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William Shakespeare
The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Romeo and Juliet provides a fresh and authoritative introduction to one of Shakespeare's most famous tragedies.
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Dieses klassische Buch wurde urspruenglich vor Jahrzehnten unter dem Titel "Mucedorus". Es wurde jetzt von Writat fuer seine franzoesischsprachigen Leser in die franzoesische Sprache uebersetzt. Bei Writat liegt uns die…
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Ce livre classique a ete initialement publie il y a plusieurs decennies sous le titre "Mucedorus". Il a maintenant ete traduit par Writat en langue francaise pour ses lecteurs francophones…
Peter Raj
The religious truth behind England's Reformation was preserved in the plays of William Shakespeare. It was the only way to secure the truth from the grubby paws of plagiarisers and…
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Bill Bryson
From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet.
Deborah C. Payne, Drew Lichtenberg
This behind-the-scenes account analyzes the evolution of the premier classical theatre company in the U.S. against the changing social and economic landscape of Washington, D.C.
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Martin Bodek
It be the Passover Haggadah, as Shakespeare would hast writ it, hadst the idea occurred to him.
Art thee a teenager? Most wondrous. How about a tweenager? Coequal better. Perhaps…
Anonymous
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Walter W Skeat
Tim Crouch
Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, and The Tempest... in a way you've never seen them before.
Away from the rest of their plays, Malvolio, Cinna, Peaseblossom…
Mukesh K Sharma
"Mastering Shakespeare: Macbeth and As You Like It" by Mukesh K Sharma is your ultimate guide for conquering two of Shakespeare's most iconic plays and excelling in your RPSC exam…
Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of 'space' in and through Shakespeare's plays, as well as to the material, cognitive and virtual spaces in which they are…
Graf Leo Tolstoy
Tolstoy on Shakespeare: A Critical Essay on Shakespeare, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha…
David Anonby
This cutting-edge book explores Shakespeare's negotiation of Reformation controversy about theories of salvation. While twentieth century literary criticism tended to regard Shakespeare as a harbinger of secularism, the so-called "turn…
Sanghamitra Dasgupta
William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is one of the finest studies of human psychology and its range of personalities is exciting - there is the egotistical Caesar himself whose "wisdom is…
John Leonard
In February 1616, William Shakespeare finds himself on the brink of financial ruin and trapped in an unhappy marriage. Desperate for a way out, he agrees to resume his clandestine…
Sean McEvoy
Shakespeare: The Basics is a lively and accessible introduction to reading and studying Shakespeare. Exploring all aspects of Shakespeare's plays, Sean McEvoy considers the language, cultural contexts, and modern interpretations.
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Jean-Louis CLARET
This study investigates the capacity of Shakespeare's texts obviously destined for stage performances to generate mental images and mental colours. Jean-Louis Claret, both a Shakespeare professor at Aix-Marseille University and…
Min Jiao
This volume takes a deep dive into the philosophical hermeneutics of Shakespearean tradition providing insight into the foundations, theories, and methodologies of hermeneutics in Shakespeare.
Philip Goldfarb Styrt
Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare's plays to post-Trump America.
Mark Fortier
Shakespeare and Law is a reading of law and legal issues within the works of William Shakespeare. The book shows that the central issues of Shakespeare's time are similar to…
Daniel Gallimore
Offering the first book-length study in English on Tsubouchi and Shakespeare, Gallimore offers an overview of the theory and practice of Tsubouchi's Shakespeare translation and argues for Tsubouchi's place as…
Shakespeare and the Political: Elizabethan Politics and Asian Exigencies is a collection of essays which show how selected Shakespearean plays and later adaptations engage with the political situations of the…
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Bradley J. Irish
Drawing on both historical analysis and theories from the modern affective sciences, Shakespeare and Disgust argues that the experience of revulsion is one of Shakespeare's central dramatic concerns. Known as…
This edited collection offers the first in-depth analysis and sourcebook for 'Lockdown Shakespeare'. It brings together scholars of stage, screen, early modern and adaptation studies to examine the work that…
Ed Woodall, Dr Abigail Rokison-Woodall
This book provides actors, directors, teachers and students with a clear, practical guide to applying the work of influential theatre practitioner Jacques Lecoq to the process of rehearsing or workshopping…
What is (a) play? How do Shakespeare's plays engage with and represent early modern modes of play - from jests and games to music, spectacle, movement, animal-baiting and dance? How…
Douglas J. King
Based on solid research and clear explanations, this book provides a thorough and up-to-date analysis of 10 key facts and fictions regarding the life and works of William Shakespeare.
Shakespeare…
Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics, and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical…
Professor Richard Schoch
"[A] page-turning story" - Times Literary Supplement "Eye-opening" - Michael Billington "A detailed and highly compelling story that involves so much more than bricks and mortar." - The Stratford Herald
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Beatrice Righetti
Shakespeare's Shrews investigates the echoes of two early modern discourses-paradoxical writing and the woman's question or querelle des femmes-in the representation of the "Shakespearean shrew" in The Taming of the…
Jo Ann Atcheson Gray, William Shakespeare
Three amazing classic tales!
Get wrapped up in these awesome tales of love and tragedy as Shakespeare tells of the tragic desires of loving someone too much!
Remastered like its…
Iris Julia Buehrle
This monograph is the first history of ballets based on William Shakespeare's works from the birth of ballet as an independent art form in the eighteenth century to the present…
Koom Kankesan
Teenagers Isabel, Suresh, and Nathan go back in time to 1613 when Shakespeare's Globe Theatre burned down to ensure that all of Shakespeare's plays burn with it, so students never…
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Anthony Bakke
Fair is foul, and foul is fair . . . and nothing is quite what it seems. Meet Macbeth, a brave and power-hungry Scottish lord, who charts a murderous course…
Victoria Sparey
Shakespeare's adolescents examines the varied representation of adolescent characters in Shakespeare's plays. Using early modern medical knowledge, the book unpacks complexities that surrounded the cultural and theatrical representations of the…
