Shakespeare

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908092106Author Martin LingsFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint The Matheson TrustPublisher The Matheson Trust

What do 'stage directions' do in early modern drama? Who or what are they directing: action on the stage, or imagination via the page? Is the label 'stage direction' helpful or misleading? Do these 'directions' provide evidence of Renaissance playhouse...

Application of the Michael Chekhov Technique to Shakespeare's Sonnets, Soliloquies, and Monologues illustrates how to apply the Michael Chekhov Technique, through exercises and rehearsal techniques, to a wide range of Shakespeare's works.The book begins...

Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years. Combining close attention to Shakespearean texts and the conditions of their production with an explicit left-wing...

Shakespeare and Text is built on the research and experience of a leading expert on Shakespeare editing and textual studies. The first edition has proved its value as an indispensable and unique guide to its topic. It takes Shakespeare readers to the...

Much Ado About Nothing presents a world of glittering surfaces and exquisite social performances. The language of the play sparkles with a fireworks of wit and dazzling bouts of repartee, most memorably in the "merry war" of words between the reluctant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420954623Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

To accompany the "A Midsummer Night's Dream" graphic novels from Classical Comics and to help with their application in the classroom, this book is spiral-bound, making the pages easy to photocopy, and includes a CD-ROM with the pages in PDF format,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692926444Author Maria Franziska FaheyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Accabonac PressPublisher Accabonac PressWeight(grams) 286g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997408430Author Andrew BiliterFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Lighthouse Plays, LLCPublisher Lighthouse Plays, LLCWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm)...

The authoritative edition of Measure for Measure from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. Measure for Measure is among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In...

The complete play is translated into plain English! 'But soft, what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east and Juliet is the sun'! This title presents the tragic tale of doomed love, set in Verona, Italy, where the Montagues and the Capulets...

Arden Early Modern Drama Guides offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars give invaluable insight into...

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...

The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Social Justice is a wide-ranging, authoritative guide to research on Shakespeare and issues of social justice and arts activism by an international team of leading scholars, directors, arts activists, and...

Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category "human" is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the playwright's work. Drawing on a variety of...

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...

Widely acknowledged to be the greatest dramatist in the English language, William Shakespeare is also one of the most quoted writers of all time. His plays and sonnets influenced the history of the English language itself, and changed the literary...

Othello, the general of the Venetian army, holds much power and influence but becomes the target of an insidious plot to steal his coveted position. He is overcome with paranoia and enthralled with rumors of his wife's potential infidelity. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528770422Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Read BooksPublisher Read BooksWeight(grams) 753gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 178mm *...

The National Theatre's years at the Old Vic were the most Shakespearean period in its history, one which included Laurence Olivier's Othello and Shylock, a radical all-male As You Like It, the Berliner Ensemble's Coriolanus and Tom Stoppard's classic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781399743Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 80Imprint Benediction ClassicsPublisher Benediction ClassicsWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm)...

"A truly fun, emotional, and sometimes magical first experience, usually guided by a sagacious, knowledgeable, and intuitive educator." -Library JournalFrom a teacher's perspective, this book was a great way to introduce students to a Shakespeare play...

On 19 December 1601, John Croke, then Speaker of the House of Commons, addressed his colleagues: "If a question should be asked, What is the first and chief thing in a Commonwealth to be regarded? I should say, religion. If, What is the second? I should...

This Norton Critical Edition has been carefully edited to make The Merchant of Venice, its surrounding history, and the history of its critical reception and rewritings accessible to readers. The text of this edition is based on the 1600 First Quarto,...

During the Apartheid years in South Africa, a copy of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare was smuggled around the prison on Robben Island. The book's significance resides in the fact that the book's owner, Sonny Venkatratham, passed it to a number...

TheatreAbout the AuthorAdam Long (London), Daniel Singer (Southern California), and Jess Winfield (Hollywood) are the original members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company.Book InformationISBN 9781493077304Author Adam LongFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Alone in a strange country where it isn't safe to be a single girl, Viola disguises herself as a boy called Cesario and finds work as a servant. But dressing in boy's clothes doesn't stop Viola falling in love with a man - who is in love with someone...

A full-size facsimile of one of the most complete early copies of the famed First Folio, selected and luxuriously produced by the British Library, is a must-have for actors, playwrights, and bibliophiles as well as anyone who truly loves the art of the...

I, Cinna (The Poet) has one short scene in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar where he is mistaken for someone else and killed by the mob. Now, in a new play by Tim Crouch, this unlucky man is given a chance to tell his story. Written for ages 11+, I, Cinna...

This book is a study of four of Shakespeare's major tragedies - "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth". It looks at these plays in a variety of contexts - both in isolation and in relation to each other and to the cultural, ideological, social...

This title offers a comprehensive introduction to Shakespeare's ??i??A Midsummer Night's Dream??i?? - introducing its critical history, performance history, the current critical landscape and new directions in research on the play. ??i??A Midsummer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780879109509Author Michael PenningtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint Limelight EditionsPublisher Limelight EditionsWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420962611Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140714593Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

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...

Twelve specially commissioned essays re-examine the early texts of King Lear from a series of interlocking perspectives, in a wide-ranging discussion with profound implications for all readers of Shakespeare.Book InformationISBN 9780198129509Author Gary...

The basic history of the Shakespearean editorial tradition is familiar and well-established. For nearly three centuries, men – most of them white and financially privileged – ensconced themselves in private and hard-to-access libraries, hammering out...

In this useful guide, Leah Scragg indicates some of the ways in which meaning is generated in Shakespearian drama and the kinds of approaches that might lead to a fuller understanding of the plays. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of the dramatic...

Written for readers who have a passion for Shakespeare EShakespeare's WordcraftE takes a comprehensive look at Shakespeare's stellar use of language devices throughout his plays devices he used to ink memorable lines like these:THU I must be cruel only...