Shakespeare and the Twentieth Century: The Selected Proceedings of the International Shakespeare Association World Congress, Los Angeles, 1996University of Delaware Press, 1998 - 427 стор. This volume assembles a selection from the many papers delivered at the Sixth World Shakespeare Congress. Four plenary lectures are printed, including that of Jane Smiley on the creation of A Thousand Acres, her award-winning novel derived with King Lear. Twenty-two papers by well-known scholars also offer a wide range of responses to Shakespeare's art and international assessment of his presence in the world at the end of the twentieth century. |
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... role of that size in a language that is not your mother tongue , was going to be a gargantuan task . There have been many black Othellos before John , from Ira Aldridge in 1833 , who was the very first , through Paul Robeson in 1930 ...
... role of that size in a language that is not your mother tongue , was going to be a gargantuan task . There have been many black Othellos before John , from Ira Aldridge in 1833 , who was the very first , through Paul Robeson in 1930 ...
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... role in all of Shakespeare was unfair , to say the least . But I also hoped that even if I didn't , as yet , have a clue how to direct this mighty play , I could , at least , help him to speak the verse . My way was towards the bookshop ...
... role in all of Shakespeare was unfair , to say the least . But I also hoped that even if I didn't , as yet , have a clue how to direct this mighty play , I could , at least , help him to speak the verse . My way was towards the bookshop ...
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... role for a woman . Though I was describing this in order to connect with her somehow , I didn't feel that I was successful in that , and I fell silent . Still , having my own King Lear was now more than a thought , though less than a ...
... role for a woman . Though I was describing this in order to connect with her somehow , I didn't feel that I was successful in that , and I fell silent . Still , having my own King Lear was now more than a thought , though less than a ...
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... role gave to Thomas Betterton , who at twenty- two already reveled in the epic sweep and shift from youth to age the script demands . But a larger cultural issue was at stake in this perfor- mance , as Gary Taylor points out , for ...
... role gave to Thomas Betterton , who at twenty- two already reveled in the epic sweep and shift from youth to age the script demands . But a larger cultural issue was at stake in this perfor- mance , as Gary Taylor points out , for ...
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... role available to a ruler in romance or drama , " Potter notes — disguised lover , husband parted from wife / kingdom , wandering prince , and so on . The dominance of the tragicomedies in the period should thus be seen " not as an ...
... role available to a ruler in romance or drama , " Potter notes — disguised lover , husband parted from wife / kingdom , wandering prince , and so on . The dominance of the tragicomedies in the period should thus be seen " not as an ...
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Notes on the Elizabethan AvantGarde | 75 |
The Shakespeare Festival A Mans Play and New Women | 85 |
Myriadminded Men | 103 |
Shakespeare Meets Film Noir | 113 |
Conflicting Theories in Collaborative Praxis | 125 |
Hypertext as Editorial Horizon | 248 |
Feeling Bodies | 258 |
Shakespeares Mythology in the Twentieth Century | 280 |
Shakespeares Dogs | 294 |
The Silent Speech of Shakespeares Sonnets | 314 |
Visions and Revisions | 336 |
Reading Hamlet in Japan | 350 |
Why Should We Call Her Whore? Bianca in Othello | 364 |
East European Uses of Shakespeares Great | 137 |
Sonneteering Lovers Rock and Blues | 148 |
Shakespeare and the Musical | 157 |
The Larrikin Element | 168 |
Performance Theory Postcolonial Discourse and the Filming of A Midsummer Nights Dream in Angela Carters Wise Children | 183 |
Shakespeare Branagh and the Movies | 194 |
Finding a Way Out | 215 |
The Saturation of the Shakespearean Text | 231 |
Rereading Shakespeares Timon of Athens at the fin de siecle | 378 |
Gender Class and Race in Japanese Translations of Shakespeare | 390 |
Complete List of Papers from the Program of the Congress | 403 |
Seminars Workshops Forums Other Sessions and Their Leaders | 407 |
Notes on Contributors | 410 |
Index | 415 |
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Сторінка 28 - I know our country disposition well ; In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks They dare not show their husbands ; their best Conscience Is — not to leave undone, but keep unknown, Oth.
Сторінка 28 - Ay, there's the point :' — as — to be bold with you — Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto we see in all things nature tends, — Foh ! one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural...
Сторінка 37 - He did, from first to last; why dost thou ask ? lago. But for a satisfaction of my thought ; No further harm. Othello. Why of thy thought, lago ? lago.
Сторінка 382 - Make the hoar leprosy ador'd; place thieves, And give them title, knee, and approbation, With senators on the bench...
Сторінка 153 - O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright ! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night As a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear...
Сторінка 36 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Сторінка 103 - The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.
Сторінка 154 - If the true concord of well-tuned sounds, By unions married, do offend thine ear, They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear. Mark how one string, sweet husband to another, Strikes each in each by mutual ordering, Resembling sire and child and happy mother, Who, all in one, one pleasing note do sing; Whose speechless song, being many, seeming one, Sings this to thee :
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