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Author: John O'Shea Publisher: iUniverse Star ISBN: 9781450239844 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
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In Kargil, Maine, Frank Dreavor, a town groundskeeper dies mysteriously, leaving no surviving family or heir. Tanner Cook is called in to clean up the Dreavor estate and while doing so discovers a path to the hidden first drafts of William Shakespeare's priceless manuscripts. Guided by secret clues he uncovers within Shakespeare's writings, Tanner follows a dangerous trail up the rocky coast of Maine, trying to outrun others hunting the treasure, some from around the globe some deadly violent. As he digs deeper into the truth behind the clues Shakespeare injected into his works, Tanner realizes that he has unwittingly immersed himself in an ongoing mystery that began in the Elizabethan Era. Within forty-eight harrowing hours, Tanner is betrayed, attacked, and left for dead while miles away his only brother suddenly disappears. Decoding the playwright's secrets and finding Shakespeare's original drafts become a matter of life or death. Not sure who to trust, Tanner races to save his life and the lives of those closest to him.
Author: John O'Shea Publisher: iUniverse Star ISBN: 9781450239844 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 308
Book Description
In Kargil, Maine, Frank Dreavor, a town groundskeeper dies mysteriously, leaving no surviving family or heir. Tanner Cook is called in to clean up the Dreavor estate and while doing so discovers a path to the hidden first drafts of William Shakespeare's priceless manuscripts. Guided by secret clues he uncovers within Shakespeare's writings, Tanner follows a dangerous trail up the rocky coast of Maine, trying to outrun others hunting the treasure, some from around the globe some deadly violent. As he digs deeper into the truth behind the clues Shakespeare injected into his works, Tanner realizes that he has unwittingly immersed himself in an ongoing mystery that began in the Elizabethan Era. Within forty-eight harrowing hours, Tanner is betrayed, attacked, and left for dead while miles away his only brother suddenly disappears. Decoding the playwright's secrets and finding Shakespeare's original drafts become a matter of life or death. Not sure who to trust, Tanner races to save his life and the lives of those closest to him.
Author: Linda Anderson Publisher: University of Delaware Press ISBN: 9780874133196 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 204
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This study demonstrates not only that the devices of revenge are structurally useful in comedy, but also that there is a consistent conception of revenge as an ethical social instrument in the comedies of Shakespeare.
Author: Marguerite A. Tassi Publisher: Susquehanna University Press ISBN: 1575911310 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 345
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Can there be a virtue in vengeance? Can revenge do ethical work? Can revenge be the obligation of women? This wide-ranging literary study looks at Shakespeare's women and finds bold answers to questions such as these. A surprising number of Shakespeare's female characters respond to moral outrages by expressing a strong desire for vengeance. This book's analysis of these characters and their circumstances offers incisive critical perceptions of feminine anger, ethics, and agency and challenges our assumptions about the role of gender in revenge. In this provocative book, Marguerite A. Tassi counters longstanding critical opinions on revenge: that it is the sole province of men in Western literature and culture, that it is a barbaric, morally depraved, irrational instinct, and that it is antithetical to justice. Countless examples have been mined from Shakespeare's dramas to reveal women's profound concerns with revenge and justice, honor and shame, crime and punishment. In placing the critical focus on avenging women, this book significantly redresses a gender imbalance in scholarly treatments of revenge, particularly in early modern literature.
Author: Ian Doescher Publisher: Quirk Books ISBN: 1594748217 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 169
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Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Bail Organa to Count Dooku. Something is rotten in the state of Coruscant! The schemes of Emperor Palpatine come to fruition as Padmé Amidala, Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda, and the other Jedi duel against the clone troopers of General Grievious and the nascent Empire. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy.
Author: Peter Lake Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300247818 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 239
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An illuminating account of how Shakespeare worked through the tensions of Queen Elizabeth's England in two canon-defining plays Conspiracies and revolts simmered beneath the surface of Queen Elizabeth's reign. England was riven with tensions created by religious conflict and the prospect of dynastic crisis and regime change. In this rich, incisive account, Peter Lake reveals how in Titus Andronicus and Hamlet Shakespeare worked through a range of Tudor anxieties, including concerns about the nature of justice, resistance, and salvation. In both Hamlet and Titus the princes are faced with successions forged under questionable circumstances and they each have a choice: whether or not to resort to political violence. The unfolding action, Lake argues, is best understood in terms of contemporary debates about the legitimacy of resistance and the relation between religion and politics. Relating the plays to their broader political and polemical contexts, Lake sheds light on the nature of revenge, resistance, and religion in post-Reformation England.
Author: Derek Dunne Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1137572876 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 239
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This book, the first to trace revenge tragedy's evolving dialogue with early modern law, draws on changing laws of evidence, food riots, piracy, and debates over royal prerogative. By taking the genre's legal potential seriously, it opens up the radical critique embedded in the revenge tragedies of Kyd, Shakespeare, Marston, Chettle and Middleton.
Author: Thomas Kyd Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141960469 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 826
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As the Elizabethan era gave way to the reign of James I, England grappled with corruption within the royal court and widespread religious anxiety. Dramatists responded with morally complex plays of dark wit and violent spectacle, exploring the nature of death, the abuse of power and vigilante justice. In Kyd's The Spanish Tragedy a father failed by the Spanish court seeks his own bloody retribution for his son's murder. Shakespeare's 1603 version of Hamlet creates an avenging Prince of unique psychological depth, while Chettle's The Tragedy of Hoffman is a fascinating reworking of Hamlet's themes, probably for a rival theatre company. In Marston's Antonio's Revenge, thwarted love leads inexorably to gory reprisals and in Middleton's The Revenger's Tragedy, malcontent Vindice unleashes an escalating orgy of mayhem on a debauched Duke for his bride's murder, in a ferocious satire reflecting the mounting disillusionment of the age. Emma Smith's introduction considers the political and religious climate behind the plays and the dramatic conventions within them. This edition includes a chronology, playwrights' biographies and suggestions for further reading.
Author: Ian Doescher Publisher: Quirk Books ISBN: 1594746559 Category : Performing Arts Languages : en Pages : 178
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The New York Times Best Seller Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2. Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.
Author: Andrew Dickson Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1681772647 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 828
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With full coverage of the thirty-nine Shakespearian plays (including a synopsis, full character list, stage history, and a critical essay for each), this comprehensive guide is both a quick reference and an in-depth background guide for theatre goers, students, film buffs, and lovers of literature. Along with an exploration of the Bard's sonnets and narrative poems, The Globe Guide to Shakespeare features fascinating accounts of Shakespeare's life and the Globe Theater itself, with colorful details about each play's original performance.This comprehensive guide includes up-to-date reviews of the best films and audio recordings of each play, from Laurence Olivier to Baz Luhrmann, Kozintsev to Kurosawa. The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is the quintessential celebration of all things Shakespearian.
Author: John O'Shea
Author: John O'Shea
Author: Linda Anderson
Author: Marguerite A. Tassi
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