Shakespeare's Local

Author: Pete Brown
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0230767370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343

Book Description
Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and lean back, resting your head against the wall. And then consider this: who else has rested their head against that wall, over the last 600 years? Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims almost certainly drank in the George on their way out of London to Canterbury. It's fair to say that Shakespeare will have popped in from the nearby Globe for a pint, and we know that Dickens certainly did. Mail carriers changed their horses here, before heading to all four corners of Britain -- while sailors drank here before visiting all four corners of the world... The pub, as Pete Brown points out, is the 'primordial cell of British life' and in the George he has found the perfect case study. All life is here, from murderers, highwaymen and ladies of the night to gossiping pedlars and hard-working clerks. So sit back and watch as buildings rise and fall over the centuries, and 'the beer drinker's Bill Bryson' (TLS) takes us on an entertaining tour through six centuries of history, through the stories of everyone that ever drank in one pub.

Local/Global Shakespeare and Advertising

Author: Márta Minier
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040040942
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 248

Book Description
Local/ Global Shakespeare and Advertising examines the local/ global and rhizomatic phenomenon of Shakespeare as advertised and Shakespeare as advertising. Starting from the importance and the awareness of advertising practices in the early modern period, the volume follows the evolution of the use of Shakespeare as a promotional catalyst up to the twenty-first century. The volume considers the pervasiveness of Shakespeare’s marketability in Anglophone and non-Anglophone cultures and its special engagement with creative and commercial industries. With its inter-and transdisciplinary perspective and its international scope, this book brings new insights into Shakespeare’s selling power, Shakespeare as the object of advertising and Shakespeare as part of the advertising vehicle, in relation to a range of crucial cultural, ideological and political issues.

Native Shakespeares

Author: Parmita Kapadia
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317089839
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Explored in this essay collection is how Shakespeare is rewritten, reinscribed and translated to fit within the local tradition, values, and languages of the world's various communities and cultures. Contributors show that Shakespeare, regardless of the medium - theater, pedagogy, or literary studies - is commonly 'rooted' in the local customs of a people in ways that challenge the notion that his drama promotes a Western idealism. Native Shakespeares examines how the persistent indigenization of Shakespeare complicates the traditional vision of his work as a voice of Western culture and colonial hegemony. The international range of the collection and the focus on indigenous practices distinguishes Native Shakespeares from other available texts.

World-Wide Shakespeares

Author: Sonia Massai
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134345844
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
World-Wide Shakespeares brings together an international team of leading scholars in order to explore the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays in film and performance around the world.

Shakespeare's Pub

Author: Pete Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250033888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
"First published in Great Britain under the title Shakespeare's local by Macmillan"--T.p. verso.

Local Shakespeares

Author: Martin Orkin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134274513
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
This book shows how 'local', 'non-metropolitan' knowledges and experiences might extend our understanding of various aspects of Shakespeare's plays, using as a particular example the presentation of masculinity in the late plays.

Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways

Author: Hopkins Lisa Hopkins
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474454143
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern BritainOpens new windows on early modern culture, subjectivity and perceptions around the experience of the road and how that shapes the idea of the road itselfOffers insight into the ways both the bare boards of the stage and prose narratives were used to imagine road journeys and the intersections between public and private spaceEnhances historical understanding of the literal place of theatre in the road networks around early modern LondonProvides a crucial ligature in English literary and cultural history. The present plays and prose are prolegomena to the travel literature of Montagu, Swift, Boswell and Johnson in the Hebrides, Sterne's Sentimental Journey, Fielding's Tom Jones, and peripatetic Civil War narrativesThis book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture. Chapters develop our understanding of the place of the road in the early modern imagination and open various windows on a geography which may by its nature seem passing or trivial but is in fact central to all conceptions of movement. They also shed new light on perhaps the most astonishing achievement of early modern plays: their use of one small, bare space to suggest an amazing variety of physical and potentially metaphysical locations.

Special Section, European Shakespeares

Author: Graham Bradshaw
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780754665724
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 314

Book Description
This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on European Shakespeares, which highlights how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. Contributors to this issue come from Europe, North America, South Africa, and India. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, essays in this volume consider issues of character and the genre of romance, and other topics.

Hamlet of Shakespeare's Audience

Author: John Draper
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780714610276
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
First Published in 1967. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Centre

Author: K. Flaherty
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137275073
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 232

Book Description
Showcasing a wide array of recent, innovative and original research into Shakespeare and learning in Australasia and beyond, this volume argues the value of the 'local' and provides transferable and adaptable models of educational theory and practice.