Shakespeare category: 1671 books
Romeo and Juliet
[Special Illustrated Edition] [Free Audio Links]
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star - crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It is among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.
Romeo and Juliet belongs...
Living with Shakespeare
Essays by Writers, Actors, and Directors
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Why Shakespeare? What explains our continued fascination with his poems and plays? In Living with Shakespeare, Susannah Carson invites forty actors, directors, scholars, and writers to reflect on why his work is still such a vital part of our culture.
We hear from James Earl Jones on reclaiming...
Timon of Athens By William Shakespeare
With 30+ Original Illustrations,Summary and Free Audio Book Link
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2013
Timon of Athens By William Shakespeare - With 30+ Original Illustrations,Summary and Free Audio Book Link
FEATURES:
• Title contains every original Illustrations from Danziel Brothers. ...
by Alexander Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
In more than 300 years of Shakespearean scholarship, only one book, the famous Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, has investigated the meaning of every word that Shakespeare wrote. The lifetime work of Professor Alexander Schmidt of Königsberg, this book has long been the indispensable...
by Beth Miller
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
Did you know…
• Shakespeare is the most filmed author of all time: he’s been credited on more than 1,000 movies and TV shows.
• ‘Obscene’, ‘gloomy’, ‘fashionable’ and ‘generous’ are among the countless new words that Shakespeare introduced. (Actually, ‘countless’...
by Rebecca Lemon
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
A new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writings skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The book's core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's complex dramatic language,...
by Professor Alison Findlay, Professor Vassiliki Markidou
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
This book seeks to invert Ben Jonson's claim that Shakespeare had 'small Latin and less Greek' and to prove that, in fact, there is more Greek and less Latin in a significant group of Shakespeare's texts: a group whose generic hybridity (tragic-comical-historical-romance) exemplifies the hybridity...
Shakespeare and the Second World War
Memory, Culture, Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2012
Shakespeare’s works occupy a prismatic and complex position in world culture: they straddle both the high and the low, the national and the foreign, literature and theatre. The Second World War presents a fascinating case study of this phenomenon: most, if not all, of its combatants have laid claim...
by William Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now in a dazzling new series design
Winner of the 2016 AIGA + Design Observer 50 Books | 50 Covers competition
Gold Medal Winner of the 3x3 Illustration Annual No. 14**
This edition of The Tempest is edited with an introduction and notes...
Cardenio
Shakespeare's 'lost play' re-imagined
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2015
Set in the heat and dust of Andalusia in seventeenth-century Spain, Cardenio is the story of a friendship betrayed, with all the elements of a thriller: disguise, dishonour and deceit.
A woman is seduced, a bride is forced to the altar, and a man runs mad among the mountains of the Sierra Morena.
The...
Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare
With 30+ Original Illustrations,Summary and Free Audio Book Link
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Taming of the Shrew By William Shakespeare - With 30+ Original Illustrations,Summary and Free Audio Book Link
FEATURES:
• Title contains every original Illustrations from Danziel Brothers. ...
Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare
With 30+ Original Illustrations,Summary and Free Audio Book Link
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Twelfth Night By William Shakespeare - With 30+ Original Illustrations,Summary and Free Audio Book Link
FEATURES:
• Title contains every original Illustrations from Danziel Brothers. ...
Cymbeline By William Shakespeare
With 30+ Original Illustrations,Summary and Free Audio Book Link
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
Cymbeline By William Shakespeare - With 30+ Original Illustrations,Summary and Free Audio Book Link
FEATURES:
• Title contains every original Illustrations from Danziel Brothers. • ...
by Christopher Marlow
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Cultural materialism is one of the most important and one of the most provocative theories to have emerged in the last thirty years. Combining close attention to Shakespearean texts and the conditions of their production with an explicit left-wing political affiliation, cultural materialism offers...