Shakespeare's History Plays (Longman Critical Readers)

Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their relevance to central contemporary issues such as English, national identities and gender roles. Interpretations of the history plays have been transformed since the 1980s by new theoretically-informed critical approaches. Movements such as New Historicism and cultural materialism, as well as psychoanalytical and post-colonial approaches, have swept away the humanist consensus of the mid-twentieth century with its largely conservative view of the plays. The last decade has seen an emergence of feminist and gender-based readings of plays which were once thought overwhelmingly masculine in their concerns. This book provides an up-to-date critical anthology representing the best work from each of the modern theoretical perspectives. The introduction outlines the changing debate in an area which is now one of the liveliest in Shakespearean criticism.

Literature & Fiction

Watt, Robert

Dramas & Plays

Routledge

A Summary Practical Elucidation Of National Economy, In Support Of Direct Taxation And Direct Assessment (1848)

Literary

Kessinger Publishing

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their relevance to central contemporary issues such as English, national identities and gender roles. Interpretations of the history plays have been transformed since the 1980s by new theoretically-informed critical approaches. Movements such as New Historicism and cultural materialism, as well as psychoanalytical and post-colonial approaches, have swept away the humanist consensus of the mid-twentieth century with its largely conservative view of the plays.  The last decade has seen an emergence of feminist and gender-based readings of plays which were once thought overwhelmingly masculine in their concerns. This book provides an up-to-date critical anthology representing the best work from each of the modern theoretical perspectives. The introduction outlines the changing debate in an area which is now one of the liveliest in Shakespearean criticism.

The trial of Robert Watt, late wine merchant in Edinburgh, for high treason; ... held at Edinburgh, August 14, 1794.

Legal History

Gale ECCO, Print Editions

                 The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.Delve into what it was like to live during the eighteenth century by reading the first-hand accounts of everyday people, including city dwellers and farmers, businessmen and bankers, artisans and merchants, artists and their patrons, politicians and their constituents. Original texts make the American, French, and Industrial revolutions vividly contemporary.++++The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification:++++British LibraryT094672Edinburgh : printed for Bell & Bradfute, 1794. iv,35,[1]p.,plate : port. ; 8°                 

By authority. The declaration and confession of Robert Watt, written, subscribed, & delivered by himself, the evening before his execution, for high treason, at Edinburgh, October 15. 1794. ...

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Fra Ægypternes Land (Danish Edition)

History

Europe

Nabu Press

Treatise On the History, Nature, and Treatment of Chincough: Including a Variety of Cases and Dissections. to Which Is Subjoined, an Inquiry Into the ... the Numbers Who Have Died Under Ten Years O

Cases of Diabetes, Consumption, &c: With Observations on the History and Treatment of Disease in General

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

An Account of the Life and Works of Dr. Robert Watt: Author of the 'bibliotheca Britannica'

Finlayson, James

Biographies & Memoirs

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