Shakespeare

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948492744Author Paul Leonard MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Alphabet PublishingPublisher Alphabet PublishingWeight(grams) 154gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434104533Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 1174Imprint Waking Lion PressPublisher Waking Lion PressWeight(grams) 2962gDimensions(mm)...

The problem of justice seems to have haunted Shakespeare as it haunted Renaissance Christendom. In this book, first published in 1963, four aspects of the problems of justice in action in Shakespeare's great tragedies are explored. This study is based on...

Shakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespeare's works often find themselves 'playing dead.' But what does it mean to 'play dead', particularly for women actors,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140714647Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

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...

This is an informative and interesting guide to the comedies of love - The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like it and Twelfth Night - which were written in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451526922Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Shakespeare's tragic story of revenge is reimagined for the twenty-first century. One of Shakespeare's goriest plays, Titus Andronicus traces the fall of the Andronicus family in ancient Rome. Clinging to the ways of the past, Titus desperately seeks...

Amy Freed rewrites The Taming of the Shrew, one of the more problematic plays in the Shakespeare canon. While beloved for its sharp dialogue and witty banter, The Taming of the Shrew offers a problematic storyline that many have deemed misogynistic...

This unique study investigates the ways in which the staging convention of direct address - talking to the audience - can construct selfhood, for Shakespeare's characters. By focusing specifically on the relationship between performer and audience,...

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. Contributions from leading international scholars give invaluable insight...

This refresher reference volume features concise character and plot summaries for 12 of Shakespeare's best-known plays, drawn from the SparkNotes website and illustrated with colourful infographics. Each of the 12 chapters in this volume runs 6 to 8...

This engaging and fresh biography begins by examining how Shakespeare's life turns into myth so comfortably as to seduce even the most sceptical scholar. The early departure, the late return. Public success, private loss. A twilight of plays about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451526779Format PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book...

Shakespeare and Commedia dell'Arte examines the ongoing influence of commedia dell'arte on Shakespeare's plays. Exploring the influence of commedia dell'arte improvisation, sight gags, and wordplay on the development of Shakespeare's plays, Artemis...

Callan Davies presents "strangeness" as a fresh critical paradigm for understanding the construction and performance of Jacobean drama-one that would have been deeply familiar to its playwrights and early audiences. This study brings together cultural...

Playwright Lloyd Suh reimagines the political intrigue and high drama of Henry V for twenty-first-century audiences. Shakespeare's Henry V is a play about nationalism, war, and how we remember history. Known for its rousing speeches and miraculous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743477567Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.Publisher Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604245486Author Sir Winston S ChurchillFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 235mm *...

From Ariel to Hamlet, Juliet to Macbeth's Witches, Shakespeare Legends Alphabet presents the quintessential A to Z of Shakespearean characters. Dramatically illustrated and poetically written, this book brings to center stage 26 of the most treacherous,...

In Migdalia Cruz's Macbeth, the Witches run the world. The Macbeths live out a dark cautionary tale of love, greed, and power, falling from glory into calamity as the Witches spin their fate. Translating Shakespeare's language for a modern audience,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486440835Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Shakespeare's history plays are central to his dramatic achievement. In recent years they have become more widely studied than ever, stimulating intensely contested interpretations, due to their relevance to central contemporary issues such as English,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307742919Author Susannah CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 469gDimensions(mm)...

Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater...

Study of the sea-both in terms of human interaction with it and its literary representation-has been largely ignored by ecocritics. In Shakespeare's Ocean, Dan Brayton foregrounds the maritime dimension of a writer whose plays and poems have had an...

The Routledge Companion to Actors' Shakespeare is a window onto how today's actors contribute to the continuing life and relevance of Shakespeare's plays. The process of acting is notoriously hard to document, but this volume reaches behind famous...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781610426961Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Golgotha Press, Inc.Publisher Golgotha Press, Inc.Weight(grams)...

Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16th-century writers fascinated by the enigmatic queen of Egypt. Early modern conceptions of Cleopatra offer a rich, complex, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781870196154Author Martin LingsFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Quinta EssentiaPublisher Archetype

It is now accepted that Shakespeare revised many of his most celebrated plays. But how were the great tragedies altered and with what effects? John Jones looks at the implications of Shakespeare's revisions for the reader and spectator alike and shows...

In this forceful study, Helen C. Scott situates The Tempest within Marxist analyses of the 'primitive accumulation' of capital, which she suggests help explain the play's continued and particular resonance. The 'storm' of the title refers both to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780994862419Author Ian StockdaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Duke of Dark Corners PublicationsPublisher Duke of Dark Corners...

Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16th-century writers fascinated by the enigmatic queen of Egypt. Early modern conceptions of Cleopatra offer a rich, complex, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420975857Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 110Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 150gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

A contemporary translation that emphasizes the racial malice at the heart of Shakespeare's play. In her update of Shakespeare's Othello, Mfoniso Udofia engages with the racial malice at the heart of the play. Udofia's take on this complicated story...

In this collaborative work, photographer Rosamond Purcell and Shakespeare scholar Michael Witmore explore the transcendent emotion in Shakespeare's work through photographs, pairing the allusive power of images with the subversive effects of...

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level When Rosalind is banished to the forest by her uncle it goes without saying that her cousin Celia will go with her. But their new life gets slightly complicated, when,...