Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN: 9780774711029
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Othello
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN: 9780774711029
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Shakespeare and Quotation
Author: Julie MaxwellPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107134242
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
Shakespeare is both the world's most quoted author and a frequent quoter himself. This volume unites these creative practices.
Othello
Author: William ShakespearePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and his trusted advisor Iago. Attesting to its enduring popularity, the play appeared in 7 editions between 1622 and 1705. Because of its varied themes -- racism, love, jealousy and betrayal -- it remains relevant to the present day and is often performed in professional and community theatres alike. The play has also been the basis for numerous operatic, film and literary adaptations. (From Wikipedia)(less)
Julius Caesar
Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Akasha Classics
ISBN: 9781603033794
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
What actions are justified when the fate of a nation hangs in the balance, and who can see the best path ahead? Julius Caesar has led Rome successfully in the war against Pompey and returns celebrated and beloved by the people. Yet in the senate fears intensify that his power may become supreme and threaten the welfare of the republic. A plot for his murder is hatched by Caius Cassius who persuades Marcus Brutus to support him. Though Brutus has doubts, he joins Cassius and helps organize a group of conspirators that assassinate Caesar on the Ides of March. But, what is the cost to a nation now erupting into civil war? A fascinating study of political power, the consequences of actions, the meaning of loyalty and the false motives that guide the actions of men, Julius Caesar is action packed theater at its finest.
Shakespeare the Boy
Author: William James RolfeShakespeare
Author: Harold BloomPublisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007292848
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.
Much Ado about Nothing; a Comedy in Five Acts... as Arranged for the Stage by Henry Irving, and Presented at the Lyceum Theatre on Wednesday, October 11th, 1882
Author: Irving, Henry, SirPublisher: London, Chiswick Press
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
A Collection of Familiar Quotations
Author: John BartlettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Quotations
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Closing of the American Mind
Author: Allan BloomPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439126267
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
The brilliant, controversial, bestselling critique of American culture that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times)—now featuring a new afterword by Andrew Ferguson in a twenty-fifth anniversary edition. In 1987, eminent political philosopher Allan Bloom published The Closing of the American Mind, an appraisal of contemporary America that “hits with the approximate force and effect of electroshock therapy” (The New York Times) and has not only been vindicated, but has also become more urgent today. In clear, spirited prose, Bloom argues that the social and political crises of contemporary America are part of a larger intellectual crisis: the result of a dangerous narrowing of curiosity and exploration by the university elites. Now, in this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, acclaimed author and journalist Andrew Ferguson contributes a new essay that describes why Bloom’s argument caused such a furor at publication and why our culture so deeply resists its truths today.
Everything I Never Told You
Author: Celeste NgPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143127551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • Winner of the Alex Award and the Massachusetts Book Award • Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, The Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, Grantland Booklist, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Shelf Awareness, Book Riot, School Library Journal, Bustle, and Time Our New York The acclaimed debut novel by the author of Little Fires Everywhere and Our Missing Hearts “A taut tale of ever deepening and quickening suspense.” —O, the Oprah Magazine “Explosive . . . Both a propulsive mystery and a profound examination of a mixed-race family.” —Entertainment Weekly “Lydia is dead. But they don’t know this yet.” So begins this exquisite novel about a Chinese American family living in 1970s small-town Ohio. Lydia is the favorite child of Marilyn and James Lee, and her parents are determined that she will fulfill the dreams they were unable to pursue. But when Lydia’s body is found in the local lake, the delicate balancing act that has been keeping the Lee family together is destroyed, tumbling them into chaos. A profoundly moving story of family, secrets, and longing, Everything I Never Told You is both a gripping page-turner and a sensitive family portrait, uncovering the ways in which mothers and daughters, fathers and sons, and husbands and wives struggle, all their lives, to understand one another.