Shakespeare

Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture - much more than has been remembered. This book...

Arden Student Guides offer a new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical and writng skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The books' core focus is on...

Ecofeminism has been an important field of theory in philosophy and environmental studies for decades. It takes as its primary concern the way the relationship between the human and nonhuman is both material and cultural, but it also investigates how...

Arden Shakespeare and Theory provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies in recent years, as well as those that are emerging at the present moment. Each volume provides:* a clear...

Foul words are both just "foul wind" and "poniards" (Much Ado): The Anatomy of Insults in Shakespeare's World explores the complexity of Shakespearean insult. It analyses Shakespeare's art of insults and shows how the playwright set...

- How do actors prepare a script of a Shakespeare play for performance? - Where do directors begin? - What do Shakespeare's plays offer a designer or choreographer? - How do the cast and creative team work together in rehearsals? With Shakespeare in...

How are various forms of prejudice portrayed in the works of Shakespeare and to what extent does Shakespeare differ from his contemporaries in their portrayal? What can we learn about Shakespeare's times and our own through a close reading of prejudice...

This volume in the long-running and acclaimed Shakespeare Dictionary series is a detailed, critical reference work examining all aspects of magic, good and evil, across Shakespeare's works. Topics covered include the representation of fairies, witches,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604977127Author Leo DaughertyFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Supernatural elements are of central significance in many of Shakespeare's plays, contributing to their dramatic power and intrigue. Ghosts haunt political spaces and internal psyches, witches foresee the future and disturb the present, fairies meddle...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781375089746Author Joseph RitsonFormat PaperbackPage 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 9781515425038Author William ShakespeareFormat HardbackPage Count 108Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm)...

Cognition, Mindreading, and Shakespeare's Characters brings cognitive science to Shakespeare, applying contemporary theories of mindreading to Shakespeare's construction of character. Building on the work of the philosopher Alvin Goldman and cognitive...

We celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists and performers recreated him. Readers of this book are invited to...

Curated from the first four volumes of Peter Lang's Playing Shakespeare's Characters series, this omnibus edition selects the most practical essays for actors and directors wanting to play and produce Shakespeare's plays. The dozen contributors in this...

Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy is an international collection of fresh digital approaches for teaching Shakespeare. It describes 15 methodologies, resources and tools recently developed, updated and used by a diverse range of contributors in Great...

In the Shakespeare aftermath-where all things Shakespearean are available for reassembly and reenactment-experimental transactions with Shakespeare become consequential events in their own right, informed by technologies of performance and display that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780461143591Author Octavius Graham GilchristFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint HardPress LtdPublisher HardPress LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 4mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900001482Author Paul FletcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Open Gate PressPublisher Open Gate Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780809531882Author John W. PostgateFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Wildside PressPublisher Wildside PressWeight(grams) 171g

This fascinating book by one of Britain's most acclaimed Shakespeare scholars explores the extraordinary staying-power of the world's most famous dramatist. Bate opens by taking up questions of authorship and then goes on to trace Shakespeare's...

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity. Shakespeare provides them with the perfect focus, since his works turn back to the Middle Ages as...

This book examines the child on Shakespeare's stage. As a life force, an impassioned plea for justice, a legacy, history, memory or image of love or violence, children are everywhere in Shakespeare's plays. Focusing on Shakespeare's unique interest in...

In Shakespeare and Abraham, Ken Jackson illuminates William Shakespeare's dramatic fascination with the story of Abraham's near sacrifice of his son Isaac in Genesis 22. Themes of child killing fill Shakespeare's early plays: Genesis 22 informed...

ARDEN RENAISSANCE DRAMA GUIDES offer students and academics practical and accessible introductions to the critical and performance contexts of key Elizabethan and Jacobean plays. Essays from leading international scholars provide invaluable insights into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992461607Author Dr Peter D MatthewsFormat HardbackPage Count 558Imprint Bassano Publishing HousePublisher Bassano Publishing HouseWeight(grams)...

Coleridge was a major critic of Shakespeare and a seminal influence on modern criticism. Earlier selections of his Shakespeare criticism are now out of print. This new selection is drawn largely from Professor Foakes' authoritative edition of Coleridge's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615988177Author William N WestFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Punctum BooksPublisher Punctum BooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781413459067Author Marcus D GregioFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 263g

The Continuum Shakespeare Dictionaries provide authoritative yet accessible guides to the principal subject-areas covered by the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. The dictionaries provide readers with a comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion,...

What was it like to be in the audience of the Globe Theatre in 1606? By demonstrating fundmental connections between audience reaction then and the use of computers today, Renaissance scholar Arthur Kinney explores the cultural moment of one of...

Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship...

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an...

Shakespeare's history plays have always been pivotal to our understanding of his works. This collection renews attention to these crucial plays by exploring official and unofficial versions of the past, histories and counter-histories in the plays of...

In The Changing Portrayal of Adolescents in the Media since 1950, leading scholars analyze the emergence of youth culture in music and powerful trends in gender and ethnic-racial representation, sexuality, substance use, violence, and suicide portrayla...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780313249877Author B. I. EvansFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Hillman explores English tragedy in relation to France with a frank concentration on Shakespeare. He sets out to theorise more abstract tragic qualities (such as nostalgia, futility and heroism) with reference to specific French texts and contexts.Three...

A new study of Shakespeare s life and times, which illuminates our understanding and appreciation of his works. * Combines an accessible fully historicised treatment of both the life and the plays, suited to both undergraduate and popular audiences *...

More than just a book of definitions, this dictionary provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's portrayal of military life, tactics and technology.Book InformationISBN 9780485115468Author Charles EdelmanFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint...

Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the...