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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 900 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1840221453
The collection of the finest of Shakespeare's plays presents Shakespeare's comedies with introductions by Judith Buchanan and tragedies with introductions by Emma Smith
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-26
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780307420596
The Taming of the Shrew Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world. The Merchant of Venice This dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature–Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. Twelfth Night Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography
Author : Julie Fain Lawrence-Edsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781000475197
The One-Hour Shakespeare series is a collection of abridged versions of Shakespeare’s plays, designed specifically to accommodate both small and large casts. This volume, More Comedies and Tragedies, includes the following plays: The Comedy of Errors The Taming of the Shrew Antony and Cleopatra King Lear These accessible and versatile scripts are supported by: an introduction with emphasis on the evolution of the series and the creative process of editing; the One-Hour projects in performance, a chapter on implementing money-saving ideas and suggestions for production whether in or outside of a classroom setting; specific lesson plans to incorporate these projects successfully into an academic course; suggested casting assignments for small to large casts; the how-tos of producing a radio play; and cross-gender casting suggestions. These supplementary materials make the plays valuable not only for actors, but for any environment, cast or purpose. Ideal for both academics and professionals, One-Hour Shakespeare is the perfect companion to teaching and staging the most universally read and performed playwright in history.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 918 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1623
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10635388
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 933 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781627932547
A collection containing Antony & Cleopatra, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, The Life of Timon of Athens, The tragedy of Titus Andronicus, and The History of Troilus and Cressida.
Author : Margreta De Grazia,Stanley Wells
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-25
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521886321
Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.
Author : J Michael Walton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781317513971
In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises and expands his visual approach to the theatre of classical Athens. From the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to the old and new comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, he argues that while Greek drama is seen now as a performance-based rather than a strictly literary medium, more attention should still be paid to the nature of stage image and masked acting as part of this conception.
Author : George Chapman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015091105877
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Smithmark Publishers
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0765116928
"A collection of comedies written by William Shakespeare"--Provided by cataloger
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1808
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:228710572
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781645171867
Twelve of Shakespeare’s most profound and moving dramas in one elegant volume. William Shakespeare’s tragedies introduced the world to some of the most well-known characters in literature, including Romeo, Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, King Lear, and Othello. This handsome Word Cloud volume includes all twelve works from the First Folio that are commonly classified as tragedies—but the feelings that Shakespeare’s words can evoke range across the spectrum of human emotion.
Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781786826923
In Brixton, Nora and Dora Chance – twin chorus girls born and bred south of the river – are celebrating their 75th birthday. Over the river in Chelsea, their father and greatest actor of his generation Melchior Hazard turns 100 on the same day. As does his twin brother Peregrine. If, in fact, he's still alive. And if, in truth, Melchior is their real father after all... Wise Children is adapted for the stage from Angela Carter's last novel about a theatrical family living in South London. It centres around twin chorus girls, Nora and Dora Chance, whose lives are brimming with mystery, illegitimacy and scandal. Dora narrates the story as her older self, looking back on a tumultuous life, throughout which she and her sister have loved to sing and dance. A big, bawdy tangle of theatrical joy and heartbreak, Wise Children is a celebration of show business, family, forgiveness and hope. Expect show girls and Shakespeare, sex and scandal, music, mischief and mistaken identity – and butterflies by the thousand.
Author : Vickie B. Sullivan
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300087977
The Italian statesman and political theorist Niccolo Machiavelli wrote not only political tracts but also comedies, poems, fables and letters that are seemingly lighthearted. The contributors to this volume explore the meanings of his works.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044090269820
Author : Susan Snyder
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780691196619
Comic elements in Shakespeare's tragedies have often been noted, but while most critics have tended to concentrate on humorous interludes or on a single play, Susan Snyder seeks a more comprehensive understanding of how Shakespeare used the conventions, structures, and assumptions of comedy in his tragic writing. She argues that Shakespeare's early mastery of romantic comedy deeply influenced his tragedies both in dramaturgy and in the expression and development of his tragic vision. From this perspective she sheds new light on Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, and King Lear. The author shows Shakespeare's tragic vision evolving as he moves through three possibilities: comedy and tragedy functioning first as polar opposites, later as two sides of the same coin, and finally as two elements in a single compound. In the four plays examined here, Professor Snyder finds that traditional comic structures and assumptions operate in several ways to shape the tragedy: they set up expectations which when proven false reinforce the movement into tragic inevitability; they underline tragic awareness by a pointed irrelevance; they establish a point of departure for tragedy when comedy's happy assumptions reveal their paradoxical "shadow" side; and they become part of the tragedy itself when the comic elements threaten the tragic hero with insignificance and absurdity. Susan Snyder is Professor of English at Swarthmore College. Originally published in 1979. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.