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Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 768 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The American Shakespeare: Comedies written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 768 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bantam Classics
ISBN 13 : 0307420590
Total Pages : 736 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Four Comedies written by William Shakespeare and published by Bantam Classics. This book was released on 2009-08-26 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Taming of the Shrew Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world. The Merchant of Venice This dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature–Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. Twelfth Night Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525522298
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in a Divided America written by James Shapiro and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land. “In this sprightly and enthralling book . . . Shapiro amply demonstrates [that] for Americans the politics of Shakespeare are not confined to the public realm, but have enormous relevance in the sphere of private life.” —The Guardian (London) The plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground in the United States. For well over two centuries, Americans of all stripes—presidents and activists, soldiers and writers, conservatives and liberals alike—have turned to Shakespeare’s works to explore the nation’s fault lines. In a narrative arching from Revolutionary times to the present day, leading scholar James Shapiro traces the unparalleled role of Shakespeare’s four-hundred-year-old tragedies and comedies in illuminating the many concerns on which American identity has turned. From Abraham Lincoln’s and his assassin, John Wilkes Booth’s, competing Shakespeare obsessions to the 2017 controversy over the staging of Julius Caesar in Central Park, in which a Trump-like leader is assassinated, Shakespeare in a Divided America reveals how no writer has been more embraced, more weaponized, or has shed more light on the hot-button issues in our history.
Author : William Shakespeare
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Comedy of Errors written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roberta Krensky Cooper
Publisher : Associated University Presses
ISBN 13 : 9780918016881
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (168 download)
Download or read book The American Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford 1955-1985 written by Roberta Krensky Cooper and published by Associated University Presses. This book was released on 1986 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Grant W. Smith
Publisher : Vernon Press
ISBN 13 : 1648892701
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies written by Grant W. Smith and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies' presents a comprehensive study of names in Shakespeare’s comedies. Although names are used in daily speech as simple designators, often with minimal regard for semantic or phonological suggestiveness, their coinage is always based on analogy. They are words (i.e., signs) borrowed from previous referents and contexts, and applied to new referents. Thus, in the literary use of language, names are figurative inventions and have measurable thematic significance: they evoke an association of attributes between two or more referents, contextualize each work of literature within its time, and reflect the artistic development of the writer. In the introduction, Smith describes the literary use of names as creative choices that show the indebtedness of authors to previous literature, as well as their imaginative descriptions (etymologically and phonologically) of memorable character types, and their references to cultural phenomena that make their names meaningful to their contemporary readers and audience. This book presents fourteen essays demonstrating the analytical models explained in the introduction. These essays focus on Shakespeare’s comedies as presented in the First Folio. They do not follow the chronological order of their composition; instead, the individual essays give special attention to differences between the plays that suggest Shakespeare’s artistic development, including the varied sources of his borrowings, the differences between his etymological and phonological coinages, the frequency and types of his topical references, and his use of epithets and generics. This book will appeal to Shakespeare students and scholars at all levels, particularly those who are keen on studying his comedies. This study will also be relevant for researchers and graduate students interested in onomastics. He can be reached at [email protected].
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Comedies written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Various
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534637
Total Pages : 688 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now written by Various and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues—revolution, slavery, war, social justice—were refracted and understood. In tracing the many surprising forms this influence took, Shapiro draws on many genres—poetry, fiction, essays, plays, memoirs, songs, speeches, letters, movie reviews, comedy routines—and on a remarkable range of American writers from Emerson, Melville, Lincoln, and Mark Twain to James Agee, John Berryman, Pauline Kael, and Cynthia Ozick. Americans of the revolutionary era ponder the question “to sign or not to sign;” Othello becomes the focal point of debates on race; the Astor Place riots, set off by a production of Macbeth, attest to the violent energies aroused by theatrical controversies; Jane Addams finds in King Lear a metaphor for American struggles between capital and labor. Orson Welles revolutionizes approaches to Shakespeare with his legendary productions of Macbeth and Julius Caesar; American actors from Charlotte Cushman and Ira Aldridge to John Barrymore, Paul Robeson, and Marlon Brando reimagine Shakespeare for each new era. The rich and tangled story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own is a literary and historical revelation. As a special feature, the book includes a foreword by Bill Clinton, among the latest in a long line of American presidents, including John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, who, as the collection demonstrates, have turned to Shakespeare’s plays for inspiration.
