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  • Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture

    Appropriation and Inversion

    by Ailsa Ferguson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary approach that offers new theories on the nature and application of Shakespearean appropriations in ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Shakespeare Hut

    A Story of Memory, Performance and Identity, 1916-1923

    by Ailsa Grant Ferguson ...
    This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916, the Hut was to be the only built memorial to mark Shakespeare's Tercentenary in the midst of war. With a purpose-built performance space, its tiny stage hosted the biggest theatrical stars of the age ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Antipodal Shakespeare

    Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016

    by Philip Mead, Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Kate Flaherty, Professor Gordon McMullan, Dr Mark Houlahan ...
    Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture – much more than has been remembered. This book offers new archival discoveries about, and new interpretations of, the Tercentenary celebrations in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and reflects ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Shakespeare and Gender

    Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama

    by Dr Kate Aughterson, Ailsa Grant Ferguson ...
    Shakespeare and Gender guides students, educators, practitioners and researchers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary and early modern debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • Othello

    Revised Edition

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times.Othello is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies-written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Sonnets of Shakespeare, a Classic Collection Book

    by Debbie Brewer ...
    The English playwright and poet, William Shakespeare, is often referred to as the 'Bard of Avon' and 'England's national poet'. He is considered to be the greatest writer of the English language and the world's greatest dramatist. His plays are performed more than those of any other playwright, and have been translated into every major living language. This beautiful illustrated book contains all ... Read more

    $3.21 USD

  • The Tempest

    A Magical Tale of Betrayal, Forgiveness, and the Power of the Human Spirit

    by William Shakespeare ...
    A storm. A sorcerer. A second chance. In The Tempest, William Shakespeare weaves a dazzling story of shipwrecks, spirits, and second chances—his final solo play and a farewell to the stage cloaked in magic. Exiled to a remote island with his daughter Miranda, the learned and powerful Prospero conjures a storm to bring his enemies to shore. What follows is a tale of revenge, redemption, and romance ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare After All

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • The Merchant Of Venice

    A Comedy

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The beautiful Portia has many suitors within Venetian society, among them the young nobleman Bassanio, who has squandered his fortune. Desperate to win Portia’s heart, Bassanio borrows money from Shylock, the Jewish moneylender, and turns to Antonio, a wealthy merchant who has helped him in the past, to guarantee the loan. Shylock agrees, only with harsh terms—if Antonio does not repay the loan by ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

  • How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

    by Ken Ludwig ...
    A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare, by a Tony Award–winning playwright—now featuring two new chapters“You and your children will be transformed by the magic and mystery of Shakespeare and his stories in an instant.”—Sir Derek Jacobi, CBEWinner of the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare BookTo know some Shakespeare provides a head ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayStephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the ... Read more

    $12.29 USD