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Five Revenge Tragedies: The Spanish Tragedy; Hamlet; Antonio's Revenge; The Tragedy of Hoffman; The Reve Nger's TragedyA new, authoritative edition of five classic revenge plays As the Elizabethan era gave way to the reign of James I, England grappled with corruption within the royal court and widespread religious anxiety. Dramatists responded with morally complex plays of dark wit and violent...
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Troilus and CressidaThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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Timon of AthensThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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Henry IV, Part 2The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction...
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Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions"Browse the delightful Bardisms to find a fitting quote for any mood, moment, or occasion. But read it through to learn how to enjoy Shakespeare and bring more of his language into your daily life." -- Jacob Weisberg, Editor of Slate magazine and author...
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Romeo and Juliet: Shakespeare RetoldTackling Romeo and Juliet? Easily understand every line and quickly master Shakespeare's classic tragedy of young love and family feuding.Does Shakespeare's 400-year-old language often leave you confused? Do you wish there was an easier way to get to the heart of the story without...
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Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity: Shakespeare and Disability HistoryRichard III will always be central to English disability history as both man and myth-a disabled medieval king made into a monster by his nation's most important artist. In Richard III's Bodies from Medieval England to Modernity, Jeffrey Wilson tracks disability over 500 years,...
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Shakespeare and Adaptation TheoryShakespeare and Adaptation Theory reconsiders, after 20 years of intense critical and creative activity, the theory and practice of adapting Shakespeare to different genres and media. Organized around clusters of key metaphors, the book explicates the principal theories informing the field of Shakespearean adaptation...
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Shakespeare and the Courtly AestheticThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Censorship of Literature in Austria, 1751-1848The influence of censorship on the intellectual and political life in the Habsburg Monarchy during the period under scrutiny can hardly be overstated. With censorship still employed in many regions of the world today, readers will discover various striking differences--as well as numerous astounding...
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All's Well That Ends WellAll's Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All's Well That Ends Well was likely inspired by the tale of Giletta di Narbona from Boccaccio's Decameron. Unpopular during Shakespeare's lifetime, the play remains one of his least staged works to...
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The Precious Gem of Hidden LiteratureContemporaries of English polymath Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) eulogized him as ""a muse more choice than the nine muses"" who ""showered the age with frequent volumes"" and ""filled the world with works""; ""the very nerve of genius, the marrow of persuasion, the golden stream...
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Shakespeare and British World War Two FilmAuthor: Garrett A. Sullivan JrPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 03/31/2022Pages: 216Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.01lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56dISBN: 9781108842648This title is not returnable
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Shakespeare's Auditory Worlds: Hearing and Staging Practices, Then and NowInspired by the verbal exuberance and richness of all that can be heard by audiences both on and off Shakespeare's stages, Shakespeare's Auditory Worlds examines such special listening situations as overhearing, eavesdropping, and asides. It breaks new ground by exploring the complex relationships between...
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What is a Playhouse?: England at Play, 1520-1620This book offers an accessible introduction to England's sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century playing industry and a fresh account of the architecture, multiple uses, communities, crowds, and proprietors of playhouses. It builds on recent scholarship and new documentary and archaeological discoveries to answer the questions:...
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Macbeth: Un puñal imaginarioMacbeth es una de las tragedias más leídas y escenificadas de Shakespeare. El protagonista, un guerrero distinguido, se transforma en asesino despiadado consumido por la duda y la ambición. William Shakespeare sigue siendo estudiado desde diversas perspectivas y disciplinas por su óptimo conocimiento de...
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As You Like ItAs You Like It (1599) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. As You Like It was probably inspired by Thomas Lodge's Rosalynd, Euphues Golden Legacie (1587), a story based on "The Tale of Gamelyn," a Middle English romance. For its deconstruction of traditional gender...
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The Tragedy of HamletHamlet (1601) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. Inspired by Danish historian Saxo Grammatica's legend of Amleth, which Shakespeare likely encountered in a retelling by French scholar Francois de Belleforest, Hamlet was written sometime between 1599 and 1601. Alongside Romeo and Juliet, it is...
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Shakespeare and Reception TheoryArden Shakespeare and Theoryprovides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies in recent years, as well as those that are emerging at the present moment. Each volume provides: - a clear definition of a particular theory;- a survey of...
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Shakespeare and the First HamletThe first edition of Hamlet - often called 'Q1', shorthand for 'first quarto' - was published in 1603, in what we might regard as the early modern equivalent of a cheap paperback. Yet this early version of Shakespeare's classic tragedy is becoming increasingly canonical,...
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