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Queering Translation History: Shakespeare's Sonnets in Czech and Slovak TransformationsThis innovative work challenges normative binaries in contemporary translation studies and applies frameworks from queer historiography to the discipline in order to explore shifting perceptions of same-sex love and desire in translations and retranslations of William Shakespeare's Sonnets.The book brings together perspectives from poststructuralism,...
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Shakespeare And The Jew (1921)This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...
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Shakespeare and Gender in PracticeCross-gender performance was an integral part of Shakespearean theatre: from boys portraying his female characters, to those characters disguising themselves as men within the story. This book examines contemporary trends in staging cross-gender performances of Shakespeare in the UK and USA. Terri Power surveys...
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The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative BiographyThis original and enlightening book casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons both in their own right and in relation to his life. Well-known figures such as Richard Burbage, Ben Jonson and Thomas Middleton...
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The New Cambridge Shakespeare 41 Volume SetThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to readers worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series, edited by an expert international team, includes all Shakespeare's plays, sonnets and poems, presented in attractively designed volumes. - Modern-spelling texts have been freshly established by...
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Troilus and CressidaThe New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second...
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Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern PerspectivesThe topic of Shakespeare and religion is a perennial one, and the recent "turn to religion" in historical and literary scholarship has pushed it to the fore. Besides speculating about Shakespeare's personal religious beliefs and allegiance, historians and literary critics writing about early modern...
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Understanding Hamlet: A Study GuideUnderstanding Hamlet is intended for readers wishing to deepen their comprehension and appreciation of what is arguably Shakespeare's greatest play. The introductory section provides general information about Hamlet and includes an overall summary of its events. The synopsis and commentary section contains detailed scene-by-scene...
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Understanding the Invisible ShakespeareUnderstanding the Invisible Shakespeare represents Brenda James' third book on Sir Henry Neville. Her new research has led to further evidence for his authorship and delves into the world of the Neville Knights and their societies. This book includes newly-presented letters from Sir Henry...
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Soliloquy! the Men: The Shakespeare MonologuesYour one-stop classical workshop At last, over 175 of Shakespeare's finest and most performable monologues taken from all thirty-seven plays are here in two easy-to-use volumes (Men and Women). Selections travel the entire spectrum of the great dramatist's vision, from comedies, wit and romances,...
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Advice to a Player: A Collection of Monologues from Shakespeare with Explanatory NotesWhile some of the thirty-two speeches included here - those from Hamlet, Henry V and As You Like It, for example - are well known and favorites for audition purposes, most are less familiar and so provide challenging new opportunities for an actor to...
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Twelfth Night: A User's Guide"Michael Pennington...is sharply intelligent, scrupulously careful, hugely knowledgeable and, above all, wonderfully readable." -The Shakespeare InstituteAuthor: Michael PenningtonPublisher: LimelightPublished: 07/01/2004Pages: 266Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.14h x 6.03w x 0.81dISBN: 9780879109509Review Citation(s): Choice 06/01/2001 pg. 1805
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The Merchant of Venice: Shakespeare: The Critical TraditionThe Merchant of Venice has always been regarded as one of Shakespeare's most interesting plays. Before the nineteenth century critical reaction is relatively fragmentary. However between then and the late twentieth century the critical tradition reveals the tremendous vitality of the play to evoke...
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The Idea of the City in the Age of ShakespeareGail Kern Paster explores the role of the city in the works of William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, and Ben Jonson. Paster moves beyond the usual presentation of the city-country dichotomy to reveal a series of oppositions that operate within the city's walls. These oppositions--city...
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Choreographing Shakespeare: Dance Adaptations of the Plays and PoemsChoreographing Shakespeare presents a hitherto unexplored history of the choreographers and performers who have created dance adaptations of Shakespeare.This book investigates forty dance works in genres such as ballet, modern dance, and hip-hop, produced between 1940 and 2016 by choreographers in Britain, America, and...
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The Osier Cage: Rhetorical Devices in Romeo and JulietBy studying the diction of Romeo and Juliet, Robert O. Evans examines this, the most rhetorical of Shakespeare's plays, in terms of an Aristotelian critical category, which has been neglected in modern times. Inherent in his methodology is the assumption that Romeo and Juliet...
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Henry IV, Part 1Henry IV sits on a usurped throne, his conscience and his nobles in revolt, while his son Hal is immersed in a self-indulgent life of revelry with the notorious Sir John Falstaff. Shakespeare explores questions of kingship and honor in this masterly mingling of...
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A Midsummer Night's DreamA continuation of the major series of individual Shakespeare plays from the world renowned Royal Shakespeare Company, edited by two brilliant, younger generation Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen Incorporating definitive text and cutting-edge notes from William Shakespeare: Complete Works-the first authoritative, modernized...
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All's Well That Ends Well"A young man married is a man that's marr'd."--All's Well That Ends Well Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this classic play about gender, desire, and sexual love. THIS VOLUME ALSO INCLUDES MORE THAN A HUNDRED...
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Voice in Motion: Staging Gender, Shaping Sound in Early Modern EnglandVoice in Motion explores the human voice as a literary, historical, and performative motif in early modern English drama and culture, where the voice was frequently represented as struggling, even failing, to work. In a compelling and original argument, Gina Bloom demonstrates that early...
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