Shakespeare

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743482837Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.Publisher Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.

In "Blood Relations", Janet Adelman confronts her resistance to "The Merchant of Venice" as both a critic and a Jew. With her distinctive psychological acumen, she argues that Shakespeare's play frames the uneasy relationship between Christian and Jew...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451527110Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Examines the interrelation of the bodily and the textual in four early modern literary examples of bad behavior Broadens the scope of current understandings of early modern literature by identifying and analysing the significance of genre to...

First published in 1971, Poison, Play and Duel explores the dominant symbols of the language and action of Hamlet. The Ghost first reveals that Claudius murdered his brother by poison, and this act of poisoning is then dramatically presented before the...

The precise relation between the spectator and the work of art was a matter of great interest to late Renaissance and baroque artists, playwrights as well as painters. In Shakespeare's plays the relation between audience and stage life is crucial. The...

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...

A wonderful book for aficionados, actors, academics, and audiences alike. This is a unique introduction and guide to Shakespeare's life and times, a uniquely modern take on Shakespeare by a man uniquely qualified to write about him. Imagines Shakespeare...

In Words for the Theatre, playwright David Cole pursues a course of dramaturgical self-questioning on the part of a playwright, centred on the act of playwriting.The book's four essays each offer a dramaturgical perspective on a different aspect of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554810949Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press Ltd

A knowledge of the history and evolution of the tales on which Shakespeare drew in the composition of his plays is essential for the understanding of his work. In re-telling a particular story, a Renaissance writer was not simply reshaping the structure...

Who is a citizen? What is a person? Who is my neighbor? These fundamental questions about group membership and social formation have been posed repeatedly in political and religious discourses. Citizen-Saint uses keys works by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554810901Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press Ltd

This collection examines the widespread phenomenon of hypocrisy in literary, theological, political, and social circles in England during the years after the Reformation and up to the Restoration. Bringing together current critical work on early modern...

Shakespeare wrote more than fifty parts for children, amounting to the first comprehensive portrait of childhood in the English theatre. Focusing mostly on boys, he put sons against fathers, servants against masters, innocence against experience, testing...

The image of the prism, with its multiple refractions, offers some sense of the inexhaustible variety of a work of art. Like a prism, King Lear is attractive; like a prism, it is a multiply shaped thing; like a prism, it is an object of admiration, as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781554812226Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Broadview Press LtdPublisher Broadview Press Ltd

The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, ending over half-a-century of performances by men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it opened once again. The reconstructed Blackfriars, home to the American Shakespeare...

One of a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Henry V" 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, historical...

Through an examination of six plays by Shakespeare, the author presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the last decade of Elizabethan rule and their representation in poetic drama of the period. The playhouses of London in the 1590s...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780755210824Author Martin BaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint New Generation PublishingPublisher New Generation PublishingWeight(grams)...

Learn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book.Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about the works of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781934389294Author Brandon ToropovFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint For BeginnersPublisher For Beginners

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143130208Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's finest plays, and presents a man's conscience and the effect of guilt on his mind. A dark and bloody play, Macbeth explores reality and illusion; witchcraft and the supernatural; ambition and kingship; the natural order;...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586176167Author Joseph PearceFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Ignatius PressPublisher Ignatius PressWeight(grams) 177g

How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual...

The locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143132233Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The most beautiful and famous quotations from Shakespeare in an exquisite gift book. The most beautiful and famous quotations from Shakespeare are gorgeously illustrated in this exquisite gift book. Unfolding to reveal evocative lines from plays such as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809156238Author David RichoFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Paulist PressPublisher Paulist PressWeight(grams) 181g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781899747078Author Alistair McCallumFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Upstart Crow PublicationsPublisher Upstart Crow Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789388292269Author Jonathan Gil HarrisFormat HardbackPage Count 298Imprint Aleph Book CompanyPublisher Aleph Book Company

Thoroughly updated editions to meet the needs of the Key Stage 3 and GCSE classrooms. Enhanced accessibility for all students with clear navigation through the texts, spacious page design and new activities. Brand-new support and activities to match...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975274316Author Kent RichmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Full Measure PressPublisher Full Measure PressWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420958416Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 122gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143132226Author 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 9781621070092Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Golgotha Press, Inc.Publisher Golgotha Press, Inc.Weight(grams)...

King Lear: The 30-Minute Shakespeare renders six powerful scenes from this enduring tragedy. Starting with Lear's banishment of Cordelia, the plot advances irresistibly, featuring scenes of brother Edmund's villainous plotting and the Fool's witty,...