A Novel Journal: William Shakespeare (Compact)
A Novel Journal: William Shakespeare (Compact)

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: Canterbury Classics

Published: 2017-04-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781626869981

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A clever journal to keep track of the comedies in your life! If you're looking for a new book in which to record your thoughts, lists, and more, you're in luck! Canterbury Classics, known for publishing fine works of literature, has released their next set of writing journals for your story recording pleasure! Tiny print encompassing the entire text of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night and other plays creates the lines throughout this notebook, so you can pen your words right next to those of the great Bard himself. With heat-burnished Svepa covers featuring a clever quote from the play, illustrated endpapers, foil stamping, colored edges, and an elastic band to hold it all together, you'll want to collect the whole Novel Journal series.

A Novel Journal: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Compact)
A Novel Journal: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Compact)

Author: Lewis Carroll

Publisher: Canterbury Classics

Published: 2016-03-01

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781626865983

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Carroll’s stories will have writers pondering right along with Alice: “Life, what is it but a dream?” Witty, whimsical, and often nonsensical, the fiction of Lewis Carroll takes readers on a trip down the rabbit hole. In Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, height is dynamic, caterpillars dole out advice, and a Queen of Hearts playing card orders executions as she plays croquet. Through the Looking-Glass continues the adventure when Alice steps through a mirror into another magical world where she can become queen if she can only get to the other side of a colossal chessboard. Nothing sets the mood for penning a new story like the comfort of stories that have transcended time and culture. With the text of these two classics serving as the journal lines in tiny type, A Compact Novel Journal: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is sure to spark your creativity whether you’re journaling or drafting the next classic. Packaged with a deluxe Svepa cover, brilliant endpapers, colored edges, and matching elastic band, this book is a great gift or collectible for admirers of Carroll’s work. And the compact size makes this journal easy to slip into a purse, briefcase, or backpack so you can record and revisit your thoughts on the go.

Compact Anthology of World Literature
Compact Anthology of World Literature

Author: Laura Getty

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 9781940771229

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"The introductions in this anthology are meant to be just that: a basic overview of what students need to know before they begin reading, with topics that students can research further. An open access literature textbook cannot be a history book at the same time, but history is the great companion of literature: The more history students know, the easier it is for them to interpret literature. In an electronic age, with this text available to anyone with computer access around the world, it has never been more necessary to recognize and understand differences among nationalities and cultures. The literature in this anthology is foundational, in the sense that these works influenced the authors who followed them. A word to the instructor: The texts have been chosen with the idea that they can be compared and contrasted, using common themes. Rather than numerous (and therefore often random) choices of texts from various periods, these selected works are meant to make both teaching and learning easier. While cultural expectations are not universal, many of the themes found in these works are."--Open Textbook Library.

William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare

Author: Paul Shuter

Publisher: Raintree

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1406273392

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Who was William Shakespeare? How much do we really know about him, and how much of what is believed is myth? This unique biography takes the reader step-by-step through Shakespeare's life, setting out the evidence and what we can reasonably infer about him. It reminds the reader about the world he lived in, such as that standard spelling of words did not exist in his time, and shows how we must think carefully before applying modern ideas to explain his life.

Shakespeare's First Folio
Shakespeare's First Folio

Author: Emma Smith

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016-03-24

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0191069280

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This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now spread around the world about their eventful lives. From ink blots to pet paws, from annotations to wineglass rings, First Folios teem with evidence of its place in different contexts with different priorities. This study offers new ways to understand Shakespeare's reception and the history of the book. Unlike previous scholarly investigations of the First Folio, it is not concerned with the discussions of how the book came into being, the provenance of its texts, or the technicalities of its production. Instead, it reanimates, in narrative style, the histories of this book, paying close attention to the details of individual copies now located around the world - their bindings, marginalia, general condition, sales history, and location - to discuss five major themes: owning, reading, decoding, performing, and perfecting. This is a history of the book that consolidated Shakespeare's posthumous reputation: a reception history and a study of interactions between owners, readers, forgers, collectors, actors, scholars, booksellers, and the book through which we understand and recognise Shakespeare.

