Brush Up Your Shakespeare

Film: Sen noci svatojánské (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Animated, 1959

2012-01-20T00:11:00.000-08:00

Sen noci svatojánské

A Midsummer Night's Dream

In Czechoslovakian with English or Spanish Subtitles 

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Czech: Sen noci svatojánské) is a 1959 Czechoslovak animated puppet film directed by Jiří Trnka. It is based on the Shakespeare play of the same name. It was entered into the 1959 Cannes Film Festival.

This is a very beautiful and engaging film - Highly recommended.

Note: This is the original Czechoslovakian version.

The download includes subtitles in both English and Spanish.

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eBook: Brian Vickers - Counterfeiting Shakespeare - Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye

2012-01-15T11:59:00.000-08:00

Brian Vickers 

Counterfeiting Shakespeare 

Evidence, Authorship and John Ford's Funerall Elegye

2002 | PDF | 596 pages | 2 mb

Brian Vickers addresses the fundamental issues of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years Shakespeare's authorship has been claimed for two poems, the lyric "Shall I die?" and A Funerall Elegye. These attributions have been accepted into certain major editions of Shakespeare's works. Through a new examination of the evidence, Professor Vickers shows that neither poem has the stylistic and imaginative qualities we associate with Shakespeare. He identifies the poet and dramatist John Ford as the actual author of the Elegye.

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eBook: Alexander Welsh - Hamlet in His Modern Guises

2012-01-15T10:56:00.000-08:00

Alexander Welsh 

Hamlet in His Modern Guises
2001 | 190 pages | epub | 0,4 MB

Focusing on Shakespeare's Hamlet as foremost a study of grief, Alexander Welsh offers a powerful analysis of its protagonist as the archetype of the modern hero. For over two centuries writers and critics have viewed Hamlet's persona as a fascinating blend of self-consciousness, guilt, and wit. Yet in order to understand more deeply the modernity of this Shakespearean hero, Welsh first situates Hamlet within the context of family and mourning as it was presented in other revenge tragedies of Shakespeare's time. Revenge, he maintains, appears as a function of mourning rather than an end in itself. Welsh also reminds us that the mourning of a son for his father may not always be sincere. This book relates the problem of dubious mourning to Hamlet's ascendancy as an icon of Western culture, which began late in the eighteenth century, a time when the thinking of past generations--or fathers--represented to many an obstacle to human progress.

Welsh reveals how Hamlet inspired some of the greatest practitioners of modernity's quintessential literary form, the novel. Goethe's Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Scott's Redgauntlet, Dickens's Great Expectations, Melville's Pierre, and Joyce's Ulysses all enhance our understanding of the play while illustrating a trend in which Hamlet ultimately becomes a model of intense consciousness. Arguing that modern consciousness mourns for the past, even as it pretends to be free of it, Welsh offers a compelling explanation of why Hamlet remains marvelously attractive to this day.

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Biographical Drama: Will Shakespeare, Mini-Series Starring Tim Curry, 1978

2011-12-18T09:09:00.000-08:00

Will Shakespeare

Complete Series (1978) 

Language: English
AVI | XviD 985kbps | 512 x 384 25fps | MP3 128kbps | 2.34 GB
Genre: TV Show | Drama
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075526/

Although there have been countless adaptations of his plays, dramatizations of the life of William Shakespeare himself have been much rarer - not least because of the lack of concrete information about him. The most ambitious biographical portrait to date is this six-part television series by John Mortimer.

Complete Series: 6 Episodes -VHS Rip

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I've not had a chance to watch this yet, and it has mixed reviews on IMDB, so if anyone here watches it, please post a review in the comments.
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Documentary: PBS Frontline - Much Ado About Something - a brief overview of the Shakespeare authorship debate

2011-12-16T07:35:00.000-08:00

PBS Frontline - Much Ado About Something

01:25:53 | 600x444 | XviD - 907Kbps | 29.970fps | AC3 - 224Kbps | 700MB
Genre: Documentary
His name is synonymous with great literature, but was William Shakespeare really the greatest writer who ever lived? FRONTLINE explores the controversy over whether literary masterpieces attributed to Shakespeare were written by his contemporary, Christopher Marlowe, reportedly killed in a brawl in 1593. But some still insist he lived and continued to write under Shakespeare's name, in the biggest cover-up in literary history.

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Opera: Giuseppe Verdi: Macbeth, Thomas Schippers, 1964

2011-12-02T08:42:00.000-08:00

The legendary Italian baritone Giuseppe Taddei, born in Genoa on 26 June 1926, passed away in Rome on 2 June. Equally adept at singing dramatic and comic roles, especially in bel canto scores, Mr. Taddei was one of the finest Verdi singers of the Twentieth Century. His Metropolitan Opera début, in his calling-card role of Falstaff, came in 1985, nearly fifty years after Mr. Taddei's professional début. Mr. Taddei possessed one of the most beautiful natural baritone voices of the Twentieth Century, a voice preserved on many standard-setting recordings. Voix-des-arts.blogspot.com

Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth

Macbeth: Giuseppe Taddei
Lady: Birgit Nilsson
Banco: Giovanni Foiani
Macduff: Bruno Prevedi
Malcolm: Piero De Palma
Una dama: Dora Carral
Un medico: Giuseppe Morresi

Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Roma
Thomas Schippers 1964

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eBook: Shakespeare on the Double! Macbeth (Shakespeare on the Double!)

2011-11-29T14:22:00.000-08:00

Shakespeare on the Double! 

Macbeth 

178 Pages | PDF | 1.2 MB

No more "Double, double, toil and trouble?"

Now you can learn Shakespeare on the double!

