Shakespeare

Contemporary performance is a particularly stimulating area for the study of how Shakespeare and particular cultural contexts interact with and transform each other. Francesca Clare Rayner's original and thought-provoking book highlights the diversity...

Rethinking Theatrical Documents brings together fifteen major scholars to analyse and theorise the documents, lost and found, that produced a play in Shakespeare's England. Showing how the playhouse frantically generated paratexts, it explores a rich...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438537221Author Algernon Charles SwinburneFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 336g

Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries analyzes literary remediations of Shakespeare’s works, particularly those written for young readers. This book explores adaptations, revisions, and reimaginings by Lewis Theobald, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438516356Author William HazlittFormat PaperbackImprint Book JunglePublisher Book JungleWeight(grams) 558g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781474497831Author Johannes UngelenkFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

As readers head into the second fifty years of the modern critical study of blackness and black characters in Renaissance drama, it has become a critical commonplace to note black female characters’ almost complete absence from Shakespeare’s plays...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685158491Author Richard J WallaceFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Palmetto PublishingPublisher Palmetto PublishingWeight(grams) 163g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911124917Author Susan BrockFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint M-Y BooksPublisher M-Y BooksWeight(grams) 450g

Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films. Writers and directors who forge an unconscious,...

This memorial edition honours the late Harold Jenkins, General Editor of the Arden 2nd Series and editor of the Arden 2 Hamlet, collecting his most valued classic lectures and essays for the first time in one volume. Many of these are now out of print,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616191313Author Dunbar Plunket BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Publisher Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.Weight(grams) 345g

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This volume of essays contributes to current debates about Shakespeare in new media. It importantly develops the field by providing a comparativist approach to Shakespeare's dynamic media history. Contributors to Broadcast Your Shakespeare address the...

The chapters in this book constitute a timely response to an important moment for early modern cultural studies: the academy has been called to attend to questions of social justice. It requires a revision of the critical lexicon to be able to probe the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788027331161Author Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint e-artnowPublisher e-artnowWeight(grams) 245gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

This book explores ways in which Shakespeare's writing strategies shape our embodied perception of objects - both real and imaginary - in four of his plays. Taking the reader on a series of perceptual journeys, it engages in an exciting dialogue between...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480849051Author David YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 295g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375089753Author Joseph RitsonFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Gale Ncco, Print EditionsPublisher Gale Ncco, Print EditionsWeight(grams) 156g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602350021Author Kenneth BurkeFormat PaperbackImprint Parlor PressPublisher Parlor PressWeight(grams) 541g

The four writers featured in this volume represent different aspects of the modernist response to Shakespeare. James Joyce, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden and Samuel Beckett were all exceptionally learned and their art takes a delight in difficulty. But the...

Shakespeare was born into a new age of will, in which individual intent had the potential to overcome dynastic expectation. The 1540 Statute of Wills had liberated testamentary disposition of land and thus marked a turning point from hierarchical feudal...

This book explores the impact of the sixteenth-century Reformation on the plays of William Shakespeare. Taking three fundamental Protestant concerns of the era - (double) predestination, conversion, and free will - it demonstrates how Protestant...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781616101121Author Jack D'AmicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Orange Grove BooksPublisher Orange Grove Books

Shakespeare's and Peele's Titus Andronicus has had a theatrical and a critical revival in the last fifteen years; the critical revival was perhaps prompted by Jonathan Bate's Arden edition of the play and its revision of the traditional critical account...

In this study, William C. Carroll analyses a wide range of adaptations and appropriations of Macbeth across different media to consider what it is about the play that compels our desire to reshape it. Arguing that many of these adaptations attempt to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480849044Author David YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 154g

Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning analyzes the unacknowledged, covert presence of Shakespearean themes, structures, characters, and symbolism in selected films. Writers and directors who forge an unconscious,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354627149Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint True Sign Publishing HousePublisher True Sign Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915115508Author David TaylorFormat HardbackPage Count 306Imprint Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.Publisher Edward Everett Root Publishers Co. Ltd.

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See Shakespeare's plays as a member of an Elizabethan audience would have done! Six plays are examined in an original and engaging way, re-entering the culture and mind set of Shakespeare's time. If you are already familiar with the plays you will gain...

The works of William Shakespeare have long been embraced by communist and socialist governments. One of the central cultural debates of the Soviet period concerned repertoire, including the usefulness and function of pre-revolutionary drama for the New...

Suzanne Gossett offers a full and critical performance history, with an introduction showing how the play's performance history has paralled the criticism. It then gives an interpretation of this two-generation romance, with its successive male and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597313100Author Darrell FiggisFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Coracle PressPublisher Coracle PressWeight(grams) 531g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410215918Author Louis C ElsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare’s plays. This volume takes up the iconographic, linguistic and performance layers already at work within it and tracks the play’s dispersal into neighbouring art forms –...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354629679Author William ShakespeareFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint True Sign Publishing HousePublisher True Sign Publishing HouseWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410221124Author Cumberland ClarkFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...