Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays: A Marxist ApproachFairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 1986 - 168 páginas Explains how an adherent to the so-called Christian interpretation of Shakespeare can be a Marxist critic. Shakespeare's history plays, Siegel contends, were shaped by the Christian humanist ideology of the new Tudor aristocracy and are subtle works of art whose characters are complex creations, not mere spokesmen for social classes. |
Índice
| 15 | |
| 19 | |
| 30 | |
Shakespeares English and Roman History Plays | 45 |
Shakespeares View of English History | 47 |
Richard III and the Spirit of Capitalism | 80 |
Falstaff and His Social Milieu | 86 |
The American Revolutionists and the Political Ideology of Shakespeares English and Roman History Plays | 93 |
Shakespeares View of Roman History | 100 |
Summary and Conclusion | 135 |
Notes | 138 |
Works Cited | 155 |
Index | 164 |
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Shakespeare's English and Roman History Plays: A Marxist Approach Paul N. Siegel Visualização de excertos - 1986 |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
ambivalence American revolutionists Antony and Cleopatra Antony's Appian aristocracy audience Augustus Bolingbroke bourgeoisie Brutus Bullough Cambridge Cassius characters Christ Christian City civil Columbia University Press Comedy concept Coriolanus crown death divine providence drama Edited Edward Elizabethan Empire England English and Roman English history plays Falstaff feudal gentry God's Henry Henry IV Henry VI Henry's historians honor Hotspur human Ibid idea ideology imagery images John Julius Caesar King Lear Knight Levin literary Literature London Marx and Engels Marx's Marxist medieval Merchant of Venice monarchy nobility noble Octavius Oxford University Press plebeians Plutarch political Pompey prince rebellion refer reign Renaissance republic Richard Richard II Roman History Plays Roman plays Rome says Schanzer Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's English Shakespeare's History Plays Shakespeare's Roman Shakespeare's View Shakespearean criticism Shakespearean Tragedy Shylock Siegel social society speaks speare's spirit Tillyard Timon of Athens tion Titus tradition Tudor myth Wilson words York
Passagens conhecidas
Página 22 - The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, ie, the class which is the ruling material force of society is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production...
Página 84 - It has been the first to show what man's activity can bring about. It has accomplished wonders far surpassing Egyptian pyramids, Roman aqueducts, and Gothic cathedrals; it has conducted expeditions that put in the shade all former Exoduses of nations and crusades.
Página 82 - And so I was, which plainly signified That I should snarl, and bite, and play the dog. Then, since the heavens have shap'd my body so, Let hell make crook'd my mind to answer it. I have no brother, I am like no brother; And this word 'love,' which greybeards call divine, Be resident in men like one another, And not in me!
Página 73 - O God ! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea : and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips...
Página 132 - Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall ! Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay : our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man: the nobleness of life Is to do thus ; when such a mutual pair [Embracing. And such a twain can do't, in which I bind, On pain of punishment, the world to weet We stand up peerless.
Página 70 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more, Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility ; But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Página 16 - Political, juridical, philosophical, religious, literary, artistic, etc., development is based on economic development. But all these react upon one another and also upon the economic base. It is not that the economic position is the cause and alone active, while everything else only has a passive effect. There is, rather, interaction on the basis of the economic necessity, which ultimately always asserts itself.
Página 51 - No joyful tongue gave him his welcome home. But dust was thrown upon his sacred head, Which with such gentle sorrow he shook off, His face still combating with tears and smiles— The badges of his grief and patience— That had not God for some strong purpose steeled The hearts of men, they must perforce have melted, And barbarism itself have pitied him.
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Sight Unseen: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, and Other Contemporary Dramatists ... Elissa S. Guralnick Visualização de excertos - 1996 |
Cultural Shakespeare: Essays in the Shakespeare Myth Graham Holderness Visualização de excertos - 2001 |