Shakespeare

"Post-Hamlet: Shakespeare in an Era of Textual Exhaustion" examines how postmodern audiences continue to reengage with Hamlet in spite of our culture's oversaturation with this most canonical of texts. Combining adaptation theory and performance theory...

It has been established by textual specialists, and is now becoming widely accepted, that Shakespeare revised many of his plays, including some of the most celebrated. But how were the great tragedies altered and with what effect? John Jones looks at...

Professor Hussey looks at the vocabulary, syntax and register of Renaissance English, following this with a more detailed analysis of particular kinds of language in the plays such as prose, verse, rhetoric and the soliloquy. For this new edition, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781515424765Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 313g

The authoritative edition of Henry IV, Part 2 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Henry IV, Part 2 is the only Shakespeare play that is a "sequel," in the modern sense, to...

Readers of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies have long noted the absence of readily explainable motivations for some of Shakespeare's greatest characters: why does Hamlet delay his revenge for so long? Why does King Lear choose to renounce his power? Why...

The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare is a major collaborative book about plays in performance. Thirty authoritative accounts describe in illuminating detail how some of theatre's most talented directors have brought Shakespeare's texts to...

Robert Greene holds a significant place in our understanding of Elizabethan literature. This book offers the most rigorous attempt yet undertaken to determine the scope of the playwright's canon through analyses of Greene's verse style, vocabulary,...

Tracy Young offers a new version of Shakespeare's difficult tale of jealousy and redemption. The Winter's Tale is one of Shakespeare's most challenging explorations of redemption and rebirth. Driven by extreme jealousy, Leontes, the King of Sicily,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910301289Author Chris CrowcroftFormat PaperbackImprint Aesop PublicationsPublisher Aesop PublicationsWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781473334687Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackImprint Pook PressPublisher Pook PressWeight(grams) 178g

New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativity documents and analyses the different ways in which a range of innovative projects take Shakespeare out into the world beyond education and the theatre. Mixing critical reflection on the social value of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743477543Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint 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 9781557830494Author John Russell BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Applause Theatre Book PublishersPublisher Hal Leonard CorporationWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983637929Author Kent C RichmondFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Full Measure PressPublisher Full Measure PressWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 216mm...

What work did physically disabled characters do for the early modern theatre? Through a consideration of a range of plays, including Doctor Faustus and Richard III, Genevieve Love argues that the figure of the physically disabled prosthetic body in early...

Sir Trevor Nunn is one of the most versatile and accomplished directors in the English-speaking theatre. This book examines his achievements as a director of Shakespeare within the wider context of debates on the cultural politics of Britain's theatrical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780812969306Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Modern Library IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 198gDimensions(mm)...

Focusing on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, these original essays by leading scholars explore how theatrical, aesthetic, and linguistic forms engage early modern experiences of temporality. Encompassing comedy, tragedy, history, and romance, some...

This book begins with a phone call. You answer it and learn that you got the job. Several months from now you're going to stage a Shakespeare play. Now ... what do you do? I mean, what do you do after that initial burst of adrenalin has passed through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451526762Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Shakespeare & Company: When Action is Eloquence is the first comprehensive insight into this internationally acclaimed company founded in 1978 in Lenox, Massachusetts, by actor-director Tina Packer and voice pioneer Kristin Linklater, with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780993561207Author Michael BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 335Imprint Pauline and Michael BlackPublisher Pauline and Michael Black

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141013077Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin Random House IndiaPublisher Penguin Random House IndiaWeight(grams)...

Bloomsbury Teacher Guide: Macbeth gives you everything you need to teach Shakespeare's complex play at GCSE and A Level.

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This short companion to the Arden Shakespeare Fourth series of editions, is an illustrated introduction to the rich materiality, uses and social meanings of the 75 most important things which appear in the plays of Shakespeare.

This short companion to the Arden Shakespeare Fourth series of editions, is an illustrated introduction to the rich materiality, uses and social meanings of the 75 most important things which appear in the plays of Shakespeare.

This edition of Macbeth contains the full text, extensive notes and supplementary material written especially for school use. * The Theatre in Shakespeare's Day* Shakespeare's Life and Times* Introduction to Macbeth* Summing Up* Theme...

Shakespeare and Identity in a Divided World examines some of the most pressing issues about identity and so-called identity politics in the highly polarized twenty-first century. The book uses Shakespeare’s plays and the history of sixteenth and...

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The perfect gift for the Shakespeare fan, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare is an elegant edition boasting the entire credited catalog of William Shakespeare.

A major new edition of a challenging play which highlights the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, as well as familial and literal blood in early modern and contemporary performance.

This book examines Phyllida Lloyd’s revolutionary and transformative Shakespeare productions, contextualizing her work by reference to her whole career, with special reference to Mamma Mia!

A major new edition of a challenging play which highlights the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, as well as familial and literal blood in early modern and contemporary performance.

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The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems.

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems.

The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeare's works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems.