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  • Genesis of the Shakespearean Works
    Peter D Matthews
    This book is the result of fourteen years research scrutinizing thousands of historical documents. Dr Matthews reveals never before seen facts regarding the earliest quartos and the first folio – even new research into the leather cover of the Bodleian first folio and how that particular copy came into the possession of the Turbutt family.Dr Matthews has forensically dated the ...
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    77,90 €

  • Shakespeare’s Compassion
    Anne Sophie Refskou
    This bookshows that Shakespeare’s dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, stages a conflicted emotion available to be solicited, manipulated and at times even monopolized as a discursive vehicle for the exclusion of others.Drawing on the history of emotions and on Shakespearean classical studies, Anne Sophie Refskou argues both that Shakes...
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    51,25 €

  • A Memorable Honor
    Frank P. Prager
    William Shakespeare and Abraham Lincoln walk into a meeting . . .But what happens next is no joke. By following the wisdom and example of these two visionaries, any leader can embody the honor, persuasion, and high-stakes art of leadership.In A Memorable Honor, veteran business executive Frank P. Prager examines how Shakespeare’s over-four-hundred-year-old texts hold the key to...
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    16,11 €

  • Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare’s Macbeth
    David J. Baker
    Shakespeare’s Macbeth combines the themes of ambition, assassination, guilt, and the supernatural in ways that continue to provoke questions about political legitimacy, the construction of national and personal identities, and the role of violence in defining masculinity.This insightful and informative volume will appeal to both seasoned Shakespeareans and beginning teachers. P...
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    39,52 €

  • Gulfs of Liquid Fire
    Kenneth K. C. Chan
    Othello is Shakespeare’s masterful psychological study on the genesis of malice and the creation of evil. While the play informs us how Iago, the arch-villain himself, reached his horrible level of depravity, the main focus is on Othello, a man who appears noble and just, with no inclination towards evil. In demonstrating how even Othello can be misled to the gruesome act of mu...
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    9,86 €

  • The Merchant of Venice
    Ian Mac
    250 multiple-choice questions on The Merchant of Venice, with a complete answer key and explanations. Fifty questions for each of the five acts, in the order the play unfolds - revise one act at a time, or test yourself on the whole play.What’s inside250 questions, divided 50 per actA separate Answer Key & Explanations section - every answer explained, not just marked, often wi...
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    16,31 €

  • Julius Caesar
    Ian Mac
    250 multiple-choice questions on Julius Caesar, with a complete answer key and explanations. Fifty questions for each of the five acts, in the order the play unfolds - revise one act at a time, or test yourself on the whole play.What’s inside250 questions, divided 50 per actA separate Answer Key & Explanations section - every answer explained, often with quotes, not just marked...
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    16,52 €

  • The Shakespeare Pre-Theatre Guide
    Ian Mac
    Curtain up in twenty minutes - and you can’t quite remember who Malvolio is, or why everyone is in a wood.Forty plays. Two facing pages each. Everything you need before the lights go down.Shakespeare’s plots were never meant to be a surprise. His first audiences already knew the stories, which is why he gives away the ending of Romeo and Juliet in the opening fourteen lines. Th...
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    12,25 €

  • Global King Lear
    Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Learwith a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe. By approaching Shakespeare’s great tragedy as a global phenomenon its signature themes become context-dependent and culture-specific whilst avoiding simplistic appeals to the play’s universality. International scholars of literature...
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    51,06 €

  • Atrocity and Early Modern Drama
    Extreme violence scarred the early modern period. Contemporary commentators grappled to find language to categorize the massacres, genocides, assassinations, enslavements, sacks, rapes, riots and regicides that characterized the period. Some used ’outrages’, others ’cruelties’, but, significantly, the term ’atrocity’ that we use today gained the most currency.Atrocity and Early...
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    50,81 €

  • Shakespeare and Seriality
    Encompassing a wide variety of genres, media and art forms across a broad historical scope, this open access book identifies central strategies of serialization in Shakespeare’s plays and their adaptations. Beginning with an introduction that theorizes the method of reading Shakespeare serially on page, stage and screen, the first section investigates Shakespeare himself as a s...
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    51,00 €

  • The Winter’s Tale
    An international group of scholars reappraise The Winter’s Tale through a series of research essays covering performance history, critical history, and new interpretations. Navigating the play’s fluctuating genre conventions, onstage spectacle and leaps across time, scholars consider how eco-materiality, radical hospitality, childhood, gender, and critical race studies shape co...
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    50,85 €

  • When Billy Met Alasdair and The Red Hourglass
    Alan Bissett
    When Billy Met Alasdair and The Red Hourglass bring together two vivid, inventive solo plays by acclaimed Scottish writer and performer Alan Bissett. In When Billy Met Alasdair, Billy Connolly’s 60th birthday party in Los Angeles becomes the starting point for a journey back to Glasgow in 1981, and the launch of Alasdair Gray’s landmark novel LANARK. Moving between Connolly’s ...
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    12,46 €

  • German Political Tragedy
    Ritchie Robertson
    German literature from roughly 1750 to 1850 has a tradition of tragic drama unmatched by any other literature in that period. To an extent seldom recognized, this drama engages with political themes. Robertson traces these themes back to the thought of Machiavelli, its reception, and its frequent distortion by subsequent theorists, especially in the early modern concept of ’rea...
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    23,96 €

