Shakespeare
Pages 2001
The Histories: Shakespeare wrote ten plays about English kings (from John to Henry VIII), as well as several plays based upon Roman history (the most famous of these are Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra).
" The English history plays reflect the nationalism of England under Queen Elizabeth. The plays point to an English "sense of epic destiny, and the moral complexities of getting and holding on to sovereign power" (Norton Anthology of English Literature, vol. 1, 6th ed., p. 411). The Roman histories reflect the Renaissance admiration of classical Greece and Rome and taste for classical (Greek and Latin) learning. There is an audience for both Roman and English history plays in Shakespeare's time because humanists felt that "modern" (16th century) England had inherited the torch from classical antiquity. For the English humanists, Elizabeth's England is the "rebirth"of the glories of the Roman Empire (recall that the 16th century was a time of global exploration and conquest during which Britain strove to expand its empire into the New World... )" Shakespeare's Plays
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text LINKS
Tragedies
Theatre History Page
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare 2001, Director's Notes
King Henry VI (3 parts), Richard II (2 parts) -- King Henry IV to Henry V.
SHOWS: 12th Night
Shake 2004 @ shows.vtheatre.net (my latest and last S. show): “making the beast with two backs” (Othello, I, i)
Shake porn: Titles that actually exist (among others): Macbeth (seems to be code for violent hardcore) * Measure for Measure (gay department store salesmen) * Hamlet - for the Love of Ophelia * Romeo and Julian * Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet * Taming of the Screw * Othello: Dangerous Desire * A Midsummer Night's Cream * A Midsummer's Night Dream * A Midsummer's Wet Dream * Much Ado About Nuttin' [ source ]
Summary
list + PoMo-Shake (where?)... 2007 + ... Utopia Project
Notes
Histories of William Shakespeare (5pc) B0002CHIVK * Featuring some of Btitain's most distinguished theatrical talent: Derek Jacobi, Sir John Gielgud, Charles Gray, Jon Finch, Martin Shaw, David Gwillim and Anthony Quayle, and many more. DVD brings out the rich beauty in the acting and sound. The English language subtitles allow viewers to correctly understand the rapid fire of the beautiful language of William Shakespeare.Contains 5 plays on 5 DVD's: Henry V, Richard II, Richard III, Henry IV, Part I and Henry IV, Part II
* A Shakespeare Timeline Summary Chart *
The Age of Shakespeare (Modern Library Chronicles) 0679642447 * From Publishers Weekly:
While the age of Shakespeare overlapped with the both the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, Kermode's compact, erudite appreciation of the Bard is less about Shakespeare's private life and turbulent times than his theatrical milieu and the worlds he created for the stage. Quick summaries of the pressing political issues of the Protestant Reformation and the successor Queen Elizabeth are followed by up-to-date surveys of the debates over Shakespeare's possible crypto-Catholicism and his "missing" years. But Kermode hits his stride with the plays. His breakdown of Shakespeare's artistic development and mature achievement by the various acting companies and theaters he was associated with-from the Lord Chamberlain's Company to the renamed King's Men, from the Theatre and the Rose to the Globe and Blackfriars-proves a satisfying structure to match the swift pace. Inevitably, the brevity of the Chronicles format can't provide equal time to all of Shakespeare's million-plus words of dramatic poetry, and Kermode prefers the tragedies and romances over the histories and comedies (to say nothing of the sonnets). Occasionally shifting to lectern manner, he also revisits some of his favorite tropes, which he explored in Shakespeare's Language, such as rhetorical doubling and pairing in Hamlet and the theme of equivocation in Macbeth. While Ben Jonson declared, "[Shakespeare] was not for an age, but for all time!" Kermode pleasurably shows how he and his works were of their age and also transcended it.-- was not for an age, but for all time!" Kermode pleasurably shows how he and his works were of their age and also transcended it.
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Complete Shake:
12th Night
2007 - pomo shake pages?
... not to forget to write about Shakespeare secondary sources!
What is our history without Shakespeare?
His impact on 21 century is no less than of Christianity?
In fact, most of (real) Christian ideas we get THROUGH Shakespeare.
"Real" means applicable.
Get it in script.vtheatre.net/themes?
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