Compared to Ben Jonson, Shakespeare seems far more discreet, or even removed from the controversy about the theatre. But appearances can be deceiving: although less visible and more oblique, his responses to the attacks against the stage are nonetheless present in his plays. Against the enemies of the stage who identify theatre as a source of profanation and pollution of bodies and souls, most of the defenders emphasize the virtuous exemplarity of performance. Shakespeare responds in a provocative manner and elaborates another conception of theatre, involving the actor as well as the spectator. A Midsummer Night’s Dream, As You Like It and Hamlet reproduce the theatrophobic accusations against actors and the contamination of the spectator b...
Controversy has surrounded The Merchant of Venice. Although some critics believe the play is not ant...
A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of lit...
A pervasive sense of alienation infected the lives of women in the Early Modern period. William Shak...
Compared to Ben Jonson, Shakespeare seems far more discreet, or even removed from the controversy ab...
Although most critics affirm the importance of interior direction and role-playing in many of Shakes...
Certain characteristics of King Lear can be accounted for in terms of the dramatic satire Jonson pio...
Revenge tragedy rose to prominence during the mid-16th century and blossomed over the course of the ...
The purpose of this thesis is to suggest something of the extent to which the image of the theatre i...
ii In this thesis, I am concerned with Jonson's attitude toward theatricality in the world. His...
Shakespeare uses metadrama as a rhetorical vehicle for responding to antitheatricalism; realistic dr...
Throughout the evolution of the theatre, one of its key functions has been to portray the impact and...
Seen through the eyes of contemporary Shakespeare criticism, three-perhaps four- of Shakespeare&apos...
Being regarded as a dramatist of all times, Shakespeare and his work is studied with a modern view p...
Critical interpretations of Hamlet are largely dependent upon the cultural zeitgeist that provides t...
This project examines the ethical implications of relationships between Shakespeare’s fools and thei...
Controversy has surrounded The Merchant of Venice. Although some critics believe the play is not ant...
A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of lit...
A pervasive sense of alienation infected the lives of women in the Early Modern period. William Shak...
Compared to Ben Jonson, Shakespeare seems far more discreet, or even removed from the controversy ab...
Although most critics affirm the importance of interior direction and role-playing in many of Shakes...
Certain characteristics of King Lear can be accounted for in terms of the dramatic satire Jonson pio...
Revenge tragedy rose to prominence during the mid-16th century and blossomed over the course of the ...
The purpose of this thesis is to suggest something of the extent to which the image of the theatre i...
ii In this thesis, I am concerned with Jonson's attitude toward theatricality in the world. His...
Shakespeare uses metadrama as a rhetorical vehicle for responding to antitheatricalism; realistic dr...
Throughout the evolution of the theatre, one of its key functions has been to portray the impact and...
Seen through the eyes of contemporary Shakespeare criticism, three-perhaps four- of Shakespeare&apos...
Being regarded as a dramatist of all times, Shakespeare and his work is studied with a modern view p...
Critical interpretations of Hamlet are largely dependent upon the cultural zeitgeist that provides t...
This project examines the ethical implications of relationships between Shakespeare’s fools and thei...
Controversy has surrounded The Merchant of Venice. Although some critics believe the play is not ant...
A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of lit...
A pervasive sense of alienation infected the lives of women in the Early Modern period. William Shak...