Shakespeare S Landlord

Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625675972

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Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris Pdf

From Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author behind HBO’s hit series True Blood and NBC’s Midnight, Texas, the first in a series of mysteries that hits as hard as its heroine... Lily Bard has no illusions about her little town being safe, or peaceful, or full of goodness. Shakespeare, Arkansas, was nothing but a name on a map when she moved here. But Lily has kept her head down in Shakespeare for four years: cleaned houses, blocked unwelcome memories, and honed her body into a weapon with goju karate. It’s as long as she’s lasted anywhere since the nightmare that changed her life, and she’s willing to dust around the skeletons in her neighbors’ closets—provided they mind their business about her past, too. But when a dead body is dumped practically in her front yard, she can’t look away and leave it to innocents to find. And as the investigation creeps closer to Lily, her clients, and the secrets they all keep, she knows her hard-fought peace is in danger. She’s living in close quarters with a murderer. The police are sniffing around her history. And once again, all eyes are on Lily Bard. She could leave town, and give up on the home she’s begun to make. Or she could stay, and root out the killer herself...

Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Minotaur Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250107275

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Shakespeare's Landlord by Charlaine Harris Pdf

#1 New York Times bestseller Charlaine Harris’s Shakespeare series returns to print in this stunning mystery. Welcome to Shakespeare, Arkansas. Lily Bard came to the small town of Shakespeare to escape her dark and violent past. Other than the day-to-day workings of her cleaning and errand-running service, she pays little attention to the town around her. So when she spots a dead body being dumped in the town green, she's inclined to stay well away. But she was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and despite her best efforts, she's dragged into the murder case. Lily doesn't care who did it, but when the police and local community start pointing fingers in her direction, she realizes that proving her innocence will depend on finding the real killer in quiet, secretive Shakespeare. Shakespeare's Landlord is the first book in Charlaine Harris's Lily Bard mystery series.

Author : Charles Nicholl
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 499 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780141911878

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The Lodger by Charles Nicholl Pdf

In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster – it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine – a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry – but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist’s famously obscure life-story. Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating episode in Shakespeare’s life. Marshalling evidence from a wide variety of sources, including previously unknown documentary material on the Mountjoys, he conjures up a detailed and compelling description of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked, and in which he wrote such plays as Othello, Measure for Measure and King Lear.

Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781625675989

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Shakespeare's Champion by Charlaine Harris Pdf

From Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author behind HBO’s hit series True Blood and NBC’s Midnight, Texas, the second installment in a mystery series that pulls no punches... When Lily Bard agrees to open the gym for her sometime-boyfriend, it’s a sign of something she’s rejected for years—connection. Trust. The beginnings of being part of a community. And when she finds the corpse of a murdered bodybuilder waiting for her, it’s a sign she doesn’t know nearly as much about the home she’s chosen as she thought. Shakespeare, Arkansas has seen three unsolved, seemingly unconnected murders in two months, and the town is tense with suspicion and rage. Lily’s contact on the police force develops an ulterior agenda. An anonymous white supremacist group is papering cars and threatening worse to come. And there’s a new man in town, someone whose face reminds Lily of the darkest time in her past... Shakespeare needs answers, and Lily can’t rest until she has them. But there’s no telling how deep the rot spreads. And if she can’t trust anyone, she’ll be facing it down alone.

Author : David Armitage,Conal Condren,Andrew Fitzmaurice
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139480420

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Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought by David Armitage,Conal Condren,Andrew Fitzmaurice Pdf

This is the first collaborative volume to place Shakespeare's works within the landscape of early modern political thought. Until recently, literary scholars have not generally treated Shakespeare as a participant in the political thought of his time, unlike his contemporaries Ben Jonson, Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney. At the same time, historians of political thought have rarely turned their attention to major works of poetry and drama. A distinguished international and interdisciplinary team of contributors examines the full range of Shakespeare's writings in order to challenge conventional interpretations of plays central to the canon, such as Hamlet; open up novel perspectives on works rarely considered to be political, such as the Sonnets; and focus on those that have been largely neglected, such as The Merry Wives of Windsor. The result is a coherent and challenging portrait of Shakespeare's distinctive engagement with the characteristic questions of early modern political thought.