Macbeth has all the ingredients of a modern day bestseller-greed, ambition, murder, mayhem, madness, politics, assassinations, hallucinations, prophecies, spells, and rebellion. Potions and emotions simmer. One betrayal leads to another. Now you can sit back and read Macbeth like the thriller it is! This modern, easy-to-understand translation makes reading it quick and painless. Other aids make following the action and grasping the meaning a snap:

* A brief synopsis of the plot and action
* A comprehensive character list that describes the characteristics, motivations, and actions of each major player
* A visual character map that shows the relationships of major characters
* A cycle-of-death graphic that pinpoints the sequence of deaths and includes who dies, how they die, and why
* Reflective questions that help you understand the themes of the play

Shakespeare on the Double! Macbeth lets you enjoy this classic play your way!

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eBook: Lynn Enterline - The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare

2011-11-27T11:55:00.000-08:00

Lynn Enterline 

The Rhetoric of the Body from Ovid to Shakespeare
286 pages | PDF | 1.1 MB

This persuasive book describes the complex, often violent connections between body and voice in Ovid's Metamorphoses and narrative, lyric and dramatic works by Petrarch, Marston and Shakespeare. Lynn Enterline analyzes what happens when Renaissance authors revisit Ovid's stories of violence and desire, paying close attention to the ways in which his subversive representations of gender, sexuality and the body influence later conceptions of the self and erotic life. This vividly original book makes a profound contribution to the study of Ovid's presence in Renaissance literature.

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eBook: Colin McGinn - Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays

2011-11-25T11:50:00.000-08:00

Colin McGinn 

Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays

240 pages | PDF | 1 MB

Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays––A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest.

In his brilliant commentary, McGinn explores Shakespeare's philosophy of life and illustrates how he was influenced, for example, by the essays of Montaigne that were translated into English while Shakespeare was writing. In addition to chapters on the great plays, there are also essays on Shakespeare and gender and his plays from the aspects of psychology, ethics, and tragedy.

As McGinn says about Shakespeare, "There is not a sentimental bone in his body. He has the curiosity of a scientist, the judgement of a philosopher, and the soul of a poet." McGinn relates the ideas in the plays to the later philosophers such as David Hume and the modern commentaries of critics such as Harold Bloom. The book is an exhilarating reading experience, especially at a time when a new audience has opened up for the greatest writer in English.

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eBook: Shakespeare In Parts by Simon Palfrey & Tiffany Stern

2011-11-23T11:20:00.000-08:00

Shakespeare In Parts 

by Simon Palfrey & Tiffany Stern

416 pages | PDF | 3.5 MB

A truly groundbreaking collaboration of original theatre history with exciting literary criticism, Shakespeare in Parts is the first book fully to explore the original form in which Shakespeare's drama overwhelmingly circulated. This was not the full play-text; it was not the public performance. It was the actor's part, consisting of the bare cues and speeches of each individual role. With group rehearsals rare or non-existent, the cued part alone had to furnish the actor with his character. But each such part-text was riddled with gaps and uncertainties. The actor knew what he was going to say, but not necessarily when, or why, or to whom; he may have known next to nothing of any other part. It demanded the most sensitive attention to the opportunities inscribed in the script, and to the ongoing dramatic moment. Here is where the young actor Shakespeare learnt his trade; here is where his imagination, verbal and technical, learnt to roam.

This is the story of Shakespeare in Parts. As Shakespeare developed his playwriting, the apparent limitations of the medium get transformed into expressive opportunities. Both cue and speech become promise-crammed repositories of meaning and movement, and of individually discoverable space and time. Writing always for the same core group of players, Shakespeare could take - and insist upon - unprecedented risks. The result is onstage drama of astonishing immediacy. Starting with a comprehensive history of the part in early modern theatre, Simon Palfrey and Tiffany Stern's mould-altering work of historical and imaginative recovery provides a unique keyhole onto hitherto forgotten practices and techniques. It not only discovers a newly active, choice-ridden actor, but a new Shakespeare.

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eBook: David Farley-Hills, Shakespeare And The Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606

2011-11-21T11:13:00.000-08:00

David Farley-Hills

Shakespeare And The Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606

PDF | 1.3 MB

David Farley-Hills argues that Shakespeare did not work in splendid isolation, but responded as any other playwright to the commercial and artistic pressures of his time. In this book he offers an interpretation of seven of Shakespeare's plays in the light of pressures exerted by his major contemporary rivals. The plays discussed are Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, All's Well That Ends Well, Othello, Measure for Measure, Timon of Athens, and King Lear.

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eBook: William Shakespeare - Macbeth (The New Cambridge Shakespeare)

2011-11-19T09:28:00.000-08:00

William Shakespeare - Macbeth 

(The New Cambridge Shakespeare)
Edited by A. R. Braunmuller
302 pages | PDF | 7.5 MB

This is the most extensively annotated edition of Macbeth currently available, offering a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays.

A full and accessible introduction studies the immediate theatrical and political contexts of Macbeth's composition, especially the Gunpowder Plot and the contemporary account of an early performance at the Globe. It treats such celebrated issues as whether the Witches compel Macbeth to murder; whether Lady Macbeth is herself in some sense a witch; whether Banquo is Macbeth's accomplice in crime; and what criticism is levelled against Macduff. A well-illustrated account of the play in performance examines several cinematic versions, such as those by Kurosawa and Roman Polanski, and other dramatic adaptations.

Several possible new sources are suggested, and the presence of Thomas Middleton's writing in the play is proposed. Appendixes contain additional text and accompanying music.

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eBook: William Shakespeare - Macbeth (Saddleback's Illustrated Classics)

2011-11-17T09:23:00.000-08:00

William Shakespeare - Macbeth 

(Saddleback's Illustrated Classics)
63 pages | PDF | 5,5 MB

This series features classic Shakespeare retold with graphic color illustrations. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original play.