  • Teatro 1. Teatro animal
    FRANCO VERDOIA
    LITERATURA - NOVEDADES - AUTORES-AS -> Marcia Gala - COLECCIONES -> Archipiélago caribe 10 ...
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    15,55 €

  • Grappling with the Merchant of Venice
    John Lutz / Peter Josyph
    The Merchant of Venice is both Shakespeare’s most controversial play and one of his most popular. But despite being written over 400 years ago, this work is not just a window into the ages of Elizabeth and James--it is also a compelling commentary on the ages we are now living through. Shakespeare’s capacity to critique unjust exercises of power and hierarchies based on class, ...
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    57,48 €

  • Macbeth
    Ian Mac
    250 multiple-choice questions on Macbeth, with a complete answer key and explanations. Fifty questions for each of the five acts, in the order the play unfolds - revise one act at a time, or test yourself on the whole play.Studying for GCSE English Literature? Macbeth is the most widely set Shakespeare play in England, and these questions are built for the kind of close recall ...
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    16,46 €

  • Shakespeare
    Bill D Vossler
    For 400 years the question, 'Did William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon write those now-44 plays that are attributed to him? Questions arose because despite literate letter-writing women in the plays, Shakespeare’s daughters were illiterate. Plus, after writing about 888,000 words for the plays, not a single handwritten word of Shakespeare has ever turned up. Only six signa...
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    15,84 €

  • Unspecified Complications
    Brian S Brijbag
    What does it mean to bury a god that was never God?Unspecified Complications is the official companion to Brian S. Brijbag’s play Funeral of god. More than a commentary, it is a guided exploration of the play’s symbols, structure, and philosophical foundations, examining how theatre can become a place to wrestle with belief, grief, ritual, and the stories we tell ourselves to s...
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    20,65 €

  • The Play within the Play
    William Shakespeare
    The Play within the Play is an adaptation of Hamlet by William Shakespeare. In this version (in two acts), the play has been shortened, the sets and cast simplified, and the scene order revised to some extent. Estimated running time is under two hours. The intent is to make it easier for small and community theaters to produce, and for modern audiences to enjoy, this fascinatin...
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    11,03 €

  • William Shakspere and Robert Greene THE EVIDENCE (Cram Edition)
    William Hall Chapman
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of William Shakspere and Robert Greene THE EVIDENCE pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'William Shakspere and Robert Greene: the evidence' by William Hall Chapman delves into one of the most persistent and intriguing debates in literary history: the authorship of...
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    20,16 €

  • Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 (Cram Edition)
    Arthur Acheson
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'Shakespeare’s Lost Years in London, 1586-1592' by Arthur Acheson delves into a fascinating period in the life of the world’s most celebrated playwright. This meticulously researc...
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    26,22 €

  • Shakespeare’s Family
    C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Shakespeare’s family pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Delve into the fascinating history of William Shakespeare’s family with 'Shakespeare’s Family' by Mrs. C. C. Stopes. This meticulously researched biography explores the lineage of the Arden family and the...
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    26,94 €

  • The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor
    S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Step back in time with the May 1810 issue of 'Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor,' a fascinating periodical offering a glimpse into 19th-century theatre and drama. This meticulously ...
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    25,14 €

  • A Letter on Shakspere’s Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen
    Frederick James Furnivall / John Hill Burton / William Spalding
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Letter on Shakspere’s Authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Delve into the complex and enduring debate surrounding the authorship of 'The Two Noble Kinsmen' with William Spalding’s insightful analysis. This meticulously repub...
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    23,17 €

  • Tragedy (Cram Edition)
    Ashley Horace Thorndike
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Tragedy pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Ashley H. Thorndike’s 'Tragedy' delves into the rich history and enduring power of tragic drama, particularly within the English theatrical tradition. This meticulously prepared print edition offers a comprehensive ex...
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    27,86 €

  • The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare’s Youth
    Edward Viles / John active 1559-1577 Awdelay / Thomas active 1567 Harman
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare’s Youth pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'The Rogues and Vagabonds of Shakespeare’s Youth' unveils a fascinating glimpse into the Elizabethan underworld. This volume brings together the seminal works of John Awdeley ('...
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    23,07 €

  • Momus Triumphans
    David Stuart Rodes / Gerard Langbaine
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Momus Triumphans: or, the Plagiaries of the English Stage pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Dive into the vibrant world of 17th-century English drama with Gerard Langbaine’s 'Momus Triamphans: or, the Plagiaries of the English Stage.' This meticulously prepar...
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    25,21 €

  • Thomas Otway
    Roden Noel / Thomas Otway
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of Thomas Otway pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.Explore the powerful world of 17th-century English drama with 'Thomas Otway: The Best Plays of the Old Dramatists.' This collection showcases the enduring talent of Thomas Otway, a significant figure in Restorati...
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    31,75 €

  • A Book of Burlesque
    William Davenport Adams
    This XpressRead Cram Edition of A Book of Burlesque pairs the complete original text with carefully prepared study materials, designed for deeper engagement with this classic.'A Book of Burlesque: Sketches of English Stage Travestie and Parody' by William Davenport Adams offers a fascinating journey through the history of burlesque and parody in English theater. This meticulous...
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    25,21 €


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