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Shakespeare's Tempest and Capitalism The Storm of History

Shakespeare's Tempest and Capitalism The Storm of History

In this forceful study Helen C. Scott situates The Tempest within Marxist analyses of the ‘primitive accumulation’ of capital which she suggests help explain the play’s continued and particular resonance. The ‘storm’ of the title refers both to Shakespeare’s Tempest hurtling through time and to Walter Benjamin’s concept of history as a succession of violent catastrophes. Scott begins with an account of the global processes of dispossession—of the peasantry and indigenous populations—accompanying the emergence of capitalism which generated new class relationships new understandings of human subjectivity and new forms of oppression around race gender and disability. Developing a detailed reading of the play at its moment of production in the business of theatre in 1611 Scott then moves gracefully through the global reception history showing how its central thematic concerns and figurative patterns bespeak the upheavals and dispossessions of successive stages of capitalist development. Paying particular attention to moments of social crisis and unearthing a radical political tradition Scott follows the play from its hostile takeover in the Restoration through its revival by the Romantics and consolidation and contestation in the nineteenth century. In the twentieth century transatlantic modernism generated an acutely dystopic Tempest then during the global transformations of the 1960s postcolonial writers permanently associated it with decolonization. At century’s end the play became a vehicle for exploring intersectional oppression and the remarkable ‘Sycorax school’ featured iconoclastic readings by writers such as Abena Busia May Joseph and Sylvia Wynter. Turning to both popular culture and high-profile stage productions in the twenty-first century Scott explores the ramifications and figurative potential of Shakespeare's Tempest for global social and ecological crises today. Sensitive to the play’s original concerns and informed by recent scholarship on performance and reception history as well as disability studies Scott’s moving analysis impels readers towards a fresh understanding of sea-change and metamorphosis as potent symbols for the literal and figurative tempests of capitalism’s old age now threatening ‘the great globe itself. ’ | Shakespeare's Tempest and Capitalism The Storm of History

GBP 38.99
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Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

Demonstrating and defending a method of close reading and historical contextualisation of Shakespeare and his contemporaries this collection of essays by Tom McAlindon combines a number of previously published pieces with original studies. The volume includes six interpretative studies all but one of which involve challenges to radical readings of the plays involved including Henry V Coriolanus The Tempest and Doctor Faustus. The other three essays are critiques of the claims and methods of radical postmodernist criticism (new historicism and cultural materialism especially); they illustrate the author's conviction that some leading scholars in the field of Renaissance literature and drama who deserve credit for shifting attention to new areas of interest must also be charged with responsibility for a marked decline in standards of analysis interpretation and argument. Likely to provoke considerable debate this stimulating collection is an important contribution to Shakespeare studies. | Shakespeare Minus 'Theory'

GBP 46.99
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Shakespeare's Other Language

Shakespeare's Other Language

Shakespeare’s last plays the tragicomic Romances are notoriously strange plays riddled with fabulous events and incredible coincidences magic and dream. These features have sometimes been interpreted as the carelessness of an of an aging dramatist weary of his craft or justified as folklore motifs suitable to the romance tale. But neither view explains the fascination and power these plays still exert. Originally published in 1987 Ruth Nevo’s book offers a reading of the plays which invokes the findings and methods of post-psychoanalytic semiotics. Drawing on a Lacanian model of the textual unconscious she embarks on searching analyses of Pericles Cymbeline The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest brilliantly illuminating their apparent absurdities and anomalies their bizarre or preposterous events and obscurely motivated actions their often puzzling syntax. Her investigation of the plays’ informing fantasies produces unified and enriched readings which serve both to rehabilitate those plays which have been less than highly thought of and to disclose new significance in the acknowledged masterpieces. | Shakespeare's Other Language

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The Shakespeare Masterclasses