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eBook: Macbeth - Saddleback Classics Edition

2011-11-15T09:16:00.000-08:00

William Shakespeare - Macbeth

Saddleback Classics | 88 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

Now you can reach today's adolescents with the universal messages of great literature. Presented in traditional play script format, each title features simplified language, easy-to-read type size, and strict adherence to the tone and integrity of the original play.

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Macbeth Study Guides

2011-11-13T20:49:00.000-08:00

This package contains:

CliffsNotes - Macbeth

CliffsComplete - Macbeth

Enotes Macbeth Study guide

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eBook: Andrew Hadfield - Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-162

2011-11-11T23:11:00.000-08:00

Andrew Hadfield

Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance, 1545-1625

2007 | PDF | 320 pages | 12,1 mb

What was the purpose of representing foreign lands for writers in the English Renaissance? This innovative and wide-ranging study argues that writers often used their works as vehicles to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics, particularly their own lack of representation in public institutions. Sometimes such analyses took the form of displaced allegories, whereby writers contrasted the advantages enjoyed, or disadvantages suffered, by foreign subjects with the political conditions of Tudor and Stuart England. Elsewhere, more often in explicitly colonial writings, authors meditated on the problems of government when faced with the possibly violent creation of a new society. If Venice was commonly held up as a beacon of republican liberty which England would do well to imitate, the fear of tyrannical Catholic Spain was ever present - inspiring and haunting much of the colonial literature from 1580 onwards. This stimulating book examines fictional and non-fictional writings, illustrating both the close connections between the two made by early modern readers and the problems involved in the usual assumption that we can make sense of the past with the categories available to us. Hadfield explores in his work representations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East, selecting pertinent examples rather than attempting to embrace a total coverage. He also offers fresh readings of Shakespeare, Marlowe, More, Lyly, Hakluyt, Harriot, Nashe, and others.

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eBook: Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth by Tom Stoppard

2011-11-09T20:33:00.000-08:00

Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth 

by Tom Stoppard

Stoppard's two-in-one play Dogg's Hamlet, Cahoot's Macbeth is a dazzling display of the Englishman's wit and linguistic ability. Dogg's Hamlet is a play about meaning and words and the possible lack of relation between the two. Perhaps a commentary on society in general or only an observation on criticism on the plays of Shakespeare, Dogg's presents a world in which people speak to each other and accomplish tasks, but without their vocabulary signifying the same thing. Stoppard cleverly uses this linguistic anomaly as a bridge to a unique adaptation on Hamlet, quickly turning his usual play on words to words on plays. Cahoot's Macbeth, in turn, consists of an underground performance of Macbeth, but where the outside world, ie the audience, is in fact part of the play and the struggle. An underground performance of Macbeth in Soviet territory prompts detectives to interfer in the shortened production, thus continuing the theme of the meaning of words in relation to Shakespeare and the events described. Macbeth is in fact a description of what is happening while it is happening because of the play. Again, Stoppard presents readers with a witty, comical, and smart piece.

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Ebook: David Crystal - Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment

2011-11-07T08:25:00.000-08:00

David Crystal 

Pronouncing Shakespeare: The Globe Experiment
2005 Pages: 206 | PDF | 1.03 MB

In his account of a theatrical and linguistic experiment, Crystal, author of the Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language, makes the story of a Globe Theatre production of Romeo and Juliet using Early Modern English both breezy and academically enthralling. For the 2004 production, the first in fifty years to employ language and pronunciation from Shakespeare's era, Crystal prepared the play's text and taught the cast how to speak as Shakespeare's original players are thought to have spoken. Crystal explains how he used Elizabethan spellings and clues within the script (line meter, rhyming schemes and sound patterns) to determine how words sounded in the sixteenth century, a question that vexed him throughout the play's production. Despite his dazzling linguistics accomplishments, Crystal writes in a down-to-earth manner, discussing his field and the production with a dry wit and true enthusiasm. American readers may have problems following the discussion of British regional accents, and, as with all theater books, the best writing cannot make up for the reader's inability to see (and, particularly in this case, hear) the production. However, as a brief study of an intriguing experiment, this title will be as welcome to the theatrical and linguistic worlds as Crystal's earlier works.

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Ebook: Farah Karim-Cooper: Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama

2011-11-05T20:20:00.000-07:00

Farah Karim-Cooper 

Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama

2006 | PDF | 232 pages | 10.2 MB

Farah Karim-Cooper examines women's cosmetic practices and the staging of painted beauty in Shakespearean and Renaissance drama. The only in-depth study of cosmetic culture and its visual representation on the Renaissance stage, this volume details the ingredients, methods, and materials used in manufacturing cosmetics, including numerous cosmetic recipes, and how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatize the cultural preoccupation with cosmetics. Karim-Cooper identifies a 'culture of cosmetics' and describes its visualization on the Renaissance stage. She also investigates cosmetic recipes and their relationship to drama and to the construction of early modern identities.

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Ebook: Beatrix Busse - Vocative Constructions In The Language of Shakespeare

2011-11-03T20:15:00.000-07:00

Beatrix Busse

Vocative Constructions In The Language of Shakespeare

PDF | 525 pages | 5.43 MB

This study investigates the functions, meanings, and varieties of forms of address in Shakespeare's dramatic work. New categories of Shakespearean vocatives are developed and the grammar of vocatives is investigated in, above, and below the clause, following morpho-syntactic, semantic, lexicographical, pragmatic, social and contextual criteria. Going beyond the conventional paradigm of power and solidarity and with recourse to Shakespearean drama as both text and performance, the study sees vocatives as foregrounded experiential, interpersonal and textual markers. Shakespeare's vocatives construe, both quantitatively and qualitatively, habitus and identity. They illustrate relationships or messages. They reflect Early Modern, Shakespearean, and intra- or inter-textual contexts. Theoretically and methodologically, the study is interdisciplinary. It draws on approaches from (historical) pragmatics, stylistics, Hallidayean grammar, corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics, socio-historical linguistics, sociology, and theatre semiotics. This study contributes, thus, not only to Shakespeare studies, but also to literary linguistics and literary criticism.

