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  • William Shakespeare: A Brief Life

    by Paul Menzer ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Insights
    This engaging and fresh biography begins by examining how Shakespeare's life turns into myth so comfortably as to seduce even the most sceptical scholar. The early departure, the late return. Public success, private loss. A twilight of plays about family reunions, a death at home in the biggest house in town, the one he walked by as a schoolboy and eyed with envy, or at least ambition. Shakespeare ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Complete Life of William Shakespeare

    Stratford, London and In Between

    by Paul Menzer ...
    Shakespeare's extraordinarily ordinary life condenses into a charming but brief biography in this arresting tale of love, loss and return. Beginning with the early departure to the final homecoming, Paul Menzer considers the wonder of Shakespeare's story with the little facts we have about his life to guide us through the language and characters which define Shakespeare.Life events are glimpsed ... Read more

    $28.39 USD

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  • Shakespeare without Print

    by Paul Menzer ...
    Series series Elements in Shakespeare Performance
    Everything we know about Shakespeare – his world, his words, his work – is preconceived by print. This knowledge extends to cultural expressions that seek to evade ink, paper, and moveable type, such as performance, such as acting. Print privileges qualities quite alien to performance, however: standardization, reproducibility, and, above all, uniformity. Thus the master tropes of print occlude ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Light

    Essays in Honor of Ralph Alan Cohen

    by Paul Menzer, Amy R. Cohen, Alan Armstrong, Mary Hill Cole, Patrick Dooley, Andrew Gurr, Marlena Hobson, John Harrell, James Keegan0, Jeremy Lopez1, Russ McDonald2, Sally Parrish Southall3, Patrick Spottiswoode4, Evelyn Tribble5, Jim Warren6, George Walton Williams7, Matthew Davies8, Dr Tiffany Stern9, Dr. Farah Karim Cooper0 ...
    Series series
    Shakespeare in the Light convenes an accomplished group of scholars, actors, and teachers to celebrate the legacy of renowned Shakespearean and co-founder of the American Shakespeare Center, Ralph Alan Cohen. Each contributor pivots off a production at the ASC’s Blackfriars Playhouse to explore Cohen’s abiding passion, the performance of the plays of William Shakespeare under their original ... Read more

    $97.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in the Theatre: The American Shakespeare Center

    by Paul Menzer ...
    Series series Shakespeare in the Theatre
    The original Blackfriars closed its doors in the 1640s, ending over half-a-century of performances by men and boys. In 2001, in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia, it opened once again. The reconstructed Blackfriars, home to the American Shakespeare Center, represents an old playhouse for the new millennium and therefore symbolically registers the permanent revolution in the performance of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Anecdotal Shakespeare

    A New Performance History

    by Paul Menzer ...
    Shakespeare's four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes – ribald, trivial, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but loosely allegiant to fact. Such anecdotes are nevertheless a vital index to the ways that Shakespeare's plays have generated meaning across varied times and in varied places. Furthermore, particular plays have produced particular anecdotes – stories of ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Doctor Faustus

    by Christopher Marlowe ...
    Series series New Mermaids
    This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by commentary notes and an introduction written by Paul Menzer, guiding you through the fume of fact and legend that have accompanied the play across the centuries.As well as the complete text of the play, this re-edited New Mermaids edition includes:· A detailed plot summary and annotations throughout the text· An annotated bibliography ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • Romeo and Juliet: Arden Performance Editions

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Arden Performance Editions
    In the heat of renaissance Italy two houses are at war. One son and one daughter from the opposing families break this bitter conflict by falling in love. Yet, in this whirlwind of enmity, Romeo and Juliet's passion agitates rather than unites the clashing houses, causing a trail of destruction. Locked in a burning embrace, the two young lovers are tragically doomed to live or die together.For the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • 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

    The World as Stage

    by Bill Bryson ...
    Series series Eminent Lives
    Bill Bryson’s bestselling and brilliantly witty biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling tour through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship—updated with a new introduction by the author to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s deathWilliam Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a ... Read more

    $12.49 USD

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  • 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

  • William Shakespeare: History in an Hour

    by Sinead Fitzgibbon ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body of work that has become the bedrock of human thought, literature and language in English. His poetry and plays have endured for almost 450 years, such is ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook