Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice

Barbara A. Murray

Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2001 - Počet stran: 306

Between 1660 and 1682 seventeen versions of Shakespeare's plays were made for the newly reopened public theatres in London, and in its three parts 'Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice' offers a new view of why and how such adaptation was undertaken. Part I considers the seventeenth-century debate about how dramaric poetry works on the mind. Part II offers an analysis of each play with regard to its visual and metaphorical effects. Part III concludes with a review of Shakespeare's reputation in these years, drawing a distinction between what readers and playgoers would have known of him.

Obsah

• Laws and Lovers: 37
• The Law Against Lovers Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure 1662: 39
• Macbeth A Tragedy 1664: 50
• The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark ?1668: 63
• Sauny the Scot or The Taming of the Shrew 1667: 68
• The Tempest or The Enchanted Island 1667: 74
• Miseries and Civil War: 89
• The Tempest or The Enchanted Island Opera 1674: 90
• or The Enchanted Castle 1674: 95
• The History of Timon of Athens the ManHater 1678: 98
• Titus Andronicus or The Rape of Lavinia ?1678: 111
• Troilus and Cressida or Truth Found Too Late 1679: 120
• The History and Fall of Caiuss Marius Romeo and Juliet 1680: 128
• The Misery of Civil War Henry VIs 1680: 135
• The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper Richard II 1680: 144
• The History of King Lear 1681: 153
• Henry the Sixth The First Part with the Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester 1681: 166
• The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth or The Fall of Caius Martius Coriolanus 1681: 181
• The Injured Princess or The Fatal Wager Cymbeline 1682: 191
• Conclusion: 199
• The Editions Referred to in This Study: 209
• Notes: 215
• Bibliography: 277
• Index: 295

Oblíbené pasáže

Strana 46 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world: or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: — 'tis too horrible!

Strana 34 - em necessary to raise it; but to use 'em at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor, a simile, an image or description, is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin.

Strana 29 - But that which did please me beyond anything in the whole world, was the wind-musique when the angel comes down ; which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife...

Strana 31 - And indeed, the indecency of tumults is all which can be objected against fighting : for why may not our imagination as well suffer itself to be deluded with the probability of it, as with any other thing in the play...

Strana 45 - What, do I love her, That I desire to hear her speak again, And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on? O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook!

Bibliografické údaje

• Název: Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice; G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Series
• Autor: Barbara A. Murray
• Vydání: ilustrované vydání
• Vydavatel: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2001
• ISBN: 0838639186, 9780838639184
• Délka: Počet stran: 306