Supernatural Shakespeare: Magic and Ritual in Merry Old England, J. Snodgrass

Автор: Frenee-Hutchins
Название: Boudica`s Odyssey in Early Modern England
ISBN: 1138253847 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138253841
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This diachronic study of Boudica serves as a sourcebook of references to Boudica in the early modern period and gives an overview of the ways in which her story was processed and exploited by the different players of the times who wanted to give credence and support to their own belief systems. The author examines the different apparatus of state ideology which processed the social, religious and political representations of Boudica for public absorption and helped form the popular myth we have of Boudica today. By exploring images of the Briton warrior queen across two reigns which witnessed an act of political union and a move from English female rule (under Elizabeth I) to British/Scottish masculine rule (under James VI & I) the author conducts a critical cartography of the ways in which gender, colonialism and nationalism crystallised around this crucial historical figure. Concentrating on the original transmission and reception of the ancient texts the author analyses the historical works of Hector Boece, Raphael Holinshed and William Camden as well as the canonical literary figures of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. She also looks at aspects of other primary sources not covered in previous scholarship, such as Humphrey Llwyd’s Breuiary of Britayne (1573), Petruccio Ubaldini’s Le Vite delle donne illustri, del regno d’Inghilterra, e del regno di Scotia (1588) and Edmund Bolton’s Nero Caesar (1624). Furthermore, she incorporates archaeological research relating to Boudica.

Автор: Dolan, Ms Frances E.
Название: True relations
ISBN: 0812244850 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780812244854
Издательство: Wiley EDC
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In the motley ranks of seventeenth-century print, one often comes upon the title True Relation. Purportedly true relations describe monsters, miracles, disasters, crimes, trials, and apparitions. They also convey discoveries achieved through exploration or experiment. Contemporaries relied on such accounts for access to information even as they distrusted them; scholars today share both their dependency and their doubt. What we take as evidence, Frances E. Dolan argues, often raises more questions than it answers. Although historians have tracked dramatic changes in evidentiary standards and practices in the period, these changes did not solve the problem of how to interpret true relations or ease the reliance on them. The burden remains on readers.
Dolan connects early modern debates about textual evidence to recent discussions of the value of seventeenth-century texts as historical evidence. Then as now, she contends, literary techniques of analysis have proven central to staking and assessing truth claims. She addresses the kinds of texts that circulated about three traumatic events—the Gunpowder Plot, witchcraft prosecutions, and the London Fire—and looks at legal depositions, advice literature, and plays as genres of evidence that hover in a space between fact and fiction. Even as doubts linger about their documentary and literary value, scholars rely heavily on them. Confronting and exploring these doubts, Dolan makes a case for owning up to our agency in crafting true relations among the textual fragments that survive.

Автор: Gearhart, Stephannie
Название: Drama and the politics of generational conflict in shakespeare`s england
ISBN: 1138094110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138094116
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Описание: This book examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in Early Modern England.

Автор: Allison P. Hobgood
Название: Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England
ISBN: 1108438725 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108438728
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: How were early modern playgoers emotionally moved by theatre performances, and how did their reactions in turn influence the stage? Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson and others, Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story of emotional encounters between playgoers and the Renaissance stage.

Автор: Poole
Название: Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare`s England
ISBN: 1107463300 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107463301
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Kristen Poole considers the complex, paradoxical engagements of the demonic, the divine and the spatial environments in Marlowe`s Doctor Faustus and Shakespeare`s Othello, Hamlet, Macbeth and The Tempest. The study explores how the convergence of Reformation beliefs and Renaissance notions of space affected English understandings about the supernatural.

Автор: Espinosa
Название: Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare`s England
ISBN: 1138268119 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138268111
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Описание: Masculinity and Marian Efficacy in Shakespeare's England offers a new approach to evaluating the psychological 'loss' of the Virgin Mary in post-Reformation England by illustrating how, in the wake of Mary's demotion, re-inscriptions of her roles and meanings only proliferated, seizing hold of national imagination and resulting in new configurations of masculinity. The author surveys the early modern cultural and literary response to Mary's marginalization, and argues that Shakespeare employs both Roman Catholic and post-Reformation views of Marian strength not only to scrutinize cultural perceptions of masculinity, but also to offer his audience new avenues of exploring both religious and gendered subjectivity. By deploying Mary's symbolic valence to infuse certain characters, and dramatic situations with feminine potency, Espinosa analyzes how Shakespeare draws attention to the Virgin Mary as an alternative to an otherwise unilaterally masculine outlook on salvation and gendered identity formation.

