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Othello by Lois Potter 9780719027260
Booksplease Price: £23.54Of all Shakespeare's tragedies, Othello, with its issues of racism, jealousy and sexual stereotyping seems most immediate to contemporary audiences. Traces Othello's acting tradition as it has... -
Shakespeare and the Actor by Lois Potter 9780198852629
Booksplease Price: £24.23What is a 'Shakespearean actor'? Does the term still have any meaning? Drawing on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of actors and directors, as well as on interviews with actors from a... -
Shakespeare and the Actor by Lois Potter 9780198852612
Booksplease Price: £61.97What is a 'Shakespearean actor'? Does the term still have any meaning? Drawing on the biographical and autobiographical accounts of actors and directors, as well as on interviews with actors from a... -
A Preface to Milton: Revised Edition by Lois Potter
Booksplease Price: £62.29A highly readable and illustrated introduction to the work of Milton, which provides both a biographical account of the poet and his influences, and a critical survey of his poetry. Book... -
The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography Lois Potter (University of Delaware) 9781118281529
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £24.66The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who... -
The Life of William Shakespeare: A Critical Biography Lois Potter (University of Delaware) 9780631207849
RRP: £80.95Booksplease Price: £73.11The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who... -
Early Modern Drama in Performance: Essays in Honor of Lois Potter by Mark Netzloff 9781611495126
Booksplease Price: £86.43Early Modern Drama in Performance is a collection of essays in honor of Lois Potter, the distinguished author of five monographs, including most recently The Life of William Shakespeare (2012), and... -
Secret Rites and Secret Writing: Royalist Literature, 1641-1660 by Lois Potter 9780521107969
RRP: £40.00Booksplease Price: £39.21This book is a study of the various kinds of royalist writing during the period of the English Civil War and the Interregnum, when printing and publishing were largely controlled by Parliament. Lois... -
The Two Noble Kinsmen, Revised Edition: Third Series by William Shakespeare
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £11.95This tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know Shakespeare worked with a collaborator on -- John Fletcher -- and is based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale. This revised edition includes a new introductory... -
The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare
Booksplease Price: £64.30For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with particular emphasis... -
The Tragedy of King Lear by William Shakespeare 9781316646977
RRP: £10.00Booksplease Price: £9.62For this updated critical edition of King Lear, Lois Potter has written a completely new introduction, taking account of recent productions and reinterpretations of the play, with particular emphasis... -
Othello by William Shakespeare 9780393264227
Booksplease Price: £12.99Giraldi Cinthio's story-which Shakespeare used for both the plot and many details of Othello-is included here, as is a generous selection of interpretative responses to Othello, new to this edition... -
Tudor Autobiography: Listening for Inwardness by Meredith Anne Skura 9780226761879
Booksplease Price: £58.35Histories of autobiography in England often assume the genre hardly existed before 1600. But "Tudor Autobiography" investigates eleven sixteenth-century English writers who used sermons, a saint's... -
Agents beyond the State: The Writings of English Travelers, Soldiers, and Diplomats in Early Modern Europe by Mark Netzloff
RRP: £99.00Booksplease Price: £95.95The early modern period is often seen as a pivotal stage in the emergence of a recognizably modern form of the state. Agents beyond the State returns to this context in order to examine the literary... -
Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof by Stephen M. Buhler 9780791451403
Booksplease Price: £26.07A comprehensive look at film adaptations of Shakespeare's plays.Offering a comprehensive look at the strategies that filmmakers have employed in adapting Shakespeare's plays to the cinema, this book... -
Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness by Sarah Beckwith 9780801478352
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.24Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language... -
Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625 by Simon Smith 9781316632369
Booksplease Price: £32.12Presupposing no specialist musical knowledge, this book offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic role of music in the plays of Shakespeare and his early seventeenth-century contemporaries. Simon... -
Musical Response in the Early Modern Playhouse, 1603-1625 by Simon Smith 9781107180840
RRP: £96.00Booksplease Price: £91.76Presupposing no specialist musical knowledge, this book offers a fresh perspective on the dramatic role of music in the plays of Shakespeare and his early seventeenth-century contemporaries. Simon... -
Tales from Shakespeare: Creative Collisions by Graham Holderness
Booksplease Price: £32.12In this engaging new book, writer and critic Graham Holderness shows how a classic Shakespeare play can be the source for a modern story, providing a creative 'collision' between the Shakespeare text... -
Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway by Katherine West Scheil
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £18.19What has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterpreted and reshaped? Imagining Shakespeare's Wife... -
Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway by Katherine West Scheil 9781108416696
RRP: £75.00Booksplease Price: £68.73What has been the appeal of Anne Hathaway, both globally and temporally, over the past four hundred years? Why does she continue to be reinterpreted and reshaped? Imagining Shakespeare's Wife... -
Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World's Greatest Writer Darren Freebury-Jones 9781526177322
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.54A fascinating book exploring the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare's beloved plays.Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern... -
Shakespeare's Borrowed Feathers: How Early Modern Playwrights Shaped the World's Greatest Writer Darren Freebury-Jones 9781526177346
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.94A fascinating exploration of the early modern authors who helped to shape Shakespeare's beloved plays. Shakespeare's plays have influenced generations of writers, but who were the early modern...