
Shakespeare`s Othello and Literary Criticism
... Desdemona’s and Othello’s death. Since then, there have been numerous attempts to decode the structures which brought into action the tragic self-discovery at the end of the play. Various schools of criticism have tried to decipher the underlying implications and motivations for Shakespeare’s most s ...
... Desdemona’s and Othello’s death. Since then, there have been numerous attempts to decode the structures which brought into action the tragic self-discovery at the end of the play. Various schools of criticism have tried to decipher the underlying implications and motivations for Shakespeare’s most s ...
dalrev_vol43_iss4_pp543_547
... He then crossed to the United States where at the Pierpont Morgan Library he delivered a lecture, "The Problem of Shakespeare's Sonnets Solved". The next day he was interviewed by a reporter from The New Yorker, to whom he announced that he had added "a completel y new dimension to Shakespeare the m ...
... He then crossed to the United States where at the Pierpont Morgan Library he delivered a lecture, "The Problem of Shakespeare's Sonnets Solved". The next day he was interviewed by a reporter from The New Yorker, to whom he announced that he had added "a completel y new dimension to Shakespeare the m ...
Generative model—Will in the World as a novel and the novels
... Cardenio, by Mr Fletcher & Shakespeare". Shakespeare had yet to become English literature's biggest cash cow, and Moseley never published that play (or many others that he registered). Moseley's title-phrase, The History of Cardenio, appears verbatim in the first English translation of Part One of D ...
... Cardenio, by Mr Fletcher & Shakespeare". Shakespeare had yet to become English literature's biggest cash cow, and Moseley never published that play (or many others that he registered). Moseley's title-phrase, The History of Cardenio, appears verbatim in the first English translation of Part One of D ...
Shakespearean Sonnets and Petrarchan Sonnets
... overwhelming feelings the 'divisions' of some Sonnets are at odds with both the Petrarchan and the Shakespearean convention, (examples- sonnets 66, 154, 145). Sonnet 18 offers a direct contrast to Sonnet 73 in form and structure. This Sonnet (Shall I Compare…) is decisively Petrarchan, notwithstand ...
... overwhelming feelings the 'divisions' of some Sonnets are at odds with both the Petrarchan and the Shakespearean convention, (examples- sonnets 66, 154, 145). Sonnet 18 offers a direct contrast to Sonnet 73 in form and structure. This Sonnet (Shall I Compare…) is decisively Petrarchan, notwithstand ...
327723_Revised Section_on_Metaphoric-Shakespeare
... imagery within the limits of a single play” (ibid: 259), and a group of thematic units that gather to reflect a single topic in that same play. In other words, every play is dominated by an atmospheric mood which is the result of a whole set of human emotions such as anger, despair, parental love, p ...
... imagery within the limits of a single play” (ibid: 259), and a group of thematic units that gather to reflect a single topic in that same play. In other words, every play is dominated by an atmospheric mood which is the result of a whole set of human emotions such as anger, despair, parental love, p ...
Article (Published version)
... Wives of Windsor, and Hamlet (traditionally counted among the "bad quartos") are editions whose publication Shakespeare is unlikely to have supported. Even if we discount them, however, we are still left with no fewer than thirteen substantive texts printed between 1597 and 1609 which go back to "go ...
... Wives of Windsor, and Hamlet (traditionally counted among the "bad quartos") are editions whose publication Shakespeare is unlikely to have supported. Even if we discount them, however, we are still left with no fewer than thirteen substantive texts printed between 1597 and 1609 which go back to "go ...
The Tempest - The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey
... This Guide – Shakespeare’s Romances...................................................................................................................... 2 –The Tempest: A Synopsis........................................................................................................................ ...
... This Guide – Shakespeare’s Romances...................................................................................................................... 2 –The Tempest: A Synopsis........................................................................................................................ ...
CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF SHAKESPEARE SONNETS
... Amazingly there were no casualties, and the next spring the company had the theatre "new builded in a far fairer manner than before." Although Shakespeare invested in the rebuilding, he retired from the stage to the Great House of New Place in Statford that he had purchased in 1597, and some conside ...
... Amazingly there were no casualties, and the next spring the company had the theatre "new builded in a far fairer manner than before." Although Shakespeare invested in the rebuilding, he retired from the stage to the Great House of New Place in Statford that he had purchased in 1597, and some conside ...
Topicality and Timelessness: Treason in Macbeth
... Jacobean London, there are no direct references to the Gunpowder Plot within Macbeth. However, there are a multitude of subtle references to the controversy that would not have escaped its original audience. Even Shakespeare’s initial stage directions would have created an assault on the audience ...
