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The Morality of art : essays presented to G. Wilson Knight by his colleagues and friends
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The article was published on 1969-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 10 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Knight & Morality.read more
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Shakespeare's Stage Traffic: Imitation, Borrowing and Competition in Renaissance Theatre
TL;DR: Clare et al. as mentioned in this paper re-situate Shakespeare's dramaturgy within the flourishing and competitive theatrical trade of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and demonstrate how Shakespeare worked with materials which had already entered the dramatic tradition, and how, in the spirit of Renaissance theory, he moulded and converted them to his own use.
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Hermione's Wrinkles, or, Ovid Transformed: An Essay on The Winter's Tale
TL;DR: In his Poetics Aristotle grants the playwright considerable freedom to make changes in the stories he dramatizes as long as he does not "undo" their basic sequence of events (14.53b22). But for two significant exceptions, Shakespeare by and large observes this Aristotelian maxim wherever he has a dominant and well-known source.
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James I and Timon of Athens
David Bevington,David L. Smith +1 more
TL;DR: Kahn and Goldberg as discussed by the authors argue that Timon of Athens needs to be understood in the context of Jacobean court politics, along with other plays like Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, and Henry VIII.
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Drama & Demigods: Kingship and Charisma in Shakespeare’s England
TL;DR: Shakespearean charisma, with its medieval roots in both religion and politics, served as a precursor to Max Weber's later understanding of the term as discussed by the authors, and the Henriad of Shakespeare's second tetralogy examines this royal charisma as it appears both under crisis and in the process of what Weber would later characterize as routinization.
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"Why didn't you just stay where you were, a relic in the memory of poets?" : Yoruban ritual and sororal commonality in Fémi Òsófisan's 'Tègónni: An African Antigone'
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss Femi Osofisan's transnational play Tegonni: An African Antigone in the context of other African and European rewritings of Sophocles' Antigonus.