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  • Prologues to Shakespeare's Theatre

    Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama

    by Douglas Bruster, Robert Weimann ...
    This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in performed as well as printed contexts, Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann take us beyond concepts of stability and autonomy in dramatic beginnings to reveal the crucial cultural functions performed by the prologue in Elizabethan England. While its most basic task is to seize ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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    by Young Jean Lee ...
    “A subversive, seriously funny new theater piece by the adventurous playwright Young Jean Lee. . . . Ms. Lee does not shy away from prodding the audience’s racial sensitivities—or insensitivities—in a style that is sometimes sly and subtle, sometimes as blunt as a poke in the eye.”—Charles Isherwood, The New York Times“Lee is a facetious provocateur; she does whatever she can to get under our ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

    by Professor William D. Rubinstein ...
    From an obscure family in a small provincial town, Shakespeare had no formal education after the age of thirteen. His surviving handwriting consists of six signatures on legal documents. His will makes no mention of his books or manuscripts. His two daughters were illiterate. There is, in other words, a seemingly enormous gap between the meagreness of Shakespeare's background and his achievements ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Restless World

    Portrait of an Era

    by Neil MacGregor ...
    The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focusWe feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive ambition, or the Machiavellian rise and short reign of Richard III. They are so vital, so alive and real that ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Troilus and Cressida

    Third Series, Revised Edition

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    A revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often labelled a "problem" play because of its apparent blend of genres and its difficult themes. Set in the Trojan Wars it tells a story of doomed love and honour, offering a debased view of human nature in war-time and a stage peopled by generally ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Shakespeare Among the Courtesans

    Prostitution, Literature, and Drama, 1500-1650

    by Duncan Salkeld ...
    Series series Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
    Courtesans - women who achieve wealth, status, or power through sexual transgression - have played both a central and contradictory role in literature: they have been admired, celebrated, feared, and vilified. This study of the courtesan in Renaissance English drama focuses not only on the moral ambivalence of these women, but with special attention to Anglo-Italian relations, illuminates little ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • Commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III

    by Wolfgang Clemen ...
    First published in 1968.Providing a detailed and rigorous analysis of Richard III, this Commentary reveals every nuance of meaning whilst maintaining a firm grasp on the structure of the play. The result is an outstanding lesson in the methodology of Shakespearian criticism as well as an essential study for students of the early plays of Shakespeare. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    by Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time

    The Art of Stage Playing

    by John H. Astington ...
    John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Betterton. The book pays close attention to the cultural context of stage playing, the critical language used about it, and the kinds of training and professional practice employed in the theatre at various ... Read more

    $31.19 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

  • When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals)

    by Norman Council ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare’s major plays.The validity of the most widely approved code of honour was being challenged on a variety of ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Language of Translation

    by Ton Hoenselaars ...
    Shakespeare's international status as a literary icon is largely based on his masterful use of the English language, yet beyond Britain his plays and poems are read and performed mainly in translation. Shakespeare and the Language of Translation addresses this apparent contradiction and is the first major survey of its kind.Covering the many ways in which the translation of Shakespeare's works is ... Read more

    $28.39 USD