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  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Language and Writing

    by R.S. White, Prof. Dympna Callaghan ...
    Series series Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing
    This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare's popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night's Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare's diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Avant-Garde Hamlet

    Text, Stage, Screen

    by R. S. White ...
    Series series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series on Shakespeare and the Stage
    Hamlet stands as a high water mark of canonical art, yet it has equally attracted rebels and experimenters, those avant-garde writers, dramatists, performers, and filmmakers who, in their adaptations and appropriations, seek new ways of expressing innovative and challenging thoughts in the hope that they can change perceptions of their own world. One reason for this, as the book argues, is that ... Read more

    $44.59 USD

  • Shakespeare's cinema of love

    A study in genre and influence

    by R. S. White ...
    This engaging and stimulating book argues that Shakespeare's plays significantly influenced movie genres in the twentieth century, particularly in films concerning love in the classic Hollywood period. Shakespeare's 'green world' has a close functional equivalent in 'tinseltown' and on 'the silver screen', as well as in hybrid genres in Bollywood cinema. Meanwhile, Romeo and Juliet continues to be ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Art of Listening

    Edited by R. S. White ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies
    Originally published in 1986. This collection of essays is unified by one leading idea: that the active and creative abilities of listeners and readers deserve as much attention as the skills of speakers and writers. It is shown that hearers, far from being passive recipients in the communicative process, are in fact active in selecting, interpreting and creating from the disparate signals they ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Hamlet and Emotions

    Edited by Paul Megna, Bríd Phillips, R.S. White ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    This volume bears potent testimony, not only to the dense complexity of Hamlet’s emotional dynamics, but also to the enduring fascination that audiences, adaptors, and academics have with what may well be Shakespeare’s moodiest play. Its chapters explore emotion in Hamlet, as well as the myriad emotions surrounding Hamlet’s debts to the medieval past, its relationship to the cultural milieu in ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Reception and Response

    Hearer Creativity and the Analysis of Spoken and Written Texts

    Edited by Graham McGregor, R. S. White ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Communication Studies
    Originally published in 1990. Each of the 12 chapters in this book build upon an approach to the analysis of spoken and written texts that is centred upon the recipient rather than the producer, for the abilities of listeners and readers deserve much attention. This book should be of interest to students and lecturers of linguistics, literary studies, English, education, communication studies and ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Romeo and Juliet

    Edited by R.S. White ...
    Series series New Casebooks
    As one of the world's greatest love stories Romeo and Juliet continues to excite new theatre-goers, readers and film-goers. Its depiction of tragic lovers strikes a chord in each generation of young people, and seems to speak in their own idiom. As such, it reflects, and allows us to analyse, changing attitudes to sex in a violent world. This collection of contemporary essays raises topical ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541–1543

    Enriched edition.

    by Miguel de Castanhoso, Cooper Black ...
    Translated by R. S. Whiteway ...
    In "The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541–1543," Miguel de Castanhoso delivers a compelling narrative of an extraordinary military campaign, weaving together rich descriptions of the land, its peoples, and the treacherous journey undertaken by the Portuguese. Castanhoso's literary style is characterized by vivid imagery and a detailed recounting of experiences that immerse readers in the ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541–1543

    Enriched edition. An Epic Journey of Exploration and Conflict in Abyssinia, 1541-1543

    by Miguel de Castanhoso, Molly Warner ...
    Translated by R. S. Whiteway ...
    In "The Portuguese Expedition to Abyssinia in 1541'Äì1543," Miguel de Castanhoso offers a detailed and vivid account of a little-known yet significant military campaign undertaken by Portugal during the Age of Discovery. Castanhoso's narrative unfolds with a blend of adventure and ethnographic observation, capturing the complexities of geopolitical intrigue in the Horn of Africa. His literary ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare the Man

    New Decipherings

    by John O’Meara, Lisa Hopkins, Mythili Kaul, Stuart Sillars, Shormishtha Panja, Charles R. Forker, Grace Tiffany, Joseph Candido, John Mahon, Subhajit Sen Gupta, R. S. White ...
    While over the past four hundred years numerous opinions have been voiced as to Shakespeare's identity, these eleven essays widen the scope of the investigation by regarding Shakespeare, his world, and his works in their interaction with one another. Instead of restricting the search for bits and pieces of evidence from his works that seem to match what he may have experienced, these essays focus ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

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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

  • 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