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eBook: Barry Edelstein - Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions

2011-11-01T20:07:00.000-07:00

Barry Edelstein Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions

edition: 2009 | PDF | 320 Pages | 1,4 Mb

William Shakespeare's plays and poetry make up a vast repository of wit and wisdom, of insight and passion. For the momentous events in our lives—the ones that call for some memorable remarks or a great toast—the Bard is the perfect speechwriter. On any occasion, chances are there's a Shakespeare quote that's fitting. The challenge, of course, is finding the right one.

Enter Barry Edelstein. One of the top Shakespeare directors and teachers in the country, he can help you pick the perfect "Bardism," pronounce it with style, and craft an elegant speech, talk, or missive around it.
Bardisms provides the best of Shakespeare's wisdom, with passages that mark the special times as well as the everyday:

Edelstein takes the reader step by step through each Shakespeare quote, providing eminently helpful tips for speaking the lines like a pro. The book is organized chronologically, covering all stages of life—from childbirth to commencement, marriage, the workplace, old age, and all the significant events in between.
Bardisms celebrates Shakespeare's genius with a wealth of fascinating tidbits about his life and times, his work and his art. Edelstein explores what it is about Shakespeare's writing that makes it so fitting for important moments: his perfect balance of wit and sentimentality; his boundless imagination; his ability to express emotion at its purest; and his talent for communicating a complex thought in vivid and energetic terms.
Most of all, Bardisms makes Shakespeare infinitely more accessible, lending a freshness and vitality to his writing and fostering a new appreciation for its usefulness in our lives. For anyone struggling to come up with the perfect words, in any situation, Bardisms is the ultimate resource.

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eBook: Macbeth - Manga Edition

2011-10-30T09:10:00.000-07:00

Macbeth - Manga Edition

By Adam Sexton, Eve Grandt, and Candice Chow

27.6 MB, pdf

Full of murderous action, Macbeth is ideal for manga.

Witches, ghosts, murders, battles, blood-if ever a Shakespeare play cried out for a manga version, Macbeth is it! The play regularly sells over 25,000 copies a year, and now manga fans can get caught up in the action as the Bard explores the social forces at work when men act against their better nature and the natural order of things.

Witches and prophesies. Fate and fortune. Murders and atrocities. Insomnia and insanity. Unchecked aspirations and even decapitation. Power-crazed and convinced of his own invincibility, Macbeth, the Scottish war hero, turns into a serial killer, annihilating anybody who gets in his way.

This fast-paced manga edition gets you quickly engrossed in Macbeth's blood-soaked path to power and Shakespeare's timeless themes.

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Comics: Shakespeare Mini-books

2011-10-28T11:07:00.000-07:00

Shakespeare Mini-books
Adapted by Jeannette Sanderson
PDF, 23MB

This is a very nice little book!

Kids print, cut, color, and assemble 20 page comic book adaptations of the following plays:

Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado About Nothing
Romeo & Juliet
The Tempest

Teachers can use this collection of eight mini-books to introduce students to Shakespeare’s timeless tales. The comic-book format makes the plays easy to read and is sure to engage students. Narratives are written in modern-day English, while the characters’ dialogues are kept in Shakespeare’s verse. Plays include Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, and The Tempest. For use with Grades 4-8.

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Film: Richard III (Silent, 1912)

2011-10-26T20:25:00.000-07:00

Richard III

(1912)

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0002461/
Info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_III_%281912_film%29

Director: André Calmettes, James Keane

Description:
This is the oldest surviving complete American feature film, which predates Birth of a Nation by a year. Frederick Warde, who plays Richard, would travel around the country showing the film (since there were but few copies), explain it, and offer question and answer sessions to the audience on both the film, Shakespeare, and the play.

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eBook: Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama By Peter Saccio

2011-10-25T18:52:00.000-07:00

Shakespeare's English Kings: 

History, Chronicle, and Drama
By Peter Saccio
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 2 edition | 2000 | 304 Pages | ISBN: 0195123190 | PDF | 13.24 MB

Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to the Richards, Edwards, Henrys, Warwicks and Norfolks who ruled and fought across Shakespeare's page and stage. Not only theater-goers and students, but today's film-goers who want to enrich their understanding of film adaptations of plays such as Richard III and Henry V will find this revised edition of Shakespeare's English Kings to be an essential companion.

Saccio's engaging narrative weaves together three threads: medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material, that history as understood by modern scholars, and the action of the plays themselves. Including a new preface, a revised further reading list, genealogical charts, an appendix of names and titles, and an index, the second edition of Shakespeare's English Kings offers excellent background reading for all of the ten history plays.

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eBook: Martin Blocksidge - Shakespeare in Education

2011-10-19T22:38:00.000-07:00

Martin Blocksidge

Shakespeare In Education

Continuum | 2005 | ISBN: 082648574X, 0826454348 | 336 pages | PDF | 6,7 MB

This collection of essays - written by experienced practitioners - seeks to define, or at least report on, the current position of Shakespeare in schools, colleges and other educational environments. Its primary purpose is to examine how, where and why Shakespeare manifests himself in the educational experience of school and college students today. The seven contributors address key topics such as making Shakespeare our contemporary, teaching Shakespeare at a comprehensive school and the work of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

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Ebook: Gabriel Egan - Shakespeare (Edinburgh Critical Guide)

2011-10-17T22:45:00.000-07:00

Gabriel Egan - Shakespeare

Edinburgh University Press | 2007 | ISBN: 074862371X, 0748623728 | Pages: 224 | PDF | 1.09 MB

This guide helps readers make sense of the most commonly taught writer in the world. One approach to Shakespeare is as a dramatist while another approach is to think of him as essentially a poetic writer. The tension between these two views is a theme in this book because it helps us to reflect upon changing literary and critical trends. This is primarily a book for readers of Shakespeare who most commonly experience Shakespeare-on-stage through imagined performances in their own heads.

