Much Ado about Nothing

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Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1438132034
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (381 download)

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Book Synopsis Much Ado about Nothing by : Harold Bloom

Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays discussing historical aspects of William Shakespeare's comedy in which Beatrice and Benedick overcome the obstacles preventing their union and ultimately conceding to mutual love and respect for each other.

Shakespeare's Sources

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136556842
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Sources by : Kenneth Muir

Download or read book Shakespeare's Sources written by Kenneth Muir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1957. This book finds discovers what the sources to Shakespeare's Comedies and Tragedies really were, considers the dramatic reasons for Shakespeare's departure from them and provides many examples of the way in which he made use of his general reading for particular scenes and speeches. Kenneth Muir shows that Shakespeare frequently uses more than one source and sometimes as many as eight.

The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317833422
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (178 download)

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Book Synopsis The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays by : Kenneth Muir

Download or read book The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays written by Kenneth Muir and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1977. This book ascertains what sources Shakespeare used for the plots of his plays and discusses the use he made of them; and secondly illustrates how his general reading is woven into the texture of his work. Few Elizabethan dramatists took such pains as Shakespeare in the collection of source-material. Frequently the sources were apparently incompatible, but Shakespeare's ability to combine a chronicle play, one or two prose chronicles, two poems and a pastoral romance without any sense of incongruity, was masterly. The plays are examined in approximately chronological order and Shakespeare's developing skill becomes evident.

On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest

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Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786471042
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest by : Roger A. Stritmatter

Download or read book On the Date, Sources and Design of Shakespeare's The Tempest written by Roger A. Stritmatter and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-08-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges a longstanding and deeply ingrained belief in Shakespearean studies that The Tempest--long supposed to be Shakespeare's last play--was not written until 1611. In the course of investigating this proposition, which has not received the critical inquiry it deserves, a number of subsidiary and closely related interpretative puzzles come sharply into focus. These include the play's sources of New World imagery; its festival symbolism and structure; its relationship to William Strachey's True Reportory account of the 1609 Bermuda wreck of the Sea Venture (not published until 1625)--and the tangled history of how and why scholars have for so long misunderstood these matters. Publication of some preliminary elements of the authors' arguments in leading Shakespearean journals (starting in 2007) ignited a controversy that became part of the critical history. This book presents the case in full for the first time.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare

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Total Pages : 1334 pages
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Shakespeare's Books

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474216064
Total Pages : 433 pages
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Book Synopsis Shakespeare's Books by : Stuart Gillespie

Download or read book Shakespeare's Books written by Stuart Gillespie and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. The dictionary covers works whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged more clearly in recent years due to new research, as well as explaining current thinking on long-recognized sources such as Plutarch, Ovid, Holinshed, Ariosto and Montaigne. Entries for all major sources include surveys of the writer's place in Shakespeare's time, detailed discussion of their relation to his work, and full bibliography. These are enhanced by sample passages from early modern England writers, together with reproductions of pages from the original texts. Now available in paperback with a new preface bringing the book up to date, this is an invaluable reference tool.

Complete Works

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1376 pages
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Book Synopsis Complete Works by : William Shakespeare

Download or read book Complete Works written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 104008561X
Total Pages : 345 pages
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Book Synopsis Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources by : Silvia Bigliazzi

Download or read book Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources written by Silvia Bigliazzi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting Shakespeare’s Italian Resources is about the complex dynamics of transmission and transformation of the Italian sources of twelve Shakespearean plays, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to Cymbeline. It focuses on the works of Sir Giovanni Fiorentino, Da Porto, Bandello, Ariosto, Dolce, Pasqualigo, and Groto, as well as on commedia dell’arte practices. This book discusses hitherto unexamined materials and revises received interpretations, disclosing the relevance of memorial processes within the broad field of intertextuality vis-à-vis conscious reuses and intentional practices.

Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader

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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474284396
Total Pages : 277 pages
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Book Synopsis Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader by : Deborah Cartmell

Download or read book Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader written by Deborah Cartmell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's rich stage and screen performance, looking closely at major contemporary performances, including Josie Rourke's film starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones at the Old Vic, and the RSC's recent rebranding of it as a sequel. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives, including contemporary directors' deployment of older actors within the lead roles, the play's relationship to Love's Labour's Lost, its presence on Youtube and the ways in which tales and ruses in the play belong to a wider concern with varieties of crime. The volume finishes with a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further research.

The Whirlwind of Passion

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443892858
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Whirlwind of Passion by : Petar Penda

Download or read book The Whirlwind of Passion written by Petar Penda and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Whirlwind of Passion: New Critical Perspectives on William Shakespeare is a combination of critical, linguistic, stylistic, translation and performance interpretations, providing a fresh insight into Shakespearean studies. It encompasses many different aspects of the Bard’s oeuvre, and thus explores various interpretative possibilities of the texts under scrutiny. The freshness of this book also lies in the fact that it deals with comparative analyses of both Shakespeare and his contemporaries, as well as in the fact that it emphasises the playwright’s relevance today. All the contributors to this volume are distinguished scholars and academicians with extensive experience of teaching and writing on Shakespeare.

the Complete works of Shakespeare

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1352 pages
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Book Synopsis the Complete works of Shakespeare by : Hardin Craig

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Much Ado about Nothing

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521229839
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (212 download)

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Book Synopsis Much Ado about Nothing by : Edward Grant

Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by Edward Grant and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1981-05-29 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a description of the major ideas about void space within and beyond the world that were formulated between the fourteenth and early eighteenth centuries.

