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Author Biography: Clara Calvo is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Murcia, Spain. Her publications include Power Relations and Fool-Master Discourse in Shakespeare, and she is a regular contributor to The Year's Work in English Studies. Jean Jacques Weber is Professor of English at University Centre Luxembourg. His publications include Critical Analysis of Fiction, Twentieth-Century Fiction (co-edited, Routledge 1995) and The Stylistics Reader (co-edited for Routledge 1996).
"The Literature Workbook" is a practical introductory textbook for
literary studies, which can be used either for independent study or
as part of a class. Laying the foundation for the further study of
literature, "The Literature Workbook" introduces the beginning
student to the essential analytic and interpretative skills that
are needed for literary appreciation and evaluation. It also equips
the teacher with practical tools and materials for use in seminars
or when assigning written assessments and projects. Arranged
according to genre and chronology, the chapters acquaint the reader
with a range of key figures in English literature and encourages
the reader to think about them in their historical and cultural
contexts. Adopting a user-friendly case-study approach each chapter
contains exercises and activities, discussion hints, project work
and suggestions for further reading. The workbook also includes a
glossary and a subject and name index.
A major new edition of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy, an
outstanding landmark of Elizabethan drama. In its time, it quickly
became a box office success and probably inspired Shakespeare to
write Hamlet, as it contains a ghost, murders that demand revenge
and a hero that hesitates and contemplates suicide. As a revenge
tragedy, it set up the salient features of a dramatic genre that
would last decades. Its hero, the aged Marshall of Spain Hieronimo,
whose son is murdered at night, soon transcended the play and
became the standard stage representation of grief, rhetorical
passion and madness. Hieronimo's main antagonist is one of the
first Machiavellian characters of English drama. This edition
explores the play in relation to its historical context and
contemporary Iberian dynastic policy. It also relates the play, as
a literary artefact, to other artistic manifestations of the
European Renaissance and offers a fresh assessment of the play's
stage history. For the first time in the play's textual history,
this edition presents an integrated text inviting a reading of the
play as it was published both in 1592 and in 1602.
This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook
presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding
from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just
native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a
Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and
that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest
editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this
section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare'
throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide
variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the
inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a
European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International
Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues
and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors
to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and
South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece,
France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European
Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance,
issues of character, and other topics.
This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook
presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding
from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just
native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a
Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and
that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest
editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this
section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare'
throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide
variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the
inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a
European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International
Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues
and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors
to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and
South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece,
France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European
Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance,
issues of character, and other topics.
This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook
presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding
from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just
native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a
Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and
that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest
editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this
section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare'
throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide
variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the
inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a
European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International
Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues
and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors
to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and
South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece,
France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European
Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance,
issues of character, and other topics.
This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook
presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding
from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just
native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a
Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and
that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest
editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this
section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare'
throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide
variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the
inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a
European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International
Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues
and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors
to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and
South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece,
France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European
Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance,
issues of character, and other topics.
Essays employing close scrutiny of texts to clarify gender issues
in feminist literary criticism. One of the major problems in
feminist literary criticism is the tendency to generalise when
exploring language and gender. This volume clarifies the issues
involved and tests generalisations by specific analysis, and in the
process defines a "feminist stylistics" - a fresh, practical
approach which will serve as a model for future work in this area.
The seven essays in the collection analyse widely varying literary
texts, using the framework of linguistic theory to address feminist
issues. The texts range from Shakespeare's As You Like It to
present-day pop songs, and also cover poetry and contemporary
fiction. The feminist critics whose approach is under examination
include Cixous, Irigaray, Kristeva, Showalter, Woolf and a number
of British feminists; and the linguistic models employed cover
discourse analysis, politeness theory, lexicalisation and
transitivity. Contributors: Clara Calvo, Lesley Jeffries, Marion
Lomax, Sara Mills, Louise Sylvester, Anne Varty, Shan Wareing
Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of
Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world
author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the
phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on
many levels, has a long history, and is highly unpredictable in its
manifestations. With an international focus and a comparative scope
that explores the afterlives also of other artists, this volume
shows the diverse modes of commemorative practices involving
Shakespeare. Delving into these "cultures of commemoration," it
presents keen insights into the dynamics of authorship, literary
fame, and afterlives in its broader socio-historical contexts.
Memory and commemoration play a vital role not only in the work of
Shakespeare, but also in the process that has made him a world
author. As the contributors of this collection demonstrate, the
phenomenon of commemoration has no single approach, as it occurs on
many levels, has a long history, and is highly unpredictable in its
manifestations. With an international focus and a comparative scope
that explores the afterlives also of other artists, this volume
shows the diverse modes of commemorative practices involving
Shakespeare. Delving into these "cultures of commemoration," it
presents keen insights into the dynamics of authorship, literary
fame, and afterlives in its broader socio-historical contexts.
On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection
opens up the social practices of commemoration to new research and
analysis. An international team of leading scholars explores a
broad spectrum of celebrations, showing how key events - such as
the Easter Rising in Ireland, the Second Vatican Council of 1964
and the Great Exhibition of 1851 - drew on Shakespeare to express
political agendas. In the USA, commemoration in 1864 counted on him
to symbolise unity transcending the Civil War, while the First
World War pulled the 1916 anniversary celebration into the war
effort, enlisting Shakespeare as patriotic poet. The essays also
consider how the dream of Shakespeare as a rural poet took shape in
gardens, how cartoons challenged the poet's elite status and how
statues of him mutated into advertisements for gin and Disney
cartoons. Richly varied illustrations supplement these case studies
of the diverse, complex and contradictory aims of memorialising
Shakespeare.
On the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this collection
opens up the social practices of commemoration to new research and
analysis. An international team of leading scholars explores a
broad spectrum of celebrations, showing how key events - such as
the Easter Rising in Ireland, the Second Vatican Council of 1964
and the Great Exhibition of 1851 - drew on Shakespeare to express
political agendas. In the USA, commemoration in 1864 counted on him
to symbolise unity transcending the Civil War, while the First
World War pulled the 1916 anniversary celebration into the war
effort, enlisting Shakespeare as patriotic poet. The essays also
consider how the dream of Shakespeare as a rural poet took shape in
gardens, how cartoons challenged the poet's elite status and how
statues of him mutated into advertisements for gin and Disney
cartoons. Richly varied illustrations supplement these case studies
of the diverse, complex and contradictory aims of memorialising
Shakespeare.
A major new edition of Thomas Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy,an
outstanding landmark of Elizabethan drama. In its time, it quickly
became a box office success and probably inspired Shakespeare to
write Hamlet, as it contains a ghost, murders that demand revenge
and a hero that hesitates and contemplates suicide. As a revenge
tragedy, it set up the salient features of a dramatic genre that
would last decades. Its hero, the aged Marshall of Spain Hieronimo,
whose son is murdered at night, soon transcended the play and
became the standard stage representation of grief, rhetorical
passion and madness. Hieronimo's main antagonist is one of the
first Machiavellian characters of English drama. This edition
explores the play in relation to its historical context and
contemporary Iberian dynastic policy. It also relates the play, as
a literary artefact, to other artistic manifestations of the
European Renaissance and offers a fresh assessment of the play's
stage history. For the first time in the play's textual history,
this edition presents an integrated text inviting a reading of the
play as it was published both in 1592 and in 1602.
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