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Shakespeare by
With his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd has long been recognized as today's foremost practitioner of the literary biography. Now, in Shakespeare: The Biography, Ackroyd delivers his crowning achievement. Young Adult.
ISBN: 9780385511391Publication Date: 2005-10-25
Shakespeare for Dummies by
?Shakespeare For Dummies is exquisite.? ?from the Foreword by Dame Judi Dench, star of ?Mrs. Brown? and "Shakespeare in Love" ?What the film Shakespeare in Love has done to make Shakespeare the man accessible to a general audience, this book will do to make Shakespeare the writer enjoyable.? ?Charlotte J.Headrick, PhD, Professor and Director, Theater Arts, Oregon State University Does the thought of sitting through A Midsummer Night?s Dream give you nightmares? Did Romeo and Juliet seem like a foreign film?without the subtitles? As John Doyle and Ray Lischner prove in this uniquely accessible guide, Shakespeare is not only the greatest writer who ever lived, he?s also a great entertainer?once you get a handle on his wild plots and witty wordplay. Under their guidance, you?ll: Go inside an Elizabethan theater?and find out how they managed with almost no seats, no roof and no women onstage Get a handle on Shakespeare?s language?including all those racy puns and jokes Maximize your enjoyment of his plays and poetry Identify contemporary idioms and phrases that come from Shakespeare?s plays Find Shakespeare festivals and performances in your area Catch ten of the best show ever made of the Bard?s plays and meet ten of the greatest Shakespearean actors of all time In simple, straightforward language, this friendly guide eases you into the wild, wonderful world of Shakespeare. With the help of snappy summaries and scorecards that help you keep track of who?s who, who?s in love with whom, and who?s killed whom in every play, it helps you: Understand Shakespeare the person, his life and times and what makes him so special Make sense of Shakespearean language and why it sounds the way it does Get the inside track on the kinds of stories, characters and settings found in Shakespeare?s plays Appreciate Shakespeare?s sonnets and other non-dramatic poetry A royal feast for the head and heart, Shakespeare?s works have been thrilling audiences for four centuries, as they will four hundred years from now. Now let Shakespeare For Dummies help you to enjoy one the world?s great literary treasures.
ISBN: 9780764551352Publication Date: 1999-04-30
The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare's Tragedies by
Macbeth clutches an imaginary dagger; Hamlet holds up Yorick's skull; Lear enters with Cordelia in his arms. Do these memorable and iconic moments have anything to tell us about the definition of Shakespearean tragedy? Is it in fact helpful to talk about 'Shakespearean tragedy' as a concept, or are there only Shakespearean tragedies? What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? What makes some plays more tragic than others? Beginning with a discussion of tragedy before Shakespeare and considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically one by one, this 2007 book seeks to investigate such questions in a way that highlights both the distinctiveness and shared concerns of each play within the broad trajectory of Shakespeare's developing exploration of tragic form.
ISBN: 9780521674928Publication Date: 2007-03-08
Shakespeare : the most famous man in London by Call Number: 822.33 GISBN: 9781742030708
William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet by
Insight Study Guides are written by experts and cover a range of popular literature, plays and films. Designed to provide insight and an overview about each text for students and teachers, these guides endeavor to develop knowledge and understanding rather than just provide answers and summaries.
ISBN: 9781921411656Publication Date: 2011-10-01
Introduction
In William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, a long feud between the Mantague and Capulet families disrupts the city of Verona and causes tragic results for Romeo and Juliet. Revenge, love and a secret marriage force the young star-crossed lovers to grow up quickly - and fate causes them to commit suicide in despair. Contrast and conflict are running themes throughout Shakespeare's play one of the Bard's most popular romantic tragedies.
Feature Film
Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
1996
Directed by Baz Luhrmann
Biography : William Shakespeare
- "Shakespeare, William." Biography (c. 1564–1616) UPDATED:AUG 20, 2019 ORIGINAL:APR 24, 2015There has been much speculation concerning the facts of Shakespeare's life. Various theories have been put forward about, for instance, the identity of the so-called Dark Lady in the sonnets, Shakespeare's alleged poaching activities on local estates, his family's supposed Catholic allegiances, and much more. There are, however, a number of biographical facts that can be established with certainty, and much more that we can usefully conjecture using genuine historical evidence.
- Britannica : William Shakespeare William Shakespeare. (2016). In Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved from https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Shakespeare
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Cambridge Student Guide to Romeo and Juliet by
What is Romeo and Juliet about? This Cambridge Student Guide will help students to evaluate the historical, social and cultural contexts for a broader understanding of Shakespeare's play. Contents include an introduction; detailed running commentary on the text; insight into historical, social and cultural contexts; analysis of the language; an overview of critical approaches and different interpretations; essay-writing tips and lists of recommended resources.
ISBN: 9780521008136Publication Date: 2002-08-15
Romeo & Juliet by Call Number: 822.33 U4ISBN: 9781921088759
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy by
This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespeare's tragedies, cultural backgrounds, sub-genres and receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies and, in addition, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Essays from the first edition have been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship; the bibliography has been extensively updated; and four new chapters have been added, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare's tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.
ISBN: 9781107643321Publication Date: 2013-08-08
Basics by
This volume aims to demystify Shakespeare's plays for the beginning reader. Shakespeare is still the most studied author at degree level, and this volume provides a thorough general introduction to this sometimes intimidating playwright. Concentrating on language, genre and history, the author discusses the plays in the light of contemporary thought. There are sections on: verse; rhetoric; Shakespeare's dramatic methods; imagery; and the historical context of the plays.
ISBN: 9780415212892Publication Date: 2000-05-01
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture by
This Companion, first published in 2007, explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.
ISBN: 9780521605809Publication Date: 2007-06-28
SparkNotes
Shakespeare’s play about the doomed romance of two teenagers from feuding families is the most famous love story ever written.
First performed around 1596, Romeo and Juliet has been adapted as a ballet, an opera, the musical West Side Story, and a dozen films.
Read a character analysis of Juliet, plot summary, and important quotes.