Agamemnon S Kiss

Author : Inga Clendinnen
Publisher : Text Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781921145865

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Agamemnon's Kiss by Inga Clendinnen Pdf

The newest selection of essays from one of Australia's finest historians and writers.Agamemnon's Kiss is a thrilling selection of essays by one of Australia's most celebrated writers.Inga Clendinnen writes about everything from the books that terrified her as a child to what history can teach us about ourselves and our own times. She describes visits to the beach and to a museum dedicated to the Holocaust. She recounts the experience of falling ill and the prospect of death. And she writes movingly about other people who have changed her own life.Many of the themes which are central to Clendinnen's work are teased out in Agamemnon's Kiss- Selected Essays, the way we think about the Holocaust and its perpetrators, and the investigative power of history.

Author : Frederick Chamier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1850
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074941638

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Ben Brace, the Last of Nelson's Agamemnons by Frederick Chamier Pdf

Author : Lukas Erne,Margaret Jane Kidnie
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521830958

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Textual Performances by Lukas Erne,Margaret Jane Kidnie Pdf

This important collection brings together leading scholars to examine crucial questions regarding the theory and practice of editing Shakespeare's plays. In particular, the essays look at how best to engage editorially with evidence provided by historical research into the playhouse, author's study and printing house. How are editors of playscripts to mediate history, in its many forms, for modern users? Considering our knowledge of the past is partial (in the senses both of incomplete and ideological) where are we to draw the line between legitimate editorial assistance and unwarranted interference? In what innovative ways might current controversies surrounding the mediation of Shakespeare's drama shape future editorial practice? Focusing on key points of debate and controversy, this collection makes a vital contribution to a better understanding of how editorial practice (on the page and in cyberspace) might develop in the twenty-first century.

Author : Frederick CHAMIER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1836
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024872910

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Ben Brace, the last of Nelson's Agamemnons ... Second edition, revised, etc. [Illustrated by George Cruikshank.] by Frederick CHAMIER Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 1331 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781903436615

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Arden Shakespeare Complete Works by William Shakespeare Pdf

An authoritative, classic edition of Shakespeare's complete works in one paperback volume.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : anboco
Page : 3292 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783736407503

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

William Shakespeare was an English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet, and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including collaborations, consist of approximately 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 1286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1989-05-19
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1586635565

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William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

But thy eternal summer shall not fade Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st; Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade, When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee. -- from Sonnet 18 No home should be without this: every play, from the early histories to the sad, wise Winter's Tale and The Tempest; every exquisitely crafted sonnet; every long poem (such as Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece) written by the greatest writer in the English language. This edition of the Bard of Avon's complete works is a facsimile of the definitive Shakespeare Head edition published originally in Oxford, England. All the plays are arranged in chronological order of their composition, rather than by genre, so that the evolution of Shakespeare's monumental genius can be more easily followed and appreciated.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082504666

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Troilus and Cressida. Julius Caesar. Macbeth by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Leah Himmelhoch
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-13
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781350154919

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Aeschylus: Agamemnon by Leah Himmelhoch Pdf

This accessible edition for students brings the Agamemnon, Aeschylus' opening play in the Oresteia trilogy, to life for first-time readers. A hugely popular play in antiquity and with a rich reception history to the present day, this is an essential play for students of classics, drama and the canon of western literature. Leah Himmelhoch provides a helpful guide for students and instructors wishing to study and teach the play, building on her over twenty-five years of experience teaching college and university students. A quick introduction sets out Agamemnon's historical, literary, and performative context, its use of imagery and themes (especially gender conflict and the perversion of sacrificial ritual), and its subsequent literary and cultural impact while extensive commentary notes guide students through every line of the Greek text. Difficult passages are carefully explained while the power and beauty of the language is brought out at every opportunity. Himmelhoch's commentary also offers a companion website with a running vocabulary for the entire Agamemnon as further help for students.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X001687838

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Shakespeare's History of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063738903

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Measure for measure. Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Madeline Miller
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781408826133

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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Pdf

WINNER OF THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION 2012 Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper - despite the displeasure of Achilles's mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess. But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The History of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Pdf

Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. It was described by Frederick S. Boas as one of Shakespeare's problem plays

Author : David Bruce
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781329905610

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William Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida": A Retelling in Prose by David Bruce Pdf

Cressida has a problem. During the Trojan War, she falls in love with the young Trojan warrior Troilus and eventually sleeps with him. Almost immediately, she is sent to the Greek camp in exchange for an important Trojan prisoner because her father, a Trojan seer who has turned traitor and joined the Greeks, wants her with him. In the Greek camp, one Greek leader kisses her, and then another, and then another. The kisses are supposed to be in greeting, but this is a dangerous situation for a young woman to be in. Will Cressida be true to her vow to be faithful to Troilus? Will Cressida find a male Greek protector? Will Cressida fall in love with a Greek warrior? And is Thersites, a Greek who is deformed in body, also deformed in mind? Or is his cynicism fully and completely justified? Is Cressida the slut Thersites thinks she is?

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Cressida (Fictitious character)
ISBN : UOM:39015063755170

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Shakespeare's History of Troilus and Cressida by William Shakespeare Pdf

Set during the later years of the Trojan War, faithfully following the plotline of the Iliad from Achilles' refusal to participate in battle, to Hector's death. Essentially, two plots are followed in the play. In one, Troilus, a Trojan prince (son of Priam), woos Cressida, another Trojan.