Michael Neill
Biographic Data
| ID | 999822 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Neill |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Neill |
| SIGNATURE | NEILL M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Auckland |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 11 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Duchess of Malfi
Webster, John. The Duchess of Malfi: An Authoritative Text, Sources and Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Michael Neill. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017, pp. 7-238), on Érudit
J.M. Coetzee's Austerities
Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume examines J.M. Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year. The choice of essays reflects three broad goals: aligning the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his late modernist aesthetic; exploring the relationship between Coetzee's novels and his essays on linguistics; and paying particular attention to his more recent fictional experiments. T…
Shakespeare’s Tragedy and Roman History
The inheritance of Roman history was pervasive in Shakespeare’s day, but complex and ambiguous. Shakespeare’s plays respond to this legacy in increasingly sophisticated ways, not only in those plays based directly on the history of Rome. The Roman plays, especially those drawn from Plutarch, show a distinctive and historically novel interest in the relation between individual action and constitutional change in periods of political crisis.
In Blood Stepped in
In their modern Hebrew stage versions, which developed in the twentieth century while Jewish nationhood was striving to materialize territorially and culturally, productions of Shakespeare’s tragedies were often measured by their relevance to the current political circumstances. Thus in Romeo and Juliet , whose core of romantic betrothal may still reflect the concerns and demands of the wider community, the lovers' failure to establish a new mode…
The Classical Inheritance
The question of Shakespeare’s relation to the Greek and Roman playwrights has, historically, possessed a kind of amplitude that his relation to other kinds of tradition has not. While recent scholarship challenges the old claim that Shakespeare had no direct access to Greek drama, Seneca’s status as his chief classical influence remains unchallenged. Moreover, Seneca’s plays self-consciously broadcast their embeddedness in tradition in a way that…
French Receptions of Shakespearean Tragedy
The philosopher Alain synthesized the French approach to Shakespeare when he announced: ‘If Hamlet fell down to Earth, naked, without its procession of admirers, the critics would mock it, not without the semblance of a reason.’ Contrasting the quest for the essence of a work of art as opposed to its mere existence, he emphasized an enduring dualism in the French reception of Shakespearean tragedy. Between Voltaire’s rejection and the Romantics’ …
Coriolanus
Shakespeare’s tragedy traces the tensions within a developing constitutional republic that is still reliant on the prowess of militaristic individuals for survival. Coriolanus is fully a tragedy because it traces the negotiation, contestation, and constitution of power through the character of a single hero whose abilities are both crucial to the survival of the republican state and deeply inimical to it. The chapter traces the ways in which the …
‘It is the East’
Shakespearean tragedies have played an important part in modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films, and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely hybridization of genres, intra-regional and trans-historical allusions, and spirituality. These adaptations tend to present the plays in hybrid performative genres, someti…
Antony and Cleopatra
This chapter surveys a range of key topics in Antony and Cleopatra , including space, rhetoric, love, politics, ethnicity and gender. It considers the dichotomy between Egypt and Rome, the contrast between linguistic hyperbole and onstage action, and the variety of source materials available to Shakespeare. The central characters are introduced as both historical agents and fictional creations. The chapter finally suggests the importance of the s…
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experi…
Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
"The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of 54 essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced a…
The Spanish Tragedy
Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy: Authoritative Text, Sources and Context, Criticism. Ed. Michael Neill. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 1, Winter 2016, pp. 5-212), on Érudit
Post-colonial Shakespeare? Writing away from the centre
The Oxford Shakespeare
Designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals, as well as general readers, this edition of Shakespeare's 'Othello' includes an extensive performance history, a commentary illuminating the complexities of Shakespeare's language, and an appendix on the music in the play.
