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  • Picturing England between the Wars

    Word and Image 1918-1940

    by Stuart Sillars ...
    A richly illustrated study of the interplay of word and image in representations of the English countryside, built environment, and domestic space during the interwar period. During the 1920s and 30s, words and pictures in print were the main way in which people received ideas and entertainment, the two working together in a great variety of forms. Many books of the twenties argued against the ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • The Illustrated Shakespeare, 1709–1875

    by Stuart Sillars ...
    Illustrations have been an important element of many of the most extensively read editions of Shakespeare's plays, from the frontispieces to Nicholas Rowe's 1709 edition to the multiple images placed within the text of Victorian editions. Through symbols the illustrations have explored language and character; by allusion to earlier paintings they have offered critical readings; and by gesture, ... Read more

    $124.69 USD

  • Visualisation in Popular Fiction 1860-1960

    Graphic Narratives, Fictional Images

    by Stuart Sillars ...
    Visualisation in Popular Fiction 1860-1960 explores the important but neglected tradition of illustrated fiction in English. It suggests new analytical approaches for its study by offering detailed discussions of a range of representative texts, including Mary Webb's Gone to Earth and Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.Among the issues and genres Sillars explores are:* Victorian `narrative' paintings* ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Shakespeare Closely Read

    Written and Performance Texts

    by Frank Occhiogrosso, Rob Conkie, Kevin Ewart, Andrew James Hartley, Mariko Ichikawa, John Mucciolo, Lachlan Mackinnon, Stuart Sillars, Steve Sohmer, Boika Sokolova, John Russell-Brown ...
    Shakespeare Closely Read is a collection of essays by Shakespearean scholars, all of which were originally papers presented at the 2008 International Shakespeare Conference at Stratford-upon-Avon. Each contains a close reading of Shakespearean or other Elizabethan dramatic texts in an effort to open up new meanings and interpretations. The volume contains an introduction by the editor on the ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Shakespeare Seen

    Image, Performance and Society

    by Stuart Sillars ...
    This wide-ranging study traces the forces that drove the production and interpretation of visual images of Shakespeare's plays. Covering a rich chronological terrain, from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the midpoint of the nineteenth, Stuart Sillars offers a multidisciplinary, nuanced approach to reading Shakespeare in relation to image, history, text, book history, print culture and ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination

    by Stuart Sillars ...
    Shakespeare's knowledge of the practices of visual art, its fundamental concepts and the surrounding debates is clear from his earliest works. This book explores this relationship, showing how key works develop visual compositions as elements of dramatic movement, construction of ideas, and reflections on the artifice of theatre and language. The Taming of the Shrew, Love's Labour's Lost, Richard ... Read more

    $109.09 USD

  • 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

    $55.99 USD

  • The Shakespearean International Yearbook

    Volume 13: Special Section, Macbeth

    Edited by Stuart Sillars ...
    Series series The Shakespearean International Yearbook
    This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • Hamlet: A Critical Reader

    Edited by Ann Thompson, Professor Neil Taylor ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    Hamlet remains the most-studied of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. This collection of newly-commissioned essays gives readers an overview of past critical views of the play as well as new writing about the play from today's leading scholars. The range of perspectives offered makes the book an invaluable companion to anyone studying the play at an advanced level. The final chapter on learning ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Middlebrow Wodehouse

    P.G. Wodehouse's Work in Context

    by Ann Rea ...
    While he is best known for his Jeeves and Bertie Wooster stories, P.G. Wodehouse was a prolific writer who penned many other novels, stories, and musical comedy libretti, the latter of which played an enormous role in the development of American musical theater. This collection re-examines Wodehouse in the context of recent scholarship on the middlebrow, attending to his self-conscious ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign

    by Antony Tatlow, Stanley Fish, Fredric Jameson ...
    Series series Post-Contemporary Interventions
    In Shakespeare, Brecht, and the Intercultural Sign renowned Brecht scholar Antony Tatlow uses drama to investigate cultural crossings and to show how intercultural readings or performances question the settled assumptions we bring to interpretations of familiar texts. Through a “textual anthropology” Tatlow examines the interplay between interpretations of Shakespeare and readings of Brecht, whose ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Literature and Culture in Modern Britain: Volume 1

    1900-1929

    Edited by Clive Bloom ...
    The first in a three-volume sequence, this book covers the period between 1900 and 1929, providing a perceptive and thorough analysis of British literature within its historical, cultural and artistic context. It identifies the crucial, interwoven relationships between literature and the visual arts, modern poetry, popular fiction, journalism, cinema, music and radio. Much factual detail and a ... Read more

    $102.99 USD