Author: Smith, Peter J. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For centuries, we have been told William Shakespeare was the author of his famous collection of sonnets. An industry was created and thrives today to sustain and benefit from Shakespeare's name. But w...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare’s trage...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The four-volume Companion to Shakespeare's Works, compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism. This volume looks at Shakespeare’s poems...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text introduces the early editions, editing practices, and publishing history of Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and examines their influence on bibliog...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Concise Companion presents a multidisciplinary range of approaches to a vast multimedia subject, Shakespeare on screen. Draws on the latest thinking in cultural studies, communications, and compa...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P><P>This volume takes up the challenge embodied in its predecessors, <EM>Alternative Shakespeares</EM> and <EM>Alternative Shakespeares 2</EM>, to identify and ex...
Author: Gay, Penny Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Looks at the way five of the comedies have been staged over the last 50 years, asking how gender politics affects the production of the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on...
Author: Dillon,Janette Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick¿Äôs skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of...
Description: In this timely new study, Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent 'green' criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronis...
Author: Vickers, Brian Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'Counterfeiting' Shakespeare addresses the fundamental issue of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years his authorship has been claimed for two poems, the lyric 'S...
Author: Howard, Jean E. / Rackin, Phyllis Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Engendering a Nation adopts a feminist analysis to examine the place of gender in contesting representations of nationhood in early modern England. Plays featured include: King John, Richard III, and ...
Author: Rutter, Carol Chillington Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter speculates on how the theatre `plays' women's bodies and how audiences read them.
Author: Rutter, Carol Chillington Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter speculates on how the theatre `plays' women's bodies and how audiences read them.
Author: Milner, Cork Publisher: Adams Media Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Without question, William Shakespeare is the most celebrated and quoted writer of all time. Whether you're a long-time fan or new to his writing, The Everything Shakespeare Book, 2nd Edition will help...
Author: Litvin, Margaret Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: For the past five decades, Arab intellectuals have seen themselves in Shakespeare's Hamlet: their times "out of joint," their political hopes frustrated by a corrupt older generation. Hamlet's Arab Jo...
Author: N/A Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical positions. A helpful guidebook for anyone trying to think of a new approach to Shakespe...
Author: Booth, Stephen Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First published in 1983, this book closely examines the way in which King Lear and Macbeth act upon the understandings of their audiences, and asks what it is about these plays that makes us call them...
Author: Kahan, Jeffrey Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing by experts it the field on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing ...
Author: Korda, Natasha Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Labors Lost offers a fascinating and wide-ranging account of working women's behind-the-scenes and hitherto unacknowledged contributions to theatrical production in Shakespeare's time.
Author: Fuller, David Publisher: Continuum Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Current norms of literary criticism tend to ignore ways in which literary experiences relate to life experience, and some ways in which literary experiences can be intensified and deepened. In this vi...
Author: MacFaul,Thomas Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Renaissance Humanism developed a fantasy of friendship in which men can be absolutely equal to one another, but Shakespeare and other dramatists quickly saw through this rhetoric and developed their o...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Marxist Shakespeares" uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to look at Shakespeare's plays afresh. The essays collected here reveal the continuing power of Marxist thought to addr...
Author: Baldo, Jonathan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A distinguishing feature of Shakespeare's later histories is the prominent role he assigns to the need to forget. This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in his...
Author: Baldo, Jonathan Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A distinguishing feature of Shakespeare's later histories is the prominent role he assigns to the need to forget. This book explore the ways in which Shakespeare expanded the role of forgetting in his...
Author: Marino, James Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book explores actors' systems of intellectual property in early modern England. Focusing on Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, and other plays, it demonstrates how Shakespeare's company ...
Author: Smith, Bruce R. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Phenomenal Shakespeare, leading Shakespeare scholar Bruce R. Smith presents an original account for the ways in which Shakespeare’s poems and plays continue to resonate with audiences, reader...
Author: Fitter, Chris Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor cen...
Author: Fitter, Chris Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book argues that Shakespeare was permanently preoccupied with the brutality, corruption, and ultimate groundlessness of the political order of his state, and that the impact of original Tudor cen...
Author: Cartelli, Thomas Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What becomes of Shakespeare's work in its translation from early modern playtext to colonialist pretext to postcolonial target? "Repositioning Shakespeare" explores how Shakespeare is appropriated or...
Description: Arguably the first play in a Shakespearean tetralogy, Richard II is a unique and compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. It is one of the few Shakespeare plays written entirely i...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Arguably the first play in a Shakespearean tetralogy, Richard II is a unique and compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. It is one of the few Shakespeare plays written entirely i...
Author: Weil, Judith Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is an unusual study of the nature of service and other types of dependency and patronage in Shakespeare's drama. By considering the close associations of service with childhood or youth, marriage...
Author: Herder, Johann Gottfried Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Without Johann Gottfried Herder (1744-1803), we simply would not understand Shakespeare in the way we do. In fact, much literature and art besides Shakespeare would neither look the same nor be the sa...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shakespeare has variously been seen as the last great exponent of pre-modern Western culture, a crucial inaugurator of modernity, and a prophet of postmodernity. This exciting collection of essays tr...
Author: Hadfield, Andrew Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shakespeare and Republicanism is a groundbreaking work by a leading scholar of the Renaissance. Andrew Hadfield reveals for the first time exactly how Shakespeare was influenced by contemporary strand...
Author: Magnusson, Lynne Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shakespeare and Social Dialogue opens up a new approach to Shakespeare's language and the rhetoric of Elizabethan letters. Moving beyond claims about the language of individual Shakespearean character...
Description: Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare's texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to accoun...
Author: Silverstone, Catherine Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shakespeare, Trauma and Contemporary Performance examines how contemporary performances of Shakespeare's texts on stage and screen engage with violent events and histories. The book attempts to accoun...
Author: Holderness, Graham Publisher: Ashgate Gower Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shakespeare and Venice is the first book-length study to describe and chronicle the mythological and fabulous status of Venice that was employed by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice and Othello to...
Author: Kinney, Arthur F. Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this engaging text, Arthur Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare’s plays in the context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theater. Introduces students to Shakespeare's plays in the context of E...
Author: Hatchuel, Sarah Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: How is a Shakespearean play transformed when it is directed for the screen? Sarah Hatchuel uses literary criticism, narratology, performance history, psychoanalysis and semiotics to analyse how the pl...