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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 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.

Author : Jill L Levenson,Robert Ormsby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 654 pages
File Size : 43,8 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.

Author : Neil MacGregor
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,5 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.

Author : Peter Whitfield
Publisher : Bodleian Library
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 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. "

Author : D. L. Johanyak
Publisher : Pearson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,7 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.

Author : Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000750928

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Shakespeare’s Things by Brett Gamboa,Lawrence Switzky Pdf

Floating daggers, enchanted handkerchiefs, supernatural storms, and moving statues have tantalized Shakespeare’s readers and audiences for centuries. The essays in Shakespeare’s Things: Shakespearean Theatre and the Non-Human World in History, Theory, and Performance renew attention to non-human influence and agency in the plays, exploring how Shakespeare anticipates new materialist thought, thing theory, and object studies while presenting accounts of intention, action, and expression that we have not yet noticed or named. By focusing on the things that populate the plays—from commodities to props, corpses to relics—they find that canonical Shakespeare, inventor of the human, gives way to a lesser-known figure, a chronicler of the ceaseless collaboration among persons, language, the stage, the object world, audiences, the weather, the earth, and the heavens.

Author : Louis B. Wright
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1978-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 091801655X

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Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth by Louis B. Wright Pdf

Author : Caroline Bicks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 54,8 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.

Author : Paul Collins
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 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.

Author : John Frank Andrews
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCSC:32106020063605

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Shakespeare's World and Work by John Frank Andrews Pdf

Elizabethan Life; Shakespeare, William.

Author : Sonia Massai
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781134345830

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World-Wide Shakespeares by Sonia Massai Pdf

Drawing on debates around the global/local dimensions of cultural production, an international team of contributors explore the appropriation of Shakespeare’s plays in film and performance around the world. In particular, the book examines the ways in which adapters and directors have put Shakespeare into dialogue with local traditions and contexts. The contributors look in turn at ‘local’ Shakespeares for local, national and international audiences, covering a range of English and foreign appropriations that challenge geographical and cultural oppositions between ‘centre’ and ‘periphery’, and ‘big-time’ and ‘small-time’ Shakespeares. Responding to a surge of critical interest in the poetics and politics of appropriation, World-Wide Shakespeares is a valuable resource for those interested in the afterlife of Shakespeare in film and performance globally.

Author : Robert Matz
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786454037

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The World of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Robert Matz Pdf

Of Shakespeare's sonnets we know the crystalline meter, exquisite diction, and exhilarating surprise of the "turn" in the final couplet. By contrast, we know very little of their subjects and motives. This book does not approach the sonnets as Shakespearean autobiography but instead delineates the customs that shaped the poet's world and thus his sonnets. It argues for understanding them as brilliant, edgy expressions of the equally brilliant, edgy culture of the English Renaissance.

Author : John Frank Andrews
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,8 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.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1810
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018947523

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As You Like it by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Diana Brydon,Irene Rima Makaryk
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0802036554

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Shakespeare in Canada by Diana Brydon,Irene Rima Makaryk Pdf

Is there a distinctly Canadian Shakespeare? What is the status and function of Shakespeare in various locations within the nation: at Stratford, on CBC radio, in regional and university theatres, in Canadian drama and popular culture? Shakespeare in Canada brings insights from a little explored but extensive archive to contemporary debates about the cultural uses of Shakespeare and what it means to be Canadian. Canada's long history of Shakespeare productions and reception, including adaptations, literary reworkings, and parodies, is analysed and contextualized within the four sections of the book. A timely addition to the growing field that studies the transnational reach of Shakespeare across cultures, this collection examines the political and cultural agendas invoked not only by Shakespeare's plays, but also by his very name. In part a historical and regional survey of Shakespeare in performance, adaptation, and criticism, this is the first work to engage Shakespeare with distinctly Canadian debates addressing nationalism, separatism, cultural appropriation, cultural nationalism, feminism, and postcolonialism.