The England Of William Shakespeare

Author : Louis B. Wright
Publisher : New Word City
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612309910

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Shakespeare's England by Louis B. Wright Pdf

When William Shakespeare was about twenty, his life changed forever. He left Stratford and walked to London, where he became the world's greatest playwright. Here is his little-told story of Shakespeare, presented against the colorful tapestry of his England, the kingdom under Elizabeth I and James I. In the reigns of those monarchs, the nation was emerging from centuries of medieval turmoil. The small island that had changed so little since the Norman Conquest of 1066 suddenly became a center of international adventure, political experimentation, and artistic development. Young Shakespeare was fortunate to be in England, and in London, when he was. The first professional theatre opened in the capital in 1576; he arrived, stage-struck and in search of a job, around 1587. He retired to Stratford as a wealthy gentleman in 1611, only a generation before the theatres of England were closed by the Puritans. During Shakespeare's London years, England seethed with plots and intrigue and throbbed with pageantry; everywhere a writer looked there was a scene to fire his imagination. Like Sir Walter Raleigh and other daring contemporaries, William Shakespeare was, indeed, an Elizabethan who took advantage of his time.

Author : Michael Justin Davis
Publisher : E P Dutton
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991-02-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 051706295X

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England of William Shakespeare by Michael Justin Davis Pdf

Describes the cities and towns where Shakespeare's plays were performed during his lifetime, and looks at the history of and points of interest in each community

Author : Jeremy Black
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780253042347

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England in the Age of Shakespeare by Jeremy Black Pdf

How did it feel to hear Macbeth’s witches chant of "double, double toil and trouble" at a time when magic and witchcraft were as real as anything science had to offer? How were justice and forgiveness understood by the audience who first watched King Lear; how were love and romance viewed by those who first saw Romeo and Juliet? In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era. Panning from play to audience and back again, Black shows how Shakespeare’s plays would have been experienced and interpreted by those who paid to see them. From the dangers of travel to the indignities of everyday life in teeming London, Black explores the jokes, political and economic references, and small asides that Shakespeare’s audiences would have recognized. These moments of recognition often reflected the audience’s own experiences of what it was to, as Hamlet says, "grunt and sweat under a weary life." Black’s clear and sweeping approach seeks to reclaim Shakespeare from the ivory tower and make the plays’ histories more accessible to the public for whom the plays were always intended.

Author : William Winter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : England
ISBN : PRNC:32101067245892

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Shakespeare's England by William Winter Pdf

Author : Katherine Scheil
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2019-07-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781789202571

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Shakespeare and Stratford by Katherine Scheil Pdf

As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife. The essays in this volume consider the various manifestations of the physical and metaphorical town on the Avon, across time, genre and place, from America to New Zealand, from children’s literature to wartime commemorations. We meet many Stratfords in this collection, real and imaginary, and the interplay between the two generates new visions of the place.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101075385730

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The Works of William Shakespeare: King John by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1597
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:31158009319392

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Richard III. by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1890
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082147102

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The Life of King Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015049809646

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King Richard the Third ... by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781501149986

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Henry VIII by William Shakespeare Pdf

The authoritative edition of Henry VIII from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers. In Henry VIII, Shakespeare presents a monarchy in crisis. Noblemen battle with Lord Chancellor Cardinal Wolsey, who taxes the people to the point of rebellion. Witnesses whom Wolsey brings against the Duke of Buckingham claim he is conspiring to take the throne, yet Buckingham seems innocent as he goes to his death. Henry is also without a male heir. After meeting the beautiful Anne Boleyn, he says that he suspects his current marriage to Katherine, with whom he has one surviving daughter, is invalid. Katherine, meanwhile, glows with such splendid integrity that actresses have long desired the role. She advocates for the people, suspects the witnesses against Buckingham, and eloquently defends her conduct as Henry’s wife. This edition includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading Essay by Barbara A. Mowat The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9783986775865

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King Henry the Fifth by William Shakespeare Pdf

King Henry the Fifth William Shakespeare - Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1599. It tells the story of King Henry V of England, focusing on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.

Author : John A. Wagner
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313357411

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Voices of Shakespeare's England by John A. Wagner Pdf

Voices of Shakespeare's England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Voices of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life helps readers explore the era that produced, among other things, the world's greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespeare's lifetime, including letters, literature, speeches and polemics, official reports, and descriptive narratives. Voices of Shakespeare's England includes the works of Shakespeare himself, as well as other poets and playwrights, but it also expands beyond the literary world to cover politics, religion, economics, social change, and the royal court. By allowing Shakespeare's contemporaries to speak in their own voices, it offers an illuminating look at the breadth of Elizabethan society, including major historic events in England as well as Scotland, Ireland, the European continent, and even the new world of America.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992-08-20
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0521221544

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King Henry V by William Shakespeare Pdf

This new edition of Shakespeare's most celebrated war play points to the many inconsistencies in the presentation of Henry V. Andrew Gurr's substantial introduction explains the play as a reaction to the decade of war which preceded its writing, and analyses the play's double vision of Henry as both military hero and self-seeking individual. Professor Gurr shows how the patriotic declarations of the Chorus are contradicted by the play's action. He places the play's more controversial sequences in the context of Elizabethan thought, in particular the studies of the laws and morality of war written in the years before Henry V. He also studies the variety of language and dialect in the play. The appendices summarise Shakespeare's debt to his dramatic and historical sources, while the stage history shows how subsequent centuries have received and adapted the play on the stage and in film.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781626862760

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare Pdf

No library is complete without the classics! This edition includes the complete works of the playwright and poet William Shakespeare, considered by many to be the English language’s greatest writer. Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, King Lear, Hamlet, and Macbeth—the works of William Shakespeare still resonate in our imaginations four centuries after they were written. The timeless characters and themes of the Bard’s plays fascinate us with their joys, struggles, and triumphs, and now they are available in a special volume for Shakespeare fans everywhere. This Canterbury Classics edition of William Shakespeare’s works includes all of his poems and plays in a single volume. Whether for a Shakespeare devotee or someone just discovering him, this is the perfect place to experience the drama of Shakespeare’s words. A scholarly introduction provides additional context and insight into the poems and plays.

Author : William Shakespeare,Paul Werstine
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-23
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781451644579

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Richard II by William Shakespeare,Paul Werstine Pdf

Shakespeare’s Richard II presents a momentous struggle between Richard II and his cousin Henry Bolingbroke. Richard is the legitimate king; he succeeded his grandfather, King Edward III, after the earlier death of his father Edward, the Black Prince. Yet Richard is also seen by many as a tyrant. He toys with his subjects, exiling Bolingbroke for six years. When he seizes the title and property that should be Bolingbroke’s, Richard threatens the very structure of the kingdom. Bolingbroke returns with an army that is supported by nobles and commoners alike, both believing themselves oppressed by Richard. This sets the stage for a confrontation between his army and the tradition of sacred kingship supporting the isolated but now more sympathetic Richard. The authoritative edition of Richard II from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -The exact text of the printed book for easy cross-reference -Hundreds of hypertext links for instant navigation -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play’s famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare’s language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library’s vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading Essay by Harry Berger, Jr. The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare’s printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.