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  • English Renaissance Tragedy

    Ideas of Freedom

    This book's underlying claim is that English Renaissance tragedy addresses live issues in the experience of readers and spectators today: it is not a genre to be studied only for aesthetic or “heritage” reasons. The book considers the way in which tragedy in general, and English Renaissance tragedy in particular, addresses ideas of freedom, understood both from an individual and a sociopolitical ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Creative Legacies

    Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers

    We celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists and performers recreated him. Readers of this book are invited to explore Shakespeare's afterlife on the stage and on the screen, in poetry, fiction, music and dance, as well as in cultural and intellectual life ... Read more

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  • The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

    Love, ambition, betrayal, power—the eternal dramas of the human soul. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare collects every play, sonnet, and long-form poem by the greatest playwright in literary history. Experience masterpieces like Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, Othello, and more, with rich language, timeless themes, and characters that have shaped storytelling for centuries. ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

    A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    by C. L. Barber ...
    "A book ahead of its time. . . . revolutionized the ways that Shakespeareans thought of comedy in relation to its social setting—especially festive comedy." —James Shapiro, Columbia UniversityIn this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly ... Read more

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

    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

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  • Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

    Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama

    by Kristen Poole ...
    Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Falstaff

    Give Me Life

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Series series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time comes “a timely reminder of the power and possibility of words [and] the last love letter to the shaping spirit of Bloom’s imagination” (front page, The New York Times Book Review) and an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Falstaff—Shakespeare’s greatest enduring and complex comedic characters.Falstaff is both a ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • The Tempest

    A Comedy

    Usurped from this throne by his deceitful brother, Prospero, the Duke of Milan, conjures a tempest in order to lure his brother, Antonio, and Antonio’s co-conspirator, King Alonso, to the duke’s island hideaway. In so doing, Prospero reveals Antonio’s true nature and restores himself and his daughter, Miranda, to their rightful places.Known as “The Bard of Avon,” William Shakespeare is arguably ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and World Cinema

    Shakespeare and World Cinema radically re-imagines the field of Shakespeare on film, drawing on a wealth of examples from Africa, the Arctic, Brazil, China, France, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Singapore, Tibet, Venezuela, Yemen and elsewhere. Mark Thornton Burnett explores the contemporary significance of Shakespeare cinema outside the Hollywood mainstream for the first time, arguing that these ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Merchant of Venice (Dream Classics)

    The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps more remembered for its dramatic scenes, and is best known for the character of Shylock.The title character is the merchant Antonio, not ... Read more

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  • Writing the Monarch in Jacobean England

    Jonson, Donne, Shakespeare and the Works of King James

    by Jane Rickard ...
    King James VI and I's extensive publications and the responses they met played a key role in the literary culture of Jacobean England. This book is the first sustained study of how James's subjects commented upon, appropriated and reworked these royal writings. Jane Rickard highlights the vitality of such responses across genres - including poetry, court masque, sermon, polemic and drama - and in ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Twelfth Night

    Shakespeare's great festive comedy, probably written and first performed around 1601, follows the adventures of twins Viola and Sebastian, who are separated from each other by a shipwreck. Viola, believing her brother dead, disguises herself as a page in order to serve the lovesick Duke Orsino, who has been rejected by the Countess Olivia. The ensemble cast includes a roster of wonderfully comic ... Read more

    $1.99 USD