The book starts with a brief explanation of how Shakespeare's writings have come down to us as a series of scripts for actors in the early modern theatre industry of London. The first half of the book then interrogates Shakespearean genres, while the second half examines different critical approaches to his plays via the four key issues of authorship, performance, identity and materialism. The book returns repeatedly to such questions as: 'what has changed since Shakespeare's time?', 'to what uses has Shakespeare been put?', and 'what value is in Shakespeare?' - questions that go to the heart of why we study Shakespeare.

Key Features

*A chronology of Shakespeare's career as an actor/dramatist that locates him within the theatre industry of his time.

*New readings of twelve plays that form a core of the Shakespeare canon: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Richard 2, Henry 5, Hamlet, Othello, All's Well that Ends Well, The Winter's Tale, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, and Timon of Athens.

*Critical analyses organized by genre (comedies, histories, tragedies, and romance) and by four key critical approaches: authorship, performance, identities, and materialism.

*An extensive resources section, including a glossary of the important critical terms that are often used in debates about Shakespeare.

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eBook: Peter Womack - English Renaissance Drama

2011-10-15T22:31:00.000-07:00

Peter Womack

English Renaissance Drama
Wiley-Blackwell | 2006 | ISBN: 063122629X | Pages: 336 | PDF | 1.01 MB

The book considers the London theatrical culture which took shape in the 1570s and came to an end in 1642.

* Places emphasis on those plays that are readily available in modern editions and can sometimes to be seen in modern productions, including Shakespeare.
* Provides students with the historical, literary and theatrical contexts they need to make sense of Renaissance drama.
* Includes a series of short biographies of playwrights during this period.
* Features close analyses of more than 20 plays, each of which draws attention to what makes a particular play interesting and identifies relevant critical questions.
* Examines early modern drama in terms of its characteristic actions, such as cuckolding, flattering, swaggering, going mad, and rising from the dead.

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Music and Spoken Word: Richard III, Macbeth, Major Barbara - Neville Marriner; John Gielgud

2011-10-13T13:33:00.000-07:00

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner.
Speaker: John Gielgud (1991)

The final volume in Chandos's brilliant series of Walton's film scores offers the world première recording of his music from Richard III (1955), the third entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespearean triptych. Though the music was always well-regarded as part of Olivier's classic film, arranger Christopher Palmer gives the score a fresh lease on life through a newly conceived, 10-movement scenario for orchestra. Adding immeasurably to the impact is the narration by John Gielgud, who presides over Walton's simultaneously heroic and introspective score in full command of his formidable vocal instrument. A brief, six-minute suite from Gielgud's wartime production of Macbeth is also impressive. Anticipating Walton's score for Henry V (1944), the suite features pseudo-Elizabethan dance music, a fanfare, and a haunting funeral march. Gabriel Pascal's Major Barbara (1941) was a caustic comedy starring Wendy Hiller, whose efforts to save souls in the Salvation army are upstaged by her money-wielding father (Robert Morley). Walton's music accentuates the film's heartfelt aspects, most notably in a Ravelian waltz for children. His grand choral work, Belshazzar's Feast, influences a key factory scene, while a gorgeous love theme underscores Hiller's romance with suitor Rex Harrison. By the time the grand finale is reached, every Waltonian is completely grateful for Palmer's efforts in realising this exemplary series.

Track List:
01. Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario - Prelude (3.11)
02. Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario - Coronation (5.09)
03. Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario - 'Now is the winter of our discontent' (4.14)
04. Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario - The Wooing (4.24)
05. Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario - The Prince of Wales (5.03)
06. Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario - Elegy (3.16)
07. Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario - The Princes in the Tower (2.30)
08. Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario - Nightmare (6.17)
09. Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario - Bosworth Field (5.20)
10. Richard III: A Shakespeare Scenario - Death of Richard and Finale (4.16)
11. Macbeth - Fanfare and March (5.53)
12. Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence for Orchestra - Titles (2.13)
13. Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence for Orchestra - Undershaft's Factory and his 'Garden Suburb' (3.17)
14. Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence for Orchestra - Love-scene (3.48)
15. Major Barbara: A Shavian Sequence for Orchestra - End Titles and Play-out (1.13)

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eBook: The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, Third Edition

2011-10-11T22:22:00.000-07:00

The Oxford Companion to American Theatre, 

Third Edition

Gerald Bordman, Thomas S. Hischak

Oxford University Press | English | 2004-05-06 | ISBN: 0195169867 | 696 pages | PDF | 66 MB

First published in 1984, Gerald Bordman's Oxford Companion to American Theatre is the standard one-volume source on our national theatre. Critics have hailed its 'wealth of authoritative information' (Back Stage), its 'fascinating picture of the volatile American stage' (The Guardian), and its 'well-chosen, illuminating facts' (Newsday). Now thoroughly revised, this distinguished volume once again provides an up-to-date guide to the American stage from its beginnings to the present. Completely updated by theater professor Thomas Hischak, the volume includes playwrights, plays, actors, directors, producers, songwriters, famous playhouses, dramatic movements, and much more. The book covers not only classic works (such as Death of a Salesman) but also many commercially successful plays (such as Getting Gertie's Garter), plus entries on foreign figures that have influenced our dramatic development (from Shakespeare to Beckett and Pinter). New entries include recent plays such as Angels in America and Six Degrees of Separation, performers such as Eric Bogosian and Bill Irwin, playwrights like David Henry Hwang and Wendy Wasserstein, and relevant developments and issues including AIDS in American theatre, theatrical producing by Disney, and the rise in solo performance. Accessible and authoritative, this valuable A-Z reference is ideal not only for students and scholars of theater, but everyone with a passion for the stage.

