Shakespeare's Romances and the Royal Family

Literature & Fiction

Bergeron, David Moore

History & Criticism

Univ Pr of Kansas

Confronted with the formidable and at times daunting mass of materials on Shakespeare, where does the beginning student - or even a seasoned one - turn for guidance? Answering that question remains the central aim of this guide. Revised and updated, this edition contains concise analyses of more than 100 new books on Shakespeare published since the 1987 edition. It has an expanded section on the history plays and provides separate categories for film and television and for culture studies, focusing upon seasonal festivities, hospitality, courtship rituals, sexuality and other Renaissance social practices. It provides an overview of the development and present state of Shakespeare scholarship and its extraordinary diverse critical approaches - including sections on feminism and gender studies, Shakespeare's Romances, post-structuralism and the new historicism - as well as summaries and evaluations of bibliographies, periodicals, monographs and reference books. For beginning and advanced students alike, the guide offers practical advice for doing research and writing critical papers on Shakespeare - including how to select and develop topics, prepare a working bibliography and outline, take notes, avoid plagiarism and use appropriate documentation following the MLA system. Students should find instructive the model research paper, which provides an easy-to-understand example.

Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guide

De Sousa, Geraldo U.

In an era that has witnessed the apparent triumph of literary theory, this collection offers a compelling argument for the importance of scholarship in Renaissance studies by underscoring the necessity of considerate questioning of received information and perspective. David Bergeron, one of the most renowned specialists in the world on Renaissance English civic pageantry, masques, entertainment, and drama, now gives us Practicing Renaissance Scholarship.
This book is a collection of 11 essays that focuses on the plight of the humanistic scholar at the beginning of the new century, arguing for an attitude of "interrogative metonymy"?that is, a kind of collegiality among scholars with an insistent questioning of transmitted knowledge. From original archival research, to analyzing what centuries of thinkers have written, to exposing reductive ideology, the essays revolve around the twin poles of evidence and interpretation. The essays fall into four groups: plays, pageants, patrons, and politics, each category impinging upon the others.
The collection begins with a consideration of internal and external evidence in Richard II, and then moves on to examine a range of literary and historical subjects including Thomas Heywood's reliance on aristocratic patronage, the active participation of women in supporting drama, and Gilbert Dugdale's eyewitness account of James's royal entry into London in 1604. Discussing pageants here is, for Bergeron, an attempt to redress an imbalance in studies of English Renaissance theater where, traditionally, emphasis has been placed on masques to the exclusion of pageants, the result of benign scholarly neglect and prejudice. Begeron's robust argument for the importance of scholarship in Renaissance studies both looks to the past and faces the future, celebrating the hard work and crucial contributions scholars have achieved. The work challenges us to think anew about how and why we practice scholarship, its challenges and its accomplishments in Renaissance studies.

Practicing Renaissance Scholarship: Plays and Pageants, Patrons and Politics (Medieval & Renaissance Literary Studies)

Dramas & Plays

Pennsylvania State Univ Pr

A study of the lives of the Stuart royal family. Written in an accessible style, the narrative moves chronologically from James's birth in 1566 to his death in 1625. It is aimed at the general reader as well as historians and describes a family divided by jealousy, neglect and the violence of war. A cousin, denied marriage to the man she loves, dies locked in a tower; a young prince, heir-expectant, dies suddenly; a princess marries a German prince and then finds herself the prisoner of European wars; a king-father, noted for his peacemaking, ensnares his country in a war as his life ends; a queen-mother, determined to nurture her young children, finds herself estranged from them.

Royal Family, Royal Lovers: King James of England and Scotland

History

Americas

Univ of Missouri Pr

David M Bergerons revised edition of his 1971 study looks anew at the variety and vitality of English civic pageants. It focuses on royal entries, progress pageants and Lord Mayors Shows, and argues that these pageants took part in and contributed to the burgeoning theatre world.

English Civic Pageantry, 1558-1642 (MEDIEVAL AND RENAISSANCE TEXTS AND STUDIES)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Mrts

Twentieth-Century Criticism of English Masques, Pageants, and Entertainments 1558-1652

Arts & Photography

Performing Arts

Trinity Univ Pr

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