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  • Twelfth Night

    New Critical Essays

    Edited by James Schiffer ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    This volume in the Shakespeare Criticism series offers a range of approaches to Twelfth Night, including its critical reception, performance history, and relation to early modern culture.James Schiffer’s extensive introduction surveys the play’s critical reception and performance history, while individual essays explore a variety of topics relevant to a full appreciation of the play: early modern ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    Critical Essays

    Edited by James Schiffer ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays is the essential Sonnets anthology for our time. This important collection focuses exclusively on contemporary criticism of the Sonnets, reprinting three highly influential essays from the past decade and including sixteen original analyses by leading scholars in the field. The contributors' diverse approaches range from the new historicism to the new ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Twelfth Night

    Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition

    by Joseph Candido, Professor Brian Vickers ...
    Series series Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
    This new volume in the Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition increases our knowledge of how Twelfth Night was received and understood by critics, editors and general readers. The volume offers, in separate sections, both critical opinions about the play across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism from ... Read more

    $141.79 USD

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  • Twelfth Night

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    Critically acclaimed as one of Shakespeare's most complex and intriguing plays, Twelfth Night is a classic romantic comedy of mistaken identities. In recent years it has returned to the centre of critical debate surrounding gender and sexuality. The Introduction explores the multiple factors that make up the play's rich textual, theatrical, critical and cultural history. Keir Elam surveys the play ... Read more

    $11.09 USD

  • Twelfth Night

    or, What You Will

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Shakespeare, Signet Classic
    The Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare's comedy of lovers misled.Romantic folly and false identites abound as an unusual love triangle takes the stage in this play about Orsino, the infatuated Duke of Illyria; Olivia, the countess he pursues; and Viola, the woman disguised as a man who comes between them.This revised Signet Classics edition includes unique features such as:• An ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • William Shakespeare

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

    A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    by C. L. Barber ...
    "A book ahead of its time. . . . revolutionized the ways that Shakespeareans thought of comedy in relation to its social setting—especially festive comedy." —James Shapiro, Columbia UniversityIn this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Poets

    by Claude Rawson ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    This volume provides lively and authoritative introductions to twenty-nine of the most important British and Irish poets from Geoffrey Chaucer to Philip Larkin. The list includes, among others, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Browning, Yeats and T. S. Eliot, and represents the tradition of English poetry at its best. Each contributor offers a new assessment of a single poet's achievement ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • The Shakespeare Claimants

    A Critical Survey of the Four Principal Theories concerning the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays

    by H. N Gibson ...
    This edition first published in 1962.The Shakespeare Claimants is a critical survey of the great controversy that has raged over the authorship of the Shakespearean plays. It provides the general reader with an outline history of this controversy and with a full description and analysis of the main anti-Stratfordian arguments. This book concentrates on the four main claimants: Bacon, Oxford, Derby ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Shakespearean Myth: William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence

    by Appleton Morgan ...
    M. Guizot, in his History of England, states the Shakespearean problem in a few words, when he says: "Let us finally mention the great comedian, the great tragedian, the great philosopher, the great poet, who was in his lifetime butcher's apprentice, poacher, actor, theatrical manager, and whose name is William Shakespeare. In twenty years, amid the duties of his profession, the care of mounting ... Read more

    $6.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare and Co.

    Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story

    by Stanley Wells ...
    From the dean of Shakespeare studies comes a lively, entertaining work of biography that firmly locates Shakespeare within the hectic, exilarating world in which he lived and worked.Theatre in Shakespeare's day was a growth industry. Everyone knew everyone else, and they all sought to learn, borrow, or steal from one another. Stanley Wells explores the theatre world from behind the scenes, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • What Was Shakespeare Really Like?

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Sir Stanley Wells is one of the world's greatest authorities on William Shakespeare. Here he brings a lifetime of learning and reflection to bear on some of the most tantalising questions about the poet and dramatist that there are. How did he think, feel, and work? What were his relationships like? What did he believe about death? What made him laugh? This freshly thought and immensely engaging ... Read more

    $16.39 USD