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Expectation of the millennium was widespread in English society at the end of the eighteenth century. The essays in this volume explore how exactly, this expectation shaped, and was shaped by, the literature, art, and politics of the period we now call...

This revision of the successful Casebook first published in 1968, brings the book up-to-date for the 1990's, both with new criticism and with reviews of new productions. The detailed 'Critical Reactions before 1900' section is retained, including comment...

Shakespeare for Freedom presents a powerful, plausible and political argument for Shakespeare's meaning and value. It ranges across the breadth of the Shakespeare phenomenon, offering a new interpretation not just of the characters and plays, but also of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333098059Author John JumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 235Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 279g

The commentary at the centre of this groundbreaking introduction alerts the reader to what happens on stage during a performance by showing what the text requires from actors and the choices they are offered. By this means, the Handbook demonstrates how...

This clear and succinct book is designed for general readers who want to know how to go about reading Shakespeare's works for pleasure. Encourages readers to approach Shakespeare's works aggressively, interactively, and questioningly Focuses on six...

How did the popular drama of Shakespeare's age become literature? Every work that has survived from the theater of past ages has gone through some editorial process to make it available to readers. The book of the play is not the play on the stage;...

Mastering Shakespeare covers in detail the plays set in the National Curriculum through GCSE and A-Level to the major elements of Shakespearean drama studied in further education courses.The book is divided into sections that deal with comedy, tragedy...

A ground-breaking contribution that broadens our understanding of the history of prints, this edited volume assembles international senior and rising scholars and showcases an array of exciting new research that reassesses the history of women in the...

Brodie's Notes are invaluable study guides for English Literature GCSE and A-Level students, both for course work projects and at revision time. They provide useful insights into the literary works and increase understanding and enjoyment of the texts...

One of the most memorable and affecting Shakespearean characters is Edgar in King Lear. He has long been celebrated for his faithfulness in the face of his father's rejection, and the scene in which he saves his blinded father from suicide is regarded as...

Shakespeare's tragedies - the plays which represent human experience in its starkest and most terrifying dimensions - are crucial to the postmodern study of early modern subjectivity. In this collection of ground-breaking essays, eminent Shakespearean...

Celebrated as an actress on the London stage (1776-80) and notorious as the mistress of the Prince of Wales (1779-80), Mary Darby Robinson had to write to support herself from the mid-1780s until her death in 1800. She mastered a wide range of styles,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140714814Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Penguin Random House AustraliaPublisher Penguin Random House...

Upon publication, "Don't Panic" quickly established itself as the definitive companion to "Adams" and "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy". This edition comes up-to-date, covering the movie, "And Another Thing" by Eoin Colfer and the build up to the...

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...

Now available again in paperback, this provocative study by Robert Miles uses the tools of modern literary theory and criticism to analyse this very distinctive body of texts. Miles introduces the reader to contexts of Gothic in the eigteenth century...

An accessible and authoritative new history of French literature, written by a highly distinguished transatlantic group of scholars This book provides an engaging, accessible, and exciting new history of French literature from the Renaissance through...

This book describes the emergence of ecological understanding among the English Romantic poets, arguing that this new holistic paradigm offered a conceptual and ideological basis for American environmentalism. Coleridge, Wordsworth, Blake, John Clare,...

Postcolonial Theories is a lively introduction to postcolonial theories, contexts and literatures which presents both the theory and practice to students in approachable and attractive ways. Jenni Ramone includes discussion of a wide range of influential...

This critical volume offers an invaluable selection of early criticism and modern commentaries by Richard D. Altick, E.M.W. Tillyard, M.C. Bradbrook, Brents Sterling, E.H. Kantorowicz, J.A. Bryant Jr, M.M. Mahood, A.P. Rossiter and Nicholas Brooke...

This New Casebook offers a wide-ranging selection of contemporary critical readings of Shakespeare's three 'problem plays': All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Trolius and Cressida. Together, they reflect the diversity of late...

In Shakespeare and the Popular Voice Annabel Patterson challenges as counter-intuitive the common opinion that Shakespeare was anti-democratic, contemptuous of the crowd and an unfailing supporter of Elizabethan social hierarchy.About the AuthorAnnabel...

This collection of essays is aimed at students who are working on The Merchant of Venice and who are looking for new ways of thinking about the play and new ways of thinking about their own practice as critics. The collection offers a spectrum of the...

Paradise Lost has excited and provoked poets and critics for over 300 years. This introduction provides an accessible route into Milton's influential epic poem, guiding students through each of the twelve books by a combination of close textual analysis...

The fundamental subject of A. D. Nuttall's bold and daring first book, Two Concepts of Allegory, is a particular habit of thought-the practice of thinking about universals as though they were concrete things. His study takes the form of an inquiry into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474498234Author Cian DuffyFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

This New Casebook contains ten essays written about Blake's poetry since 1970 selected to show the diversity of Blake criticism during the last twenty years and the ways in which contemporary critical theories open up new readings of his work. Essays...

This Handbook provides an introductory guide to 'The Winter's Tale' offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a...

Postcolonial Witnessing argues that the suffering engendered by colonialism needs to be acknowledged more fully, on its own terms, in its own terms, and in relation to traumatic First World histories if trauma theory is to have any hope of redeeming its...

A useful student edition which contains modernized texts of six classic plays and which takes full account of recent scholarship. Detailed introductory and explanatory notes deal with authorship, textual and performance history, sources, obscurities of...

For more than three hundred years, manifestoes have defined the aims of radical groups, individuals, and parties while galvanizing revolutionary movements. As Janet Lyon shows, the manifesto is both a signal genre of political modernity and one of the...

This New Casebook on Shakespeare's second historical tetralogy (Richard II, Henry IV Parts I and II and Henry V) is an anthropology of contemporary criticism, all produced within the last twenty years, most within the last ten. It aims to problematise...

A highly engaging text that approaches Shakespeare as a maker of theatre, as well as a writer of literature. Leading performance critics dismantle Shakespeare's texts, identifying theatrical cues in ways which develop understanding of the underlying...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333154830Author R.V. HoldsworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 247Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 336g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333064993Author John WildersFormat PaperbackPage Count 239Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 326g

This guide surveys the truly essential criticism of the play over the last four centuries, from 16th-century responses to the present day. Discussing key areas of debate, and a wide range of scholarship, Gillian Woods provides an invaluable introduction...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143128540Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 162g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780333194218Author NA NAFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint Red Globe PressPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLCWeight(grams) 331g

The commentary at the heart of the book introduces readers to the challenge of reading The Tempest as a text and responding to the play in performance. Other sections discuss early performances and cultural contexts. A wide-ranging sample of critical...