Author : Joel Berkowitz
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587294087
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (872 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage written by Joel Berkowitz and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began moving westward, and New York—Manhattan’s Bowery and Second Avenue—soon became the world’s center of Yiddish theatre. At first the Yiddish repertoire revolved around comedies, operettas, and melodramas, but by the early 1890s America's Yiddish actors were wild about Shakespeare. In Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, Joel Berkowitz knowledgeably and intelligently constructs the history of this unique theatrical culture. The Jewish King Lear of 1892 was a sensation. The year 1893 saw the beginning of a bevy of Yiddish versions of Hamlet; that year also saw the first Yiddish production of Othello. Romeo and Juliet inspired a wide variety of treatments. The Merchant of Venice was the first Shakespeare play published in Yiddish, and Jacob Adler received rave reviews as Shylock on Broadway in both 1903 and 1905. Berkowitz focuses on these five plays in his five chapters. His introduction provides an orientation to the Yiddish theatre district in New York as well as the larger picture of Shakespearean production and the American theatre scene, and his conclusion summarizes the significance of Shakespeare’s plays in Yiddish culture.
Author : American Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford, Conn.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (793 download)
Download or read book American Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford, Conn.) Plays and Prompt Books written by American Shakespeare Theatre (Stratford, Conn.) and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prompt and production scripts from American Shakespeare Theatre productions of William Shakespeare, but also including non-Shakespearean plays by T.S. Eliot, Bernard Shaw, Sophocles, Giuseppe Verdi, Thornton Wilder and William Wycherley.
Author : Milla Cozart Riggio
Publisher : Options for Teaching (Numbered
ISBN 13 : 9780873523721
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (237 download)
Download or read book Teaching Shakespeare Through Performance written by Milla Cozart Riggio and published by Options for Teaching (Numbered. This book was released on 1999 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Performance pedagogy does more than involve students in the acting, directing, and production work needed to bring a play text to life. It engages them in interpretation; it makes issues of structure or subtext immediate; it deepens understanding of stage history; in film, it demonstrates the role of camera, lighting, sound. Teaching Shakespeare through Performance is designed for teachers of both high school and college English courses who wish to introduce performance strategies into their classroom. The volume illustrates how attention to theatrical detail can give insight into Shakespeare's work and world: the significance of an omitted exit or entrance, the role of stage directions in King Lear, costumes and transvestism on the Renaissance stage, the changing fashions of acting Juliet, how experimenting with the use of different personal props in a scene from Hamlet reveals cultural attitudes, and much more.
Author : Folger Shakespeare Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in American Life written by Folger Shakespeare Library and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Shakespeare in American Life presented at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, from 8 March through 18 August 2007, in celebration of the Library's 75th anniversary"-- back of title page.
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Author : Adam Long
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493077317
Total Pages : 155 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) [revised] [again] written by Adam Long and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-15 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally performed by its creators, this 1987 Edinburgh Fringe hit remains the second longest-running West End comedy in history and has been translated into over thirty languages. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is not so much a play as it is a vaudeville show in which three charismatic, wildly ambitious actors attempt to present all thirty-seven of Shakespeare's plays in a single performance. They have a rudimentary concept of the stories and have imperfectly memorized a smattering of famous lines. Backstage there's a meager assortment of costumes and props. Thus armed, the three brazenly launch into their task with an earnest focus and breakneck enthusiasm.
Author : Paul Menzer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472584996
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center written by Paul Menzer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, ending over half-a-century of performances by men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it opened once again. The reconstructed Blackfriars, home to the American Shakespeare Center, represents an old playhouse for the new millennium and therefore symbolically registers the permanent revolution in the performance of Shakespeare. Time and again, the industry refreshes its practices by rediscovering its own history. This book assesses how one American company has capitalised on history and in so doing has forged one of its own to become a major influence in contemporary Shakespearean theatre.
Author : Thomas Heywood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The First and Second Parts of the Fair Maid of the West written by Thomas Heywood and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas Heywood
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Fair Maid of the Exchange written by Thomas Heywood and published by . This book was released on 1846 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)
Download or read book The Two Noble Kinsmen written by William Shakespeare and published by Standard Ebooks. This book was released on 2022-10-17T20:00:57Z with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Two Noble Kinsmen is Shakespeare’s final play written before his death in 1616. He collaborated on it with John Fletcher; later, Fletcher took over as playwright for the King’s Men. The plot derives from “The Knight’s Tale” in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Thebes and Athens are at war. The tyrant Creon of Thebes commands Arcite and Palamon to fight for him. After a battle against Theseus, they end up captured and imprisoned. From their cell window, they see a beautiful woman named Emilia. Arcite and Palamon’s friendship turns into rivalry when they challenge each other to a fight to the death—with the victor claiming Emilia. This Standard Ebooks edition is based on the 1894 Royal Shakespeare edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