The Shakespeare Requirement
The Shakespeare Requirement

Author: Julie Schumacher

Publisher: Anchor

Published: 2018-08-14

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0385542356

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A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune keep hitting beleaguered English professor Jason Fitger right between the eyes in this hilarious and eagerly awaited sequel to the cult classic of anhedonic academe, the Thurber Prize-winning Dear Committee Members. Once more into the breach... Now is the fall of his discontent, as Jason Fitger, newly appointed chair of the English Department of Payne University, takes arms against a sea of troubles, personal and institutional. His ex-wife is sleeping with the dean who must approve whatever modest initiatives he undertakes. The fearsome department secretary Fran clearly runs the show (when not taking in rescue parrots and dogs) and holds plenty of secrets she's not sharing. The lavishly funded Econ Department keeps siphoning off English's meager resources and has taken aim at its remaining office space. And Fitger's attempt to get a mossbacked and antediluvian Shakespeare scholar to retire backfires spectacularly when the press concludes that the Bard is being kicked to the curricular curb. Lord, what fools these mortals be! Julie Schumacher proves the point and makes the most of it in this delicious romp of satire.

Small Blessings
Small Blessings

Author: Martha Woodroof

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2014-08-12

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1250040523

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"Tom Putnam, an English professor at a Virginia women's college, has resigned himself to a quiet and half-fulfilled life. For more than ten years, his wife Marjory has been a shut-in, a fragile and frigid woman whose neuroses have left her fully dependent on Tom and his formidable mother-in-law, Agnes Tattle. Tom considers his unhappy condition self-inflicted, since Marjory's condition was exacerbated by her discovery of Tom's brief and misguided affair with a visiting poetess. But when Tom and Marjory meet Rose Callahan, the campus bookstore's charming new hire, and Marjory invites Rose to dinner, her first social interaction in a decade, Tom wonders if it's a sign that change is on the horizon. And when Tom returns home that evening to a letter from the poetess telling him that he'd fathered her son, Henry, and that Henry, now ten, will arrive by train in a few days, it's clear change is coming whether Tom's ready or not. For readers of Helen Simonson and Anna Quindlen, Small Blessings is funny, heart-warming and poignant, with a charmingly imperfect cast of cinema-ready characters. Readers will fall in love with the novel's wonderfully optimistic heart that reminds us that sometimes, when it feels like life is veering irrevocably off track, the track changes in ways we never could have imagined"--

The Shakespeare Book of Lists
The Shakespeare Book of Lists

Author: Michael LoMonico

Publisher: Career Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 232

ISBN-13: 9781564145246

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Catalogs Shakespeare's life, his times, his use of language and choice of words, the best and most insulting lines from his plays and poems, the actors who have performed his plays, the theaters where they have been performed, and the videos, films, and spin-offs of his works.

Dark Aemilia
Dark Aemilia

Author: Sally O'Reilly

Publisher: Myriad Editions (US&CA)

Published: 2015-04-01

Total Pages: 405

ISBN-13: 1908434422

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"For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright; Who art as black as hell, as dark as night." —William Shakespeare, Sonnet 147 In the boldest imagining of the era since Shakespeare in Love and Elizabeth, a finalist for the Italian Premio del Castello del Terriccio, this spellbinding novel of witchcraft, poetry, and passion, brings to life Aemilia Lanyer, the "Dark Lady" of Shakespeare's Sonnets—the playwright's muse and his one true love. The daughter of a Venetian musician but orphaned as a young girl, Aemilia Bassano grows up in the court of Elizabeth I, becoming the Queen's favorite. She absorbs a love of poetry and learning, maturing into a striking young woman with a sharp mind and a quick tongue. Now brilliant, beautiful, and highly educated, she becomes mistress of Lord Hunsdon, the Lord Chamberlain and Queen's cousin. But her position is precarious; when she falls in love with court playwright William Shakespeare, her fortunes change irrevocably. A must-read for fans of Tracy Chevalier (Girl With a Pearl Earring) and Sarah Dunant (The Birth of Venus), Sally O'Reilly's richly atmospheric novel compellingly re-imagines the struggles for power, recognition, and survival in the brutal world of Elizabethan London. She conjures the art of England's first professional female poet, giving us a character for the ages—a woman who is ambitious and intelligent, true to herself, and true to her heart.