... Jacobean London, there are no direct references to the Gunpowder Plot within Macbeth. However, there are a multitude of subtle references to the controversy that would not have escaped its original audience. Even Shakespeare’s initial stage directions would have created an assault on the audience ...
William Shakespeare`s Titus Andronicus
... Southwark and built the Globe Theatre on the banks of the Thames River. The Lord Chamberlain’s Men and other companies faced heavy competition from the boy’s companies in the city. The boy’s companies were more conveniently situated for much of the population, and had the added advantage of a grea ...
... Southwark and built the Globe Theatre on the banks of the Thames River. The Lord Chamberlain’s Men and other companies faced heavy competition from the boy’s companies in the city. The boy’s companies were more conveniently situated for much of the population, and had the added advantage of a grea ...
Shakespeare: The Comedies
... in Shakespearean Comedy. New York: Columbia UP, 1985. Mangan, Michael. A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies. (Preface Books). London: Longman, 1996.* Mason, Pamela, ed. Shakespeare: Early Comedies. (Casebooks series). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. McEvoy, Sean. "Understanding Comedy: The Taming of th ...
... in Shakespearean Comedy. New York: Columbia UP, 1985. Mangan, Michael. A Preface to Shakespeare's Comedies. (Preface Books). London: Longman, 1996.* Mason, Pamela, ed. Shakespeare: Early Comedies. (Casebooks series). Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1994. McEvoy, Sean. "Understanding Comedy: The Taming of th ...
William Shakespeare`s PERICLES
... differences between the first two acts of the play and the last three. Many scholars now believe that Shakespeare collaborated with the lesser-known playwright, George Wilkins, with Wilkins writing most of Acts I and II and Shakespeare writing most of Acts III-V. No matter who wrote Pericles, one th ...
... differences between the first two acts of the play and the last three. Many scholars now believe that Shakespeare collaborated with the lesser-known playwright, George Wilkins, with Wilkins writing most of Acts I and II and Shakespeare writing most of Acts III-V. No matter who wrote Pericles, one th ...
virtual shakespeares: theatrical adaptations and transformations of
... deal of the material he uses is commonplace” (Martindale 10) and that Renaissance compositional practice, which involved the selection and blending of disparate classical materials, was based on a mastery of mimesis: “One learned to write by imitating the ‘best’ authors, that is the most admired cla ...
... deal of the material he uses is commonplace” (Martindale 10) and that Renaissance compositional practice, which involved the selection and blending of disparate classical materials, was based on a mastery of mimesis: “One learned to write by imitating the ‘best’ authors, that is the most admired cla ...
Wherefore art Thou, Bae Romeo? - BYU ScholarsArchive
... a set of social media interactions designed to sum up the play, using fake accounts named after the characters of the play to interact with each other on Facebook. As seen in Appendix Figure 3, the timeline of the play is summed up in a series of fictional Facebook posts, events, and groups that out ...
... a set of social media interactions designed to sum up the play, using fake accounts named after the characters of the play to interact with each other on Facebook. As seen in Appendix Figure 3, the timeline of the play is summed up in a series of fictional Facebook posts, events, and groups that out ...
Shakespeare Power Point
... existence; because he has no identity—he is continually inform[ing[ and filling some other body. . . . It is a wretched thing to confess; but is a very fact that not one word I ever utter can be taken for granted as an opinion growing out of my identical nature—how can it, when I have no nature? Whe ...
... existence; because he has no identity—he is continually inform[ing[ and filling some other body. . . . It is a wretched thing to confess; but is a very fact that not one word I ever utter can be taken for granted as an opinion growing out of my identical nature—how can it, when I have no nature? Whe ...
Did Shakespeare Really Write His Plays? A Few Theories Examined
... Shapiro says that Schmucker’s forgotten book, Historic Doubts Respecting Shakespeare: Illustrating Infidel Objections Against the Bible, foreshadows all the major themes of the Shakespearean doubters: the lack of documentary evidence, a distrust of disputed texts, the improbable success of an unlik ...
... Shapiro says that Schmucker’s forgotten book, Historic Doubts Respecting Shakespeare: Illustrating Infidel Objections Against the Bible, foreshadows all the major themes of the Shakespearean doubters: the lack of documentary evidence, a distrust of disputed texts, the improbable success of an unlik ...
Notes on contributors
... Notes on contributors Juan Francisco Cerdá graduated in English Philology at the University of Murcia in 2004, and has an MA in “Shakespeare and Theatre” at the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham). At the moment he is a Ph. D. student in the programme “English and American Studies: Text ...
... Notes on contributors Juan Francisco Cerdá graduated in English Philology at the University of Murcia in 2004, and has an MA in “Shakespeare and Theatre” at the Shakespeare Institute (University of Birmingham). At the moment he is a Ph. D. student in the programme “English and American Studies: Text ...