Author : Curtis Perry,John Watkins
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191609671

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Shakespeare and the Middle Ages by Curtis Perry,John Watkins Pdf

Shakespeare and the Middle Ages brings together a distinguished, multidisciplinary group of scholars to rethink the medieval origins of modernity. Shakespeare provides them with the perfect focus, since his works turn back to the Middle Ages as decisively as they anticipate the modern world: almost all of the histories depict events during the Hundred Years War, and King John glances even further back to the thirteenth-century Angevins; several of the comedies, tragedies, and romances rest on medieval sources; and there are important medieval antecedents for some of the poetic modes in which he worked as well. Several of the essays reread Shakespeare by recovering aspects of his works that are derived from medieval traditions and whose significance has been obscured by the desire to read Shakespeare as the origin of the modern. These essays, taken cumulatively, challenge the idea of any decisive break between the medieval period and early modernity by demonstrating continuities of form and imagination that clearly bridge the gap. Other essays explore the ways in which Shakespeare and his contemporaries constructed or imagined relationships between past and present. Attending to the way these writers thought about their relationship to the past makes it possible, in turn, to read against the grain of our own teleological investment in the idea of early modernity. A third group of essays reads texts by Shakespeare and his contemporaries as documents participating in social-cultural transformation from within. This means attending to the way they themselves grapples with the problem of change, attempting to respond to new conditions and pressures while holding onto customary habits of thought and imagination. Taken together, the essays in this volume revisit the very idea of transition in a refreshingly non-teleological way.

Author : William Shakespeare,Walter Scott Dalgleish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082518641

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Great Speeches from Shakespeare's Plays by William Shakespeare,Walter Scott Dalgleish Pdf

Author : Valerie Traub
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780199663408

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The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment by Valerie Traub Pdf

This book... offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom.

Author : Catherine M. S. Alexander,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2000-12-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521779383

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Shakespeare and Race by Catherine M. S. Alexander,Stanley Wells Pdf

This volume, first published in 2000, draws together thirteen important essays on the concept of race in Shakespeare's drama.

Author : Paul Raffield
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-10-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781847316066

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Shakespeare's Imaginary Constitution by Paul Raffield Pdf

Through an examination of six plays by Shakespeare, the author presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the last decade of Elizabethan rule and their representation in poetic drama of the period. The playhouses of London in the 1590s provided a distinctive forum for discourse and dissemination of nascent political ideas. Shakespeare exploited the unique capacity of theatre to humanise contemporary debate concerning the powers of the crown and the extent to which these were limited by law. The autonomous subject of law is represented in the plays considered here as a sentient political being whose natural rights and liberties found an analogue in the narratives of common law, as recorded in juristic texts and law reports of the early modern era. Each chapter reflects a particular aspect of constitutional development in the late-Elizabethan state. These include abuse of the royal prerogative by the crown and its agents; the emergence of a politicised middle class citizenry, empowered by the ascendancy of contract law; the limitations imposed by the courts on the lawful extent of divinely ordained kingship; the natural and rational authority of unwritten lex terrae; the poetic imagination of the judiciary and its role in shaping the constitution; and the fusion of temporal and spiritual jurisdiction in the person of the monarch. The book advances original insights into the complex and agonistic relationship between theatre, politics, and law. The plays discussed offer persuasive images both of the crown's absolutist tendencies and of alternative polities predicated upon classical and humanist principles of justice, equity, and community. 'It is now canon in progressive U.S. legal scholarship that to focus solely on the text of our Constitution is myopic. We look as well for "constitutional moments", moments when the zeitgeist is so transformed that our fundamental legal charter changes with it. In this breathtakingly erudite book, Paul Raffield argues that the late-Elizabethan period was such a "constitutional moment" in England, a moment literally "played out" for the polity by the greatest dramatist of all time. A lawyer and a thespian, Raffield handles both legal and literary sources with exquisite care. As with the works of the Old Masters, one dwells pleasurably on each detail until their cumulative force presses one backward to see the canvas in its sudden, glorious entirety. A major achievement.' Kenji Yoshino Chief Justice Earl Warren Professor of Constitutional Law, NYU School of Law

Author : Alan Palmer,Veronica Palmer
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1999-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0312220863

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Who's Who in Shakespeare's England by Alan Palmer,Veronica Palmer Pdf

Provides more than seven hundred biographies of Shakespeare's contemporaries.

Author : Paul Edmondson,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107054325

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The Shakespeare Circle by Paul Edmondson,Stanley Wells Pdf

This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare's life and times.

Author : Robert Shaughnessy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-06-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521844291

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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture by Robert Shaughnessy Pdf

This book offers a collection of essays on Shakespeare's life and works in popular forms and media.

Author : Heather Dubrow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0521543495

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Shakespeare and Domestic Loss by Heather Dubrow Pdf

This 1999 book examines Shakespeare's engagement with forms of deprivation which threatened domestic security in early modern England.

Author : Stephannie Gearhart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351603461

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Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare's England by Stephannie Gearhart Pdf

Drama and the Politics of Generational Conflict in Shakespeare’s England examines the intersection between art and culture and explains how ideas about age circulated in early modern England. Stephannie Gearhart illustrates how a variety of texts – including drama by Shakespeare, Jonson, and Middleton – placed elders’ and youths’ voices in dialogue with one another to construct the period’s ideology of age and shape elder-youth relations.