Teaching with Shakespeare: Critics in the ClassroomBruce McIver, Ruth Stevenson University of Delaware Press, 1994 - 269 páginas "Today the number and nature of interpretive strategies developed by contemporary theorists for reading Shakespeare's texts may not only delight but also disconcert the scholars, critics, teachers, and students who study them. In this work, six leading Shakespearean scholar-critics, in a series of clear and elegant lectures delivered to undergraduate English majors, explain distinctive procedures that they and other influential, contemporary critics use for interpreting Shakespeare's poems and plays. Workshops, which illustrate with Shakespearean texts the practice of specific methods, follow the lectures." "Helen Vendler (Harvard) guides readers to Shakespeare's poetry by explaining and illustrating how to hear the unexpected and unobtrusive but crucial questions that sonnets pose, and by tracing the increasingly powerful perceptions that precise, informed aesthetic responses to these questions evoke. R. A. Foakes (UCLA) identifies basic cultural issues underlying traditional approaches to teaching Shakespeare's plays, especially the tragedies, and explains how poststructuralist responses to these issues lead to a reevaluation of the "Bard." Leah Marcus (U. Texas, Austin) also explains cultural issues, particularly about the "construct" that has become "Shakespeare," and introduces editorial questions about the actual textual versions offered to students, notably of Hamlet and King Lear. With emphasis on the plays in performance, John Wilders (Oxford, Middlebury) delivers a structure-oriented, acting-centered analysis of Julius Caesar and then directs, in similar fashion, a production of the first scene of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Patricia Parker (Stanford), on the other hand, follows intricate lines of wordplay through a series of deconstructions and reconstructions in The Merry Wives of Windsor and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Bringing the series to a close, Annabel Patterson (Duke) presents an explicitly issue-oriented analysis of editorial, critical, scholarly, dramatic, and cinematic interpretations of Henry V; and she offers a concluding commentary on the workshops of her colleagues."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... language of critical strategy , of interpre- tative assertion or aggression ; rather , she encouraged students to discover how poems themselves dictate the appropriate critical procedures and how to become close to them through ...
... language of critical strategy , of interpre- tative assertion or aggression ; rather , she encouraged students to discover how poems themselves dictate the appropriate critical procedures and how to become close to them through ...
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... language ( " the imaginative resonances of the text " ) , by establishing parameters for critical freedom in interpretation , and by tracing something of the critical history of Lear . He then involved the class in a process where ...
... language ( " the imaginative resonances of the text " ) , by establishing parameters for critical freedom in interpretation , and by tracing something of the critical history of Lear . He then involved the class in a process where ...
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... language and that form abstract patterns with a life of their own . In his workshop , " Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream , " he involved the students as actors and audience physically , as several of them per- formed the first scene ...
... language and that form abstract patterns with a life of their own . In his workshop , " Teaching A Midsummer Night's Dream , " he involved the students as actors and audience physically , as several of them per- formed the first scene ...
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... languages . Brower was a critic , rather than a historian of ideas or a biographical writer ; he had trained under I. A. Richards at Cambridge , and had learned to ask us the most provocative question after " Would you print it ? " — to ...
... languages . Brower was a critic , rather than a historian of ideas or a biographical writer ; he had trained under I. A. Richards at Cambridge , and had learned to ask us the most provocative question after " Would you print it ? " — to ...
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... language in which it was written ; my mother knew a great deal of English poetry by heart , and my father introduced us to poems in Spanish , French , and Italian . At school we sang the Latin liturgy and Latin hymns , and chanted the ...
... language in which it was written ; my mother knew a great deal of English poetry by heart , and my father introduced us to poems in Spanish , French , and Italian . At school we sang the Latin liturgy and Latin hymns , and chanted the ...
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V | 37 |
VI | 57 |
VII | 60 |
VIII | 78 |
IX | 94 |
X | 98 |
XI | 115 |
XVII | 166 |
XVIII | 205 |
XIX | 215 |
XX | 217 |
XXI | 222 |
XXII | 236 |
XXIII | 250 |
XXIV | 252 |
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