Shakespeare imprint: 191 books

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Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015

Literature and Culture Handbooks are an innovative series of guides to major periods, topics and authors in British and American literature and culture. Designed to provide a comprehensive, one-stop resource for literature students, each handbook provides the essential information and guidance needed...
by Dr. Farah Karim Cooper, Dr Tiffany Stern
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015

How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create their visual and aural effects? What materials were available to them and how did they influencestaging and writing? What impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute...

Jameson, Cowden Clarke, Kemble, Cushman

Great Shakespeareans: Volume VII

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Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2014

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Anna Jameson, Mary Cowden...
by Robert Maslen
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014

Comedy was at the centre of a critical storm that raged throughout the early modern period. Shakespeare's plays made capital of this controversy. In them he deliberately invokes the case against comedy made by the Elizabethan theatre haters. They are filled with jokes that go too far, laughter that...

Screen Adaptations: Shakespeare’s Hamlet

The Relationship between Text and Film

by Samuel Crowl
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014

Hamlet is the most often produced play in the western literary canon, and a fertile global source for film adaptation. Samuel Crowl, a noted scholar of Shakespeare on film, unpacks the process of adapting from text to screen through concentrating on two sharply contrasting film versions of Hamlet...
by Dr. Siobhan Keenan
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014

Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London explores the intimate and dynamic relationship between acting companies and playwrights in this seminal era in English theatre history. Siobhan Keenan's analysis includes chapters on the traditions and workings of contemporary acting...

Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy

Great Shakespeareans: Volume V

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Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Sir Walter Scott,...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014

This unique and comprehensive study examines how music affects Shakespeare's plays and addresses the ways in which contemporary audiences responded to it. David Lindley sets the musical scene of Early Modern England, establishing the kinds of music heard in the streets, the alehouses, private residences...
by Oliver Ford Davies
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017

A theme that obsessed Shakespeare in over 20 plays from Titus Andronicus to The Tempest was the relationship between a daughter and her father. This study traces chronologically the development of this theme, relating it to the little we know of his own two daughters, and sheds new light on his exploration...

Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Malone

Great Shakespeareans: Volume I

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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of Alexander Pope, John Dryden,...

Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett

Great Shakespeareans: Volume XII

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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of thosefigures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation,understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally andinternationally.   In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution ofJames Joyce,...

Lamb, Hazlitt, Keats

Great Shakespeareans: Volume IV

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Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014

Great Shakespeareans offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of William Hazlitt,...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014

Adrian Poole examines the Victorian's obsession with Shakespeare, his impact upon the era's consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. The book features detailed discussion of the interpretations and applications of Shakespeare by major figures such as Dickens and Hardy, Tennyson and Browning, as well as those less well-known.
by William Shakespeare
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2019

'I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with room on every page to make notes. Next time I'm in rehearsal on a Shakespeare play, I have no doubt...
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