scholarly journals The Undiscovered Countries: Shakespeare and the Afterlife

Religions ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 174 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cyndia Clegg
Keyword(s):  
King Lear ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Henry V ◽  
Antony And Cleopatra ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Last Judgment ◽  
Multiple Uses ◽  
To Come

The multiple uses of religion in Shakespeare’s plays seem to counter each other at every turn. In one respect, though, I have found a surprising consistency. Moments when Shakespeare’s drama imagines the afterlife are moments that lend significant insights into the play’s action or characterization, even though the image of one undiscovered country may differ drastically from another. Across the canon, the afterlife may appear as a place of religious judgment, as in Othello, Hamlet, Merchant of Venice; as a classical Elysium or Hades where the spirit or shadow removes elsewhere (Antony and Cleopatra, Titus Andronicus); as Abraham’s Bosom—a place of rest between death and the Last Judgment (Henry V, Richard III, Hamlet); or an unidentifiable life to come (Macbeth, King Lear).

scholarly journals The work of the couple Brailowsky in the mirror of Serbian critiques

Muzikologija ◽  
2003 ◽  
pp. 81-113 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadezda Mosusova
Keyword(s):  
King Lear ◽  
Merchant Of Venice ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
National Theatre ◽  
The World ◽  
Historical Dramas ◽  
Queen Of Spades ◽  
Artistic Career ◽  
Edmond Rostand ◽  
Husband And Wife

Leonid (1867-1937) and Rimma (1877-1959) Brailowsky brought to Belgrade National theatre (together with other Russian emigrated stage and costume designers) the spirit of the World of Art (Mir Iskusstva), making d?cor and costumes for 18 performances during the period of 1921-1924. Les romanesques by Edmond Rostand, Le malade imaginaire by Moli?re, Shakespeare's Richard III, Merchant of Venice and King Lear and two Serbian dramas, Offenbach's Hoffmann's Tales, Faust by Gounod, Smetana's Bartered Bride, Bizet's Carmen Onegin and Queen of Spades by Tchaikovsky, Massenet's Manon, The Tsar's Bride by Rimsky-Korsakov, The Wedding of Milos by Petar Konjovic, the Serbian opera composer, two ballets, Sheherazade and Nutcracker. The artists, husband and wife, were praised for their modernization of the Belgrade scene, for their vivid realization of sets and costumes, for their novelties, especially in Serbian historical dramas by Branislav Nusic and Milutin Bojic, and Shakespeare as well. In operas and ballets they were also respected in some extent, but the pictorial, sometimes independent value of their scenic work, although inspired by music, arouse opposing questions among the musical critics, who could not accept their too bright colors which once conquered Paris in the scenic interpretation of Leon Bakst or Nikolai Roerich. To avoid resistance of Belgrade critics the couple decided to leave Yugoslav capital for Italy where they continued successfully their artistic career.

Care

2018 ◽  
pp. 280-294
Author(s):  
Neema Parvini
Keyword(s):  
Human Nature ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Moral Order ◽  
Richard Iii ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
State Of Nature ◽  
Henry Vi

This chapter assesses the extent to which harm is caused in Shakespeare’s plays when the moral order breaks down by focusing on plays in which the dramatis personae revert to the Hobbesian state of nature and unspeakable cruelty: Titus Andronicus, 3 Henry VI, Richard III, and King Lear. In such moments Shakespeare seems to invoke the image of the tiger, which he only uses fifteen times in all his works. In the constrained or tragic vison (Thomas Sowell), when there are no institutions with which to reinforce the morals that bind people together (authority, loyalty, fairness, sanctity), the worst aspects of humanity – as embodied in the tiger – are granted their fullest expression. However, in Shakespeare’s version of this vision, human nature provides the seeds of its own rebirth.

BOOK REVIEW: SACHON S. SHAKESPEARE, OBJECTS AND PHENOMENOLOGY : DAGGERS OF THE MIND

2021 ◽  
pp. 107-112
Author(s):  
Arseniy Kuzmichev ◽  
Keyword(s):  
King Lear ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Main Subject ◽  
Henry V ◽  
Titus Andronicus ◽  
Cognitive Studies ◽  
The Mind

The main subject of the book written by S. Sachon is the perception of objects both visible to the audience and imaginative in five Shakespearian plays: Titus Andronicus, Henry V, Hamlet, Macbeth and King Lear. Her approach is a synthesis of phenomenology, historicism, close reading, theatrical studies and modern cognitive studies. Her aim is to analyze both audience's conscious and subconscious response to the language and images of Shakespearian plays.

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