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The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare

Author : Arliss Ryan
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101429682
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Confessions of Anne Shakespeare written by Arliss Ryan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inventive and vibrant historical novel about the woman who dared to be the equal of the Bard of Avon. Dramatizing a marriage born of passion and strained by ambition, Arliss Ryan's fascinating historical novel chronicles a love affair for the ages, and the story of a woman who dares to fulfill her own surprising destiny. Anne Hathaway is weighing her prospects for marriage when a dalliance with young Will Shakespeare, the poetry-writing son of a rural glove- maker, leaves her pregnant and wed. When Will joins a traveling acting troupe and moves to London, Anne leaves their children in his parents' care and boldly follows him. Taking up a new identity at Will's side, Anne supports his career as a struggling actor by sewing costumes and transcribing manuscripts in the rough-and-tumble world of London's theatres. As Will finds his true calling in writing, Anne's own literary skills begin to flower, leading to a secret collaboration that makes Will the foremost playwright in Elizabethan England.

Imagining Shakespeare's Wife

Author : Katherine West Scheil
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108265677
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Shakespeare's Wife written by Katherine West Scheil and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What 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 examines representations of Hathaway, from the earliest depictions and details in the eighteenth century, to contemporary portrayals in theatre, biographies and novels. Residing in the nexus between Shakespeare's life and works, Hathaway has been constructed to explain the women in the plays but also composed from the material in the plays. Presenting the very first cultural history of Hathaway, Katherine Scheil offers a richly original study that uncovers how the material circumstances of history affect the later reconstruction of lives.

Ben Jonson and Posterity

Author : Martin Butler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108842682
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Ben Jonson and Posterity written by Martin Butler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-08 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the construction of Jonson's multifaceted reputation and shifting legacy from his own time to the present.

Shakespeare and the Modern Novel

Author : Graham Holderness
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1805397036
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Modern Novel written by Graham Holderness and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Shakespearean novel is undergoing a renaissance as the long prose narrative form becomes reinvigorated through new forms of media such as television, film and the internet. Shakespeare and the Modern Novel explores the history of the novel as a literary form, suggesting that the form can trace its strongest roots beyond the eighteenth-century work of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson to Shakespeare’s plays. Within this collection, well-established Shakespeare critics demonstrate that the diversity and flexibility of interactions between Shakespeare and the modern novel are very much alive.

Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen

Author : Edel Semple
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350359211
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen written by Edel Semple and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first edited collection to explore Shakespeare's life as depicted on the modern stage and screen. Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it uniquely identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare, his family and his social circle in theatre, film and television. Interrogating Shakespeare's afterlife across stage and screen media, the volume explores continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, which it positions as the progenitor of recent Shakespearean biofictions in Anglo-American culture. It traces these developments through the 21st century, from pivotal moments such as the Shakespeare 400 celebrations in 2016, up to the quatercentenary of the publication of the First Folio, whose portrait helped make the author a globally recognisable icon. The collection takes account of recent Anglo-American socio-political, cultural and literary concerns including feminism, digital media and the biopic and superhero genres. The wide variety of works discussed range from All is True and Hamnet to Upstart Crow, Bill and even The Lego Movie. Offering insights from actors, dramatists and literary and performance scholars, it considers why artists are drawn to Shakespeare as a character and how theatre and screen media mediate his status as literary genius.

Shakespeare Beyond Doubt

Author : Paul Edmondson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107017599
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Beyond Doubt written by Paul Edmondson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-18 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did Shakespeare write Shakespeare? This authoritative collection of essays brings fresh perspectives to bear on an intriguing cultural phenomenon.

