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Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-05-08
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0199536155
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves - now a fellow exile - and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2008-05-08
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0191569569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs You Like It is Shakespeare's most light-hearted comedy, and its witty heroine Rosalind has his longest female role. In this edition, Alan Brissenden reassesses both its textual and performance history, showing how interpretations have changed since the first recorded production in 1740. He examines Shakespeare's sources and elucidates the central themes of love, pastoral, and doubleness. Detailed annotations investigate the allusive and often bawdy language, enabling student, actor, and director to savour the humour and the seriousness of the play to the full. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Author: John Kerrigan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 0198793758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis compact, engaging book puts Shakespeare's originality in historical context and looks at how he worked with his sources: the plays, poems, chronicles and romances on which his own plays are based.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Published: 2008-04-17
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780199535811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHamlet's combination of violence and introspection is unusual among Shakespeare's tragedies. It is also full of curious riddles and fascinating paradoxes, making it one of his most widely discussed plays. Professor Hibbard's illuminating and original introduction explains the process by which variant texts were fused together in the eighteenth century to create the most commonly used text of today. Drawing on both critical and theatrical history, he shows how this fusion makes Hamlet seem a much more `problematic' play than it was when it originally appeared in the First Folio of 1623. The Oxford Shakespeare edition presents a radically new text, based on that First Folio, which printed Shakespeare's own revision of an earlier version. The result is a `theatrical' and highly practical edition for students and performers alike.
Author: M. Hunt
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2008-02-04
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0230610188
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is a study of As You Like It , which shows how the play represents issues of interest to literate playgoers of its time, as well as speculatively to Shakespeare himself.
Author: Michael Hattaway
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2002-12-05
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780521775397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublisher Description (unedited publisher data) Shakespeare's history plays have been performed more in recent years than ever before, in Britain, North America, and in Europe. This volume provides an accessible, wide-ranging and informed introduction to Shakespeare's history and Roman plays. It is attentive throughout to the plays as they have been performed over the centuries since they were written. The first part offers accounts of the genre of the history play, of Renaissance historiography, of pageants and masques, and of women's roles, as well as comparisons with history plays in Spain and the Netherlands. Chapters in the second part look at individual plays as well as other Shakespearean texts which are closely related to the histories. The Companion offers a full bibliography, genealogical tables, and a list of principal and recurrent characters. It is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and theatre-goers alike.
Author: Emma Smith
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007-03-08
Total Pages: 6
ISBN-13: 1139462393
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next?' sections at the end of each chapter. The book draws on scholarship without being overwhelmed by it, and unlike other introductory guides to Shakespeare it emphasizes that there is space for new and fresh thinking by students and readers, even on the most-studied and familiar plays.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 3393
ISBN-13: 0199591156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare--an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship.This single illustrated volume is expertly edited to frame the surviving original versions of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and early musical scores around the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship to date.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780393931457
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUpon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 1902
ISBN-13: 9780395044025
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