ manual book rhetoric into powerful drama through a stirring combination of word, metre, movement and physical stage material, producing a mode of performance that was truly testamentary in its power to engage the witnessing public. Published on the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s last will and testament, this is a major contribution to the growing interdisciplinary field of law and humanities.

Автор: Whitfield Peter
Название: Mapping Shakespeare`s World
ISBN: 1851242570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781851242573
Издательство: Неизвестно
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Описание: This book shows that many of Shakespeare`s locations may have had resonances which an Elizabethan audience would pick up and understand, and it shows how significant the geographical and historical background of the plays could be.

Автор: Wells Stanley
Название: Shakespeare`s Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0198785291 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198785293
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Shakespeare`s tragedies contain an astonishing variety of suffering, from suicides and murders to dismemberments and grief. Stanley Wells considers how the bard`s tragic plays drew on the literary and theatrical conventions of his time. Discussing the individual plays, he also explores why tragedy is regarded as a fit subject for entertainment.

Автор: van Es Bart
Название: Shakespeare`s Comedies: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 0198723350 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780198723356
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: In this Very Short Introduction Bart Van Es analyses Shakespeare`s comedic plays, picking out the family resemblances across these works. He considers their shared themes such as confusion and cross dressing, misguided love, twins and substitutions, and explores the bard`s verbal artistry and wit.

Автор: Leyland James, Goding James
Название: Who Will Believe My Verse?: The Code in Shakespeare`s Sonnets
ISBN: 192558867X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781925588675
Издательство: Неизвестно
Цена: 27590.00 T
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What little we know of the life of William Shakespeare is at odds with what would be expected of the greatest humanitarian writer of the Renaissance. Is Shakespeare a pseudonym? The answer lies in Shakespeare's Sonnets and its baffling Dedication which is shown to be a code based on the ancient Polybius Square. The Dedication encodes the name of the scholar, politician and ambassador Sir Henry Neville who also encoded his diplomatic dispatches using the Polybian system. Astoundingly, this decryption is validated by an extensive pattern of cross-referencing to the sonnets themselves. Each encrypted word within the Dedication has an exact and predictable mapping to a numbered sonnet. This book not only overturns our understanding of the Sonnets - it demonstrates with mathematical precision that Sir Henry Neville is the true author of the works attributed to William Shakespeare.

"This work reveals an astounding mapping between the strange Dedication to Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609) and the Sonnets themselves. This predictable pattern not only spells out Sir Henry Neville, it illuminates key events in Neville's biography. This is a poet's code - worthy of the greatest English writer. If any doubt remains, Leyland and Goding show that this mapping corresponds to the codes used by Neville as Ambassador to France in 1599. Neville's story not only fits, it's verifiable." - Dr Edward Black, Formerly Head of English, London School of Economics.

"This book is an astonishing achievement, breathtaking in the brilliance of the discoveries and almost overwhelming. The authors have discovered the most intricate mechanism in literature: the Dedication to Shakespeare's Sonnets is like an advanced pocket watch. If they were only suggesting coded messages as others have in the past, we might doubt their discoveries but they show there is an intricate mechanism, logical and even mathematical in design. This cannot simply be a result of chance." - Dr John Casson, Author of five books on the Shakespeare Authorship Question.

Автор: Davies, Anthony
Название: Filming Shakespeare`s Plays : The Adaptations of Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa
ISBN: 0521399130 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521399135
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: While acknowledging that dramatic experiences for theatre and cinema audiences are significantly different, this book reveals some of the special qualities of cinema`s dramatic language in the film adaptations of Shakespeare`s plays by four directors - Laurence Olivier, Orson Welles, Peter Brook and Akira Kurosawa - each of whom has a distinctly different approach to film representation.

Автор: Wells, Robin Headlam
Название: Shakespeare`s politics
ISBN: 0826493068 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826493064
Издательство: Continuum
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Описание: Offers an introduction to the political and historical context to Shakespeare`s tragedy and history plays. This title provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England. It suitable for those studying Shakespeare.