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Author : Louis B. Wright
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1978-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 091801655X
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : English drama
ISBN : NYPL:33433074889100
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 127 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-01
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9791041995578
"The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005466540
Author : Jeffrey Kahan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135973650
Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink
Author : Adam Long
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-10-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781493077311
Originally performed by its creators, this 1987 Edinburgh Fringe hit remains the second longest-running West End comedy in history and has been translated into over thirty languages. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) is not so much a play as it is a vaudeville show in which three charismatic, wildly ambitious actors attempt to present all thirty-seven of Shakespeare's plays in a single performance. They have a rudimentary concept of the stories and have imperfectly memorized a smattering of famous lines. Backstage there's a meager assortment of costumes and props. Thus armed, the three brazenly launch into their task with an earnest focus and breakneck enthusiasm.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082528574
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 1382 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-03-10
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781408198780
This revised edition of the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works includes the full text of Double Falsehood, which was published in the Arden Third series to critical acclaim in 2010. The play is an eighteenth century rewrite of Shakespeare's "lost" play Cardenio and as such is a fascinating testament to the original. A short introduction outlines its complex textual history and the arguments for including it within the Shakespeare canon. The Complete Works contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden series. A general introduction gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1837
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X000029109
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018947523
Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780241361641
A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019 'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. It takes us into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and technological change. The Shakespeare in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433074899364
Author : Margaret Jane Kidnie,Sonia Massai
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107023741
A cutting-edge and comprehensive reassessment of the theories, practices and archival evidence that shape editorial approaches to Shakespeare's texts.
Author : Samuel Austin Allibone
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082239610
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3041796
