Books written by Ewan Fernie
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Shame in Shakespeare
E. Brennan , rev . edn , The New Mermaids , London : E. Benn . Wharton , T.F. ( 1988 ) Moral Experiment in Jacobean Drama , New York : St Martin's Press . Wheeler , R.P. ( 1981 ) Shakespeare's Development and the Problem Comedies ...
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Macbeth, Macbeth
He knew that none of the villagers dared venture within a country mile of its ghoulish tree skeletons and callow new growth. But he might as well have drawn the boys a map and beckoned them forward with a toffee apple.
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New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity
5 See Midsummer Mischief: Four Radical New Plays (London: Oberon Books, 2014), iii. 6 Alycia Smith-Howard, Studio Shakespeare: the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Other Place (London: Ashgate, 2006), 4. 7 Suzanne Gossett's Arden ...
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Shame in Shakespeare
... and Marlowe 62-3, 76, 95, 96, 99; possible experience of shame 229-30; and religion 31, 106; see also shame: in Shakespeare Shalvi, Alice 121 shame: acceptance of (taking or facing shame) 31-2, 34-5, 36-7, 42,64,83,84,95, 104, 108, ...
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The Demonic: Literature and Experience
Ewan Fernie argues that the demonic tradition in literature offers a key to our most agonised and intimate experiences.
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Shakespeare for Freedom
... Shakespeare is making a virtue of necessity here. It is a daring moment of theatre 'going naked', revealing and revelling in its own technology. When Falstaff says 'he is but the counterfeit of a man who hath not the life of a man', ...
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New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity
When the Royal Shakespeare Company's 400th birthday celebration includes rap and hip-hop, the comedian Rufus Hound and the rapper Akala, Shakespeare too is finding new ways into the world. Categories of high and popular culture are ...
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Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter
Shakespeare for Freedom presents a powerful, plausible and political argument for Shakespeare's meaning and value.
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Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter
freedom which Shakespeare as a great artist exemplifies; and which, as the creator of supremely lively dramatic characters, he dramatises: but it is equally a politics that is insistently tested by such individual freedom, ...
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Thomas Mann and Shakespeare: Something Rich and Strange
... Mann's novel makes Shakespeare's play and its fictional operatic version the driving force to compose a quartet of love ... artist figures in Mann's work, art and life are here presented as a principal antithesis. As before, the artist hero ...
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Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader
Collecting in one volume the classic and cutting-edge statements which define early modern scholarship as it is now practised, this book is a one-stop indispensable resource for undergraduates and beginning postgraduates alike.
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Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader
The last two decades have transformed the field of Renaissance studies, and "Reconceiving the Renaissance: A Critical Reader" maps this difficult terrain. Attending to the breadth of fresh approaches, the...