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eBook: Unto the Breach: Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage

2011-10-09T22:16:00.000-07:00

Unto The Breach: 

Martial Formations, Historical Trauma, and the Early Modern Stage

The Elizabethan theatrical repertory was enthralled with the era's martial discourses and beset by its blinding visions. In her richly historicized account of the theater's engagement with "modern" warfare, Patricia Cahill juxtaposes the new military technologies and new modes of martial abstraction with the performance of war-suffused dramas by Shakespeare, Marlowe, and their contemporaries. Equally important, she shows that even as early-modern playwrights engaged cutting-edge military practices, they routinely trafficked in phenomena resistant to the new rationalities, conjuring up a domain of eerie sounds, uncanny figures, and haunted temporalities.
By going beyond the usual protocols of historicist criticism and emphasizing the complex dynamics of theatrical modes of address, this wide-ranging study investigates the representation of early-modern war trauma and recovers for us a compelling sense of the intimate relationship between affect and intellect on the Renaissance stage. Intervening in ongoing conversations about the drama's role in shaping the cultural imaginary, Unto the Breach shows that, in an era of escalating militarization, England's first commercial theaters offered their audiences something of incalculable value--namely, a space for the performance and "working through" of what might otherwise remain psychically unbearable in war's violence.

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eBook: Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange And English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628

2011-10-07T10:10:00.000-07:00

Selfish Gifts: The Politics of Exchange And English Courtly Literature, 1580-1628 

By Alison V. Scott

The impact of any gift is heightened when it appears not to expect a counter-gift or a reward. Within the patronage systems of early modern England, the language of altruism, drawing upon Seneca's model of benefits, was a paradoxical but pivotal means of persuasion used by literary clients seeking recompense for their labors and by patrons seeking to present themselves as noble givers. "Selfish Gifts" investigates the relationship among gift-exchange practices, ideal cultural models of giving, and literary representations of gift giving at the late Elizabethan and early Stuart courts, demonstrating the centrality of gift-theory to the patronage literature and culture of the times. With a particular focus on the interplay between gender politics, power, and giving, the book offers new readings of canonical texts by Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne, and Daniel, and combines these with fresh work on lesser-read texts by canonical and non-canonical writers alike. Alison V. Scott teaches at Macquarie University.

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eBook: Samuel Weber - Theatricality as Medium

2011-10-05T22:04:00.000-07:00

Samuel Weber - Theatricality as Medium
Publisher: Fordham University Press | 2004-10-01 | ISBN: 0823224163 | PDF | 428 pages | 10.92 MB

Ever since Aristotle's Poetics, both the theory and the practice of theater have been governed by the assumption that it is a form of representation dominated by what Aristotle calls the "mythos," or the "plot." This conception of theater has subordinated characteristics related to the theatrical medium, such as the process and place of staging, to the demands of a unified narrative. This readable, thought-provoking, and multidisciplinary study explores theatrical writings that question this aesthetical-generic conception and seek instead to work with the medium of theatricality itself. Beginning with Plato, Samuel Weber tracks the uneasy relationships among theater, ethics, and philosophy through Aristotle, the major Greek tragedians, Shakespeare, Kierkegaard, Kafka, Freud, Benjamin, Artaud, and many others who develop alternatives to dominant narrative-aesthetic assumptions about the theatrical medium. His readings also interrogate the relation of theatricality to the introduction of electronic media. The result is to show that, far from breaking with the characteristics of live staged performance, the new media intensify ambivalences about place and identity already at work in theater since the Greeks. Praise for Samuel Weber: “What kind of questioning is primarily after something other than an answer that can be measured . . . in cognitive terms? Those interested in the links between modern philosophy nd media culture will be impressed by the unusual intellectual clarity and depth with which Weber formulates the . . . questions that constiture the true challenge to cultural studies today. . . . one of our most important cultural critics and thinkers”—MLN

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eBook: The Undergraduate's Companion to English Renaissance Writers and Their Web Sites

2011-10-03T21:59:00.000-07:00

The Undergraduate's Companion to English Renaissance Writers and Their Web Sites
Libraries Unlimited | 2004 | ISBN: 1591581400 | Pages: 160 | PDF | 1.81 MB

This latest addition to the Undergraduate Companion Series confirms that the literature of Renaissance England is alive and well in the new millennium, presenting undergraduate students with an abundance of important resources necessary for 21st-century literary research. The most authoritative, informative, and useful Web sites and print resources have been carefully selected to represent important writers of the English Renaissance, including figures in religion, philosophy, and political history who are not strictly literary, such as Thomas Hobbes and Queen Elizabeth I. In addition, this volume moves beyond the traditional canon, considering writers such as Aemilia Lanyer and Thomas Dekker alongside giants like Shakespeare, Milton, and Spenser. For each author you will find concise lists of the best Web sites and print resources, including biographies, criticisms, dictionaries, handbooks, indexes, concordances, journals, and bibliographies.

