The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History - Couverture rigide

Hodgdon, Barbara

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 069106833X ISBN 13 : 9780691068336

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1991

Synopsis

In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize new kings, Barbara Hodgdon examines how closure contests as well as celebrates power relations dominant in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean society--particularly those between sovereign and subjects. Taking a broad view of closure as a developing process in which narrative structures, generic signs, and rhetorical conventions play contributory, and often contradictory, roles, she also considers how theatrical representations interpret, or reinterpret, closural features to recuperate and redirect their social energies. By giving special emphasis to theatrical reproduction as a form of textuality and to the intertextual relations between drama and other forms of history writing, Hodgdon situates performance as a type of new historicism and shows how theatrical productions, like critical discourse, participate in cultural work. Through a study of playtexts and selected performance texts, she negotiates between the critical and theatrical guises of Shakespeare to assess how past and present-day theatrical practice has appropriated his work to serve particular institutional and social practices.

Originally published in 1991.

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

In this bold reconceptualization of Shakespeare's histories as plays that ultimately generate and seek to legitimize new kings, Barbara Hodgdon examines how closure contests as well as celebrates power relations dominant in late Elizabethan and early Jacobean society--particularly those between sovereign and subjects. Taking a broad view of closure as a developing process in which narrative structures, generic signs, and rhetorical conventions play contributory, and often contradictory, roles, she also considers how theatrical representations interpret, or reinterpret, closural features to recuperate and redirect their social energies. By giving special emphasis to theatrical reproduction as a form of textuality and to the intertextual relations between drama and other forms of history writing, Hodgdon situates performance as a type of new historicism and shows how theatrical productions, like critical discourse, participate in cultural work. Through a study of playtexts and selected performance texts, she negotiates between the critical and theatrical guises of Shakespeare to assess how past and present-day theatrical practice has appropriated his work to serve particular institutional and social practices. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Biographie de l'auteur

Barbara Hodgdon is Adjunct Professor of English at the University of Michigan and Ellis and Nelle Levitt Distinguished Professor Emerita at Drake University. Her previous publications include "The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History" (1991), "The First Part of King Henry the Fourth: Texts and Contexts" (1997), and "The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations" (1998). She was guest editor for a special issue of "Shakespeare Quarterly" (2002) on Shakespeare films and is currently editing "The Taming of the Shrew" for the Arden 3 series. W. B. Worthen is Professor of English at the University of Michigan. He is the author of "The Idea of the Actor" (1984), "Modern Drama and the Rhetoric of Theater" (1992), "Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance" (1997), and "Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance" (2003). He is also the editor of several volumes, including "The Wadsworth Anthology of Drama".

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 069106833X
• ISBN 13: 9780691068336
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Princeton University Press; https://press.princeton.edu/books; ; 7th Floor, New South Building; PRINCETON; NJ; 8544; Etats-Unis
• Personne responsable: non disponible