The Shakespeare Masterclasses

The Shakespeare Masterclasses is a collection of rare interviews from many of the world’s most renowned Shakespearean actors exploring their varied approaches to topics including character creation script analysis acting for the stage and the camera rehearsal preparation and collaboration. Ron Destro’s insightful and revealing conversations with thirteen accomplished artists provide the reader with the invaluable experience of sitting in the classroom with each of these masters. A selection of Shakespeare plays including Hamlet The Winter’s Tale King Lear and The Tempest are examined to explore antithesis line-endings rhyme and meter method acting and the artistry of a good director. In addition to critical analysis of their vocation the actors weave through personal and humorous anecdotes and favorite acting moments and offer useful movement and vocal exercises. This book offers a lens into the creative process of world-acclaimed actors to expose an abundance of tips tools and fascinating stories about the acting profession that will be of crucial interest to acting students directors drama teachers Shakespeare performance scholars and general theatre fans more broadly.

GBP 31.99
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Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen

Witch Fulfillment: Adaptation Dramaturgy and Casting the Witch for Stage and Screen addresses the Witch as a theatrical type on twenty-first-century-North American stages and screens seen through the lenses of casting design and adaptation with attention paid to why these patterns persist and what wishes they fulfil. Witch Fulfillment examines the Witch in performance considering how actors embody iconic roles designated as witches (casting) and how dramaturgical choices (adaptation) heighten their witchy power. Through analysis of Witch characters ranging from Elphaba to Medea classic plays such as The Crucible and Macbeth feminist adaptations - including Sycorax Obeah Opera and Jen Silverman’s Witch - and popular culture offerings like the Scarlet Witch and Jinkx Monsoon this book examines the dramaturgical meanings of adapting and embodying witchy roles in the twenty-first century. This book contends that the Witch represents a crucial category of analysis for inclusive theatre and performance and will be of interest to theatre practitioners and designers along with theatre witchcraft and occult studies scholars.

GBP 35.99
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Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances Narratives of Unconscious Crisis and Transformation

Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances Narratives of Unconscious Crisis and Transformation

Offering innovative psychoanalytic readings of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s four romances this volume systematically applies Freudian theory to present significant new insights into the psychology of Hawthorne’s characters and their fates. By critically examining scenes in which the protagonists confront past traumas Diamond underscores the transformative potential which Hawthorne attributes to encounters with the unconscious. Psychoanalytic narrative technique is employed to interpret the psychogical crises all hidden by Hawthorne in narrative gaps in The Scarlet Letter The House of the Seven Gables The Blithedale Romance and The Marble Faun. The protagonists' transformations that are illuminated are crucial to an understanding of the trajectory and resolution of the romances. The text will benefit both academic and non-academic readers who seek a deeper understanding of the psychology of Hawthorne's romances. It will be of particular interest to educators and researchers of applied psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic technique. Since its conclusions challenge many currently held critical views this volume is especially relevant to scholars of Hawthorne studies interdisciplinary literary studies and 19th century American literature. | Psychoanalytic Readings of Hawthorne’s Romances Narratives of Unconscious Crisis and Transformation

GBP 36.99
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Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs

Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs

After Robert Armin joined the Chamberlain's Men singing in Shakespeare's dramas catapulted from 1. 25 songs and 9. 95 lines of singing per play to 3. 44 songs and 29. 75 lines of singing a virtually unnoticed phenomenon. In addition many of the songs became seemingly improvisatory—similar to Armin's personal style as an author and solo comedian. In order to study Armin's collaborative impact this interdisciplinary book investigates the songs that have Renaissance music that could have been heard on Shakespeare's stage. They occur in some of Shakespeare's most famous plays including Much Ado About Nothing Twelfth Night Hamlet and The Tempest. In fact Shakespeare's plays as we have them are not complete. They are missing the music that could have accompanied the plays’ songs. Significantly Renaissance vocal music far beyond just providing entertainment was believed to alter the bodies and souls of both performers and auditors to agree with its characteristics directly inciting passions from love to melancholy. By collaborating with early modern music editor and performing artist Lawrence Lipnik Catherine Henze is able to provide new performance editions of seventeen songs including spoken interruptions and cuts and rearrangement of the music to accommodate the dramatist's words. Next Henze analyzes the complete songs words and music according to Renaissance literary and music primary sources and applies the new information to interpretations of characters and scenes frequently challenging commonly held literary assessments. The book is organized according to Armin's involvement with the plays before during and after the comic actor joined Shakespeare's company. It offers readers the tools to interpret not only these songs but also vocal music in dramas by other Renaissance playwrights. Moreover Robert Armin and Shakespeare's Performed Songs written with non-specialized terminology provides a

