Inicio > Biografía e historias reales > Biografía: general > Biografía: literaria > Monty Python, Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama
Monty Python, Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama

Monty Python, Shakespeare and English Renaissance Drama

Darl Larsen

42,79 €
IVA incluido
Disponible
Editorial:
McFarland and Company, Inc.
Año de edición:
2003
Materia
Biografía: literaria
ISBN:
9780786415045
42,79 €
IVA incluido
Disponible

Selecciona una librería:

  • Librería Samer Atenea
  • Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
  • Kálamo Books
  • Librería Perelló (Valencia)
  • Librería Elías (Asturias)
  • Donde los libros
  • Librería Kolima (Madrid)
  • Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Sobre IBD

At first consideration, it would seem that Shakespeare and Monty Python have very little in common other than that they’re both English. Shakespeare wrote during the reign of a politically puissant Elizabeth, while Python flourished under an Elizabeth figurehead. Shakespeare wrote for rowdy theatre whereas Python toiled at a remove, for television. Shakespeare is The Bard; Python is-well-not. Despite all of these differences, Shakespeare and Monty are in fact related; this work considers both the differences and similarities between the two. It discusses Shakespeare’s status as England’s National Poet and Python’s similar elevation. It explores various aspects of theatricality (troupe configurations, casting and writing choices, allusions to classical literature) used by Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Monty Python. It also covers the uses and abuses of history in Shakespeare and Python; humor, especially satire, in Shakespeare, Jonson, Dekker and Python; and the concept of the 'Other' in Shakespearean and Pythonesque creations.

Artículos relacionados

  • A Passionate Sisterhood
    Kathleen Jones
    The Lake Poets, Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey, have become a literary myth and we are used to looking at the Lake District landscape through its romantic prism. But for their sisters, wives and daughters the view was very different. The Wordsworths lived at Grasmere, the Coleridges and Southeys twelve miles away at Keswick and the women created a kind of extended family tha...
    Disponible

    12,01 €

  • LEFT PROFILES
    Eric Leif Davin
    A collection of profiles and interviews with radical artists and activists who have devoted their lives to creating a more just and humane society. Among those interviewed and profiled are Philip Foner, Meridel Le Sueur, Buckminster Fuller, Dr. Benjamin Spock, Staughton Lynd, Howard Zinn, Dick Gregory, Gil Scott-Heron, Nikki Giovanni, Crystal Lee Sutton, Germaine Greer, Marge P...
    Disponible

    23,61 €

  • The Parallel Universes of David Shrayer-Petrov
    Smola D. Shraye Edited by Roman Katsman
    This volume celebrates the literary oeuvres of David Shrayer-Petrov-poet, fiction writer, memoirist, essayist, and literary translator (and medical doctor and researcher in his parallel career). Author of the refusenik novel Doctor Levitin, Shrayer-Petrov is one of the most important representatives of Jewish-Russian literature. Published in the year of Shrayer-Petrov’s eighty-...
  • Down the Nights and Down the Days
    Edward L. Shaughnessy
    This latest book from veteran O’Neillian Edward L. Shaughnessy examines the influence of the Irish playwright’s Catholic heritage on his moral imagination. Critics, due to O’Neill’s early renunciation of faith at age 15, have mostly overlooked this presence in his work. While Shaughnessy makes no attempt to reclaim him for Catholicism, he uncovers evidence that O’Neill retained...
  • Saul Bellow
    Saul Bellow
    ...
    Disponible

    29,00 €

  • Becoming George Orwell
    John Rodden
    The remarkable transformation of Orwell from journeyman writer to towering iconIs George Orwell the most influential writer who ever lived? Yes, according to John Rodden’s provocative book about the transformation of a man into a myth. Rodden does not argue that Orwell was the most distinguished man of letters of the last century, nor even the leading novelist of his generation...

Otros libros del autor

  • Moving Pictures
    Darl Larsen
    A fascinating look at the history of film and television animation in the United States, from the animated comic strips of the early 1900s to the proliferation of animation companies and hit films of the present. ...
  • Book about the Film Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
    Darl Larsen
    Darl Larson identifies and explains virtually every allusion and reference that appears in Monty Python’sThe Meaning of Life. Organized chronologically by scene, the entries cover literary and metaphoric allusions, symbolisms, names, peoples, and places, as well as the many social, cultural, and historical elements that populate this film. ...
  • Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Darl Larsen
    This exhaustive reference identifies and explains the plethora of cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the first original film by the British comedy troupe. ...
    Disponible

    36,16 €

  • Book about the Film Monty Python’s Life of Brian
    Darl Larsen
    This book identifies the plethora of cultural, historical, and topical references in the film Monty Python’s Life of Brian. The author cites and explains virtually every allusion—from first-century Jerusalem through 1970s Great Britain, from terror groups ancient to modern, from Pontius Pilate to Margaret Thatcher—that appears in the film. ...
    Disponible

    35,72 €

  • Book about the Film Monty Python’s Life of Brian
    Darl Larsen
    As a follow-up to their first true feature film, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the comic troupe next decided to tackle a “shadow” version of the Christ story. Shot in the Middle East and produced during Margaret Thatcher’s ascendant years, the film satirized—among other matters—authoritarianism and religious zealotry. Upon its release, Monty Python’s Life of Brian was both a...
  • Book about the Film Monty Python and the Holy Grail
    Darl Larsen
    This exhaustive reference identifies and explains the plethora of cultural, historical, and topical allusions in the film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the first original film by the British comedy troupe. ...