The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn

Author : Robin Maxwell
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1628724544
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Diary of Anne Boleyn written by Robin Maxwell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-11-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available again, the first book in Robin Maxwell's acclaimed Elizabethan Quartet: "Wonderfully juicy . . . Maxwell brings all of bloody Tudor England vividly to life” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). One was queen for a thousand days; one for over forty years. Both were passionate, headstrong women, loved and hated by Henry VIII. Yet until the discovery of the secret diary, Anne Boleyn and her daughter, Elizabeth I, had never really met. Anne was the second of Henry's six wives, doomed to be beloved, betrayed, and beheaded. When Henry fell madly in love with her upon her return from an education at the lascivious French court, he was already a married man. While his passion for Anne was great enough to rock the foundation of England and of all Christendom, in the end he forsook her for another love, schemed against her, and ultimately had her sentenced to death. But unbeknownst to the king, Anne had kept a diary. At the beginning of Elizabeth 's reign, it is pressed into her hands. In reading it, the young queen discovers a great deal about her much-maligned mother: Anne's fierce determination, her hard-won knowledge about being a woman in a world ruled by despotic men, and her deep-seated love for the infant daughter taken from her shortly after her birth. In the journal's pages, Elizabeth finds an echo of her own dramatic life as a passionate young woman at the center of England's powerful male establishment, and with the knowledge gained from them, makes a resolution that will change the course of history.

Shakespeare's Secret

Author : Elise Broach
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312371326
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Secret written by Elise Broach and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare—can Hero uncover the connections?

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition)

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079848
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition) written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.

Agnes Grey

Author : Anne Brontë
Publisher : Modernista
ISBN 13 : 9180943616
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Agnes Grey written by Anne Brontë and published by Modernista. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the daughter of a modest minister, Agnes Grey has low prospects in life. After her father loses most of the family’s savings, Agnes is determined to help out and takes a position as governess for a wealthy family. Being a governess turns out to be more challenging than she could have predicted as she has to manage spoiled children and petty parents, while dependent on their approval for her livelihood. Agnes Grey is the first novel by Anne Brontë, published in 1847, and today considered an everlasting classic. Like the famous Jane Eyre, by Anne’s sister Emily Brontë, it deals with the precarious position of the governess and how the young women taking on that role were treated. It is a poignant and insightful novel that explores rigid class structures and the challenges it poses to women. ANNE BRONTË [1820-1849] was an English poet and novelist. She was the youngest of the three Brontë authors, her older sisters being Emily and Charlotte. Anne died young, probably from tuberculosis, having published the novels Agnes Grey and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, the latter hailed today as one of the first feminist novels.

Hamlet Himself

Author : Bronson Feldman
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1450211860
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Hamlet Himself written by Bronson Feldman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2010-02-26 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feldman's examination of Shakespeare's play from the point of view that it was written by the Earl of Oxford serves not only to shed new light on the play, but also constitutes a new argument for Oxford as Shakespeare.

Secret Shakespeare

Author : Richard Wilson
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 152618415X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Secret Shakespeare written by Richard Wilson and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-06-04 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason which engulfed his family. Whether to suffer outrageous fortune or take up arms in suicidal resistance was, as Hamlet says, 'the question' that fired Shakespeare's stage. In 'Secret Shakespeare' Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so silent on the atrocities he survived. Shakespeare constructed a drama not of discovery, like his rivals, but of darkness, deferral, evasion and disguise, where, for all his hopes of a 'golden time' of future toleration, 'What's to come' is always unsure. Whether or not 'He died a papist', it is because we can never 'pluck out the heart' of his mystery that Shakespeare's plays retain their unique potential to resist. This is a fascinating work, which will be essential reading for all scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance studies.

