Name: Shakespeare's Storms von Gwilym Jones
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Shakespeare's Storms Zusammenfassung

Shakespeare's Storms Gwilym Jones

Winner of the 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book Award

Whether the apocalyptic storm of King Lear or the fleeting thunder imagery of Hamlet, the shipwrecks of the comedies or the thunderbolt of Pericles, there is an instance of storm in every one of Shakespeare's plays. This is the first comprehensive study of Shakespeare's storms.

With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest, the book traces the development of the storm over the second half of the playwright's career, when Shakespeare took the storm to new extremes. It explains the storm effects used in early modern playhouses, and how they filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language.

Interspersed are chapters on thunder, lightning, wind and rain, in which the author reveals Shakespeare's meteorological understanding and offers nuanced readings of his imagery. Throughout, Shakespeare's storms brings theatre history to bear on modern theories of literature and the environment. It is essential reading for anyone interested in early modern drama.

Shakespeare's Storms Bewertungen

'Jones is evocative in his attempts to imagine the volume and spectacle of these events in a quieter world, one without traffic and aircraft noises or cinema or volume controls in which a natural storm might have been a touchstone of loudness.'
Elizabeth Scott-Baumann TLS, March 2016

'Gwilym Jones's Shakespeare's Storms offers an engaging and informative discussion of storms - and all of their constituent parts - and the theatrical presentations of those storms.'
Darlene Farabee, University of South Dakota, Renaissance Quarterly Vol LXIX, No. 3

'The book is masterfully organised into nine chapters that cover just about every aspect of storms in Shakespeare. Beginning with 'thunder' (a fine way to begin a book)'
Simon C. Estok, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Studies in Ecocriticism - February 2017

'Shakespeare's Storms is a remarkably well-plotted book.'
Edward J. Geisweidt, University of New Haven, Early Theatre 20.1

'Shakespeare's Storms' overall achievement is to prove the relevance of chasing something as seemingly ephemeral as the weather in order to reveal how such meteorological phenomena shape our relationship to the world around us. It is an original and fascinating study that will be of interest to scholars researching ecocriticism, performance history, and early modern drama from a range of thematic and practical approaches.'
Miranda Fay Thomas, Shakespeare's Globe, London, Symbolism 17

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Über Gwilym Jones

Gwilym Jones is Lecturer in English at the University of Westminster

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1. Thunder
2. Storm and the spectacular: Julius Caesar
3. Lightning
4. King Lear: storm and the event
5. Wind
6. Macbeth: supernatural storms, equivocal earthquakes
7. Rain
8. Pericles: storm and scripture
9. The Tempest: storm and theatrical reality
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Zusätzliche Informationen

Sku

GOR011395211

ISBN 13

9780719089381

ISBN 10

0719089387

Titel

Shakespeare's Storms Gwilym Jones

Autor

Gwilym Jones

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Gebundene Ausgabe

Verlag

Manchester University Press

Datum

20141231

Anzahl der Seiten

216

Preise

Winner of 2016 Shakespeare's Globe Book Award 2016 (UK)

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