Shakespeare imprint: 191 books
by Professor Jonathan Hope
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
A comparative reference guide to Shakespeare's grammar, based on a complete revision of an extremely elderly but still much-cited volume, Abbott's Shakespearean Grammar, first published in 1869 and still regarded by default as an essential component of Shakespeare research. This volume meets the identified...
Who Was Shakespeare?
Writings of Mark Twain, Andrew Lang, and C. C. Stopes on who he was, his relationship with Francis Bacon, his ancestral family, and who authored his plays.
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2014
This volume, number 2 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, contains several fascinating writings of Mark Twain, Andrew Lang, and C. C. Stopes on who William Shakespeare was, his relationship with Francis Bacon, his ancestral family, and who authored his plays. Included are:...
Creative Shakespeare
The Globe Education Guide to Practical Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
This unique book desribes the ways in which educational practitioners at Shakespeare's Globe theatre bring Shakespeare to life for students of all ages.The Globe approach is always active and inclusive - each student finds their own way into Shakespeare - focussing on speaking, moving and performing...
The Arden Introduction to Reading Shakespeare
Close Reading and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
Shakespeare's plays are works of art made out of words. To read the plays closely, that is, to pay careful attention to the multiple, shifting meanings of and relationships between their words, is to gain a deep and lasting appreciation for the complex artistry of their construction and of their effects....
Shakespeare's Creative Legacies
Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2016
We celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists and performers recreated him. Readers of this book are invited to explore Shakespeare's afterlife on the stage...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015
A collection of new and specially commissioned essays by an eminent team of Shakespeare scholars, focusing on the particular issues relating to the editing of Shakespeare and other Renaissance texts. The editing of dramatic and other literary texts has always been an important aspect of literary studies....
by Dr Andrew Zurcher
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Readers of Shakespeare's language, from the playhouse to the classroom, have long been aware of his peculiar interest in legal words and concepts - Richard II's two bodies, Hamlet's quiddities and quillets, Pandarus' peine forte et dure. In this new study, Andrew Zurcher takes a fresh, historically...
Shakespeare's Pictures
Visual Objects in the Drama
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Shakespeare's Pictures is the first full-length study of visual objects in Shakespearean drama. In several plays (Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice and Twelfth Night, among others) pictures are brought on stage - in the form of portraits or other images - as part of the dramatic action. Shakespeare's...
by Murray J. Levith
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
Shakespeare in China provides English language readers with a comprehensive sense of China's past and on-going encounter with Shakespeare. It offers a detailed history of twentieth-century Sino-Shakespeare from the beginnings to 1949, followed by more recent accounts of the playwright in the People's...
Shakespeare and YouTube
New Media Forms of the Bard
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2014
The video-sharing platform YouTube signals exciting opportunities and challenges for Shakespeare studies. As patron, distributor and archive, YouTube occasions new forms of user-generated Shakespeares, yet a reduced Bard too, subject to the distractions of the contemporary networked mediascape.
This...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Was Shakespeare really the original genius he has appeared to be since the eighteenth century, a poet whose words came from nature itself?
The contributors to this volume propose that Shakespeare was not the poet of nature, but rather that he is a genius of rewriting and re-creation, someone...
Queering the Shakespeare Film
Gender Trouble, Gay Spectatorship and Male Homoeroticism
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
A range of mainstream and independent English language film productions of A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, Twelfth Night, and The Merchant of Venice take centre stage in Queering the Shakespeare Film. This study critiques the various representations of the queer – broadly understood...
A Year of Shakespeare
Re-living the World Shakespeare Festival
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015
A Year of Shakespeare gives a uniquely expert and exciting overview of the largest Shakespeare celebration the world has ever known: the World Shakespeare Festival 2012. This is the only book to describe and analyse each of the Festival's 73 productions in well-informed,lively reviews by eminent and...
The Shakespeare Hut
A Story of Memory, Performance and Identity, 1916-1923
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2018
This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916, the Hut was to be the only built memorial to mark Shakespeare's Tercentenary in the midst of war....