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  • Poor Tom

    Living King Lear

    by Simon Palfrey ...
    King Lear is perhaps the most fierce and moving play ever written. And yet there is a curious puzzle at its center. The figure to whom Shakespeare gives more lines than anyone except the king—Edgar—has often seemed little more than a blank, ignored and unloved, a belated moralizer who, try as he may, can never truly speak to the play's savaged heart. He saves his blinded father from suicide, but ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Macbeth, Macbeth

    by Ewan Fernie, Simon Palfrey ...
    "A miracle, an instant classic."-- Slavoj Žižek, philosopherThe tragedy is done, the tyrant Macbeth dead. The time is free. But for how long? As Macduff pursues dreams of national revival, smaller lives are seeding. In the ruins of Dunsinane, the Porter tries to keep his three young boys safe from the nightmare of history. In a nunnery deep in Birnam Wood, a girl attempts to forget what she lost ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Possible Worlds

    by Simon Palfrey ...
    New methods are needed to do justice to Shakespeare. His work exceeds conventional models, past and present, for understanding playworlds. In this book, Simon Palfrey goes right to the heart of early modern popular drama, revealing both how it works and why it matters. Unlike his contemporaries, Shakespeare gives independent life to all his instruments, and to every fraction and fragment of the ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Doing Shakespeare

    by Simon Palfrey ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare
    A thoroughly revised edition of the successful student text Doing Shakespeare, first published in 2005. The book's success lies in the close readings of speeches and scenes it gives students, demystifying the language of the plays and critical approaches to them.This new edition introduces a new way of approaching Shakespeare's text, through ideas of performance and the actor's role and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Shakespeare in Parts

    by Simon Palfrey, Tiffany Stern ...
    A truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts is the first book fully to explore the original form in which Shakespeare's drama overwhelmingly circulated. This was not the full play-text; it was not the public performance. It was the actor's part, consisting of the bare cues and speeches of each individual role. With group ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare and the Arts of Language

    by Russ McDonald ...
    Series series Oxford Shakespeare Topics
    Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research. For the modern reader or ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Philosophy

    Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays

    by Colin McGinn ...
    Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays–A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest.In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Sonnets: The State of Play

    Edited by Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Clare Whitehead, Dr. Hannah Crawforth ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare The State of Play
    Shakespeare's Sonnets both generate and demonstrate many of today's most pressing debates about Shakespeare and poetry. They explore history and aesthetics, gender and society, time and memory, and continue to invite divergent responses from critics and poets. This freeze-frame volume showcases the range of current debate and ideas surrounding these still startling poems. Each chapter has been ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear

    by Dr Jennifer Mae Hamilton ...
    Series series Environmental Cultures
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.From providential apocalypticism to climate change, this ground-breaking ecocritical study traces the performance history of the storm scene in King Lear to explore our shifting, fraught and deeply ideological relationship with stormy weather across time.This ... Read more

    $109.99 USD

  • The Art of Poetry

    How to Read a Poem

    by Shira Wolosky ...
    In The Art of Poetry, Shira Wolosky provides a dazzling introduction to an art whose emphasis on verbal music, wordplay, and dodging the merely literal makes it at once the most beguiling and most challenging of literary forms. A uniquely comprehensive, step-by-step introduction to poetic form, The Art of Poetry moves progressively from smaller units such as the word, line, and image, to larger ... Read more

    $22.79 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

  • This Is Shakespeare

    by Emma Smith ...
    An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicalityA genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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