Shakespearean Gothic

Author : Christy Desmet
Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 070832262X
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Shakespearean Gothic written by Christy Desmet and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the paradox that the Gothic (today's werewolves, vampires, and horror movies) owe their origins (and their legitimacy) to eighteenth-century interpretations of Shakespeare. As Shakespeare was being established as the supreme British writer throughout the century, he was cited as justification for early Gothic writers' fascination with the supernatural, their abandoning of literary "decorum," and their fascination with otherness and extremes of every kind. This book addresses the gap for an up to date analysis of Shakespeare's relation to the Gothic. An authority on the Gothic, E.J. Clery, has stated that "It would be impossible to overestimate the importance of Shakespeare as touchstone and inspiration for the terror mode, even if we feel the offspring are unworthy of their parent. Scratch the surface of any Gothic fiction and the debt to Shakespeare will be there." This book therefore addresses Shakespeare's importance to the Gothic tradition as a whole and also to particular, well-known and often studied Gothic works. It also considers the influence of the Gothic on Shakespeare, both in-print and on stage in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. The introductory chapter places the chapters within the historical development of both Shakespearean reception and Gothic Studies. The book is divided into three parts: 1) Gothic Appropriations of "Shakespeare"; 2) Rewriting Shakespearean Plays and Characters; 3) Shakespeare Before/After the Gothic.

Imperfect Alchemist

Author : Naomi Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780749026271
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Imperfect Alchemist written by Naomi Miller and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-17 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Miller revisits and reimagines the life of one of Shakespeare's neglected female literary contemporaries, Mary Sidney Herbert.

Anne Frank

Author : Francine Prose
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061959162
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book Anne Frank written by Francine Prose and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Prose’s book is a stunning achievement. . . . Now Anne Frank stands before us. . . a figure who will live not only in history but also in the literature she aspired to create.” — Minneapolis Star Tribune In June, 1942, Anne Frank received a diary for her thirteenth birthday, just weeks before she and her family went into hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic. For two years, she described life in hiding in vivid, unforgettable detail and grappled with the unfolding events of World War II. Before the attic was raided in August, 1944, Anne Frank furiously revised and edited her work, crafting a piece of literature that she hoped would be read by the public after the war. And read it has been. In Anne Frank, bestselling author Francine Prose deftly parses the artistry, ambition, and enduring influence of Anne Frank’s beloved classic, The Diary of a Young Girl. She investigates the diary’s unique afterlife: the obstacles and criticism Otto Frank faced in publishing his daughter’s words; the controversy surrounding the diary’s Broadway and film adaptations, and the social mores of the 1950s that reduced it to a tale of adolescent angst and love; the conspiracy theories that have cried fraud, and the scientific analysis that proved them wrong. Finally, having assigned the book to her own students, Prose considers the rewards and challenges of teaching one of the world’s most read, and banned, books. How has the life and death of one girl become emblematic of the lives and deaths of so many, and why do her words continue to inspire? Approved by both the Anne Frank House Foundation in Amsterdam and the Anne Frank-Fonds in Basel, run by the Frank family, Anne Frank unravels the fascinating story of a memoir that has become one of the most compelling, intimate, and important documents of modern history.

William Shakespeare

Author : Brian Vickers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134783612
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare written by Brian Vickers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from landmark essays in the history of criticism to journalism and contemporary opinion, and little published documentary material such as letters and diaries. Significant pieces of criticism from later periods are also included, in order to demonstrate the fluctuations in an author's reputation. Each volume contains an introduction to the writer's published works, a selected bibliography, and an index of works, authors and subjects. The Collected Critical Heritage set will be available as a set of 68 volumes and the series will also be available in mini sets selected by period (in slipcase boxes) and as individual volumes.

The Queen's Pawn

Author : Christy English
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101186445
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Queen's Pawn written by Christy English and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical novel of the legendary Eleanor of Aquitaine and the one person she loved more than power-her rival for the throne. At only nine, Princess Alais of France is sent to live in England until she is of age to wed Prince Richard, son of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. Alais is an innocent pawn on the chessboard of dynastic marriage, her betrothal intended to broker an uneasy truce between the nations. Estranged from her husband, Eleanor sees a kindred spirit in this determined young girl. She embraces Alais as a daughter, teaching the princess what it takes to be a woman of power in a world of men. But as Alais grows to maturity and develops ambitions of her own, Eleanor begins to see her as a threat-and their love for each other becomes overshadowed by their bitter rivalry, dark betrayals, conflicting passions, and a battle for revenge over the throne of England itself.