An Oxford Anthology Of Shakespeare

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0192822403

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An Oxford Anthology of Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

This elegantly-crafted anthology presents over two hundred of the finest examples of Shakespeare's work, ranging from two-line aphorisms to sonnets and even complete scenes. Ideal for browsing, it allows readers to revisit favorite passages such as Hamlet's soliloquy or the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, or to discover unfamiliar gems. Above all, it permits readers to savor Shakespeare's unequaled capacity to portray the peaks and valleys of human experience. In creating the anthology, Stanley Wells--the General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare--has selected those passages which he finds most attractive in their own right and which suffer least from being read out of context. Arranged according to subject matter, this volume, which is based on the text of the Complete Oxford Shakespeare, also contains a play-by-play index and glossary.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 494 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0195160932

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Shakespeare by Stanley Wells Pdf

From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly illustrated book tells the story of Shakespeare's life, his writings, and his afterlife. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of studying, teaching, editing, and writing about Shakespeare, Stanley Wells combines scholarly authority with authorial flair in a book that will appeal equally to the specialist and the untutored enthusiast. Chapters on Shakespeare's life in Stratford and in London offer a fresh view of the development of the writer's career and personality. At the core of the book lies a magisterial study of the writings themselves--how Shakespeare set about writing a play, his relationships with the company of actors with whom he worked, his developing mastery of the literary and rhetorical skills that he learned at the Stratford grammar school, the essentially theatrical quality of the structure and language of his plays. Subsequent chapters trace the fluctuating fortunes of his reputation and influence. Here are accounts of adaptations, productions, and individual performances in England and, increasingly, overseas; of great occasions such as the Garrick Jubilee and the tercentenary celebrations of 1864; of the spread of Shakespeare's reputation in France and Germany, Russia and America, and, more recently, the Far East; of Shakespearian discoveries and forgeries; of critical reactions, favorable and otherwise, and of scholarly activity; of paintings, music, films and other works of art inspired by the plays; of the plays' use in education and the political arena, and of the pleasure and intellectual stimulus that they have given to an increasingly international public. Shakespeare, said Ben Jonson, was not of an age but for all time. This is a book about him for our time.

Author : Stanley Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Theater
ISBN : PSU:000047473331

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Shakespeare in the Theatre by Stanley Wells Pdf

Oxford Shakespeare Topics provides students, teachers, and interested readers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and acritical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research.Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a rich, varied, and wonderfully evocative collection of eye-witness accounts of Shakespearian performances over the centuries. Theatre generates an excitement that stimulates fine prose: here are Hazlitt's famous accounts of Edmund Kean as Richard III and Hamlet,Bernard Shaw on Forbes-Robertson's Hamlet and his hilarious descriptions of Augustin Daly's productions, Max Beerbohm on Gordon Craig, and Kenneth Tynan on Olivier and Wolfit. Here too are lesser-known pieces by great writers: the German novelist Theodor Fontane on Charles Kean, Evelyn Waugh onOlivier, Virginia Woolf on Twelfth Night at the Old Vic. Taken together these pieces represent an appreciation of the work of the finest Shakespearian interpreters, and a survey of changing styles of Shakespearian production - ranging right across the canon - from the seventeenth century to thepresent, in England, America, and further afield. The post-war period is amply represented, right up to the present day, with vivid accounts of landmark productions by directors such as Peter Brook, Peter Hall, John Barton, Deborah Warner, Trevor Nunn, and Declan Donnellan. Stanley Wells introducesthe volume with an essay on 'Shakespeare and the Theatre Critics', and supplies each review with a helpful headnote and explanatory references.

Author : Arthur F. Kinney
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199566105

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare by Arthur F. Kinney Pdf

Contains forty original essays.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 1423 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-04-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191608391

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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare Pdf

The second Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction. Included here for the first time is the play The Reign of King Edward the Third as well as the full text of Sir Thomas More. This new edition also features an essay on Shakespeare's language by David Crystal, and a bibliography of foundational works.

Author : William Shakespeare,Stephen Greenblatt,Walter Cohen,Jean Elizabeth Howard,Katharine Eisaman Maus,Andrew Gurr
Publisher : W. W. Norton
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0393931455

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The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition: Later plays by William Shakespeare,Stephen Greenblatt,Walter Cohen,Jean Elizabeth Howard,Katharine Eisaman Maus,Andrew Gurr Pdf

Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.

Author : Gary Taylor,Gabriel Egan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780199591169

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The New Oxford Shakespeare by Gary Taylor,Gabriel Egan Pdf

"Authorship Companion: Cutting-edge research in attribution studies; A new perspective on the dating of Shakespeare's plays, and on his dramatic collaborations; Combines the work of senior scholars with exciting new voices; Explores the latest developments in the understanding of Shakespeare's style and methods for detecting and describing it; Covers the entire breadth of Shakespeare's writing, across the plays and the poems; A record of all early documents relevant to authorship and chronology; A survey and synthesis of past scholarship to 2016; Individual case studies combined with broader analysis of theories and methods."--Publisher's description.