Morphew, Leprosy, and the Date of Marston's Antonio and Mellida
Issues of Death
Tragedy was one of the principal instruments through which the culture of early modern England imagined the encounter with mortality. The essays in this book approach the theatrical reinvention of Death from three perspectives. Those in Part 1 explore Death as a trope of apocalypse – a moment of unveiling or discovery that is figured both in the fearful nakedness of the Danse Macabre and in the shameful ‘openings’ enacted in the new theatres of a…
Issues of death
"Death, like most experiences that we think of as 'natural', is a product of the human imagination: all animals die, but only human beings suffer Death; and what they suffer is shaped by their own time and culture. Tragedy was one of the principal instruments through which the culture of early modern England imagined the encounter with mortality. The essays in this book approach the theatrical reinvention of Death from three perspectives. Those i…
‘Peremptory Nullification’
Finis coronat opus
The best-known treatment of the trope is in the remarkable series of Time sonnets in which William Shakespeare pitches the fragile artifice of poetry against the encroachments of ‘sad mortality’, and the ‘fell arrest’ of Death celebrating The Duchess of Malfi. Nowhere, in fact, was the trope of poem-as-monument more ingeniously developed than in the theatre, where dramatists regularly exploited the iconic potential of tombs and monuments in a ref…
Opening the Moor
The Oxford Shakespeare
Translating the Present
John Ford
Introduction Michael Neill 1. Ford in performance Roger Warren 3. 'Sensationalism' and 'melodrama' in Ford's plays Richard Madelaine 3. 'The Stage of My Mortality': Ford's poetry of death Colin Gibson 4. Singing through the chatter: Ford and contemporary theatrical fashion Andrew Gurr 5. 'Language and matter with a fit of mirth': dramatic construction in the plays of John Ford Kathleen McLuskie 6. Mortality, morality and modernity in The Broken H…
Translating the Present
John Ford
Introduction Michael Neill 1. Ford in performance Roger Warren 3. 'Sensationalism' and 'melodrama' in Ford's plays Richard Madelaine 3. 'The Stage of My Mortality': Ford's poetry of death Colin Gibson 4. Singing through the chatter: Ford and contemporary theatrical fashion Andrew Gurr 5. 'Language and matter with a fit of mirth': dramatic construction in the plays of John Ford Kathleen McLuskie 6. Mortality, morality and modernity in The Broken H…
Translating the Present
John Ford
Introduction Michael Neill 1. Ford in performance Roger Warren 3. 'Sensationalism' and 'melodrama' in Ford's plays Richard Madelaine 3. 'The Stage of My Mortality': Ford's poetry of death Colin Gibson 4. Singing through the chatter: Ford and contemporary theatrical fashion Andrew Gurr 5. 'Language and matter with a fit of mirth': dramatic construction in the plays of John Ford Kathleen McLuskie 6. Mortality, morality and modernity in The Broken H…
The Oxford Shakespeare
Issues of Death
Tragedy was one of the principal instruments through which the culture of early modern England imagined the encounter with mortality. The essays in this book approach the theatrical reinvention of Death from three perspectives. Those in Part 1 explore Death as a trope of apocalypse – a moment of unveiling or discovery that is figured both in the fearful nakedness of the Danse Macabre and in the shameful ‘openings’ enacted in the new theatres of a…
Issues of death
"Death, like most experiences that we think of as 'natural', is a product of the human imagination: all animals die, but only human beings suffer Death; and what they suffer is shaped by their own time and culture. Tragedy was one of the principal instruments through which the culture of early modern England imagined the encounter with mortality. The essays in this book approach the theatrical reinvention of Death from three perspectives. Those i…
‘Peremptory Nullification’
Finis coronat opus
The best-known treatment of the trope is in the remarkable series of Time sonnets in which William Shakespeare pitches the fragile artifice of poetry against the encroachments of ‘sad mortality’, and the ‘fell arrest’ of Death celebrating The Duchess of Malfi. Nowhere, in fact, was the trope of poem-as-monument more ingeniously developed than in the theatre, where dramatists regularly exploited the iconic potential of tombs and monuments in a ref…
Opening the Moor
Morphew, Leprosy, and the Date of Marston's Antonio and Mellida
The Oxford Shakespeare
Designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals, as well as general readers, this edition of Shakespeare's 'Othello' includes an extensive performance history, a commentary illuminating the complexities of Shakespeare's language, and an appendix on the music in the play.
