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This book presents a historical overview of two of Shakespeare's classical plays King John and Henry VIII in performance, recommends film versions, takes a detailed look at specific productions and includes interviews with three leading Directors

This book explores Britain from the perspective of Shakespeare's audience revealing how the significant issues of the day were explored at the playhouse through objects and quotations from Shakespeare's plays.

A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past. In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was where...

A brilliant account of 200 years of Tasmanian history and an acclaimed writer's discovery of his secret connection with that island and its past. In Tasmania on holiday, novelist and Chatwin biographer Nicholas Shakespeare discovered a house on a 9-mile beach and instantly decided this was whe...

John Bell on Shakespeare is a vivid, accessible, fascinating and vital book on Shakespeare that talks about his enduring relevance to our lives. Based on John Bell's fifty years' experience of reading, performing and directing Shakespeare

Demystifying and contextualizing Shakespeare for the 21st centry, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginning studients and an iinvaluable resource fro more sexperienced Shakespeareans.

Following the death of his parents in a car crash, eleven-year-old Alex Dove is torn from his life on a remote farm in Tasmania and sent to school in England. When he returns to Australia twelve years later, the timeless beauty of the land and his encounter with a young woman whose own life...

What would you do if you suddenly and unexpectedly inherited £17million? This is what happens to Andy Larkham, recently jilted lover, and resentfully underpaid publishing minion. Arriving late to the funeral of his favourite schoolteacher, he ends up in the wrong chapel with one other mourn...

This book explores the life of William Shakespeare, from his marriages and plays through to where and how he gets his inspiration.

This book is inspired by contemporary culture, journalism, and spam emails. Shakespeare's themes of fading beauty, posterity, immortality, and death find their modern-day responses in celebrity gossip, consumer products, vampirism, and the credit crunch

Theatre is practical, collaborative and commercial, and plays emerge from the historical, cultural and social influences of their birth. This book provides information on the theatre of Shakespeare's lifetime, but it also explores a wider context

Considering Shakespeare's tragedies chronologically, this book seeks to investigate such questions as What kind of figure is the tragic hero? Is there always such a figure? and What makes some plays more tragic than others?

This book includes an extensive performance history, while on-page commentary and notes explain language, word play, and staging. This entirely new edition uses modern day spelling to make readings smoother

From his book, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, comes Harold Bloom's commentary on the equivocal nature of Shakespeare's most troubling play, from the perspective of the early twenty-first century. We never will know Shakespeare's intentions, and yet few among us are able to...

This enthralling and splendidly illustrated book tells the story of Shakespeare's life, his writings, and his afterlife. Draws on the author's lifetime experience of studying, teaching, editing, and writing about Shakespeare.

The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all his life. This book is a distillation of that lifetime's thinking. The great English t...

This book takes a look at William Shakespeare. The Bard’s major tragedies are recognized as the supreme accomplishments of Western literature. This text offers criticism on Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.

Presents the life and works of Shakespeare. Includes activities to introduce Elizabethan times, including making costumes, making and using a quill pen, and binding a book by hand.

The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays? In this witty, iconoclastic book, the be...

From a Robert Frost poem on her debut album to the myth of Cassandra on The Tortured Poets Department, Taylor Swift’s lyrics are filled with literary connections. Make sure you're catching them all with this expert guide to the novels, poems, and plays that influence her song writing. Let a...