Shakespeare everyone can understand&;now in this new EXPANDED edition of ROMEO AND JULIET! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, this popu...Loe edasi...
Through a metaphorical journey of Shakespeare in traditional Chinese theatre, using three Chinese opera productions of Hamlet as signposts, the book discusses the relationship between Shakespeare and Chinese theatrical traditions....Loe edasi...
With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuali...Loe edasi...
With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, relig...Loe edasi...
Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics of thanking as a significant speech act in Shakespearean plays. The word “thanks” appears nearly 400 times in 37 Shakespear...Loe edasi...
This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience’s most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. For Shakespeare, the...Loe edasi...
This book charts the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Harold Pinter’s career as a playwright.This exploration traces Shakespeare’s influence through Pinter’s pre-theatre writings (1950-1956), to his collaboration with Sir Peter Hall (starti...Loe edasi...
Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s plays to post-Trump America. It looks at American politics through the lens of Shakespeare, not simply equating fig...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on...Loe edasi...
Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and disability studies. It investigates the violence feared from, and directed at, inhabitants of the betwixt and betwe...Loe edasi...
Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount a courageous new reading of a four-hundred-year-old play, The Merchant of Venice, and propose a similar analysis of Othello and The Tempe...Loe edasi...
The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time. Contr...Loe edasi...
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lifeThis edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeares enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of...Loe edasi...
A new edition of one of Shakespeares most complex and enigmatic plays. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.Can one life be measured against another? Can a womans body be measured against a mans life? Can co...Loe edasi...
The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of The Tempest provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeares famous play. How beauteous mankind is! O brave new worldThat has such people int!...Loe edasi...
Immerse yourself in the sublime words of the Bard with this sumptuous anthology of Shakespearean snippets, with one extract for every night of the year.Chosen especially by a Shakespeare fanatic to reflect the changing seasons and year...Loe edasi...
The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of As You Like It provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeares beloved comedy. We that are true lovers run into strange capers.Four centuri...Loe edasi...
The New Oxford Shakespeare edition of Henry IV Part I provides a friendly yet authoritative introduction to Shakespeares famous history play. ...Loe edasi...
Here will be an old abusing of Gods patience and the Kings English.The Merry Wives of Windsor is the only Shakespeare play named entirely after female characters and his only comedy set in England. These features...Loe edasi...
The New Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative editions of Shakespeares works with introductory materials designed to encourage new interpretations of the plays and poems. Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood cle...Loe edasi...
The Tragedy of Macbeth is the shortest tragedy written by William Shakespeare. Macbeth, the protagonist of the play, is portrayed as a successful Scottish general in the army of King Duncan. Encouraged by his wife and taken over by greed and action,...Loe edasi...
This book critically explores the supernatural and prophetic elements residing within Shakespeares ten plays of English history: King John, Richard II, Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2), Henry V, Henry VI (Parts I-3), Richard III, and Henry VIII. Treating e...Loe edasi...
This book offers a detailed consideration of the five-volume novel written by Cao Xueqin and translated into English as The Story of the Stone, when read through William Shakespeares drama Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, A Tragedy in five Acts. The book...Loe edasi...
With a foreword by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, author of Ace of Spades‘Something is rotten in the state of Denmark’The King of Denmark is dead. When Hamlet, Prince of Den...Loe edasi...
With a foreword by Kat Delacorte, author of With Fire in Their Blood‘It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood’On a bleak, stormy night in Scotland, three witches prophesy: Macbeth will be a...Loe edasi...
A captivating picture book retelling by Shakespeares Globe for very young readers. William Shakespeares comedy about mistaken identities and unrequited love in the far-off kingdom of Illyria is unforgettably re-imagined by Shakespeares Globe as a pi...Loe edasi...
Since its 1967 production of Vanbrugh’s The Relapse, the Royal Shakespeare Company has been the world’s leading producer of Restoration Comedies. This book is the first to document and critique the company’s history of engagement with tha...Loe edasi...
The anonymous 17th-century drama known as Thomas of Woodstock or Richard II, Part One has excited debate and controversy among Shakespeare scholars for more than 150 years. Did he write it? Or is it just a knock-off by an ambitious plagiarist? This...Loe edasi...
A captivating picture book retelling by Shakespeares Globe for very young readers. William Shakespeares comedy about four lovers mishaps in an enchanted forest is unforgettably re-imagined by Shakespeares Globe as a picture book for very young rea...Loe edasi...
Through a metaphorical journey of Shakespeare in traditional Chinese theatre, using three Chinese opera productions of Hamlet as signposts, the book discusses the relationship between Shakespeare and Chinese theatrical traditions....Loe edasi...
With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuali...Loe edasi...
With a panoramic sweep across continents and topics, Early Modern Improvisations is an interdisciplinary collection that analyzes the relationship between early modern literature and history through lenses such as gender, ethnicity, sexuality, relig...Loe edasi...
Speech Act Theory and Shakespeare delves deeper than linguistic ornamentation to illuminate the complex dynamics of thanking as a significant speech act in Shakespearean plays. The word “thanks” appears nearly 400 times in 37 Shakespear...Loe edasi...
This volume explores Shakespeare’s interest in pity, an emotion that serves as an important catalyst for action within the plays, even as it generates one of the audience’s most common responses to tragic drama in the theater. For Shakespeare, the...Loe edasi...
This book charts the impact of Shakespeare’s works on Harold Pinter’s career as a playwright.This exploration traces Shakespeare’s influence through Pinter’s pre-theatre writings (1950-1956), to his collaboration with Sir Peter Hall (starti...Loe edasi...
Shakespeare in the Present: Political Lessons under Biden is the first case study in applying the lessons of Shakespeare’s plays to post-Trump America. It looks at American politics through the lens of Shakespeare, not simply equating fig...Loe edasi...
This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on Ben Jonson’s dramaturgy, with particular emphasis on the Greek and Roman playwrights and satirists. This book focuses on the influence of classical authors on...Loe edasi...
Violent liminalities in Early Modern Culture is a methodologically innovative book combining the twin disciplines of queer theory and disability studies. It investigates the violence feared from, and directed at, inhabitants of the betwixt and betwe...Loe edasi...
Reading Shakespeare in Jewish Theological Frameworks: Shylock Beyond the Holocaust uses Jewish theology to mount a courageous new reading of a four-hundred-year-old play, The Merchant of Venice, and propose a similar analysis of Othello and The Tempe...Loe edasi...
A new spin on August Strindbergs play Miss Julie, premiered at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester, in 2024 in a co-production between Chichester Festival Theatre, Headlong and Frantic Assembly....Loe edasi...
Shakespeares great history plays, Henry IV Parts 1 & 2, brought together in a visionary new version adapted by award-winning writer and director Robert Icke....Loe edasi...
Artist Eric Ravilious’s stunning illustrative interpretation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Together with a newly commissioned introduction, this book includes a facsimile of one of artist Eric Ravilious’s finest illustrated...Loe edasi...
The Shakespearean International Yearbook surveys the present state of Shakespeare studies in global contexts, addressing issues that are fundamental to our interpretive encounter with Shakespeare’s work and his time. Contr...Loe edasi...
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their lifeThis edition provides a clear and accessible introduction to Shakespeares enduring tale of ill-fated lovers. Hannah August pays particular attention to the dramatic function of...Loe edasi...
A new edition of one of Shakespeares most complex and enigmatic plays. Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall.Can one life be measured against another? Can a womans body be measured against a mans life? Can co...Loe edasi...