Shakespeare

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837130910Author George Roy ElliotFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Hamlet's 'To be or not to be' soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare. It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world - though few of us can remember much about it. This book carefully unpacks the individual...

Chivalry, one of Shakespeare's central themes, retains its pertinence and topicality in our rules for international humanitarian law and the conduct of war. Against a background of Medieval and Renaissance sources as well as Shakespeare's historical and...

This collection of essays is part of a new phase in Shakespeare studies. The traditional view of Shakespeare is that he was a man of the theatre who showed no interest in the printing of his plays, producing works that are only fully realised in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473507541Author Roger PetersFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Quaternary ImprintPublisher Quaternary ImprintWeight(grams) 661gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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This book offers a look at the lives of Elizabethan era women in the context of the great female characters in the works of William Shakespeare. Like the other entries in this fascinating series, Women in the Age of Shakespeare shows the influence of...

Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's creative life than is usually appreciated. Richard Dutton argues that many, perhaps most, of Shakespeare's...

The contents include a chapter on Conversion and the following. In Act Two, we have, "Words Before Blows" by Sammie Byron, Brutus; "Most Noble Brother, You Have Done Me Wrong" by DeMond Bush, Mark Antony; and, "Have You Not Love...

Erotic Subjects demonstrates that if we treat sixteenth- and seventeenth-century erotic literature as part of English political history, both fields of study will look rather different. In this important new book, Sanchez traces some surprising...

Shakespeare's Nature offers the first sustained account of the impact of the language and practice of husbandry on Shakespeare's work. It shows how the early modern discourse of cultivation changes attitude to the natural world, and traces the...

Arguably Shakespeare's most famous play, Hamlet is studied widely at universities internationally. Approaching the play through an analysis of its key characters is particularly useful as there are few plays which have commanded so much critical...

Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre offers an account of Shakespeare's presence on the Spanish stage, from a production of the first Spanish rendering of Jean-Francois Ducis's Hamlet in 1772 to the creative and controversial work of directors like Calixto...

This book examines laughter in the Shakespearean theatre, in the context of a cultural history of early modern laughter. Aimed at an informed readership as well as graduate students and scholars in the field of Shakespeare studies, it is the first study...

What does it mean to make life? This book focuses on one of the key questions for culture and science in both Shakespeare's time and our own. Shakespeare wrote "A Midsummer Night's Dream" during a period when the "new science" had begun to unsettle the...

"Shakespeare Now!" is a series of short books of truly vital literary scholarship, each with its own distinctive form. "Shakespeare Now!" recaptures the excitement of Shakespeare; it doesn't assume we know him already, or that we know the best methods...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645489644Author Natalie MullerFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Black Cockie PressPublisher Black Cockie PressWeight(grams) 649gDimensions(mm) 297mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780473507558Author Roger PetersFormat HardbackPage Count 498Imprint Quaternary ImprintPublisher Quaternary ImprintWeight(grams) 817gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

A revealing examination of an under-explored area of Shakespeare studies, this work looks at the evidence for the author's deep and evolving response to the loss of his only son, Hamnet. Although many commentators have been intrigued by the possible...

The only complete history of this popular Shakespearean play, Haring-Smith's comprehensive study examines chronologically the development of the play's staging. It also reflects historical variations in stage practice and shifting cultural notions about...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410216243Author Samuel Taylor ColeridgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

This Arden edition of Hamlet, arguably Shakespeare's greatest tragedy, presents an authoritative, modernized text based on the Second Quarto text with a new introductory essay covering key productions and criticism in the decade since its first...

In this study Edmund Creeth discovers an intimate, unique, and previously unsuspected kinship between three Shakespearean tragedies-Macbeth, Othello, and King Lear-and the three oldest extant theological dramas about Mankynde-The Castell of Perseverance,...

Shakespeare and Spenser: Attractive opposites is a much-needed volume that brings together ten original papers by experts on the relations between Spenser and Shakespeare. There has been much noteworthy work on the linguistic borrowings of Shakespeare...

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Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry. Claire...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497986824Author G G GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 522g

Performing Shakespearean Appropriations explores the production and consumption of Shakespeare in acts of adaptation and appropriation across time periods and through a range of performance topics. The ten essays, moving from the seventeenth to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498126427Author Francis DouceFormat PaperbackPage Count 658Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 866g

South African Essays on 'Universal' Shakespeare collects new scholarship and extant (but previously unpublished) material, reflecting the changing nature of Shakespeare studies across various 'generation gaps'. Each essay, in exploring the nuances of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498051989Author Appleton MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781498096928Author George WilkesFormat PaperbackPage Count 486Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 644g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789357487689Author William HazlittFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Double 9 Books LLPPublisher Double 9 Books LLPWeight(grams) 342g

A provocative look at Shakespeare in his age by one of our most influential theater figures This book is a masterful and engaging exploration of both Shakespeare's works and his age. Concentrating on six recurring prejudices in Shakespeare's plays-such...

Shaping Shakespeare for Performance: The Bear Stage collects significant work from the 2013 Blackfriars Conference. The conference, sponsored by the American Shakespeare Center, brings together scholars, actors, directors, dramaturges, and students to...

A gripping, funny, joyful account of how the books you read shape your own life in surprising and profound ways. Bookworms know what scholars of literature are trained to forget: that when they devour a work of literary fiction, whatever else they may...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497949386Author F J FurnivallFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945978494Author John NortonFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Nrp BooksPublisher Nrp BooksWeight(grams) 281g

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Of Shakespeare's sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the "turn" in the final couplet. By contrast, we know very little of their subjects and motives. This book does not approach the sonnets as...