The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins

Author: Paul McFedries

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9781592577811

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What does it mean to 'chew the fat'? Why do we put things in 'apple-pie order'? And what on earth is a 'hat trick'? Readers will learn all this and more in this fun and engaging new addition to the Complete Idiot's Guide® series, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Weird Word Origins. This humorous book provides entertaining insight on the often metaphorical, always taken-for-granted phrases and expressions used every day. In it, language expert Paul McFedries takes readers through the sometimes surprising, always amusing world of weird words and expressions, and the fascinating stories that surround them. Presented in a fun, easy-to-read style, this book takes readers on a journey through the bizarre and eccentric origins that make up our everyday speech.

New Theatre Quarterly 30: Volume 8, Part 2
New Theatre Quarterly 30: Volume 8, Part 2

Author: Clive Barker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1992-06-04

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 9780521429412

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One of a series discussing topics of interest in theatre studies from theoretical, methodological, philosophical and historical perspectives. The books are aimed at drama and theatre teachers, advanced students in schools and colleges, arts authorities, actors, playwrights, critics and directors.

"We Three"

Author: Laura Annawyn Shamas

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13: 9780820479330

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Weyward Macbeth
Weyward Macbeth

Author: S. Newstok

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 281

ISBN-13: 0230102166

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Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly fraught history of 'Macbeth' in the United States, from its appearance as the first Shakespearean play documented in the American colonies to a proposed Hollywood film version with a black diasporic cast. Over two dozen contributions explore 'Macbeth's' haunting presence in American drama, poetry, film, music, history, politics, acting, and directing — all through the intersections of race and performance.

A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets
A Companion to Shakespeare's Sonnets

Author: Michael Schoenfeldt

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2010-03-08

Total Pages: 535

ISBN-13: 1444332066

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This Companion represents the myriad ways of thinking about the remarkable achievement of Shakespeare’s sonnets. An authoritative reference guide and extended introduction to Shakespeare’s sonnets. Contains more than 20 newly-commissioned essays by both established and younger scholars. Considers the form, sequence, content, literary context, editing and printing of the sonnets. Shows how the sonnets provide a mirror in which cultures can read their own critical biases. Informed by the latest theoretical, cultural and archival work.

Macbeth
Macbeth

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Wordsworth Editions

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781853260353

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Encompasses witchcraft, bloody murder, and ghostly apparitions. This work tells the tragedy of a good, brave and honourable man turned into the personification of evil by the workings of unreasonable ambition.