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eBook: Banned Plays - Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas by Dawn B. Sova

2011-10-01T21:43:00.000-07:00

Banned Plays: 

Censorship Histories of 125 Stage Dramas 

by Dawn B. Sova

Facts on File | 2004 | ISBN: 0816040184 | 416 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB

As public tastes change, so does the nature of popular drama. In the fifth century BC, Aristophanes's "Lysistrata" attracted censors for its themes of wifely rebellion and sex. From the 15th to the 18th centuries, plays were censored primarily for religious or political reasons. In the 19th century, social and sexual reasons for censorship emerged, and modern moralists have objected to works by such playwrights as Arthur Miller, Eugene O'Neill, and Lillian Hellman. This guide outlines the censorship history of 125 classic plays from ancient times to the present. Each entry presents the name(s) under which the play has appeared, the date it was produced and country of original production, a summary of the play, its censorship history, and suggestions for further reading. Among the works covered are: "Angels in America - Millennium Approaches" (Tony Kushner, 1991); "The Children's Hour" (Lillian Hellman, 1934); "An Enemy of the People" (Henrik Ibsen, 1882); "Henry IV" (William Shakespeare, 1597); "Jesus Christ, Superstar" (Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, 1973); "Oedipus Rex" (Sophocles, 460 BC); "Oh! Calcutta" (Kenneth Tynan, 1968); and "Salome" (Oscar Wilde, 1893).

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eBook: Roméo et Juliette (Romeo And Juliette in FRENCH)

2011-09-30T21:35:00.000-07:00

William Shakespeare - Roméo et Juliette

Romeo And Juliette en français

Music: Uri Caine Ensemble - The Othello Syndrome (2008) (Experimental Jazz)

2011-09-28T22:03:00.000-07:00

Uri Caine Ensemble - The Othello Syndrome (2008)
1 CD | Mp3 320 mbps | 174 Mb | Winter & Winter

Addressing the output of classical composers seems eventually to have become the dominant thrust of keyboardist Uri Caine's work. Schumann, Wagner, Bach, Beethoven and Mahler have fallen to sometimes radical re-posturing of their grand scores. Caine messes with the old assumed interpretations, deliberately distorting the usual expectations of performance by inserting elements of jazz, rock, funk, soul, blues, hip hop and electronica, always utilizing a cast of players from a broad range of backgrounds.

Now, it's a Verdi mash-up. Othello is similarly dissected, analyzed, reshuffled and responded to, making an opera that could possibly possess appeal among the united front of opera-loathers. The expected schizophrenic changes ensue, quite like a lyrically marshmallowed John Zorn. Or like a house-trained Frank Zappa. Or even like a Hal Willner project from Beyondsville. This work debuted at the 2003 Venice Biennale and was mostly recorded two years later, aside from the odd overdubbed drop-in.

Caine seeks grandiloquent melodrama one moment, komic kapering vaudeville the next. He preserves the pomp, but also sets off the pearl necklace detonators at the soiree. His vocalists arrive from diverse zones: Bunny Sigler (Philly soul on the Met stage), Dhafer Youssef (taking Moorish flight), Sadiq Bey (rap-poetic toughness), Josefine Lindstrand (ethereal balladry), Marco Paolini (Italian theatricality) and Julie Patton (cooled narration). Musicians include Ralph Alessi (trumpet), Zach Danziger (drums), Joyce Hammann (violin), Nguyen Le (guitar), Tim Lefebvre (bass), Stefano Bassanese and Bruno Fabrizio Sorba (electronics), although several more are on-hand for guest appearances. --All About Jazz

Uri Caine - Piano, keyboards
Ralph Alessi - Trumpet
Achille Succi - Clarinet
Chris Speed - Clarinet (9, 13)
Nguyên Lê - Guitar
Zach Danziger - Drums
Joyce Hammann - Violin
Jim Black - Drums (9, 13)
Tim Lefebvre - Bass and electric bass
John Hebert - Bass (9, 13)
Stefano Bassanese - Electronics
Brundo Fabrizio Sorba - Electronics
Bunny Sigler - Voice (1, 4, 7, 10, 15)
Dhafer Youssef - Voice (1, 14)
Josefine Lindstrand - Voice (4, 9, 13)
Marco Paolini - Voice (6, 8)
Julie Patton - Voice (4, 14)
Sadiq Bey - Voice (6, 12, 14)

1. Othello's Victory
2. Fire Song
3. Drinking Song
4. Love Duet with Othello and Desdemona
5. Introduction to Act II
6. Iago's Credo
7. She's the only one I love
8. Iago's Web
9. Desdemona's Lament
10. Am I a Fool?;
11. The Lion of Venice;
12. Othello's Confession;
13. The Willow Song/Ave Maria;
14. Murder;
15. The Death of Othello.

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eBook: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Saddleback's Illustrated Classics)

2011-09-23T00:04:00.000-07:00

A Midsummer Night's Dream 

(Saddleback's Illustrated Classics)

Saddleback Educational Publishing | 2007 | Pages: 64 | PDF | 5.74 MB

This series features classic tales retold with attractive color illustrations. Educatiors using the Dale-Chall vocabulary system adapted each title. Each 70 page, softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. Introduce literature to reluctant readers and motivate struggling readers. Students build confidence through reading practice. Motivation makes all the difference. What's more motivation then the expectation of success?

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Ballet: The Dream (Antoinette Sibley-Anthony Dowell, Royal Ballet 1964) A Midsummer Night's Dream

2011-09-21T22:59:00.000-07:00

The Dream 

Antoinette Sibley, Anthony Dowell, Royal Ballet 1964

The Dream
(Merle Park-Anthony Dowell, Royal Ballet 1964)
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The Dream, based on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream , is one of Frederick Ashton's most enchanting ballets. It was choreographed in 1964 as part of the national celebrations of Shakespeare's 400th birthday.

Ballet in one act with choreography and libretto by Ashton, music by Mendelssohn, scenery by Henry Bardon, and costumes by David Walker. Premiered 2 Apr. 1964 by the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden, London, with Sibley, Dowell, K. Martin, and A. Grant. It was created to mark Shakespeare's quatercentenary and broadly follows the plot of his A Midsummer Night's Dream.

