Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Tokyo, 1991"The lectures delivered by the four plenary speakers of the congress are published here: Stephen Greenblatt's groundbreaking paper on witchcraft and Macbeth: Germaine Greer's perceptive analysis of the presence of the proletariat in Shakespeare's plays: Ruth Nevo's intriguing exploration of Freudian perspectives on Hamlet; and Takashi Sasayama's important comparative study of tragedy and emotion in Shakespeare and Chikamatsu. This volume also includes papers by other Shakespearean scholars of international reputation, offering fresh insights into many topics of interest. Among them are John Russell Brown on "Shakespeare's Plays and Traditions of Playgoing"; Sukanta Chaudhuri on "Shakespeare and the Ethnic Question"; Werner Habicht on the German Shakespeare tradition; Alexander Leggatt on bearbaiting; Avraham Oz on The Merchant of Venice; Annabel Patterson and Taming of the Shrew; and Gary Taylor on "Bardicide."" "Taken together, the essays collected in Shakespeare and Cultural Traditions constitute a remarkable range of responses to Shakespeare's enduring art and offer a truly international and multicultural assessment of his presence in the world today."--BOOK JACKET. |
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... suggest the confused metaphorical projections of disoriented individuals ; at other times he uses it to suggest the dark ... suggests that the audience is led to realize what Macbeth , Lady Macbeth , and Duncan all fail to grasp : " that ...
... suggest the confused metaphorical projections of disoriented individuals ; at other times he uses it to suggest the dark ... suggests that the audience is led to realize what Macbeth , Lady Macbeth , and Duncan all fail to grasp : " that ...
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... four Conspirators . " It suggests that at the end Coriolanus , who usually takes on opponents by the stageful , is finished off by two people . There is nothing to suggest that he puts up a Shakespeare and Bearbaiting 51.
... four Conspirators . " It suggests that at the end Coriolanus , who usually takes on opponents by the stageful , is finished off by two people . There is nothing to suggest that he puts up a Shakespeare and Bearbaiting 51.
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... suggests that Ibsen had been able to read the present through the past . He had written ardent poems on each of the causes he lists in the preface , but what the play achieves is an uneasy marriage of Byronic self - dramatization with ...
... suggests that Ibsen had been able to read the present through the past . He had written ardent poems on each of the causes he lists in the preface , but what the play achieves is an uneasy marriage of Byronic self - dramatization with ...
Contents
List of Contributors | 9 |
Shakespeare and Bearbaiting | 43 |
Popular Rebellion Utopia | 76 |
Copyright | |
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