Автор: Garrison John S.
Название: Sexuality and Memory in Early Modern England
ISBN: 1138844381 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138844384
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Описание: This volume brings together two vibrant areas of Renaissance studies today: memory and sexuality. The contributors show that not only Shakespeare but also a broad range of his contemporaries were deeply interested in how memory and sexuality interact. Are erotic experiences heightened or deflated by the presence of memory? Can a sexual act be commemorative? Can an act of memory be eroticized? How do forms of romantic desire underwrite forms of memory? To answer such questions, these authors examine drama, poetry, and prose from both major authors and lesser-studied figures in the canon of Renaissance literature. Alongside a number of insightful readings, they show that sonnets enact a sexual exchange of memory; that epics of nationhood cannot help but eroticize their subjects; that the act of sex in Renaissance tragedy too often depends upon violence of the past. Memory, these scholars propose, re-shapes the concerns of queer and sexuality studies – including the unhistorical, the experience of desire, and the limits of the body. So too does the erotic revise the dominant trends of memory studies, from the rhetoric of the medieval memory arts to the formation of collective pasts.

Автор: Rickard
Название: Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England
ISBN: 1107120667 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107120662
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is the first sustained study of the reception of King James VI and I`s works, covering various genres including poetry, drama and sermons. It is of great interest to researchers and upper-level students of Renaissance and Jacobean literature, Shakespeare studies, Ben Jonson, John Donne and Jacobean history.

Автор: Samantha Fr?n?e-Hutchins
Название: Boudica`s Odyssey in Early Modern England
ISBN: 1472424611 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472424617
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Цена: 153120.00 T
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Описание: This diachronic study of Boudica serves as a sourcebook of references to Boudica in the early modern period and gives an overview of the ways in which her story was processed and exploited by the different players of the times who wanted to give credence and support to their own belief systems. The author examines the different apparatus of state ideology which processed the social, religious and political representations of Boudica for public absorption and helped form the popular myth we have of Boudica today. By exploring images of the Briton warrior queen across two reigns which witnessed an act of political union and a move from English female rule (under Elizabeth I) to British/Scottish masculine rule (under James VI & I) the author conducts a critical cartography of the ways in which gender, colonialism and nationalism crystallised around this crucial historical figure. Concentrating on the original transmission and reception of the ancient texts the author analyses the historical works of Hector Boece, Raphael Holinshed and William Camden as well as the canonical literary figures of Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. She also looks at aspects of other primary sources not covered in previous scholarship, such as Humphrey Llwyd’s Breuiary of Britayne (1573), Petruccio Ubaldini’s Le Vite delle donne illustri, del regno d’Inghilterra, e del regno di Scotia (1588) and Edmund Bolton’s Nero Caesar (1624). Furthermore, she incorporates archaeological research relating to Boudica.

Автор: Hobgood
Название: Passionate Playgoing in Early Modern England
ISBN: 1107041287 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107041288
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: How were early modern playgoers emotionally moved by theatre performances, and how did their reactions in turn influence the stage? Through detailed case studies of canonical plays by Shakespeare, Jonson and others, Allison P. Hobgood tells a new story of emotional encounters between playgoers and the Renaissance stage.

Автор: Loughnane Rory
Название: Staged Transgression in Shakespeare`s England
ISBN: 1137349344 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137349347
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Staged Transgression in Shakespeare`s England is a groundbreaking collection of seventeen essays, drawing together leading and emerging scholars to discuss and challenge critical assumptions about the transgressive nature of the early modern English stage. These essays shed new light on issues of gender, race, sexuality, law and politics.

Автор: Tudeau-Clayton Margaret
Название: This England, That Shakespeare: New Angles on Englishness and the Bard
ISBN: 0754666026 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780754666028
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Описание: Is Shakespeare English, British, neither or both? Addressing from various angles the relation of the figure of the national poet/dramatist to constructions of England and Englishness, this title probes the complex issues raised by this question.