Shakespeare

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Get young people excited about Shakespeare! The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited. ...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501164149Author Harold BloomFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm)...

The Everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the second volume of Histories, containing HENRY IV, parts I and II, HENRY V and HENRY VIII. As before, there is an extended introduction by Tony Tanner, a bibliography and author chronology. The...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439191163Format PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

This book examines the modern performance history of one of Shakespeare's best-loved and most enduring comedies, and one that has given opportunities for generations of theatre-makers and theatre-goers to explore the pleasures of pastoral, gender...

Illustrated by leading UK manga artists, this series feeds into the growing popularity of manga worldwide, and presents Shakespeare's classic works in a highly visual and dynamic form. Shakespeare's epic history play Richard III reveals the power of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420952742Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897675939Author Patrick CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Brilliant PublicationsPublisher Brilliant PublicationsWeight(grams) 233g

This manga recreation of Shakespeare's text transfers the action from Ancient Rome to a future Iraq, once again facing dictatorship after its prolonged struggles to establish a democracy. Part of the successful Manga Shakespeare series, a fusion of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420975819Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's exuberant early comedy. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of The Two Gentlemen of Verona in performance,...

Shakespeare, Lee Oser argues, is a Christian literary artist who criticizes and challenges Christians, but who does so on Christian grounds. Stressing Shakespeare's theological sensitivity, Oser places Shakespeare's work in the "radical middle," the...

A passionate, illuminating exploration of Shakespeare's greatest plays and characters, by the director of acclaimed theatre company Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory. Combining close textual analysis with practical insights based on his extensive...

This invaluable book includes a selection of early criticism and a wide range of informative essays from critics of the last twenty years. Contributors include: Ernest Jones, Wolfgang H. Clemen, D.G. James, Maynard Mack, H.D.F.Kitto, T.S. Eliot, Harry...

Since young male players were the norm during the English Renaissance, were all cross-dressed performances of female characters played with the same degree of seriousness? Probably not. Spectrums of Representation in Shakespearean Crossdressing examines...

How to Dazzle at Romeo and Juliet is a collection of photocopiable games, practical activities and fun worksheets designed to give pupils with special needs in Key Stages 3 and 4 a deeper understanding of the play.Book InformationISBN 9781897675922Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130185Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710384Author James IjamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Samuel French LtdPublisher Samuel French Ltd

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an...

Winner of the AEDEAN "Enrique Garcia Diez" Literature Research Award 2023Shakespeare's Sublime Pathos: Person, Audience, Language breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying treatment of its subject and looking for answers to basic questions...

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority...

This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses. It builds on recent scholarship...

It is accompanied by "A Note on the Text" and detailed explanatory annotations. "Sources and Contexts" provides three possible analogues to Shakespeare's controversial, high-spirited play from Ovid's Metamorphoses, George Gascoigne's "Supposes," and "A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420952186Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Fully updated to meet the needs of the GCSE 2010 specifications. Exclusive awarding-body specific support to help students realise their full potential. The most accessible texts with supportive notes, activities and advice to engage students. Remains...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420954609Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914927201Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Redbrick BooksPublisher Redbrick BooksWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128632Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

King Lear is a towering drama of personal and national tragedy. This accessible introduction offers a springboard into the play, taking a hands-on, performance-based approach, exploring the challenges and the rewards it presents to actors, audiences and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528705349Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 185Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 254gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Race may dominate everyday speech, media headlines and public policy, yet still questions of racialized blackness and whiteness in Shakespeare are resisted. In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the influence of systemic whiteness on the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420953381Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

When an old adversary threatens Rome, the city calls once more on her hero and defender: Coriolanus. But famine threatens the city, the citizens' hunger swells to an appetite for change, and on returning from the field Coriolanus must confront the march...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420954104Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130192Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128601Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

A quirky collection of true stories from the weird and wonderful world of Shakespearean theatre, featuring distinguished actors falling off stages, fluffed lines, performances in the dark, and why you must never, ever say the name of that Scottish play,...