Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press, 2001 - 306 من الصفحات
Between 1660 and 1682 seventeen versions of Shakespeare's plays were made for the newly reopened public theatres in London, and in its three parts 'Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice' offers a new view of why and how such adaptation was undertaken. Part I considers the seventeenth-century debate about how dramaric poetry works on the mind. Part II offers an analysis of each play with regard to its visual and metaphorical effects. Part III concludes with a review of Shakespeare's reputation in these years, drawing a distinction between what readers and playgoers would have known of him.

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Laws and Lovers
37
The Law Against Lovers Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for Measure 1662
39
Macbeth A Tragedy 1664
50
The Tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmark ?1668
63
Sauny the Scot or The Taming of the Shrew 1667
68
The Tempest or The Enchanted Island 1667
74
Miseries and Civil War
89
The Tempest or The Enchanted Island Opera 1674
90
The Misery of Civil War Henry VIs 1680
135
The History of King Richard the Second or The Sicilian Usurper Richard II 1680
144
The History of King Lear 1681
153
Henry the Sixth The First Part with the Murder of Humphrey Duke of Glocester 1681
166
The Ingratitude of a Commonwealth or The Fall of Caius Martius Coriolanus 1681
181
The Injured Princess or The Fatal Wager Cymbeline 1682
191
Conclusion
199
The Editions Referred to in This Study
209

or The Enchanted Castle 1674
95
The History of Timon of Athens the ManHater 1678
98
Titus Andronicus or The Rape of Lavinia ?1678
111
Troilus and Cressida or Truth Found Too Late 1679
120
The History and Fall of Caiuss Marius Romeo and Juliet 1680
128
Notes
215
Bibliography
277
Index
295
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الصفحة 60 - He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.
الصفحة 46 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods, or to reside In thrilling region of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendent world: or to be worse than worst Of those that lawless and incertain thought Imagine howling: — 'tis too horrible!
الصفحة 262 - Poeta non fit, sed nascitur — one is not made but born a poet. Indeed his learning was very little, so that as Cornish diamonds are not polished by any lapidary, but are pointed and smoothed even as they are taken out of the earth, so nature itself was all the art which was used upon him.
الصفحة 34 - em necessary to raise it; but to use 'em at every word, to say nothing without a metaphor, a simile, an image or description, is, I doubt, to smell a little too strongly of the buskin.
الصفحة 29 - But that which did please me beyond anything in the whole world, was the wind-musique when the angel comes down ; which is so sweet that it ravished me, and indeed, in a word, did wrap up my soul so that it made me really sick, just as I have formerly been when in love with my wife...
الصفحة 90 - The year after in 1673. The Tempest, or the Inchanted Island, made into an opera by Mr. Shadwell, having all New in it; as Scenes, Machines; particularly one Scene Painted with Myriads of Ariel Spirits; and another flying away, with a Table Furnisht out with Fruits, Sweet meats and all sorts of Viands; just when Duke Trinculo and his Companions were going to Dinner; all was things perform'd in it so Admirably well, that not any succeeding Opera got more Money.
الصفحة 31 - And indeed, the indecency of tumults is all which can be objected against fighting : for why may not our imagination as well suffer itself to be deluded with the probability of it, as with any other thing in the play...
الصفحة 87 - ... so the women and W. Hewer and I walked upon the Downes, where a flock of sheep was; and the most pleasant and innocent sight that ever I saw in my life. We found a shepherd and his little boy reading, far from any houses or sight of people, the Bible to him...
الصفحة 45 - What, do I love her, That I desire to hear her speak again, And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on? O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint, With saints dost bait thy hook!

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