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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robin bates”
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  • Shakespeare and the Cultural Colonization of Ireland

    by Robin Bates ...
    Series series Literary Criticism and Cultural Theory
    Focusing on plays (Richard II, Henry V, and Hamlet) which appear prominently in the writing of the Irish nationalist movement of the early twentieth century, this study explores how Irish writers such as Sean O’Casey, Samuel Beckett, W. B. Yeats, G. B. Shaw, James Joyce, and Seamus Heaney resisted English cultural colonization through a combination of reappropriation and critique of Shakespeare's ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • Sex with Shakespeare

    Here's Much to Do with Pain, but More with Love

    by Jillian Keenan ...
    A provocative, moving, kinky, and often absurdly funny memoir about Shakespeare, love, obsession, and spankingWhen it came to understanding love, a teenage Jillian Keenan had nothing to guide her—until a production of The Tempest sent Shakespeare's language flowing through her blood for the first time. In Sex with Shakespeare, she tells the story of how the Bard's plays helped her embrace her ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 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

  • Shakespeare: Ideas in Profile

    by Paul Edmondson ...
    Series series Ideas in Profile - small books, big ideas
    Ideas in Profile: Small Introductions to Big TopicsShakespeare is the world's greatest writer. In this lively and authoritative introduction, Paul Edmondson presents Shakespeare afresh as a dramatist and poet, and encourages us to take ownership of the works for ourselves as words to be spoken as well as discussed. We get a wide sense of what his life was like, his rich language, and astonishing ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Countess

    by Chris Laoutaris ...
    In November 1596, a countess signed a document that would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare. Who was this woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare's life? Never far from controversy when she was alive—she sparked numerous riots and indulged in acts of bribery, breaking-and-entering, and kidnapping—Lady Elizabeth Russell has been edited out of ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Romeo and Juliet: Language and Writing

    by Prof. Catherine Belsey ...
    Series series Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing
    Everyone knows the story of the star-crossed lovers but close attention to the language of the play can deepen and darken the legend. As icons of passion, Romeo and Juliet reveal the recklessness, as well as the idealism, of desire in a violent world. Catherine Belsey shows how you can tease out the play's subtle meanings and goes on to discuss key adaptations, including the classic Baz Lurhmann ... Read more

    $23.89 USD

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Tragedy

    Edited by Garrett A. Sullivan, Jr, Emma Smith ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Featuring essays by major international scholars, this Companion combines analysis of themes crucial to Renaissance tragedy with the interpretation of canonical and frequently taught texts. Part I introduces key topics, such as religion, revenge, and the family, and discusses modern performance traditions on stage and screen. Bridging this section with Part II is a chapter which engages with ... Read more

    Was $32.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • The Shakespearean Stage Space

    by Mariko Ichikawa ...
    How did Renaissance theatre create its powerful effects with so few resources? In The Shakespearean Stage Space, Mariko Ichikawa explores the original staging of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries to build a new picture of the artistry of the Renaissance stage. Dealing with problematic scenes and stage directions, Ichikawa closely examines the playing conditions in early modern playhouses ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The One King Lear

    by Brian Vickers ...
    King Lear exists in two different texts: the Quarto (1608) and the Folio (1623). Because each supplies passages missing in the other, for over 200 years editors combined the two to form a single text, the basis for all modern productions. Then in the 1980s a group of influential scholars argued that the two texts represent different versions of King Lear, that Shakespeare revised his play in light ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Gielgud, Olivier, Ashcroft, Dench

    Great Shakespeareans: Volume XVI

    Edited by Professor Russell Jackson ...
    Series series Great Shakespeareans
    Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally.In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of John Gielgud, Laurence Olivier, Peggy Ashcroft and Judi Dench to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Ebony Swan: The Case for Shakespeare’s Race

    by Jeffrey McQuain ...
    Everyone knows William Shakespeare was white --- or was he?"Ebony Swan: The Case for Shakespeare's Race" is the startling new book that dares to ask, "Was Shakespeare black?"This explosive nonfiction work by Dr. Jeffrey Hunter McQuain explores whether the world's greatest writer was not white but biracial. Behind that mystery, though, lies a 400-year-old conspiracy of silence, perhaps the biggest ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus