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Chloe Gong's These Violent Delights Duology as a Retelling of William Shakespeare`s Romeo and Juliet
Rolencová, Vanessa ; Topolovská, Tereza (advisor) ; Ženíšek, Jakub (referee)
The aim of this bachelor thesis is to discuss and analyse the analogies between the play Romeo and Juliet (1597) by William Shakespeare and its retelling These Violent Delights (2020) and Our Violent Ends (2021) by Chloe Gong. It further aims to examine the aforementioned literary works in the context of identity and the aspects that constitute it. The thesis also focuses on the author's intentions and the significance of her focus in the duology under discussion. The theoretical part provides the necessary terminology and introduction to the works of both authors. It also includes a necessary introduction to the historical context of Shanghai in the late 1920s, which serves to an analysis of its depiction in Chloe Gong's work. The practical part is divided into selected influences on identity and how they shape the characters in the books. The examination focuses on the influence of family and family background, romantic relationships and the environment and place in which one grew up. KEYWORDS William Shakespeare, Chloe Gong, retelling, identity, Shanghai
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Czech translations of Shakespeare's Sonnets
ŠMERDOVÁ, Eliška
The bachelor's thesis entitled The Tradition of the Sonnet and its Czech Translations in the first part deals with the historical development of the Italian sonnet, the expansion and adaptation of the sonnet in England ending with the sonnet of William Shakespeare. The second part focuses on the Shakespearean sonnet, specifically its translations into the Czech language, and an analysis and comparison are carried out from selected Czech translations of sonnets from the Sonnet collection of Shakespeare. Sonnets 12, 20, 35, 66, 94 and 135 of ten Czech translators were selected for the analysis, namely of Jan Vladislav, Jaroslav Vrchlický, Antonín Klášterský, Břetislav Hodek, Erik A. Saudek, Zdeněk Hron, Miroslav Macek, Martin Hilský, Miloslav Uličný and Jiří Josek. The last part outlines the approach to translation of each translator of Sonnets into Czech. The aim of this work is to give an idea of the issue of translating the English sonnet into the Czech language.
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Hálek, Shakespeare, History of Dramatic plays
HOFMANNOVÁ, Barbora
The bachelor thesis "Historické hry Vítězslava Hálka a Shakespeare" deals with plays written by Vítězslav Hálek and their connection with William Shakespeare's works. The initial heuristic passage focuses on the primary and secondary reception of Hálek's theatrical works. The following section maps existing literary knowledge regarding a given topic and the poet's relation to the English playwright. The final part is the analysis of chosen plays aiming to emphasise analogies between works of those two authors.
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Early Modern Players of Folly
Pranič, Martina ; Procházka, Martin (advisor) ; Pfister, Manfred (referee) ; Nováková, Soňa (referee)
Early Modern Players of Folly Thesis Abstract This thesis examines the ways in which folly is used in early modern literature. It asks: how is it that such an ephemeral concept proliferated and endured in the culture of early modern Europe? My understanding of early modern folly as a discursive phenomenon that was used as a way of questioning the knowledge of the ostensibly reasonable world is illustrated by case studies of four characters-four players of folly. Dedicated a chapter each, they are Till Eulenspiegel, the great German jester; Pomet Trpeza, a typically Ragusan wit of Marin Držić's Dundo Maroje; Brother Jan Paleček, a Bohemian representative of holy folly; and Sir John Falstaff, the embodiment of folly in Shakespeare's 1 and 2 Henry IV. Although they emerge from different cultural, linguistic and generic traditions, they nonetheless share a propensity for employing folly in ways that uncover possibilities for new understandings and challenge rigid certainties of the world around them. Early modernity, the era that produced the works I explore, has become associated with shifts and instabilities. In this Age of Discovery, man was compelled to understand afresh a suddenly unfamiliar world. However, where man and his reason reign, folly gladly follows. I read each of my four players of folly as...
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Shakespeare's work in a version of Reduced Shakespeare Company (RSC)
KŘEPELOVÁ, Magdaléna
This bachelor thesis deals with an abbreviated version of 37 plays by William Shakespeare which is presented by The Reduced Shakespeare Company as The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). At first, the thesis discusses terms culture, pop culture and their overlaps. The second chapter focuses on origins and activities of RSC and the third chapter sums up the history of abbreviating of Shakespeare's plays. The fourth chapter is devoted to up-to-dateness of Shakespeare's plays, then it describes the staging practice in the Elizabethan era and it ends with the analysis of RSC's approach to Shakespeare's texts. The fifth chapter deals with the problems of translating the play into Czech and its domestication in Czech environment. The last chapter illustrates another overlaps of Shakespeare's plays into Czech environment.
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Love as a Will to Dialogue in William Shakespeare´s Tragedies
FALTOVÁ, Martina
The thesis Love as Will to Dialogue in William Shakespeare's Tragedies deals with the analysis of selected characters' dialogues found in six William Shakespeare's tragedies. The aim of the thesis is to prove the given assumption of tragic ending caused by emotionally related characters and their mutual lack of communication in each play. The thesis is formally divided into theory and practical analysis. The theory is focused on definition of two major terms dialogue and love, from the view of linguistics, psychology, psychology of communication and philosophy. Following practical analysis offers detailed study of selected dialogues. The last part of the thesis summarizes the main implications found in analysis and proposes possible benefits of the work.
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The Concept of Humoral Theory as the Means of William Shakespeare's Artistic Expression
Hrabaňová, Olga ; Dykast, Roman (advisor) ; Dadejík, Ondřej (referee)
(in English) The aim of this thesis is to present humoral theory as the means of William Shakespeare's artistic expression and to show that he created his dramatic characters on the basis of its knowledge. Humoral theory is presented here first in the context of ancient philosophy as a concept which has a key impact on human's temperament, and this concept is afterwards examined on the basis of period books in the scope of Renaissance aesthetics, philosophy and medicine. The essential texts for this study are De triplici vita by Marsilio Ficino and The Anatomy of Melancholy by Robert Burton. This thesis traces the way by which the theory spread from Italy to England, it examines its impact on period poetics and a possible means by which Shakespeare could have got to know it. In the second part the thesis analyses four specific characters from Shakespeare's plays and it shows how their temperaments correspond to the period concept of humoral theory. The period concept of humoral theory, which is in its base psychological, is therefore transferred to the area of aesthetics as a distinctive concept of the period theory of drama, which is shown in Shakespeare's emphasis on typological contrast in his dramatic characters
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Opera Perdita of Josef Nešvera in context of its source material
Hanušová, Kateřina ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Myslivcová, Eva (referee)
Perdita is an opera written by Jaroslav kvapil and composed by Josef Nešvera. Its' libretto is based on one of William Shakespeare's late romances The Winter's Tale. First part of this thesis focuses on characterization of the genre of romance as well as on The Winter's Tale and its place among other Shakespeare's plays. It also describes life and work of both Josef Nešvera and Jaroslav Kvapil, and Perdita's place among their work, which is not primarily operatic for neither of them. Perdita is described on basis of operatic style, derived from plays written and composed by these authors. In the second part of this thesis Perdita is compared to The Winter's Tale, in structure, work with themes and characters. At the end the thesis focuses on the opera's first performance and it`s reflections in press and contemporary sources.
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