Aspects of Book Culture in Early Modern England

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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1040245307
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Book Synopsis Aspects of Book Culture in Early Modern England by : T.A. Birrell

Download or read book Aspects of Book Culture in Early Modern England written by T.A. Birrell and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thomas Anthony Birrell (1924-2011) was a man of many parts. For most of his working life he was Professor of English Literature in the University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands, where he was famous for his lively, humoristic and thought-provoking lectures. He was the author of some very popular literary surveys in Dutch, one of which - a history of English literature - has had seven editions so far. However, first and foremost he was a bibliographer and a book historian. The present collection contains fifteen of his book-historical articles, two reviews and one published version of a lecture for the illustrious ’Association Internationale de Bibliophilie’. The lecture - with a wealth of illustrations - about the British Library as the ’Custodian of the Unique’ gives one a sense of Birrell’s ability to present an audience with a complicated topic in comprehensible, but not simplified, terms. The reviews serve as a statement of principle of how to tackle the subject of ’English readers and books’ and the standards that ought to apply. The articles demonstrate Tom Birrell’s in-depth knowledge, dedication and scholarship. He once said that he felt that he could have talked to the 17th-century London booksellers on an equal footing and his work convinces one that they would have enjoyed these conversations. Aspects of Book Culture was edited by Birrell’s former pupil, colleague, friend and fellow-bibliographer Jos Blom.

Shakespearean Narrative

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Publisher : University of Delaware Press
ISBN 13 : 9780874135251
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Book Synopsis Shakespearean Narrative by : R. Rawdon Wilson

Download or read book Shakespearean Narrative written by R. Rawdon Wilson and published by University of Delaware Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Shakespearean Narrative, Rawdon Wilson explores the variety and purposes of narrative in Shakespeare's plays. He does this by placing Shakespeare's use of narrative within a context of Renaissance narrative theory and practice, often citing analogous strategies from such other writers as Spenser and Cervantes, and exploring in depth the fruitfulness of contemporary narrative theory to an understanding of Shakespeare's practice. Thus Shakespearean Narrative undertakes a double task: it tries to understand Shakespeare's narrative strategies, which has never been done before in any comparable depth, and it also attempts to test the usefulness of contemporary narrative theory." "The book also relates Shakespeare's understanding of the narrative in the plays to the brilliant narrative poems that he wrote in the early 1590s. It also examines the narrative conventions that are used in the embedded, or inset, narratives in the plays. Particular attention is paid to the way Shakespeare creates fictional entities, such as worlds and characters, in the plays. A great deal of emphasis is placed on Shakespeare's innovative transformations of traditional narrative conventions."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Publications of the Modern Language Association of America

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1446 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Publications of the Modern Language Association of America by : Modern Language Association of America

Download or read book Publications of the Modern Language Association of America written by Modern Language Association of America and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1921-1969 include annual bibliography, called 1921-1955, American bibliography; 1956-1963, Annual bibliography; 1964-1968, MLA international bibliography.

A Dictionary of Miracles

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Miracles by : Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

Download or read book A Dictionary of Miracles written by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Invention of Suspicion

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Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191615897
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Book Synopsis The Invention of Suspicion by : Lorna Hutson

Download or read book The Invention of Suspicion written by Lorna Hutson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-04-14 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Invention of Suspicion argues that the English justice system underwent changes in the sixteenth century that, because of the system's participatory nature, had a widespread effect and a decisive impact on the development of English Renaissance drama. These changes gradually made evidence evaluation a popular skill: justices of peace and juries were increasingly required to weigh up the probabilities of competing narratives of facts. At precisely the same time, English dramatists were absorbing, from Latin legal rhetoric and from Latin comedy, poetic strategies that enabled them to make their plays more persuasively realistic, more 'probable'. The result of this enormously rich conjunction of popular legal culture and ancient forensic rhetoric was a drama in which dramatis personae habitually gather evidence and 'invent' arguments of suspicion and conjecture about one another, thus prompting us, as readers and audience, to reconstruct this 'evidence' as stories of characters' private histories and inner lives. In this drama, people act in uncertainty, inferring one another's motives and testing evidence for their conclusions. As well as offering an overarching account of how changes in juridical epistemology relate to post-Reformation drama, this book examines comic dramatic writing associated with the Inns of Court in the overlooked decades of the 1560s and 70s. It argues that these experiments constituted an influential sub-genre, assimilating the structures of Roman comedy to current civic and political concerns with the administration of justice. This sub-genre's impact may be seen in Shakespeare's early experiments in revenge tragedy, history play and romance comedy, in Titus Andronicus, Henry VI and The Comedy of Errors, as well as Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, Bartholomew Fair and The Alchemist. The book ranges from mid-fifteenth century drama, through sixteenth century interludes to the drama of the 1590s and 1600s. It draws on recent research by legal historians, and on a range of legal-historical sources in print and manuscript.