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Author: Jane Armstrong Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1408139170 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
An ideal reference companion for students and enthusiasts of Shakespeare, this informative and entertaining Miscellany gives a wealth of contextual and biographical information to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of his work. There is an entry for every play, summarising its plot and outlining its major characters and themes. Whether you need to know the plot of Cymbeline, the names of characters in As You Like It, or something about the actors Shakespeare wrote for, this book provides the perfect quick reference. If you need to know more about Shakespeare's life and times, details are given of the debates surrounding his identity and appearance, the known and fanciful facts of his life, the theatres in which he worked and the acting companies of which he was a member. The book is arranged thematically rather than alphabetically, with a full index making it easy to navigate if you want an answer to a particular question, or intriguing just to dip in and out of. The core topics covered are: Theatres and Players; Controversies; Shakespeare the Writer; Facts and Figures; Shakespeare and Language; Afterlife; Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays; A Biographical Chronology.
Author: Jane Armstrong Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1408139170 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 181
Book Description
An ideal reference companion for students and enthusiasts of Shakespeare, this informative and entertaining Miscellany gives a wealth of contextual and biographical information to enhance your understanding and enjoyment of his work. There is an entry for every play, summarising its plot and outlining its major characters and themes. Whether you need to know the plot of Cymbeline, the names of characters in As You Like It, or something about the actors Shakespeare wrote for, this book provides the perfect quick reference. If you need to know more about Shakespeare's life and times, details are given of the debates surrounding his identity and appearance, the known and fanciful facts of his life, the theatres in which he worked and the acting companies of which he was a member. The book is arranged thematically rather than alphabetically, with a full index making it easy to navigate if you want an answer to a particular question, or intriguing just to dip in and out of. The core topics covered are: Theatres and Players; Controversies; Shakespeare the Writer; Facts and Figures; Shakespeare and Language; Afterlife; Chronology of Shakespeare's Plays; A Biographical Chronology.
Author: Ben Crystal Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408164663 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 182
Book Description
Shakespearean author and actor Ben Crystal gives a unique introduction to Hamlet with guidance on what to think about before, during and after you see or study the play
Author: William Shakespeare Publisher: ISBN: Category : Arden of Feversham Languages : en Pages : 98
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A synopsis of the play Arden of Feversham (1592, etc.), descriptions of the persons concerned in the tragedy , a printed chap-book (ca. 1720, title page wanting), and other matter are included. Not apparently related to Arden are some extracts from Hamlet, three pages of extracts from Addison's Cato, and a chap-book story of Lord Cheyne and Lord Shorland (part of the Arden chap-book). The name of William Cook appears on the cover and twice inside, where the dates 1750 and 1751 are written. But on the verso of leaf 25 an account of Thomas Arden appears to be drawn from E. Jacob's reprint of the play (London, 1770), p. iv; and on the recto of leaf 25 the authorship of the play is attributed to Shakespeare, an attribution generally credited to Jacob (op.cit.).
Author: Paul Menzer Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1472576187 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 281
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Shakespeare's four-hundred-year performance history is full of anecdotes – ribald, trivial, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but loosely allegiant to fact. Such anecdotes are nevertheless a vital index to the ways that Shakespeare's plays have generated meaning across varied times and in varied places. Furthermore, particular plays have produced particular anecdotes – stories of a real skull in Hamlet, superstitions about the name Macbeth, toga troubles in Julius Caesar – and therefore express something embedded in the plays they attend. Anecdotes constitute then not just a vital component of a play's performance history but a form of vernacular criticism by the personnel most intimately involved in their production: actors. These anecdotes are therefore every bit as responsive to and expressive of a play's meanings across time as the equally rich history of Shakespearean criticism or indeed the very performances these anecdotes treat. Anecdotal Shakespeare provides a history of post-Renaissance Shakespeare and performance, one not based in fact but no less full of truth.
Author: Ben Crystal Publisher: A&C Black ISBN: 1408164639 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 119
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Shakespearean author and actor Ben Crystal gives a unique introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dream with guidance on what to think about before, during and after you see or study the play.
Author: Iain Spragg Publisher: Portico ISBN: 1911042394 Category : Drama Languages : en Pages : 301
Book Description
A fascinating playbill of stories from the weird and wonderful world of Shakespearean theatre through the centuries, including distinguished actors falling off stages, fluffed lines, performances in the dark, and why you must never, ever say the name of that Scottish play, especially if you are Peter O'Toole. Discover a wealth of Shakespearean shenanigans over the years, including the terrible behaviour of the groundlings at Shakespeare's Globe, how the 'rude mechanicals' in A Midsummer Night's Dream got recast as a bunch of ladies from the WI, and how Dame Maggie Smith got even with Sir Laurence Olivier. Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, this treasury of curious tales is a must-read for all Shakespeare lovers and theatre fans. Word count: 45,000
Author: Claire M. L. Bourne Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 1350128147 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 465
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Introduction. Shakespeare/Text / by Claire M.L. Bourne -- I. Inclusive/Exclusive. 1. Fair/Foul / by B.K. Adams (Arizona State University, USA) ; 2. Text/Paratext / by Hannah August (Massey University, New Zealand) ; 3. Public/Privae / by Elizabeth Zeman Kolkovich (Ohio State University, USA) ; 4. Edition/Translation / by Régis Augustus Barts Closel / (Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Brazil) ; 5. Canon/Apocrypha / by Aleida Auld (University of Geneva, Switzerland) -- II. Before/After. 6. Now/Then / by Andy Kesson (Independent Scholar, UK) ; 7. Miscellany/Sequence / by Megan Heffernan (DePaul University, USA) ; 8. Original/Copy / by Dianne Mitchell (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) ; 9. Source/Adaptation / by Sujata Iyengar (University of Georgia, USA) ; 10. Life/Afterlife / by Margaret Jane Kidnie (University of Western Ontario, Canada) -- III. Authorized/Unauthorized. 11. Book/Theatre / by Holger Schott Syme (University of Toronto, Canada) ; 12. Text-based/Concept-driven / by Katherine Steele Brokaw (University of California, Merced USA) ; 13. Sense/Nonsense / by Rebecca L. Fall (Independent Scholar, USA) ; 14. Fact/Fiction / by Adam G. Hooks (University of Iowa, USA) ; 15. Part/Whole / by Paul Salzman (La Trobe University, Australia) -- IV. Present/Absent. 16. Black/White / by Miles P. Grier (Queens College, City University of New York, USA) ; 17. Extant/Ephermeral / by Scott A. Trudell (University of Maryland, USA) ; 18. Lost/Found / by Misha Teramura (University of Toronto, Canada) ; 19. Paper/Ink / by Emma Depledge (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) ; 20. Material/Digital / by Zachary Lesser & Whitney Trettien (University of Pennsylvania, USA).
Author: David Crystal Publisher: Harry N. Abrams ISBN: 9781585677160 Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 228
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Presents miscellaneous facts about William Shakespeare's work and life, with insights into his plays and poems and the Elizabethan theatrical world in which he worked.
Author: Sophie Duncan Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0198790848 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
Sophie Duncan illuminates iconoclastic performances of Shakespeare's heroines in late Victorian theatre, through the celebrity, commentary, and careers of the actresses who played them. Duncan draws on a wealth of archival material to explore the vital ways in which fin-de-siecle Shakespeare and Victorian theatre culture conditioned each other.
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