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The Shakespearean World

Author : Jill L Levenson,Robert Ormsby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317696193

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The Shakespearean World by Jill L Levenson,Robert Ormsby Pdf

The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries. "Shakespeare" signifies the historical person, as well as the plays and verse attributed to him. It also signifies the attitudes towards both author and works determined by their receptions. Throughout the book, specialists aim to situate Shakespeare’s world and what the world is because of him. In adopting a global perspective, the volume arranges thirty-six chapters in five parts: Shakespeare on stage internationally since the late seventeenth century; Shakespeare on film throughout the world; Shakespeare in the arts beyond drama and performance; Shakespeare in everyday life; Shakespeare and critical practice. Through its coverage, The Shakespearean World offers a comprehensive transhistorical and international view of the ways this Shakespeare has not only influenced but has also been influenced by diverse cultures during 400 years of performance, adaptation, criticism, and citation. While each chapter is a freshly conceived introduction to a significant topic, all of the chapters move beyond the level of survey, suggesting new directions in Shakespeare studies – such as ecology, tourism, and new media – and making substantial contributions to the field. This volume is an essential resource for all those studying Shakespeare, from beginners to advanced specialists.

Escape to Shakespeare's World

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780141371214

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Escape to Shakespeare's World by William Shakespeare Pdf

A beautiful, intricate colouring book, full of romantic, inspirational and dramatic quotes from the favourite plays and poems of William Shakespeare. An ideal choice for older children and adults, in a beautiful square format, it is gloriously intricate illustrations provide a soothing occupation for the millions of fans of adult colouring books.

Shakespeare's World

Author : D. L. Johanyak
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 0130971014

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Shakespeare's World by D. L. Johanyak Pdf

This book is about the world inhabited by Shakespeare and his peers, from the midland town of Stratford-upon-Avon to distant islands of the South Pacific. Shakespeare's World opens the door to readers who are curious about the Bard and his world, providing an easy-to-understand overview of the time period and key events that impacted or were impacted by Shakespeare's writing. This comprehensive, exciting, and approachable book provides colorful yet simple descriptions of Shakespeare's life, Tudor England, Renaissance Europe, and global colonialism during the 16th and early 17th centuries. Written to help readers explore Shakespeare's life and works, the book offers insights into the writing of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

Shakespeare

Author : Bill Bryson
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780061983658

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Shakespeare by Bill Bryson Pdf

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.

Shakespeare's Restless World

Author : Neil MacGregor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101638118

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Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive ambition, or the Machiavellian rise and short reign of Richard III. They are so vital, so alive and real that we can see aspects of ourselves in them. But their world was at once familiar and nothing like our own. In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction Neil MacGregor and his team at the British Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC, bring us twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare’s universe. A perfect complement to A History of the World in 100 Objects, MacGregor’s landmark New York Times bestseller, Shakespeare’s Restless World highlights a turning point in human history. This magnificent book, illustrated throughout with more than one hundred vibrant color photographs, invites you to travel back in history and to touch, smell, and feel what life was like at that pivotal moment, when humankind leaped into the modern age. This was an exhilarating time when discoveries in science and technology altered the parameters of the known world. Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation map allows us to imagine the age of exploration from the point of view of one of its most ambitious navigators. A bishop’s cup captures the most sacred and divisive act in Christendom. With A History of the World in 100 Objects, MacGregor pioneered a new way of telling history through artifacts. Now he trains his eye closer to home, on a subject that has mesmerized him since childhood, and lets us see Shakespeare and his world in a whole new light.

Mapping Shakespeare's World

Author : Peter Whitfield
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Cartography
ISBN : 1851242570

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Mapping Shakespeare's World by Peter Whitfield Pdf

The locations of Shakespeare s plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London which he and his audience inhabited, but always in places remote in space or time. How much did he and his contemporaries know about the foreign cities where the plays took place? What expectations did an audience have if the curtain rose on a drama which claimed to take place in Verona, Elsinore, Alexandria or ancient Troy? This fully illustrated book explores these questions, surveying Shakespeare s world through contemporary maps, geographical texts, paintings and drawings. The results are intriguing and sometimes surprising. Why should Love s Labour s Lost be set in the Pyrenean kingdom of Navarre? Was the Forest of Arden really in Warwickshire? Why do two utterly different plays like The Comedy of Errors and Pericles focus strongly on ancient Ephesus? Where was Illyria? Did the Merry Wives have to live in Windsor? Why did Shakespeare sometimes shift the settings of the plays from those he found in his literary sources? It has always been easy to say that wherever the plays are set, Shakespeare was really writing about human psychology and human nature, and that the settings are irrelevant. This book takes a different view, showing that many of his locations may have had resonances which an Elizabethan audience would pick up and understand, and it shows how significant the geographical background of the plays could be. "

Shakespeare's World

Author : G. M. Pinciss,Roger Lockyer
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : England
ISBN : UCSC:32106008909928

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Shakespeare's World by G. M. Pinciss,Roger Lockyer Pdf

Substantial excerpts from a broad range of texts, providing an overview of the intellectual context of Shakespeare's work. The arrangement is by topic, such as religion, science, monarchy. The authors include Montaigne, John Dee, Machiavelli, James I. Castiglione, and others.

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition)

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780393079845

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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition) by Stephen Greenblatt Pdf

Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.

Shakespeare and the Arab World

Author : Katherine Hennessey,Margaret Litvin
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789202601

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Shakespeare and the Arab World by Katherine Hennessey,Margaret Litvin Pdf

Offering a variety of perspectives on the history and role of Arab Shakespeare translation, production, adaptation and criticism, this volume explores both international and locally focused Arab/ic appropriations of Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets. In addition to Egyptian and Palestinian theatre, the contributors to this collection examine everything from an Omani performance in Qatar and an Upper Egyptian television series to the origin of the sonnets to an English-language novel about the Lebanese civil war. Addressing materials produced in several languages from literary Arabic (fuṣḥā) and Egyptian colloquial Arabic (‘ammiyya) to Swedish and French, these scholars and translators vary in discipline and origin, and together exhibit the diversity and vibrancy of this field.

Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World

Author : Caroline Bicks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781108844215

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Cognition and Girlhood in Shakespeare's World by Caroline Bicks Pdf

Cutting-edge theories of cognition inform readings of Shakespearean girls to show the dynamism of adolescent female brainwork.

This Is Shakespeare

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780241361641

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This Is Shakespeare by Emma Smith Pdf

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.

Shakespeare's World and Work: A-H

Author : John Frank Andrews
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106020063597

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Shakespeare's World and Work: A-H by John Frank Andrews Pdf

Elizabethan Life; Shakespeare, William.

Shakespeare, the Globe & the World

Author : Samuel Schoenbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015009011993

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Shakespeare, the Globe & the World by Samuel Schoenbaum Pdf

DISPLAYS RARE BOOKS, MANUSCRIPTS, AND OTHER MEMORABILIA ILLUMINATING SHAKESPEARE'S CAREER AND IMPACT.

Shakespeare

Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Dramatists, English
ISBN : 1844287246

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Shakespeare by Michael Rosen Pdf

Shakespeare: His Work and His World is written by Michael Rosen in an accessible, modern, child-friendly style. As well as facts about his life and the theatre of the day, Rosen provides lively studies of Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, King Lear and The Tempest. Also included is a detailed analysis of a scene from Romeo and Juliet.

The Book of William

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-07-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781596911956

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The Book of William by Paul Collins Pdf

A history of the Bard's competitively pursued First Folio traces the author's travels from the site of a Sotheby auction to regions in Asia, throughout which he investigated the roles played by those who have sought and owned the Folios.