ABSTRACTS - cehum - Universidade do Minho
... the landmarks of Brazilian theater in the ‘90s. It illustrated the power of classical dramaturgy by approximating Brazilian popular culture to the Elizabethan universe. Through an analysis of approaches to the dramatic text in contemporary theater, this study considers the perspective of Sarrazac – ...
... the landmarks of Brazilian theater in the ‘90s. It illustrated the power of classical dramaturgy by approximating Brazilian popular culture to the Elizabethan universe. Through an analysis of approaches to the dramatic text in contemporary theater, this study considers the perspective of Sarrazac – ...
Shakespeare
... England, such as Henry VI and Richard III. Also he wrote comedies which include A Midsummer's Night Dream and The Taming of the Shrew also he wrote tragedies like Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet. In the second period, from 1596 to the turn of the century. He focused on chronicle and he wrote h ...
... England, such as Henry VI and Richard III. Also he wrote comedies which include A Midsummer's Night Dream and The Taming of the Shrew also he wrote tragedies like Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet. In the second period, from 1596 to the turn of the century. He focused on chronicle and he wrote h ...
William Shakespeare
... When William was 22, he went to London, leaving his wife and children in Stratford. Here WS became a player and joined the company called „The Lord Chamberlain´s Men“. The company was made up of about a dozen actors (no actresses at all). Each player played 2-3 roles in a single play.WS began to wri ...
... When William was 22, he went to London, leaving his wife and children in Stratford. Here WS became a player and joined the company called „The Lord Chamberlain´s Men“. The company was made up of about a dozen actors (no actresses at all). Each player played 2-3 roles in a single play.WS began to wri ...
AEDEAN 2016 Round Table Shakespeare`s Afterlives Clara Calvo
... transposing of King Lear into the American Midwest in the late 1970s in her Pulitzer-winning novel A Thousand Acres or Marina Warner’s postmodern postcolonial reworking of The Tempest in Indigo in 1992, to name but a couple of examples, the Hogarth Press recently launched the project of a full seri ...
... transposing of King Lear into the American Midwest in the late 1970s in her Pulitzer-winning novel A Thousand Acres or Marina Warner’s postmodern postcolonial reworking of The Tempest in Indigo in 1992, to name but a couple of examples, the Hogarth Press recently launched the project of a full seri ...
Teaching Shakespeare`s Sources and Contexts Glenn Steinberg
... The selection of other materials—from among the sources, analogues, and intertext of Shakespeare’s plays—is perhaps the most difficult task in the planning of the course.6 Not least among the difficulties is the lack of suitable editions in print to use as textbooks and the lack of a single antholog ...
... The selection of other materials—from among the sources, analogues, and intertext of Shakespeare’s plays—is perhaps the most difficult task in the planning of the course.6 Not least among the difficulties is the lack of suitable editions in print to use as textbooks and the lack of a single antholog ...
Supplemental Reading: Biography, etc.
... lease of the theatre where they performed, (appropriately called The Theatre) they were wealthy enough to build their own theatre across the Thames, south of London, which they called "The Globe." The new theatre opened in July of 1599, built from the timbers of The Theatre, with the motto "Totus mu ...
... lease of the theatre where they performed, (appropriately called The Theatre) they were wealthy enough to build their own theatre across the Thames, south of London, which they called "The Globe." The new theatre opened in July of 1599, built from the timbers of The Theatre, with the motto "Totus mu ...
An interpretation of Shakespeare s sonnet 73 and the deeper
... 6. Bibliography................................................................................................... 11 ...
... 6. Bibliography................................................................................................... 11 ...
Folger Shakespeare Library

The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., in the United States. It has the world's largest collection of the printed works of William Shakespeare, and is a primary repository for rare materials from the early modern period (1500–1750). The library was established by Henry Clay Folger in association with his wife, Emily Jordan Folger. It opened in 1932, two years after his death.The library offers advanced scholarly programs and national outreach to K–12 classroom teachers on Shakespeare education. Other performances and events at the Folger include the award-winning Folger Theatre, which produces Shakespeare-inspired theater; Folger Consort, the early-music ensemble-in-residence; the O.B. Hardison Poetry Series; the PEN/Faulkner Reading Series; and numerous other exhibits, seminars, talks and lectures, and family programs. It also has several publications, including the Folger Library editions of Shakespeare's plays, the journal Shakespeare Quarterly, the teacher resource books Shakespeare Set Free, and catalogs of exhibitions. The Folger is also a leader in methods of preserving rare materials.The library is privately endowed and administered by the Trustees of Amherst College. The library building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.