Shakespeare

This book argues that the idea of metamorphosis is central to both the theory and practice of Shakespearean comedy. It offers a synthesis of several major themes of Shakespearean comedy--identity, change, desire, marriage, and comic form--under the...

No issue in Shakespeare studies is more important than determining what he wrote. For over two centuries scholars have discussed the evidence that Shakespeare worked with co-authors on several plays, and have used a variety of methods to differentiate...

Shakespeare was neither a Royalist defender of order and hierarchy nor a consistently radical champion of social equality, but rather simultaneously radical and conservative as a critic of emerging forms of modernity. Hugh Grady argues that Shakespeare's...

Shakespeare's late plays are usually seen in terms of courtliness and escapism. But the critical tradition has been too decorous. Neither neo-Christian pieties nor high-political allegory can account for the works' audacity and surprise, or the popular...

The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays and is a perennial and compelling success in the theatre. Its reception is marked, however, by ongoing polarized debate over the meaning and worth of the play. This edition disengages...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102716Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Readers and playgoers who are new to Shakespeare (and even more seasoned veterans who would like to appreciate him more than they do) often find themselves puzzled: what is going on? His characters speak in verse rather than in the patterns of everyday...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557833884Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Challenging the traditional view that Shakespeare's early comedies are about the experience of romantic love and constitute a genre called romantic comedy, Camille Wells Slights demonstrates that they dramatize individual action in the context of social...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451526793Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140714869Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's black comedy.A complex play that combines pathos and humor, The Merchant of Venice also introduces one of Shakespeare's most memorable villains, the Jewish moneylender Shylock, who famously demands a...

Three decades of controversy in Shakespeare studies can be summed up in a single question: Was Shakespeare one of a kind? On one side of the debate are the Shakespeare lovers, the bardolaters, who insist on Shakespeare's timeless preeminence as an author...

These individual volumes extracted from The Norton Shakespeare bring to readers a meticulously edited new text that reflects current textual-editing scholarship and introduces innovative teaching features. The print and digital bundles offer students a...

A comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare's plays, The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page illuminates for a general audience how and why the plays work so well. Noting in detail the practical and physical limitations the Bard...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916744271Author Evelyn SamuelFormat PaperbackImprint Eves Super Easy BooksPublisher Eves Super Easy Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554815142Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press LtdWeight(grams) 492gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486408897Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451527196Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The Shakespearean Originals Series takes as its point of departure the question: "What is it that we read Shakespeare?" The answer may seem self-evident: we read the words that Shakespeare wrote. But do we? In the case of all the major editions of...

"Romeo and Juliet" sets the jewel of young romantic love in the mud of a bustling, realistically drawn society. Then, with tragic inevitability, it shows its destruction. This is a new edition prepared by English Touring Theatre's Artistic Director...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554810529Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press Ltd

This richly contextualized study of Shakespeare's comic engagement with sadness contends that the playwright rethinks melancholy through comic theatre and conversely, re-theorizes comedy through melancholy.Book InformationISBN 9781474462716Author J.F...

Richard III has the status of a monster, in British culture, and the continuous popularity of Shakespeare's play has done much to foster this. Deformity and distortion operate through this myth on many levels. This study is an essay in five...

In Julius Caesar Shakespeare links the problem of treachery between Roman men with the institution of marriage, and with men's dissociation from women. He asked his first audience to recognise in the Rome that he represents features of the England in...

First Published in 1992. This series puts into circulation single annotated editions of early modern play-texts whose literary and theatrical histories have been overshadowed by editorial practices dominant since the eighteenth century. The text...

The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783861841272Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 512Imprint Wartelsteiner GmbHPublisher Wartelsteiner GmbHWeight(grams) 50g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783861843337Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 640Imprint Wartelsteiner GmbHPublisher Wartelsteiner GmbHWeight(grams) 48g

The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama. Emily Shortslef makes two main arguments. One is that poetic forms of complaint--expressions of discontent and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398824560Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781557832719Author Adam LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140714739Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143131731Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 130gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140714579Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...