Alternative Shakespeares Vol 2
Alternative Shakespeares Vol 2

Author: Terence Hawkes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 1136490329

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There are many 'Shakespeares', argue the contributors to this, the second volume of Alternative Shakespeares and the different versions emerge in a wide variety of cultural contexts: race, gender, sexuality and politics amongst others. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 consists of entirely new essays by some of the world's leading Shakespearean critics. The topics covered include: Sexuality and Gender, Language and Power, Textualilty and Printing, Race and Shakespeare's Britain, New Historicist Criticism and the 'Gaze' of the Audience. In abandoning the search for any final and definitive 'meaning' in any of Shakepeare's plays, the contributors to Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 present an exciting and ultimately liberating challeneg to Shakespeare studies.

Alternative Shakespeares
Alternative Shakespeares

Author: John Drakakis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1134445806

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This book is a unique collection of essays by founding figures in this movement to remake Shakespeare studies. Each essay challenges the Shakespeare myth and the assumptions underlying traditional modes of criticism.

Alternative Shakespeares
Alternative Shakespeares

Author: Terence Hawkes

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-12-16

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 1134780753

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Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 investigates Shakespearean criticism over a decade later, introducing new debates and new theorists into the frame. Both established scholars and new names appear here, providing a broad cross-section of contemporary Shakespearean studies, including psychoanalysis, sexual and gender politics, race and new historicism. Alternative Shakespeares: Volume 2 represents the forefront of contemporary Shakespearean studies. This urgently-needed addition to a classic work of literary criticism is one which teachers and scholars will welcome.

Alternative Shakespeares
Alternative Shakespeares

Author: Diana E. Henderson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 1134099029

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Introducing the most innovative of the new directions emerging in Shakespearean scholarship, this volume identifies and explores the new, the changing and the radically 'other' possibilities for Shakespeare Studies at this current time.

Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Women
Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Women

Author: Simon Dunmore

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-08

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 1135860092

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Like the companion volume for men, Alternative Shakespeare Auditions for Women brings together fifty speeches from plays frequently ignored such as Coriolanus, Pericles, and Love's Labours Lost. It also features good, but over-looked speeches from more popular plays such as Diana from All's Well That Ends Well, Perdita from The Winter's Tale and Hero from Much Ado About Nothing. Each speech is accompanied by a character description, brief explanation of the context, and notes on obscure words, phrases and references--all written from the viewpoint of the auditioning actor. It is the perfect resource for your best audition ever.

Shakespeare's Beehive
Shakespeare's Beehive

Author: George Koppelman

Publisher: Axletree Books

Published: 2015-10-01

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 0692500324

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A study of manuscript annotations in a curious copy of John Baret's ALVEARIE, an Elizabethan dictionary published in 1580. This revised and expanded second edition presents new evidence and furthers the argument that the annotations were written by William Shakespeare. This ebook contains text in color, and images. We recommend reading it on a device that displays both.

Alternative Shakespeares
Alternative Shakespeares

Author: John Drakakis

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 0415287235

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Alternative Shakespeares, published in 1985, shook up the world of Shakespearean studies, demythologising Shakespeare and applying new theories to the study of his work. This book provides an updated analysis of Shakespearean studies.

The Shakespeare Circle
The Shakespeare Circle

Author: Paul Edmondson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 371

ISBN-13: 110705432X

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This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare's life and times.

The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

Author: William Shakespeare

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2024-04-01

Total Pages: 127

ISBN-13:

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"The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.

Shakespeare's Christmas
Shakespeare's Christmas

Author: Charlaine Harris

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2015-12-22

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 125010730X

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Cleaning woman and karate expert Lily Bard is back in Charlaine Harris's latest cozy-but-noirish mystery about the dark secrets of a small Southern town In Shakespeare’s Christmas, Lily heads home to Bartley, Arkansas--always an uncomfortable scenario for the introverted Lily--for her sister Varena’s Christmas wedding. But Lily has more to worry about than being a bridesmaid for a sister to whom she’s no longer close. Soon after she arrives in Bartley, Lily’s private-detective boyfriend shows up too, and not just for moral support: He’s investigating a four-year-old unsolved kidnapping. Try as she might, Lily can’t help but get involved when she discovers that the case hits dangerously close to home--for Varena’s new husband is the widowed father of a girl bearing a remarkable resemblance to the vanished child.