Category: Shakespeare Studies

With his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T.S. Eliot, William Blake, and Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd has long been recognized as today's foremost practitioner of the literary biography. Now, in Shakespeare: The Biography, Ackroyd delivers his crowning achievement. Young Adult.
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Y is for Yorick: A Slightly Irreverent Shakespearean ABC Book for Grown-Ups

By: Adams, Jennifer

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Gibbs Smith : February 2011

Seller ID: 809431

ISBN-13: 9781423607540

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The perfect gift for Shakespeare fans, Y Is for Yorick is full of witty references to the Bard's unforgettable plots and characters. Readers will love perusing the cheeky illustrations and reading such entries as "J is for Juliet. Juliet teaches all young girls that if you truly love someone, wholly and completely, it will be the death of you."

Jennifer Adams works as a writer and editor in Salt Lake City, Utah. She is the author of Remarkably Jane: Notable Quotations on Jane Austen. Y Is for Yorick is her ninth book.

A witty A to Z for Shakespeare lovers.
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Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

By: Bate, Jonathan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: William Collins : September 2022

Seller ID: 759617

ISBN-13: 9780008167462

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shakespeare

By: Bevington, David

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell : October 2002

Seller ID: 515299

ISBN-13: 9780631227199

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

In this inspiring introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare, leading scholar, David Bevington, asks what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works.
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Hamlet: Poem Unlimited

By: Bloom, Harold

Price: $4.00

Seller ID: 540074

ISBN-13: 9781573222334

Binding: Hardcover

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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human

By: Bloom, Harold

Price: $7.50

Publisher: Riverhead Hardcover : October 1998

Seller ID: 776557

ISBN-13: 9781573221207

Binding: Hardcover

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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life's work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his passionate and convincing analysis of the way in which Shakespeare not merely represented human nature as we know it today, but actually created it: before Shakespeare, there was characterization; after Shakespeare, there was character, men and women with highly individual personalities -- Hamlet, Falstaff, Iago, Cleopatra, Macbeth, Rosalind, and Lear, among them. In making his argument, Bloom leads us through a brilliant and comprehensive read...
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Interpreting Shakespeare On Screen

By: Bradley, Hester

Price: $6.00

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan : September 2000

Seller ID: 515305

ISBN-13: 9780312233938

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This book explores Shakespeare films as interpretations of Shakespeare's plays as well as interpreting the place of Shakespeare on screen within the classroom and within the English curriculum. Shakespeare on screen is evaluated both in relation to the play texts and in relation to the realms of popular film culture. The book focuses on how Shakespeare is manipulated in film and television through the representation of violence, gender, sexuality, race and nationalism. Cartmell discusses a wide range of films, including Orson Welles' Othello (1952), Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing (19...
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A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism (Shakespeare : Text and Performance)

By: Brown, Richard Danson

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan : June 2000

Seller ID: 515308

ISBN-13: 9780312230401

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

This rich collection of critical and secondary material has been selected to assist in the study of Shakespeare's plays. It includes a selection of sources and analogues Shakespeare drew upon in writing nine of his major works as well as a variety of widely divergent critical interpretations of the plays over the last sixty years.
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)

By: Bryson, Bill

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Perennial : October 2008

Seller ID: 189300

ISBN-13: 9780061673696

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. His Shakespeare is like no one else's the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time."
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Wrinkled Deep in Time: Aging in Shakespeare

By: Charney, Maurice

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Columbia University Press : October 2009

Seller ID: 558495

ISBN-13: 9780231142304

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shakespeare was acutely aware of our intimate struggles with aging. His dramatic characters either prosper or suffer according to their relationship with maturity, and his sonnets eloquently explore time's ravaging effects. "Wrinkled deep in time" is how the queen describes herself in Antony and Cleopatra, and at the end of King Lear, there is a tragic sense that both the king and Gloucester have acquired a wisdom they otherwise lacked at the beginning of the play. Even Juliet matures considerably before she drinks Friar Lawrence's potion, and Macbeth and his wife prematurely grow old from the...
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Shakespeare's Dramatic Genres (Oxford Shakespeare Topics)

