Shakespeare in the PresentRoutledge, 2003 M09 2 - 176 pages Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain, and explore 'presentism'. Presentism is a critical manoeuvre which uses relevant aspects of the contemporary as a crucial trigger for its investigations. It deliberately begins with the material present and lets that set the interrogative agenda. This book suggests ways in which its principles may be applied to aspects of Shakespeare's plays. Hawkes concentrates on two main areas in which Presentism impacts on the study of Shakespeare. The first is the concept of 'devolution' in British politics. The second is presentism's commitment to a reversal of conceptual hierarchies such as primary/secondary and past/present, and the interaction between performance and reference. The result is to sophisticate and expand our notion of performing and to refocus interest on what the early modern theatre meant by the activity it termed 'playing'. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 57
Page ii
... courses, it will include a number of researchbased books. Spirited and committed, these second-tier volumes advocate radical change rather than stolidly reinforcing the status quo. IN THE SAME SERIES Shakespeare and Appropriation Edited ...
... courses, it will include a number of researchbased books. Spirited and committed, these second-tier volumes advocate radical change rather than stolidly reinforcing the status quo. IN THE SAME SERIES Shakespeare and Appropriation Edited ...
Page ix
... course, the serious pursuit of those interests will also inevitably start to undermine ancient and inherited prejudices, such as the supposed distinction between 'foreground' and 'background' in literary studies. And even the slightest ...
... course, the serious pursuit of those interests will also inevitably start to undermine ancient and inherited prejudices, such as the supposed distinction between 'foreground' and 'background' in literary studies. And even the slightest ...
Page x
... courses, it will include a number of books embodying polemical, strongly argued cases aimed at expanding the horizons ofa specific aspect of the subject and at challenging the preconceptions on which it is based. These volumes will not ...
... courses, it will include a number of books embodying polemical, strongly argued cases aimed at expanding the horizons ofa specific aspect of the subject and at challenging the preconceptions on which it is based. These volumes will not ...
Page 1
... course, if the alternative is to deal with plays in blissful ignorance of their historical context, to impose on them, as many teachers unthinkingly seem to do, some kind of absurd contemporaneity with ourselves, usually justified by ...
... course, if the alternative is to deal with plays in blissful ignorance of their historical context, to impose on them, as many teachers unthinkingly seem to do, some kind of absurd contemporaneity with ourselves, usually justified by ...
Page 2
... course fundamentally impossible for a variety of other reasons. In fact, the attempt to do so, an issue discussed in Chapter 8, usually risks an engagement, not with sameness, but with the very motive forces that produce difference ...
... course fundamentally impossible for a variety of other reasons. In fact, the attempt to do so, an issue discussed in Chapter 8, usually risks an engagement, not with sameness, but with the very motive forces that produce difference ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
acting actor Anglicised appears Arnold audience Autolycus Bard Bard’s bear bear-baiting begins Brandhofer Britain British Bryn Glas called century certainly challenge Choking Victim claim Claudius commitment complex confirms confronts context course culture Cymbeline dimension distinction Dorsday early modern effect Eliot Else’s embodies engage England English eruption essay fact Falstaff finally Fluellen Freud fundamental Glendower Globe Theatre Glyn Dwˆr Hamlet Harry Hunks heimlich Heimlich Manoeuvre Henry hint human inherited involved Irish irony kind King Knight language Leontes less Lionel Royce literary criticism means Midsummer Night’s Midsummer Night’s Dream Milford Haven mode nature non-discursive notion offer one’s opposite performance perhaps play’s political Polonius port potential present presentist Prince of Wales reinforced repetition response Reuss role seems sense Shakespeare Shakespeare’s plays society’s sort speak stage T.S. Eliot theatre tion trumpet turns unheimlich W.B. Yeats Weimann Welsh Winter’s Tale words Wragg