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Vor 6 Tagen · Founder of the Duke’s Company, Sir William Davenant influenced how Shakespeare was performed in a profound and lasting way. This open access book provides the first performance-based account of Restoration Shakespeare, exploring the precursors to Davenant’s approach to Restoration Shakespeare, the cultural context of Restoration theatre, the theatre spaces in which the Duke’s Company ...
Vor 4 Tagen · The Folger Shakespeare Library’s radio documentary Shakespeare in American Life explores the English language’s most important playwright and his influence on American performance, politics, and popular culture.
Vor 5 Tagen · His most recent book is The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606. He is also the author of Shakespeare and the Jews, Oberammergau, Contested Will, and has edited a Library of America collection, Shakespeare in America. Shapiro has co-directed two National Endowment for the Humanities Institutes on Shakespeare, and co-authored and ...
Vor 2 Tagen · The American novelist Herman Melville's soliloquies owe much to Shakespeare; his Captain Ahab in Moby-Dick is a classic tragic hero, inspired by King Lear. Scholars have identified 20,000 pieces of music linked to Shakespeare's works, including Felix Mendelssohn 's overture and incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream and Sergei Prokofiev 's ballet Romeo and Juliet .
Vor 4 Tagen · Christopher "Kit" Marlowe (1564 - 1593) Christopher Marlowe was born the son of a prosperous shoemaker in Canterbury, England, and was baptized on February 26, 1564, but his actual date of birth is unknown. He received his early education at the King's School in Canterbury and was later awarded a scholarship to study at Corpus Christi College ...
Vor 5 Tagen · In addition to examining Shakespeare’s work, students read representative examples by his contemporaries so as to further contextualize the material, and study the particular technologies of the Renaissance theatre so as to better understand how the plays may have been originally staged. The thrust of the course is that in uncovering what Shakespeare was, students start to construct notions ...
Vor 5 Tagen · Literature and Its Times provides the historical background for the following Shakespeare plays: Hamlet; Othello; Macbeth, Henry IV, Part One, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and The Tempest.
