King John: New PerspectivesDeborah T. Curren-Aquino University of Delaware Press, 1989 - 205 pages Illuminating Shakespeare's complex experimentation with the dramatic genre of history, these twelve essays bring such time-honored critical methods as source study and concentration on genre, imagery and language, theme, and character together with more current techniques based on historiography, the new historicism, feminism, pragmatics, performance history, and perspectivism. |
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Page 9
... questions , thoughtful observations , and good humor in making King John part of our daily marital concord . His many ways of assistance could never be trivialized by a number . 9 Introduction King John Resurgent DEBORAH T. CURREN ...
... questions , thoughtful observations , and good humor in making King John part of our daily marital concord . His many ways of assistance could never be trivialized by a number . 9 Introduction King John Resurgent DEBORAH T. CURREN ...
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... questions of source , with little attempt to study the play for its own artistic merit . 14 Seventeen years later , Emrys Jones echoed Calder- wood's concern when he wrote : King John is still misunderstood and absurdly underrated ...
... questions of source , with little attempt to study the play for its own artistic merit . 14 Seventeen years later , Emrys Jones echoed Calder- wood's concern when he wrote : King John is still misunderstood and absurdly underrated ...
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... questions about the human creation supposedly only a " little lower than the angels " ; seen the heroic , the absolute , and the certain give way to the pragmatic , the relative , and the contingent ; and come to the grim realization ...
... questions about the human creation supposedly only a " little lower than the angels " ; seen the heroic , the absolute , and the certain give way to the pragmatic , the relative , and the contingent ; and come to the grim realization ...
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... questions are grounded in reassessments of historical process and inquiry , of genre , of character , of dramaturgy , and of coherence that help to energize Renaissance thought itself . " 30 A review of the volume's " core vocabulary ...
... questions are grounded in reassessments of historical process and inquiry , of genre , of character , of dramaturgy , and of coherence that help to energize Renaissance thought itself . " 30 A review of the volume's " core vocabulary ...
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... question of whether or not God has withdrawn from the world of King John , examines how religious imagery and rhetoric ( oaths and invocations ) are deployed throughout the play in a way that reinforces the ambivalence and division ...
... question of whether or not God has withdrawn from the world of King John , examines how religious imagery and rhetoric ( oaths and invocations ) are deployed throughout the play in a way that reinforces the ambivalence and division ...
Contents
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The Historiographic Methodology of King John | 29 |
King John and The Troublesome Raigne A Reexamination | 41 |
King John A Study in Subversion and Containment | 62 |
Patriarchal History and Female Subversion in King John | 76 |
The Kings One Body Unceremonial Kingship in King John | 91 |
So Jest with Heaven Deity in King John | 99 |
Blots Stains and Adulteries The Impurities in King John | 114 |
Fraternal Pragmatics Speech Acts of John and the Bastard | 136 |
Constance A Theatrical Trinity | 144 |
Staging King John A Directors Observations | 165 |
The Unend of King John Shakespeares Demystification of Closure | 173 |
Select Performance History | 186 |
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Contributors | 197 |
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Arden Arthur Arthur's death audience Bastard becomes Blanch blesome Raigne Burckhardt Calderwood ceremony character Charles Kemble Chatillion Church cited in Furness citizens of Angiers claim Claire Bloom Constance Constance's critics Death of King depicts director Dolphin dramatic Drury Lane E. A. J. Honigmann E. M. W. Tillyard Eamon Grennan Elinor Elizabethan England English lords essay F. R. Benson Faulconbridge Festival France French heaven Helen Faucit historiographic Hubert innocent John's reign Kemble King John king's kingship legitimacy Lewis London Macready's majesty Manheim medieval moral mother nobles Pandulph past patriarchal patriotism pattern perspective Philip play's political present production question Renaissance rhetoric Richard Richard II Robert role royal Salisbury scene Shake Shakespeare Memorial Theatre Shakespeare Quarterly Shakespeare's History Plays Shakespeare's King John Shakespearean Meanings Siddons Siddons's speaks speare's spectator speech acts stage Stratford-upon-Avon subversive tetralogy Theatre thee thou throne tion Troublesome Raigne Tudor verbal voice Waith women words
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