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  • Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra
    James Norwood
    Having performed the role of Cleopatra on numerous occasions, Vanessa Redgrave delivered a lecture at the Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities in which she raised the following questions: 'Why was Antony and Cleopatra not performed in the author’s lifetime?' and 'What did Shakespeare have in mind when he was writing it?' This book seeks to respond to these questions throug...
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    39,22 €

  • Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure
    James Norwood
    Measure for Measure is one of the most unique plays in the Shakespearean canon. It was not until the second half of the twentieth century that the play’s themes about the uses and abuses of power began to be explored in productions. This brief study argues that the Shakespeare authorship question matters in understanding the play in its historical context at the court of Elizab...
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    26,74 €

  • Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well
    James Norwood
    All’s Well That Ends Well has baffled students, critics, and theater practitioners for centuries. But the confusing aspects of the play, both in its form and content, may be resolved when it is understood that the author was using the theater as a form of personal expression. This brief study will demonstrate how the Shakespeare authorship question matters when seeking to unloc...
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    28,43 €

  • Shakespeare’s Troilus and Cressida, All-Inclusive Satire
    James Norwood
    This brief monograph explores why the Shakespeare authorship question matters in the appreciation of the plays. First, a new understanding of a complex play like Troilus and Cressida emerges as the focus shifts to the court of Elizabeth I where the author was writing a social, political, and personal satire addressed to the power elite. Second, an understanding of the original ...
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    18,47 €

  • A New Way of Looking at Shakespeare’s Stagecraft & Other Essays
    James Norwood
    This collection of essays explores a wide range of topics demonstrating why the Shakespeare authorship question matters in the understanding and appreciation of the plays of Shakespeare. By shifting our focus away from the public theaters of London to the court of Queen Elizabeth, a new paradigm of Shakespeare’s stagecraft emerges. A comparative essay on Mark Twain and Shakespe...
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    21,66 €

  • Collected Historical Essays on Seldom Covered Topics
    James Norwood
    This volume includes 33 essays on a vast array of historical topics. Many of the issues are controversial and are rarely covered in mainstream discourse. In one set of essays, the historical truth about Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President Kennedy, will be disclosed after sixty years of silence on the part of the historians. In another essay, the facts about JFK...
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    33,87 €

  • Former People
    James Norwood
    This concise study posits that the Cold War defined the lives of John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev, and Lee Harvey Oswald. It also challenges longstanding interpretations of each of the three lives. Today, Khrushchev is a nearly forgotten historical figure, the arc of his colorful life neglected in Russia, rarely taught in American classrooms, and the subject of a relatively s...
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    23,85 €

  • Triple Threat
    James Norwood
    Between 1936 and 1963, Judy Garland performed in thirty-three major motion pictures. That period marked a sea change in American history in which the United States was transformed from a sovereign nation in relative isolation in the Western hemisphere to a superpower on the world stage. As the cinema was changing dramatically during that quarter of a century, Garland was succes...
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    17,48 €

  • Act I
    James Norwood
    An anthology of six short plays, suitable for any grade level including adaptations of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and A Christmas Carol. The anthology also includes three original plays. ...
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    14,05 €

  • Triumphs, Tragedies, and Tears
    James Van Norwood Ellis M. D. / James Van Norwood Ellis MD.
    Young Negro boy, what will you do when time makes you a man? Will you miss the mark or fight to hold your stance? Those words, stated by an eighth-grade history teacher, became the mantra for author James V. Ellis. In Triumphs, Tragedies, and Tears, part one of his memoirs, Ellis provides a full account of his life and career and highlights about his work-from growing up as a l...
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    14,26 €

  • Christ as Conqueror and Reconciler
    James E. Norwood
    This careful study provides a strong biblical basis for spiritual warfare that aims to deliver persons from bondage to evil forces, or beings. It shows the close relationship between the portrayal of Christ as Reconciler of hostile beings, or powers, in Colossians 1:19-20 and His depiction as Conqueror over them in Colossians 2:13-15. It examines each portrayal exegetically--se...
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    26,96 €