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Author : E. F. C. Ludowyk
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Understanding Shakespeare written by E. F. C. Ludowyk and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life and times of the Bard combined with study guides to some of his plays.
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524748552
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)
Download or read book This Is Shakespeare written by Emma Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn’t tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith—an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer—takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities.
Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1465439021
Total Pages : 760 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (654 download)
Download or read book The Shakespeare Book written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-03-10 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn the entire works of one of the greatest writers of the English language in The Shakespeare Book. Part of the fascinating Big Ideas series, this book tackles tricky topics and themes in a simple and easy to follow format. Learn about the works of William Shakespeare in this overview guide, great for beginners looking to learn and experts wishing to refresh their knowledge alike! The Shakespeare Book brings a fresh and vibrant take on the topic through eye-catching graphics and diagrams to immerse yourself in. This captivating book will broaden your understanding of Shakespeare, with: - Every play and poem from Shakespeare’s canon, including lost plays and less well-known works of poetry - Packed with facts, charts, timelines and graphs to help explain core concepts - A visual approach to big subjects with striking illustrations and graphics throughout - Easy to follow text makes topics accessible for people at any level of understanding The Shakespeare Book is the perfect introduction to the entire canon of Shakespeare’s plays, sonnets, and other poetry, aimed at adults with an interest in the subject and students wanting to gain more of an overview. Here you’ll discover the complete works, from The Comedy of Errors, to the great tragedies of Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth. Your Shakespeare Questions, Simply Explained This is a brilliant, innovative exploration of the entire canon of Shakespeare plays, sonnets, and other poetry with detailed plot summaries and a full analysis of the major characters and themes. If you thought it was difficult to learn about the works of one of the greatest writers in the English language, The Shakespeare Book presents key information in a simple layout. Every work is covered, from the comedies of Twelfth Night and As You Like It to the tragedies of Julius Caesar and Hamlet, with easy-to-understand graphics and illustrations bringing the themes, plots, characters, and language of Shakespeare to life. The Big Ideas Series With millions of copies sold worldwide, The Shakespeare Book is part of the award-winning Big Ideas series from DK. The series uses striking graphics along with engaging writing, making big topics easy to understand.
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1542 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare written by Isaac Asimov and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 1542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the historical, legendary, and mythological background of 38 plays and 2 narrative poems.
Author : Ken Ludwig
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307951499
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (79 download)
Download or read book How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare written by Ken Ludwig and published by Crown. This book was released on 2013 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines an engaging way to instill an understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's classic works in children, outlining a family-friendly method that incorporates the history of Shakespearean theater and society.
Author : Norman Rabkin
Publisher : New York : Free Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare and the Common Understanding written by Norman Rabkin and published by New York : Free Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jo McMurtry
Publisher : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Understanding Shakespeare's England written by Jo McMurtry and published by Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books. This book was released on 1989 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's world--from cosmology to witchcraft, marriage to cuckoldry, aristocracy to money, drinking habits to music--all explored in this volume.
Author : Translated by Hugh Macdonald
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178589840X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (858 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare in Modern English written by Translated by Hugh Macdonald and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare in Modern English breaks the taboo about Shakespeare’s texts, which have long been regarded as sacred and untouchable while being widely and freely translated into foreign languages. It is designed to make Shakespeare more easily understood in the theatre without dumbing down or simplifying the content. Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’, ‘Coriolanus’ and ‘The Tempest’ are presented in Macdonald’s book in modern English. They show that these great plays lose nothing by being acted or read in the language we all use today. Shakespeare’s language is poetic, elaborately rich and memorable, but much of it is very difficult to comprehend in the theatre when we have no notes to explain allusions, obsolete vocabulary and whimsical humour. Foreign translations of Shakespeare are normally into their modern language. So why not ours too? The purpose in rendering Shakespeare into modern English is to enhance the enjoyment and understanding of audiences in the theatre. The translations are not designed for children or dummies, but for those who want to understand Shakespeare better, especially in the theatre. Shakespeare in Modern English will appeal to those who want to understand the rich and poetical language of Shakespeare in a more comprehensible way. It is also a useful tool for older students studying Shakespeare.
Author : John Barton
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0307773914
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)
Download or read book Playing Shakespeare written by John Barton and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The director begins by explicating Shakespeare’s verse and prose, speeches and soliloquies, and naturalistic and heightened language to discover the essence of his characters. In the second section, Barton and the actors explore nuance in Shakespearean theater, from evoking irony and ambiguity and striking the delicate balance of passion and profound intellectual thought, to finding new approaches to playing Shakespeare’s most controversial creation, Shylock, from The Merchant of Venice. A practical and essential guide, Playing Shakespeare will stand for years as the authoritative favorite among actors, scholars, teachers, and students.
Author : John Alvis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890893821
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (938 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Understanding of Honor written by John Alvis and published by . This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Boyle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983502753
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (27 download)
Download or read book A Poet's Rage written by William Boyle and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this collection look at Shakespeare's plays and poems from an Oxfordian perspective (i.e., that the true Shakespeare was Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford). The particular Oxfordian perspective held in common by all the contributors is that Shakespeare was always telling the story of his life and involvement in the Elizabethan Court and its politics, especially the red-hot politics of sucession (who would follow Elizabeth?) that engulfed the English nation in the final years of Elizabeth's reign. Yet, even as he expounded on these political issues of his day, his most profound writing was about his own story, the story of a man who had "laid great bases for eternity," but who also knew that, in the end, he himself would be erased from history.
Author : Richard Meek
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 0719098947
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The Renaissance of emotion written by Richard Meek and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays offers a major reassessment of the meaning and significance of emotional experience in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Recent scholarship on early modern emotion has relied on a medical-historical approach, resulting in a picture of emotional experience that stresses the dominance of the material, humoral body. The Renaissance of emotion seeks to redress this balance by examining the ways in which early modern texts explore emotional experience from perspectives other than humoral medicine. The chapters in the book seek to demonstrate how open, creative and agency-ridden the experience and interpretation of emotion could be. Taken individually, the chapters offer much-needed investigations into previously overlooked areas of emotional experience and signification; taken together, they offer a thorough re-evaluation of the cultural priorities and phenomenological principles that shaped the understanding of the emotive self in the early modern period. The Renaissance of emotion will be of particular interest to students and scholars of Shakespeare and Renaissance literature, the history of emotion, theatre and cultural history, and the history of ideas.
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191069280
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's First Folio written by Emma Smith and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of their place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare's reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognize Shakespeare.
Author : Thomas Derrick
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Understanding Shakespeare's Julius Caesar written by Thomas Derrick and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1998-11-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study questions, project ideas, and bibliographies provide additional sources for examining the cultural and historical context of the play.
Author : Frank Kermode
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374527741
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book Shakespeare's Language written by Frank Kermode and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-08 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this magnum opus, Britain's most distinguished scholar of 16th-century and 17th-century literature restores Shakespeare's poetic language to its rightful primacy.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Taming of the Shrew written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
