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Author : Abraham Wivell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book An Historical Account of the Monumental Bust of William Shakspeare written by Abraham Wivell and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. C. Skillman
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1445698277
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Paranormal Warwickshire written by S. C. Skillman and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Takes the reader into the world of ghosts and spirits in Warwickshire, following their footsteps into the unknown.
Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192661418
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)
Download or read book The Private Life of William Shakespeare written by Lena Cowen Orlin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and his neighbours. The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close readings of key documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables. It also shows how the histories of some of Shakespeare's neighbours illuminate aspects of his own life. Throughout, we encounter a Shakespeare who consciously and with purpose designed his life. Having witnessed the business failures of his merchant father, he determined not to follow his father's model. His early wedding freed him from craft training to pursue a literary career. His wife's work, and probably the assistance of his parents and brothers, enabled him to make the first of the property purchases that grounded his life as a gentleman. With his will, he provided for both his daughters in ways that were suitable to their circumstances; Anne Shakespeare was already protected by dower rights in the houses and lands he had acquired. His funerary monument suggests that the man of 'small Latin and less Greek' in fact had some experience of an Oxford education. Evidences are that he commissioned the monument himself.
Author : Deron R. Hicks
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547840349
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Secrets of Shakespeare's Grave written by Deron R. Hicks and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2012 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Da Vinci Code" meets Nancy Drew in this galloping middle-grade mystery about 12-year old Colophon Letterford and the ancient treasure left to her literary publishing family. Illustrations.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Antony & Cleopatra written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Abraham Wivell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book An historical account of the monumental bust of William Shakspeare, in the chancel of the church, at Stratford-upon-Avon written by Abraham Wivell and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : H. Austin Whitver
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000811093
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Tombs in Shakespearean Drama written by H. Austin Whitver and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tombs in Shakespearean Drama explores the rhetorical deployment of tombs and monuments on the early modern stage, demonstrating their historiographic power and mythmaking potential. By analyzing references to tombs in plays by Shakespeare and others in conjunction with extant monuments, this volume demonstrates how these references function in two overlapping ways in period drama: monuments act as repositories of information about the past, and they allow the living to construct and preserve fictive narratives. The stage exposes the flimsy materiality of paper, placing less value on the written word than period poetry. In this way, critics have perhaps oversold as universal Shakespeare’s poetic praise of stone. Tombs within plays act as a powerful historical and narrative medium, raising the stakes to provide the stage with the illusion of permanency. Playwrights use tombs to anchor the stage action, giving a sense of lasting importance to dramatic events and combatting the ephemeral nature of the playhouse. In drama, Shakespeare and others drew on the persona preserved on tombs; this volume widens our view of how these representations interacted in the commemorative economy of early modern England. Within the playhouse, it was the tomb, not the tome, that stood as a symbol of permanence.
Author : Shakespeare Memorial Association. Council
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare Memorial, Stratford-on-Avon written by Shakespeare Memorial Association. Council and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul Edmondson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199256105
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (561 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Sonnets written by Paul Edmondson and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2004 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sonnets are among the most accomplished and fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of Shakespeare's work as a poet and poetic dramatist, and while their autobiographical relevance is uncertain, no account of Shakespeare's life can afford to ignore them. So many myths and superstitions have arisen around these poems, relating for example to their possible addressees, to their coherence as a sequence, to their dates of composition, to their relation to other poetry of the period and to Shakespeare's plays, that even the most naïve reader will find it difficult to read them with an innocent mind. Shakespeare's Sonnets dispels the myths and focuses on the poems. Considering different possible ways of reading the Sonnets, Wells and Edmondson place them in a variety of literary and dramatic contexts--in relation to other poetry of the period, to Shakespeare's plays, as poems for performance, and in relation to their reception and reputation. Selected sonnets are discussed in depth, but the book avoids the jargon of theoretical criticism. Shakespeare's Sonnets is an exciting contribution to the Oxford Shakespeare Topics, ideal for students and the general reader interested in these intriguing poems.
Author : Jonathan Bate
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210144
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book How the Classics Made Shakespeare written by Jonathan Bate and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book grew from the inaugural E. H. Gombrich Lectures in the Classical Tradition that I delivered in the autumn of 2013 at the Warburg Institute of the University of London, under the title, "Ancient Strength: Shakespeare and the Classical Tradition"--Preface, page ix.