Author : Stanley (ed.) WELLS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:960010819

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Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism by Stanley (ed.) WELLS Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare,Francis X. Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10
Category : English drama
ISBN : 019875955X

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The New Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare,Francis X. Connor Pdf

Collects the same versions of the same works found in the Modern Critical Edition, keyed to the same line-numbering. But the Critical Reference Edition emphasizes book history and the documentary origins of each text. It preserves the spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviations, typographical contrasts, ambiguities, and inconsistencies of the early documents. Introductions focus on early modern manuscript and print culture, setting each text within the material circumstances of its production, transmission, and early reception.The works are arranged in the chronological order of the surviving texts: the first volume covers documents manufactured in Shakespeare's lifetime, and the second covers documents made between 1622 and 1728. The illustrated general introduction presents an overview of the texts available to editors and describes how they define Shakespeare. An essay on error surveys kinds of error characteristic of these early text technologies. It is followed by a general introduction to the music of Shakespeare's plays. Introductions to individual works and an extensive foot-of-the-page textual apparatus record and discuss editorial corrections of scribal and printing errors in the early documents; marginal notes record press variants and key variants in different documents. Original music notation is provided for the songs (where available). Because the plays were written and copied within the framework of theatrical requirements, casting charts identify the length and type of each role, discuss potential doubling possibilities, and note essential props.The New Oxford Shakespeare consists of four interconnected publications: the Modern Critical Edition (with modern spelling), the Critical Reference Edition (with original spelling), a companion volume on Authorship, and an online version integrating all of this material on OUP's scholarly editions platform.

Author : John Gross
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192804723

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After Shakespeare by John Gross Pdf

No writer has served as such a powerful source of inspiration for other writers as Shakespeare. No writer has attracted such widespread and varied comment. This unique anthology draws on the vast literature that plays little part in formal Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, but that shows with immediacy and passion the enormous impact Shakespeare has had on our cultural life. Novelists, poets, and playwrights are all represented. So are philosophers, historians, composers, film-makers, politicians. Shakespearean characters and motifs are shown fuelling the genius of Goethe and Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley and Emily Dickinson, John Updike and Duke Ellington, Nabokov and Proust. Shakespeare the man fires the imagination of Kipling and Joyce, Borges and Anthony Burgess. Herman Melville writes a poem about Falstaff. D. H. Lawrence anatomizes Hamlet. R. K. Narayan describes a Shakespeare lesson in an Indian classroom. John Osborne adapts Coriolanus. Ionescu reworks Macbeth.The choice of critical responses is equally wide-ranging. Jean-Paul Sartre proves an unexpectedly expert commentator on King Lear. Alfred Dreyfus and Nelson Mandela console themselves with Shakespeare during their imprisonment. And curiosities abound - parodies, burlesques, strange echoes and eccentricities. Throughout the book we can see Shakespeare changing lives, opening up fresh horizons and reaching out to 'the great globe itself'.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 019818431X

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The Complete Sonnets and Poems by William Shakespeare Pdf

'This Complete Sonnets and Poems is a distinguished addition to a distinguished series. It will repay continuing study, and act as a valuable point of reference for readers concerned more generally with Shakespeare's art and language. Colin Burrow's good sense, tact and balance as aneditor are deeply impressive.' -H. R. Woudhuysen, Times Literary SupplementThis is the only fully annotated and modernized edition to bring together Shakespeare's Sonnets as well as all his poems (including those attributed to him after his death). A full introduction discusses his development as a poet, and how the poems relate to his plays; detailed notes explain the language and allusions in clear modern English. While accessibly written, the edition takes account of the most recent scholarship and criticism.

Author : Paul Edmondson,Stanley W. Wells,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Sonnets, English
ISBN : 0199256101

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Shakespeare's Sonnets by Paul Edmondson,Stanley W. Wells,Stanley Wells Pdf

The sonnets are among the most accomplished and fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of Shakespeare's work as a poet and poetic dramatist, and while their autobiographical relevance is uncertain, no account of Shakespeare's life can afford to ignore them. So many myths and superstitions have arisen around these poems, relating for example to their possible addressees, to their coherence as a sequence, to their dates of composition, to their relation to other poetry of the period and to Shakespeare's plays, that even the most naïve reader will find it difficult to read them with an innocent mind. Shakespeare's Sonnets dispels the myths and focuses on the poems. Considering different possible ways of reading the Sonnets, Wells and Edmondson place them in a variety of literary and dramatic contexts--in relation to other poetry of the period, to Shakespeare's plays, as poems for performance, and in relation to their reception and reputation. Selected sonnets are discussed in depth, but the book avoids the jargon of theoretical criticism. Shakespeare's Sonnets is an exciting contribution to the Oxford Shakespeare Topics, ideal for students and the general reader interested in these intriguing poems.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1919
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:493545865

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The Complete Works by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Michael Dobson,Stanley Wells,Will Sharpe,Erin Sullivan (Cultural historian)
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Encyclopedias
ISBN : 9780198708735

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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael Dobson,Stanley Wells,Will Sharpe,Erin Sullivan (Cultural historian) Pdf

This is a reference text on Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. It offers stimulating and authoritative coverage of every aspect of Shakespeare and his writings, including their reinterpretation in the theatre, in criticism, and in film.

Author : William Shakespeare,Gary Taylor,Book Guild Publishing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : English drama
ISBN : OCLC:655781352

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The Complete Oxford Shakespeare by William Shakespeare,Gary Taylor,Book Guild Publishing Pdf