Download William Shakespeare's Othello: A Sourcebook by Andrew Hadfield PDF

By Andrew Hadfield

ISBN-10: 0203087097

ISBN-13: 9780203087091

ISBN-10: 041522733X

ISBN-13: 9780415227339

ISBN-10: 0415227348

ISBN-13: 9780415227346

Othello is one in every of Shakespeare's nice tragedies. during this Routledge Literary Sourcebook, Andrew Hadfield offers the best place to begin for college kids learning this play. besides large annotated extracts from the play itself, the sourcebook contains fabrics on: modern files; early serious reception of the play; 20th century feedback and the play in functionality.

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Download Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, by Charles Boyce PDF

By Charles Boyce

ISBN-10: 0440504295

ISBN-13: 9780440504290

This paintings invitations comparability with the Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare (1966). either supply extraordinary degrees of aspect on almost any point of Shakespeare's existence and artwork. The Reader's Encyclopedia, even though, is now approximately 1 / 4 of a century outdated; it doesn't, for instance, contain entries for Branagh's 1989 movie of Henry V or Joseph Papp, the famous manufacturer, either integrated right here. however it is way broader in scope, together with bibliographies in addition to articles on such figures as Stendahl (author of a booklet on Shakespeare). extra entire, it may possibly nonetheless be the easiest publication at the topic, however it is now out of print. Boyce's paintings is easily performed and lots more and plenty extra present, and it contains many designated entries. it will likely be an invaluable supplement for libraries possessing the Reader's Encyclopedia and a very good addition for those who don't.

Peter Dollard, Alma Coll. Lib., Mich.

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Download Shakespeare Without Boundaries: Essays in Honor of Dieter by Christa Jansohn, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Stanley Wells PDF

By Christa Jansohn, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Stanley Wells (Editors)

ISBN-10: 161149026X

ISBN-13: 9781611490268

ISBN-10: 1611490278

ISBN-13: 9781611490275

Shakespeare without borders: Essays in Honor of Dieter Mehl deals a wide-ranging number of essays written via a global crew of distinct students who try to outline, to problem, and to erode obstacles that presently inhibit realizing of Shakespeare, and to exemplify how ways that defy conventional bounds of analysis and feedback may possibly increase knowing and delight of a dramatist who stated no limitations in art.The quantity is released in tribute to Professor Dieter Mehl, whose serious and scholarly paintings on authors from Chaucer via Shakespeare to D. H. Lawrence has transcended temporal and nationwide obstacles in its diversity and scope, and who, as Ann Jennalie cook dinner writes, has contributed considerably to the erasure of political barriers that experience endangered the team spirit of German literary scholarship and, extra widely, via his paintings for the foreign Shakespeare organization, to the globalization of Shakespeare reviews.

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Download Shakespeare and His Contemporaries by Jonathan Hart PDF

By Jonathan Hart

ISBN-10: 0230105092

ISBN-13: 9780230105096

Shakespeare and His Contemporaries begins with Shakespeare’s England and expands to a global sooner than, after, and beyond. With a watch to language, style, drama, and literary and ancient narrative, this e-book examines the comedy of Shakespeare within the context of comedies from Italy, Spain, and France within the 16th and 17th centuries. 

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Download Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance by William B. Worthen PDF

By William B. Worthen

ISBN-10: 0511005288

ISBN-13: 9780511005282

ISBN-10: 0511583192

ISBN-13: 9780511583193

ISBN-10: 052155134X

ISBN-13: 9780521551342

ISBN-10: 0521558999

ISBN-13: 9780521558990

This stimulating publication asks how either textual content and function are construed as vessels of authority, and reveals that our realizing of Shakespearean functionality keeps a stunning feel of the potential for being ''faithful'' to Shakespearean texts, and to be able to ''Shakespeare.'' After a gap theoretical bankruptcy, Worthen examines the connection among textual content and function in 3 actions: directing, performing, and scholarship. The ebook contributes to the scholarly research of appearing and directing, and to the broader discourse of functionality stories.

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Download Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611: Metaphor by Jane Pettegree PDF

By Jane Pettegree

ISBN-10: 0230293336

ISBN-13: 9780230293335

This unique and scholarly paintings makes use of 3 certain case stories of performs – Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra , King Lear and Cymbeline – to forged gentle at the ways that early sleek writers used metaphor to discover how identities emerge from the interplay of competing local and non secular topographies.

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Download A Dictionary of Shakespeare’s Sexual Puns and Their by Frankie Rubinstein PDF

By Frankie Rubinstein

ISBN-10: 0333488652

ISBN-13: 9780333488652

ISBN-10: 0333488660

ISBN-13: 9780333488669

ISBN-10: 1349204528

ISBN-13: 9781349204526

'...Rubinstein is way from blameless and springs to our relief with loads of learning...and is kind of correct to induce that to not take pleasure in the sexiness of Shakespeare's language impoverishes our personal figuring out of him. For something, it used to be a robust aspect in his attract Elizabethans, who have been less woolly-mouthed and smooth-tongued than we're. for an additional, it has constituted a salty preservative for his paintings, between those that can relish it...an enlightening book.' A.L.Rowse, The Standard

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Download Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (The New Cambridge Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare PDF

By William Shakespeare

ISBN-10: 0521532523

ISBN-13: 9780521532525

Philip Edwards bargains succinctly with the exhaustive statement and controversy which Hamlet has provoked within the manifestation of its tragic strength. Robert Hapgood has contributed a brand new part on triumphing serious and function ways to the play during this up-to-date variation. He discusses contemporary movie and degree performances and actors of the Hamlet function in addition to administrators of the play. His account of latest scholarship stresses the position of reminiscence within the play and the effect of feminist and function reports upon it. First variation Hb (1985): 0-521-22151-X First variation Pb (1985): 0-521-29366-9

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