GBP 39.99
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City for Conquest

City for Conquest

F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby still captivates readers with its vision of 1920s New York as a city of infinite potential where ambition and defeat live hand in hand. This sentiment is captured with even greater acuity in the pages of Aben Kandel's nearly forgotten masterpiece of urban life City for Conquest (1936). The source of the classic 1940s James Cagney film of the same name this panoramic New York novel captures the complex patterns of city life vividly evoking a metropolis of dreams and nightmares. Kandel portrays a volatile city inhabited by the aristocrat the criminal the idealist the bohemian the driven the entrapped and the impoverished all equally striving to make a dent in this town. The city itself is booming its new constructions callously built on destruction supplanting with equal disdain the slums of Brooklyn and the farm fields of the Bronx. This feverish microcosm of humanity inhabits a world of immense inequality where six blocks from Wall Street people haven't got a dime six blocks from duplex apartments people live in hovels and between the scarlet sore and the apple of the eye there lay a thick eyebrow of indifference. A literary triumph in the tradition of Stephen Crane's Maggie: A Girl of the Streets and John Dos Passos' Manhattan Transfer and out of print for far too long City for Conquest is the inaugural work of fiction in Transaction's new Lost Urban Classics series.

GBP 130.00
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Coaching for Professional Development Using literature to support success

Coaching for Professional Development Using literature to support success

Coaching has emerged as one of the most significant aids in developing managers and executives in the professional world. Yet there is a degree of dissatisfaction with performance coaching models and a desire to connect more with creativity and the imagination. In Coaching for Professional Development: Using Literature to Support Success Christine A. Eastman suggests that literary works have a part to play in bringing about a change in coaching culture. Using a series of examples from key literary texts she argues that literature can help coaches enhance their skills find solutions to workplace problems and better articulate their own ideas through innovation and imagination. Eastman argues for literature as a coaching tool detailing how using stories of loss failure alienation and human suffering in a coaching dialogue bring positive results to organisational coaching. Coaching for Professional Development considers how reading fiction helps us to imagine lives outside our own and how this sensitivity of language brings out the unconscious within us and others. Eastman discusses how she guided her students to embrace literature as a positive influence on their coaching practice through literary texts. Chapter 1 begins by exploring how reading Melville’s Bartleby the Scrivener allowed her students to understand the importance of metaphor in their own coaching with Chapter 2 illuminating how Cather’s Neighbor Rosicky addresses the role of emotion. After this Eastman considers how John Cheever’s multi-layered story The Swimmer provides rich stimulus for coaching students in understanding failure how Miller’s Death of a Salesman shows how our family relationships are reflected in our office dynamics and how the reactions of her students engaging with Lampedusa’s The Leopard are more effective than the traditional coaching tool Personalisis in revealing their personality. She finally looks at Shakespeare’s The Tempest for exploring themes of power and manipulation in a coaching context. By applying coaching models to fictional scenarios Eastman demonstrates that coaches HR professionals and students can successfully extend the boundaries of their coaching strengthen their interventions and enhance their understanding of theory. Coaching for Professional Development: Using Literature to Support Success is a unique approach to coaching with engaging case studies throughout that brings together higher education and industry. It will be key reading for coaches in practice and in training who wish to enhance creativity in their work advisors and teachers on coaching courses and HR and L&D professionals working in organizations seeking to implement a coaching culture. | Coaching for Professional Development Using literature to support success

GBP 29.99
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