Anne Barton offers a fresh interpretation of Ben Jonson's plays, highlighting his significance as a dramatist. Through her analysis, she explores the complexities of Jonson's characters and themes, providing insights that challenge traditional views of his work. This reading aims to deepen the understanding of Jonson's contributions to literature and theater, showcasing his unique style and the relevance of his plays in contemporary discussions.
Anne Barton's final book uncovers woodland's persistent imaginative power in renaissance drama. Paying close attention to the practicalities of performance, the collection is representative of Barton's breadth of scholarship: it considers plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, court pageants, treatises on forestry and chronicle history.
Dieses Drama um den dänischen Königssohn Hamlet gehört wohl zu den bekanntesten Dramen überhaupt. Hamlet ist zum Prototyp des Zauderers geworden, „dem der Intellekt die Tat zersetzt“. „Der Sprachkünstler und Sprachschöpfer Shakespeare scheint sich im Hamlet sein Ebenbild geschaffen zu haben. Denn wie keine andere Gestalt Shakespeares weiß Hamlet auf dem Instrument der Sprache wie auf einer Orgel mit mehreren Manualen und Registern zu spielen.“ Das Leseheft umfasst neben dem ungekürzten Text in der Übersetzung August Wilhelm von Schlegels (durchgängige Vers-/Zeilenzählung) ein Nachwort, einen Abschnitt zu Shakespeares Biografie, bibliografische Hinweise, Johann Wolfgang von Goethes Aufsatz “Shakespeare und kein Ende” sowie Anmerkungen bzw. Wort- und Sacherläuterungen.
This collection features diverse essays exploring Shakespeare and his contemporaries, delving into their works, influences, and the cultural context of their time. It offers insights into literary themes, character analysis, and the interplay between different playwrights, enriching the understanding of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. The essays provide a comprehensive examination of the lasting impact of these writers on literature and drama.
The Tempest, die Geschichte von dem entmachteten und vertriebenen Herzog von Mailand, der im Exil auf einer Insel im Meer eine neue Herrschaft errichtet und durch Magie alle seine Feinde in seine Gewalt bringt, ist eines der faszinierendsten und vieldeutigsten Dramen Shakespeares. Es ist wechselweise als romantisches Märchen- und Zauberstück, als persönliche Abschiedsbotschaft des Dichters in seinem letzten großen Werk, als Parabel von Großmut und Vergebung und als Lehrstück über das Unrecht der Kolonialherrschaft gedeutet und inszeniert worden. Es reizt immer noch zu neuen Interpretationen und Aufführungsweisen.
Every few years, someone writes a book about the wonders of living the simple life in the wilderness. For every person who loves that life, there are hundreds-no thousands-of others who can't wait to get away from it, and to enjoy the comforts of civilization. These people need a spokesperson, so Anne Barton, whose family lived for two years when she was a child, in a tent in the mountains, decided to set a mystery novel in an isolated mountain valley. Fourteen-year-old Derek Taylor discovers that the simple life isn't so simple after all when his family settles in a mountain valley, far from civilization. In fact, it's very hard work, even for him and his little sister. His parents want to get their children away from the drugs and street crime of an urban environment. But Derek meets another teen-age boy, who shows him how to catch fish right under the nose of the conservation officer, how to use smokeless tobacco, and where the marijuana is grown. Derek is dragged into a murder investigation when he and the other boy trip an alarm at a marijuana grow-op, and in running away, fall into an open grave. He unwittingly takes his sister into potential danger while looking for clues to the identity of the murderer, and also when he discovers that another, more subtle crime is being worked in the mountain valley. Anne Barton now lives, in comfort, in the beautiful Okanagan Valley of British Columbia.
Exploring the connections between Byron's life experiences and his literary influences, this analysis of Don Juan delves into the themes of love, satire, and societal critique. The author examines how personal events and contemporary literary works shaped Byron's creation, offering insights into the poem's structure and character development. By situating Don Juan within its historical and cultural context, the study reveals the complexities of Byron's character and the innovative nature of his writing.
Christina Rossetti is one of the most significant and enduring poets of the 19th century. Best known as the author of intriguing, haunting and sometimes troubling lyric poetry, she published three collections of verse during her lifetime and contributed poetry to some of the most popular literary journals of the period. Her poetry is important because it reflects and critiques some of the major intellectual, political and cultural trends of Victorian times; but its drastic vision is also one that can speak to us directly, inviting us to participate in its provocations and pleasures.