Author : Tony Trowles
Publisher : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781857596496
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (964 download)
Download or read book Treasures of Westminster Abbey written by Tony Trowles and published by Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: - New edition of this exploration of one of Britain's greatest buildings - A comprehensive, beautifully illustrated survey of Westminster Abbey's art treasures Westminster Abbey has a history stretching back over a thousand years. Founded as a Benedictine monastery in the mid-tenth century, it is the coronation church where monarchs have been crowned amid great splendor since 1066. The present church, begun by Henry III in 1245, is a treasure house of architectural and artistic achievement on which each succeeding century has left its mark. The medieval and Renaissance tombs within the Abbey, though among the most important in Europe, form only a small part of the extraordinary collection of gravestones, memorials and monumental sculpture for which it has long been famous. Ranging from the thirteenth-century shrine of St Edward and the Renaissance splendor of Henry VII's Lady Chapel, to the literary memorials of Poets' Corner and the statues of twentieth-century martyrs on the Abbey's west front, this book describes the stained glass, furniture, sculpture, textiles, wall paintings and many other historic artefacts found within this remarkable church. Contents: Introduction; Edward the Confessor's Chapel; Sacrarium and High Altar; Quire and Crossing; North Transept and Ambulatory; South Ambulatory and Transept; Nave; Lady Chapel; Cloisters; Abbey Precincts.
Author : Brian Chalk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316412210
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (164 download)
Download or read book Monuments and Literary Posterity in Early Modern Drama written by Brian Chalk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the ephemeral nature of performed drama, playwrights such as Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Fletcher, and Shakespeare were deeply interested in the endurance of their theatrical work and in their own literary immortality. This book re-evaluates the relationship between these early modern dramatists and literary posterity by considering their work within the context of post-Reformation memorialization. Providing fresh analyses of plays by major dramatists, Brian Chalk considers how they depicted monuments and other funeral properties on stage in order to exploit and criticize the rich ambiguities of commemorative rituals. The book also discusses the print history of the plays featured. The subject will attract scholars and upper-level students of Renaissance drama, memory studies, early modern theatre, and print history.
Author : John S. Garrison
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192521438
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Afterlife written by John S. Garrison and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question of what happens after death was a vital one in Shakespeare's time, as it is today. And, like today, the answers were by no means universally agreed upon. Early moderns held surprisingly diverse beliefs about the afterlife and about how earthly life affected one's fate after death. Was death akin to a sleep where one did not wake until judgment day? Were sick bodies healed in heaven? Did sinners experience torment after death? Would an individual reunite with loved ones in the afterlife? Could the dead communicate with the world of the living? Could the living affect the state of souls after death? How should the dead be commemorated? Could the dead return to life? Was immortality possible? The wide array of possible answers to these questions across Shakespeare's work can be surprising. Exploring how particular texts and characters answer these questions, Shakespeare and the Afterlife showcases the vitality and originality of the author's language and thinking. We encounter characters with very personal visions of what awaits them after death, and these visions reveal new insights into these individuals' motivations and concerns as they navigate the world of the living. Shakespeare and the Afterlife encourages us to engage with the author's work with new insight and new curiosity. The volume connects some of the best-known speeches, characters, and conflicts to cultural debates and traditions circulating during Shakespeare's time.
Author : Thomas Nelson Publishers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and His Birthplace written by Thomas Nelson Publishers and published by . This book was released on 1859 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (419 download)
Download or read book The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus written by William Shakespeare and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-01 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.
Author : Andrew Gurr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107040639
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Moving Shakespeare Indoors written by Andrew Gurr and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.
Author : Graham Phillips
Publisher : Random House (UK)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Shakespeare Conspiracy written by Graham Phillips and published by Random House (UK). This book was released on 1994 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon is shrouded in mystery. There is no record of his having received an education, buying a book, or writing a single poem or play. There is no evidence of any one having had a conversation with him or receiving a letter from him. No one in the Warwickshire town of Stratford seems to have known that William Shakespeare was a successful London playwright while he was alive. Even the monument at his burial site - the bust of a balding man with a quill and parchment - was an 18th-century replacement. The original depicted a figure with his hands on a malt-sack; a man whose profession was not a writer, but a dealer in grain.
