Shakespeare's World and Work: A-H
Author: John Frank Andrews
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
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Shakespeare's World and Work
Author: John F. Andrews
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780684806297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis three-volume set comprises a reference covering not only the plays and the life of Shakespeare, but also his world and his continuing influence on modern culture. Arranged alphabetically, it presents the plays and provides details on poetry, government, music and theatre, prominent historical figures, critical commentaries, court life, gender, clothing, set design, characters in the plays, and cultural influences on Shakespeare. Sidebars highlight significant details and include comments by stage and film actors and producers regarding specific passages, costumes, props, and other aspects of production. Includes maps of England, London, and Stratford; genealogical charts illustrating the relationships of characters in the plays; numerous bandw illustrations; and eight-page color inserts in each volume showing the people and places of England, examples of different productions, and photos from movies, television, operas and ballets. Appropriate for high school and college. c. Book News Inc.
Shakespeare's World and Work
Author: John Frank Andrews
Publisher: Scribner Book Company
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
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Mrs. Shakespeare
Author: Robert Nye
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9781559705523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this humorous and bawdy fictional memoir, Shakespeare's wife Anne Hathaway reminisces about her famous husband seven years after his death.
Shakespeare on Toast
Author: Ben Crystal
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
Published: 2015-12-24
Total Pages: 195
ISBN-13: 178578031X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKActor, producer and director Ben Crystal revisits his acclaimed book on Shakespeare for the 400th anniversary of his death, updating and adding three new chapters. Shakespeare on Toast knocks the stuffing from the staid old myth of the Bard, revealing the man and his plays for what they really are: modern, thrilling, uplifting drama. The bright words and colourful characters of the greatest hack writer are brought brilliantly to life, sweeping cobwebs from the Bard – his language, his life, his world, his sounds, his craft. Crystal reveals man and work as relevant, accessible and alive – and, astonishingly, finds Shakespeare's own voice amid the poetry. Whether you're studying Shakespeare for the first time or you've never set foot near one of his plays but have always wanted to, this book smashes down the walls that have been built up around this untouchable literary figure. Told in five fascinating Acts, this is quick, easy and good for you. Just like beans on toast.
How to Think Like Shakespeare
Author: Scott Newstok
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-08-31
Total Pages: 206
ISBN-13: 0691227691
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book offers a short, spirited defense of rhetoric and the liberal arts as catalysts for precision, invention, and empathy in today's world. The author, a professor of Shakespeare studies at a liberal arts college and a parent of school-age children, argues that high-stakes testing and a culture of assessment have altered how and what students are taught, as courses across the arts, humanities, and sciences increasingly are set aside to make room for joyless, mechanical reading and math instruction. Students have been robbed of a complete education, their imaginations stunted by this myopic focus on bare literacy and numeracy. Education is about thinking, Newstok argues, rather than the mastery of a set of rigidly defined skills, and the seemingly rigid pedagogy of the English Renaissance produced some of the most compelling and influential examples of liberated thinking. Each of the fourteen chapters explores an essential element of Shakespeare's world and work, aligns it with the ideas of other thinkers and writers in modern times, and suggests opportunities for further reading. Chapters on craft, technology, attention, freedom, and related topics combine past and present ideas about education to build a case for the value of the past, the pleasure of thinking, and the limitations of modern educational practices and prejudices"--
Contested Will
Author: James Shapiro
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-04-19
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1416541632
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Playhouse Law in Shakespeare's World
Author: Brian Jay Corrigan
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780838640227
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere is a human face to Shakespeare's theatrical world. It has been captured and preserved in the amber of litigious activity. Contracts for playhouses represent human aspiration: an avaricious hope for profit or an altruistic desire to provide for a family. Lawsuits have preserved the declarations of rights and the righteous indignations as well as the fictions and half-truths under which the Renaissance theater flourished. Leases and agreements preserve the intentions, honest or dishonest, of the men who wrote, performed, and bankrolled the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. The period 1590-1623, the limits of the original Shakespearean enterprise, resemble nothing so much as a third of a century of the sort of squabbling, shoving, and place-seeking familiar to every modern theatrical professional.