Post-colonial Shakespeare? Writing away from the centre
J.M. Coetzee's Austerities
Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume examines J.M. Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to Diary of a Bad Year. The choice of essays reflects three broad goals: aligning the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his late modernist aesthetic; exploring the relationship between Coetzee's novels and his essays on linguistics; and paying particular attention to his more recent fictional experiments. T…
Shakespeare’s Tragedy and Roman History
The inheritance of Roman history was pervasive in Shakespeare’s day, but complex and ambiguous. Shakespeare’s plays respond to this legacy in increasingly sophisticated ways, not only in those plays based directly on the history of Rome. The Roman plays, especially those drawn from Plutarch, show a distinctive and historically novel interest in the relation between individual action and constitutional change in periods of political crisis.
In Blood Stepped in
In their modern Hebrew stage versions, which developed in the twentieth century while Jewish nationhood was striving to materialize territorially and culturally, productions of Shakespeare’s tragedies were often measured by their relevance to the current political circumstances. Thus in Romeo and Juliet , whose core of romantic betrothal may still reflect the concerns and demands of the wider community, the lovers' failure to establish a new mode…
The Classical Inheritance
The question of Shakespeare’s relation to the Greek and Roman playwrights has, historically, possessed a kind of amplitude that his relation to other kinds of tradition has not. While recent scholarship challenges the old claim that Shakespeare had no direct access to Greek drama, Seneca’s status as his chief classical influence remains unchallenged. Moreover, Seneca’s plays self-consciously broadcast their embeddedness in tradition in a way that…
French Receptions of Shakespearean Tragedy
The philosopher Alain synthesized the French approach to Shakespeare when he announced: ‘If Hamlet fell down to Earth, naked, without its procession of admirers, the critics would mock it, not without the semblance of a reason.’ Contrasting the quest for the essence of a work of art as opposed to its mere existence, he emphasized an enduring dualism in the French reception of Shakespearean tragedy. Between Voltaire’s rejection and the Romantics’ …
Coriolanus
Shakespeare’s tragedy traces the tensions within a developing constitutional republic that is still reliant on the prowess of militaristic individuals for survival. Coriolanus is fully a tragedy because it traces the negotiation, contestation, and constitution of power through the character of a single hero whose abilities are both crucial to the survival of the republican state and deeply inimical to it. The chapter traces the ways in which the …
‘It is the East’
Shakespearean tragedies have played an important part in modern and contemporary East Asian engagements with Western cultures. Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and Singaporean translations, rewritings, films, and theatre productions have three important shared characteristics, namely hybridization of genres, intra-regional and trans-historical allusions, and spirituality. These adaptations tend to present the plays in hybrid performative genres, someti…
Antony and Cleopatra
This chapter surveys a range of key topics in Antony and Cleopatra , including space, rhetoric, love, politics, ethnicity and gender. It considers the dichotomy between Egypt and Rome, the contrast between linguistic hyperbole and onstage action, and the variety of source materials available to Shakespeare. The central characters are introduced as both historical agents and fictional creations. The chapter finally suggests the importance of the s…
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of fifty-four essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experi…
Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy
"The Oxford Handbook of Shakespearean Tragedy is a collection of 54 essays by a range of scholars from all parts of the world, bringing together some of the best-known writers in the field with a strong selection of younger Shakespeareans. Together these essays offer readers a fresh and comprehensive understanding of Shakespeare tragedies as both works of literature and as performance texts written by a playwright who was himself an experienced a…
The Spanish Tragedy
Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy: Authoritative Text, Sources and Context, Criticism. Ed. Michael Neill. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 39, Number 1, Winter 2016, pp. 5-212), on Érudit
The Duchess of Malfi
Webster, John. The Duchess of Malfi: An Authoritative Text, Sources and Contexts, Criticism. Ed. Michael Neill. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017, pp. 7-238), on Érudit
Art (20 works) · Literature (16 works) · History (15 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Tragedy (event) (9 works) · Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)