By: Danson, Lawrence

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : March 2000

Seller ID: 514221

ISBN-13: 9780198711728

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The history of genres, or kinds, of drama is one of contradictory traditions and complex cultural assumptions. The divisions established by the original edition of Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies (the First Folio, 1623) give shape to whole curricula; but, as Lawrence Danson reminds us in this lively book, there is nothing inevitable, and much unsatisfying, about that tripartite scheme. Yet students of Shakespeare cannot avoid thinking about questions of genre; often they are the unspoken reason why classrooms full of smart people fail to agree on basic interpretive...
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Rough Guide to Shakespeare: the plays, the poems, the life, with reviews of productions, CDs and movies

By: Disckson, Andrew

Price: $6.00

Seller ID: 531836

ISBN-13: 9781843535188

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Rough Guide to Shakespeare provides the perfect introduction across all media from the Elizabethan theatre to the modern multiplex. Designed to work equally well as a quick reference and a background companion, the book features full coverage of all 38 plays including a synopsis, character list, stage history and a full critical essay. There are guides to recommended texts, critical studies and further reading, reviews of the best films and audio recordings, and guidance on where to go next. The author provides fascinating features on such topics as swearing in Shakespeare, fools, cross-dr...
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Green Shakespeare: From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism (Accents on Shakespeare S.)

By: Egan, Gabriel

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Routledge : May 2006

Seller ID: 534326

ISBN-13: 9780415322966

Binding: Trade Paperback

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Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare's plays. Gabriel Egan's Green Shakespeare presents: an overview of the concept of ecocriticism detailed ecocritical readings of Henry V, Macbeth, As You Like It, Antony & Cleopatra, King Lear, Coriolanus, Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale and The Tempest analysis of themes such as nature and human society; food and biological nature; the supernatural and the weather a bold arg...
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Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year

By: Esiri, Allie

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Penguin Books : November 2020

Seller ID: 759460

ISBN-13: 9780143134374

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is not just for Christmas, but for all time. --Helena Bonham Carter A magnificent collection of 365 passages from Shakespeare's works, for the Shakespeare scholar and neophyte alike. Make Shakespeare a part of your daily routine with Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, a yearlong collection of passages from Shakespeare's greatest works. Drawing from the full spectrum of plays and sonnets to mark each day of the year, whether it's a scene from Hamlet to celebrate Christmas or a Sonnet in June to help you enjoy a summer's day. There are also passages to m...
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Shakespeare and Modern Culture

By: Garber, Marjorie

Price: $6.50

Publisher: : July 2014

Seller ID: 761426

ISBN-13: 9780307390967

Binding: Trade Paperback

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From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare. Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as naturally true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, from James Joyce's Ulysses to George W. Bush's reading list. From the persistence of diff...
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Shakespeare's Ghost Writers: Literature as uncanny causality

By: Garber, Marjorie

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Routledge : August 1997

Seller ID: 691324

ISBN-13: 9780415918695

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference (Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture, Series Number 4)

By: Gillies, John

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Cambridge University Press : June 1994

Seller ID: 536133

ISBN-13: 9780521458535

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Shakespeare's images of the exotic are shown to be firmly based on the margins of contemporary maps; and examination of the icons and emblems of maps raises questions about the mapmakers' overt intentions and instinctive assumptions, and reveals connections between the semiology of a map and that of the theater.
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Will in the World

By: Greenblatt, Stephe

Price: $5.00

Publisher: : May 2014

Seller ID: 746354

ISBN-13: 9780393327373

Binding: Trade Paperback

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A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? How did Shakespeare become Shakespeare? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world's greatest playwright. A Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award Finalist.
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Twentieth Century Interpretations of as You Like It; a Collection of Critical Essays

By: Halio, Jay L.

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Prentice Hall : January 1968

Seller ID: 554447

ISBN: B000FBSBPK

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: Shakespeare Studies