Shakespeare Matters: History, Teaching, Performance

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Lloyd Davis
University of Delaware Press, 2003 - 330 pàgines
'Shakespeare Matters' is a collection of original essays which addresses three significant areas in contemporary Shakespeare studies: interpretations of the plays in their historical and social contexts; the varying roles of Shakespeare's work in educational practices and traditions; and performance conventions and textual issues from the sixteenth century to the present.

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Material ShakespeareMaterialist Shakespeare
29
The Past of Macbeth
46
Antony Cleopatra the Market and the Ends of History
62
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Understanding of Kairos
74
Alls Well That Ends Well and the Civilizing Process
89
Breaking Rank in Shakespearean Marriage Plots
103
Shakespeare on the Web
119
Cultural Appropriations of Shakespeare in the Classroom
138
Beyond Shakespearean Exceptionalism
207
Apprenticeship and the Boy Actors Shakespearean Roles
223
Variant Readings in the Folio and First Quarto Versions of Richard III and W W Gregs Concept of Memorial Reconstruction
237
Shakespeare Malone and the Modern Subject
252
Colley Cibber and the Materialization of Shakespeares Richard III in the Twentieth Century
264
New Faces for Shakespeare in Contemporary Australia
275
Michael Bogdanov and Shakespeare in Production
292
Travels on the Shakespeare Underground
303

Testing the Limits of Universality
151
Whose Will or Whos Will? Teaching Shakespeare HimSelf
164
Ecocritical Theory and Pedagogy for Shakespeare
177
Education in The Taming of the Shrew
189
Contributors
315
Index
320
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Pàgina 84 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all...
Pàgina 35 - A commodity is therefore a mysterious thing, simply because in it the social character of men's labour appears to them as an objective character stamped upon the product of that labour...
Pàgina 83 - That would not let me sleep : methought, I lay Worse than the mutines in the bilboes.* Rashly, And prais'd be rashness for it, — Let us know, Our indiscretion sometimes serves us well, When our deep plots do pall : and that should teach us. There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will.* Hor.
Pàgina 261 - ... we have consecrated the state, that no man should approach to look into its defects or corruptions but with due caution ; that he should never dream of beginning its reformation by its subversion ; that he should approach to the faults of the state as to the wounds of a father, with pious awe and trembling solicitude.
Pàgina 57 - I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been, my senses would have cool'd To hear a night-shriek ; and my fell ' of hair Would at a dismal treatise rouse, and stir As life were in't : I have supp'd full with horrors ; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, Cannot once start me.
Pàgina 109 - Even here undone ! I was not much afeard ; for once or twice I was about to speak and tell him plainly, The selfsame sun that shines upon his court Hides not his visage from our cottage but Looks on alike.
Pàgina 82 - Pray can I not, Though inclination be as sharp as will: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent; And, like a man to double business bound, I stand in pause where I shall first begin, And both neglect. What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood, Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens To wash it white as snow? Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offence?
Pàgina 165 - I grieve and dare not show my discontent, I love and yet am forced to seem to hate, I do, yet dare not say I ever meant, I seem stark mute but inwardly do prate. I am and not, I freeze and yet am burned Since from myself my other self I turned.
Pàgina 55 - Blood hath been shed ere now, i' the olden time, Ere humane statute purged the gentle weal ; Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd Too terrible for the ear : the time has been, That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end...
Pàgina 111 - It were all one That I should love a bright particular star, And think to wed it, he is so above me : In his bright radiance and collateral light Mu;t I be comforted, not in his sphere.

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