Shakespeare

Edward III comes to life in a new version by playwright Octavio Solis. Written after England's victory over the Spanish Armada in 1588, Edward III follows the exploits of King Edward III and his son Edward, the Black Prince of Wales. England dominates...

'I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you!' vowed Malvolio at the end of Twelfth Night, but twelve years have passed in Illyria and nothing has been heard of him. Illyria is a ghost town now: all its young people have left for 'Upriver', for the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101627Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476777399Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 211mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451526861Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451526854Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743477550Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint 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 9780451527127Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 210Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 138g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101665Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

This is mating ground. There's tension around the pool table, cues in hand. A world of broken glass and beatings in the car park. It's dog eat dog. And it's about to kick off.The country's leading movement theatre company Frantic Assembly, presents this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743482776Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.Publisher Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.

Hamlet (1601) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by Danish historian Saxo Grammatica's legend of Amleth, which Shakespeare likely encountered in a retelling by French scholar Francois de Belleforest, Hamlet was written sometime between 1599...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866986861Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)Publisher Arizona...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585109340Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & Co

Offers insight into the internal workings and motivations of the drama of Shakespeare's contemporaries. Opens a new window on the ambitions, concerns, and fears of these important authors. Enhances historical understanding of the place of the...

This volume features a wide range of plays that reimagine Shakespeare works from Borderlands perspectives.   For several decades, Chicanx and Indigenous theatermakers have been repurposing Shakespeare’s plays to reflect the histories and lived realities...

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire presents Shakespeare as both a local and global writer, investigating Shakespeare's trans-cultural writing through the interrelations and interactions of binaries including theory and practice, past and present,...

This volume explores Shakespeare's interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience's most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. For Shakespeare, the word...

Shakespeare and the Poet's Life explores a central biographical question: why did Shakespeare choose to cease writing sonnets and court-focused long poems like The Rape of Lucrece and Venus and Adonis and continue writing plays? Author Gary Schmidgall...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585109593Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &...

Shakespeare, the Renaissance and Empire: Poetry, Philosophy and Politics is the second volume of this study and builds on the first, which concentrated on related matters, including geography and language. In both volumes, a key focus is close analysis...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513211862Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493056989Author Neil FreemanFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint ApplausePublisher Globe Pequot PressWeight(grams) 133g

New versions of Shakespeare's history plays from director and translator Douglas Langworthy. In his three Henry VI plays, Shakespeare tackles the infamous Wars of the Roses and the fall of the House of Lancaster. In this translation of Henry VI, Part 3,...

New versions of Shakespeare's history plays from director and translator Douglas Langworthy. In his three Henry VI plays, Shakespeare tackles the infamous Wars of the Roses and the fall of the House of Lancaster. In this translation of Henry VI, Part...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780866986700Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)Publisher Arizona...

This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition, providing insight into the foundations, theories, and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare. Central to this research, this volume investigates...

First Published in 2005. Dances of Shakespeare gives a brief introduction to how to perform all of the dance styles featured in Shakespeare's plays. Designed for the practicing director, actor, or choreographer, it gives clear instruction on how to...

Charting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality.About the AuthorGeorge Oppitz-Trotman is a Research Associate in the Faculty of...

Winner of the AEDEAN "Enrique Garcia Diez" Literature Research Award 2023Winner of the European Society for the Study of English Book Award 2024Shakespeare's Sublime Ethos: Matter, Stage, Form breaks new ground in providing a sustained, demystifying...

How do you pronounce zounds, Milan, housewife and hundreds of other words in Shakespeare's plays? In this ingenious book, Dale Coye has provided a guide to each significant word, line-by line, scene-by-scene, in twenty of Shakespeare's most popular plays...

Merely Players? marks a groundbreaking departure in Shakespeare studies by giving direct voice to the Shakespearean performer. It draws on three centuries worth of actors' written reflections on playing Shakespeare and brings together the dual worlds of...

A modern-day Taming of the Shrew that concludes at a high school prom. An agoraphobic Olivia from Twelfth Night sending video dispatches from her bedroom. A time-traveling teenager finding romance in the house of Capulet. Shakespeare and Girls' Studies...

Portraits in Early Modern English Drama studies the complex web of interconnections that grows out of the presentation of portraits as props in early modern English drama. Emanuel Stelzer considers this theory from the Elizabethan age up to the closing...

A study of how the use of Ovid in Middle English texts affected Shakespeare's treatment of the poet. The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is a major and important topic in scholarship. This book offers a fresh approach to the subject, in aiming to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814103821Author Kevin LongFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint National Council of Teachers of EnglishPublisher National Council of Teachers of English

Jonson, Shakespeare, and Aristotle on Comedy relates new understandings of Aristotle's dramatic theory to the comedy of Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare. Typically, scholars of Renaissance drama have treated Aristotle's theory only as a possible...

After Robert Armin joined the Chamberlain's Men, singing in Shakespeare's dramas catapulted from 1.25 songs and 9.95 lines of singing per play to 3.44 songs and 29.75 lines of singing, a virtually unnoticed phenomenon. In addition, many of the songs...

The "Shakespearean Originals" series aims to provide readers of modern drama with 16th- and 17th-century playtexts which have been treated as historical documents, and are reproduced as closely to their original printed forms as the conditions of modern...

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...