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This volume gathers and annotates all of the Shakespeare criticism, including previously unpublished notes and lectures, by the maverick American intellectual Kenneth Burke (1897—1993). Burke's interpretations of Shakespeare have had an impressive influence on important lines of contemporary scholarship, playwrights and directors have been stirred by his dramaturgical investigations, and many readers outside academia have enjoyed his ingenious dissections...
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"One of Choice Reviews' Outstanding Academic Titles of 2018" Rhodri Lewis is Senior Research Scholar in English at Princeton University. He is the author of Language, Mind, and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke and William Petty on the Order of Nature.
An acclaimed new interpretation of Shakespeare's Hamlet
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language....
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Mimetic Depth in Hamlet reconstructs the theory of character and the perspectives on interpretation inherent in William Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet. More than 400 years after the play was written, its ideas are still novel, and they belong at the center of contemporary discussions about how human behavior and intelligence work. The book argues that Shakespeare had a conceptual understanding of the dynamics that govern his characters. This theme forms...
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Extrait: "Etre, ou ne pas être, c'est là la question. - Y a-t-il plus de noblesse d'âme à subir - la fronde et les flèches de la fortune outrageante, - ou bien à s'armer contre une mer de douleurs - et à l'arrêter par une révolte? Mourir... dormir, - rien de plus;... et dire que par ce sommeil nous mettons fin - aux maux du cœur et aux mille tortures naturelles - qui sont le legs de la chair: c'est là une terminaison - qu'on doit souhaiter...
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While the interplay of light and dark is familiar in literature, Shakespeare employed the contrast in remarkable ways, to describe atmosphere, emotions, and even transcendent states. Consider this scene from Romeo and Juliet, so widely, reproduced, one could be forgiven for skimming past it. However, slowing to take in the words, who could be unmoved?
But soft, what light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.
Arise,...
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A book about how Shakespeare became fascinated with the world, and how the world became fascinated with Shakespeare.
Ranging ambitiously across four continents and four hundred years, Worlds Elsewhere is an eye-opening account of how Shakespeare went global. Seizing inspiration from the playwright's own fascination with travel, foreignness, and distant worlds-worlds Shakespeare never himself explored-Andrew Dickson takes us on an extraordinary journey:...
287) Sejanus, His Fall
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"Sejanus: His Fall" by Ben Jonson portrays the downfall of Lucius Aelius Sejanus, a historical figure who rose to power as the commander of the Praetorian Guard in ancient Rome. The play explores themes of political ambition, corruption, and the dangers of seeking too much power. Sejanus conspires to overthrow Emperor Tiberius, but his ambitious plans unravel as his allies turn against him. The play serves as a cautionary tale about the consequences...
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Blood and Revenge-- Titus Andronicus is by far Shakespeare's most violent play. Set in the later days of the Roman empire it follows a fictional succession to the throne. The play follows Titus, a great Roman general, who is thrown into one bad situation after another. Much blood flows and a cycle of revenge ensues and tragedy abounds. Let not your sorrow die, though I am dead. Tut, I have done a thousand dreadful things As willingly as one would...
289) The Alchemist
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Benjamin Jonson (1572-1637) was a Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, known best for his satirical plays and lyric poems. He had a knack for absurdity and hypocrisy, a trait that made him immensely popular in the 17th century Renaissance period. However, his reputation diminished somewhat in the Romantic era, when he began to be unfairly compared to Shakespeare. The Theatre in London had had been denied to "The Admiral's Men" in 1597, but the troupe...
290) The tempest
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This bewitching play, Shakespeare's final work, articulates a wealth of the playwright's mature reflections on life and contains some of his most familiar and oft-quoted lines. The story concerns Miranda, a lovely young maiden, and Prospero, her philosophical old magician father, who dwell on an enchanted island, alone except for their servants - Ariel, an invisible sprite, and Caliban, a monstrous witch's son. Into their idyllic but isolated lives...
291) Twelfth Night Novel
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
292) The Rape of Lucrece
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Classic Books Library presents this new beautiful edition of William Shakespeare's narrative poem, "The Rape of Lucrece". This edition features a specially commissioned new biography of William Shakespeare. Set in Rome, the poem tells a tragic tale of lust, conquest, violence and politics. Collatine expresses his love for his wife Lucrece, to a fellow soldier, Tarquin. Hearing of her 'chastity', Tarquin is overcome with his desire to alter this and...
293) Elinor & Shakespeare
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The great American scholar Harold Bloom, in his study of Shakespeare, offered that Shakespeare did not just write some of the greatest plays and characters of all time, but that Shakespeare created a new human being, one that had not existed before, and which we have all become - modern man. This is the story of how it might have felt to be with Shakespeare in 1593 when the plague had closed the London theatres and he headed north with a company of...
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Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert.
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Coriolanus / Coriolanus
Julius Cäsar / Julius Caesar
Antonius und Cleopatra / Antony and Cleopatra
König Johann / King John
König Richard II. / Richard II
König Heinrich IV. / King Henry IV
König Heinrich...
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Dieses eBook wurde mit einem funktionalen Layout erstellt und sorgfältig formatiert. Die Ausgabe ist mit interaktiven Inhalt und Begleitinformationen versehen, einfach zu navigieren und gut gegliedert.
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Die Komödie der Irrungen / The Comedy Of Errors
Verlorene Liebesmüh / Love's Labour's Lost
Der Widerspenstigen Zähmung / The Taming Of The Shrew
Zwei Herren aus Verona / The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Ein Sommernachtstraum...
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"Winner of the 1961 George Jean Nathan Award for Drama Criticism" C. L. Barber was a fellow of the Folger Shakespeare Library and a world-renowned Shakespeare scholar. His books include The Whole Journey: Shakespeare's Power of Development and Creating Elizabethan Tragedy: The Theater of Marlowe and Kyd.
In this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are...
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ResumenExpress presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura Macbeth, una de las grandes tragedias del genio William Shakespeare. La obra cuenta cómo el personaje epónimo, influido por su mujer y la profecía de tres brujas, asesina al rey para ocupar su lugar. Inspirada en fuentes históricas, cuestiona al poder poniendo en escena el destino trágico de un hombre y de una mujer que se sumen en la locura.
¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir todo el...
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First published in 1861, "Shakespeare: His Birthplace and its Neighbourhood" contains a detailed history of the English town Stratford-upon-Avon and its surrounding areas by John R. Wise. John Richard de Capel Wise (1883 - 1890) was an English writer, journalist, and editor. Other notable works by this author include: "The First of May: A Fairy Masque" (1881), "The New Forest: its History and its Scenery" (1862), and "Robin Hood, and other poems"...
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Gathered together for the first time, these three plays by Rowan Williams-known throughout the world not only as a religious leader and theologian but also as a poet and critic, explore the inner life of words and images.
Shakeshafte imagines an encounter between a young sixteenth century Englishman with a faintly familiar surname and an undercover Jesuit missionary. Two visions of how words change the world collide and converge and slip away again.
“The...
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The Chicago Shakespeare Theater is widely known for vibrant productions that reflect the Bard's genius for intricate storytelling, musicality of language, and depth of feeling for the human condition. Affectionately known to natives of the Windy City as "Chicago Shakes," this vanguard of Chicago's rich theatrical tradition celebrates its silver anniversary with this bracing collection of original essays by world-renowned scholars, directors, actors,...
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