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  • Lincoln and Shakespeare

    by Michael Anderegg ...
    Winner: Lincoln Prize FinalistIt was the measure of Shakespeare’s poetic greatness, an early commentator remarked, that he thoroughly blended the ideal with the practical or realistic. “If this be so,” Walt Whitman wrote, “I should say that what Shakespeare did in poetic expression, Abraham Lincoln essentially did in his personal and official life.”Whitman was only one of many to note the affinity ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Cinematic Shakespeare

    by Michael Anderegg ...
    Series series Genre and Beyond: A Film Studies Series
    Cinematic Shakespeare takes the reader inside the making of a number of significant adaptations to illustrate how cinema transforms and re-imagines the dramatic form and style central to Shakespeare's imagination. Cinematic Shakespeare investigates how Shakespeare films constitute an exciting and ever-changing film genre. The challenges of adopting Shakespeare to cinema are like few other film ... Read more

    $24.79 USD

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  • Othello

    Critical Essays

    Edited by Philip Kolin ...
    Series series Shakespeare Criticism
    Including twenty-one groundbreaking chapters that examine one of Shakespeare's most complex tragedies. *Othello:*Critical Essays explores issues of friendship and fealty, love and betrayal, race and gender issues, and much more. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Modern Culture

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare."Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. ... Read more

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  • Clues to Acting Shakespeare

    by Wesley Van Tassel ...
    "A workhorse of a workbook!"-Library Journal. American actors, fear Shakespeare no more! Through a series of inspiring, easy-to-follow exercises, an acclaimed director and drama coach shows both students and experienced actors how to break down the verse, support the words, understand the images, and use the text to create vibrant, living performances. This popular guide-more than TK,000 copies ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Acting Power

    The 21st Century Edition

    by Robert Cohen ...
    ‘Robert Cohen’s book, Acting Power, follows the tradition of his other book, Acting One, and has been the veritable bible for acting teachers for the last quarter century.’ – David Krasner, Emerson College‘This book, above all else, is an attempt to explore the qualities of acting power.... to suggest to you, the actor, an approach toward not merely good acting but powerful acting. Great actors ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • The Shakespeare Wars

    Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups

    by Ron Rosenbaum ...
    “[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.”–David RemnickIn The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler, he shakes up much that we thought we understood about a vital subject and renews our sense of excitement and urgency. He ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 30 Great Myths about Shakespeare

    by Laurie Maguire, Emma Smith ...
    Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . .Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how ... Read more

    $23.00 USD

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  • Shakespeare's Comedies

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bart van Es ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a Shakespearean comedy? We associate these plays with such themes as mistaken identities, happy marriages, and exuberant cross ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Stage-Play and Screen-Play

    The intermediality of theatre and cinema

    by Michael Ingham ...
    Dialogue between film and theatre studies is frequently hampered by the lack of a shared vocabulary. Stage-Play and Screen-Play sets out to remedy this, mapping out an intermedial space in which both film and theatre might be examined.Each chapter’s evaluation of the processes and products of stage-to-screen and screen-to-stage transfer is grounded in relevant, applied contexts. Michael Ingham ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio

    Theory, Text and Performance

    by Don Weingust ...
    Acting from Shakespeare's First Folio examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare's plays that are based on the texts of the first ‘complete’ volume of Shakespeare's works: the First Folio of 1623.Do extra syllables in a line suggest how it might be played? Can Folio commas reveal character? Don Weingust places this work on Folio performance possibility within current ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

    by Emma Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Introductions to Literature
    This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with ... Read more

    $23.79 USD