As Titania and Oberon, Ashton chose two young dancers Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell. When they started rehearsals with the quarrel scene, they assumed they were playing two of the lovers and only learned later that they had the leading roles. Ashton concentrated on making the story clear and only toward the end of the rehearsal period did he work on the solos. It took him only three days to create one of his most beautiful pas de deux for the reconciliation of Oberon and Titania.

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eBook: A Midsummer Night's Dream - Saddleback Classics

2011-09-19T21:51:00.000-07:00

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Saddleback Classics

Saddleback Classics were expressly designed to welcome developing readers to the wondrous world of great literature. Each novel, complete in just 80 pages, has been painstakingly adapted to retain the integrity of the original work. Each provides the reader a sence of the author's style and an understanding of the novel's theme. The low reading level assures success and stimulates a desire for further reading. And it goes without saying that the beloved characters and ever popular plots of these masterpieces guarantee a high interest level!

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Opera: Benjamin Britten: A Midsummer Night's Dream, 2007,

2011-09-17T23:35:00.000-07:00

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976): A Midsummer Night's Dream - Richard Hickox - City of London Sinfonia
Opera | Contemporary | 2CD | EACRip | APE+LOG+CUE | Covers| 532MB
Label: Virgin | Year of release: 2007 | DDD

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Opera in three Acts
Libretto: From the play by Shakespeare adapted by Britten and Pears

Oberon: James Bowman
Tytania: Lillian Watson
Puck: Dexter Fletcher
Lysander: John Graham-Hall
Demetrius: Henry Herford
Hermia: Della Jones

City of London Sinfonia
Richard Hickox

Amazon review:

As soon as you hear the glissandi double basses at the opening of this opera you will enter the world of Titania and Oberon.Britten captures this other worldliness by making Oberon a counter-tenor,a vocal quality both strange and powerful in this magical world. Childrens voices add to the atmosphere of delicacy; Puck circles the world and Titania -a high lyric soprano idles away with some of the most heart moving arias.
Britten's use of a small orcheatra creates all the varied colour needed for the fairy world and that of the mechanicals.
Midsummer Night's Dream is one of the best 'stories' there is and in the hands of Britten becomes even more 'fantastic'.I can't recommend it highly enough to someone who has never tried a Britten opera...you will be amazed!

Tracklist:
Disc: 1
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Introduction: The wood, deepening twilight / Over hill, over dale
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Oberon is passing fell and wrath
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Well, go thy way
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. How now my love?
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Be it on lion, bear, or wolf, or bull
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Welcome wanderer... I know a bank
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Is all our company here?
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Fair love, you faint with wand'ring in the wood
9. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Through the forest have I gone
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Stay, though thou kill me, sweet Demetrius
11. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. Come, now a roundel and a fairy song
12. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. You spotted snakes with double tongue
13. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 1. What thou seest when thou dost wake
14. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Introduction: The wood
15. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Are we all met?
16. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. I see their knavery
17. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Be kind and courteous to this gentlemen
18. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Hail, mortal, hail!
19. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. I have a reas'nable good ear in music
20. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. How now, mad spirit?
Disc: 2
1. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Flower of this purple dye
2. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Puppet? Why, so?
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. This is thy negligence
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. Up and down, up and down
5. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 2. On the ground, sleep sound
6. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Introduction: The wood, early next morning / My gentle Robin, seest thou this
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Helena! Hermia! Demetrius! Lysander!
8. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. When my cue comes, call me
9. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Have you sent to Bottom's house?
10. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Now, fair Hippolyta
11. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. If we offend, it is with our good will
12. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Gentles, perchance you wonder at this show
13. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. In this same interlude it doth befall
14. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. O grim-look'd night, O night with hue so black
15. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. O Wall, full often hast thou heard my moans
16. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. You ladies, you whose gentle hearts do fear
17. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. This lanthorn doth the hornèd moon present
18. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Sweet Moon, I thank thee for thy sunny beams
19. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Come, your Bergomask
20. A Midsummer Night's Dream, opera, Op. 64: Act 3. Now the hungry lion roars

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eBook: Shakespeare on the Double! A Midsummer Night's Dream

2011-09-15T23:27:00.000-07:00

Shakespeare on the Double! 

A Midsummer Night's Dream

End your struggle with the Bard’s prose and appreciate his comedy about the trials and tribulations of love. Shakespeare on the Double! A Midsummer Night’s Dream includes an easy-to-understand modern English translation alongside the original Shakespearian text so that you can read only the translation, read the translation with the original text, or tackle the original text, referring only to the translation when you’re stumped. A comprehensive character list describes the traits of each major character, a visual map depicts relationships, and review questions reinforce important information so you won’t miss the action.

In this light-hearted comedy, some characters are heavy-hearted due to love's trials and tribulations. An elopement, a betrayal, narrowly averted fights, powerful love potions, and mischievous fairies contribute to the chaos, and much of the action takes place in a magical forest. With this modern, easy-to-understand translation, you won't lose any sleep struggling to decipher A Midsummer Night's Dream. Special aids make following the action and grasping the meaning a snap:

A brief synopsis of the plot and action
A comprehensive character list that describes the characteristics, motivations, and actions of each major player
A visual character map that shows the relationships of major characters
A cycle-of-love graphic that helps you follow who loves whom
Reflective questions that help you understand the themes of the play

PDF, 1.1MB
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eBook: A Midsummer Night's Dream - CliffsNotes

2011-09-13T23:21:00.000-07:00

A Midsummer Night's Dream - CliffsNotes

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer a look into critical elements and ideas within classic works of literature.

In CliffsNotes on A Midsummer Night's Dream, you dig into Shakespeare's entertaining story of young lovers as they're toyed with by mischievous forest sprites.

Shakespeare claimed to have written this romantic comedy to show that "love hath no law but its own." This study guide follows the action from scene to scene with commentaries that bring sense to the entertaining play, which is neither realistic nor tragic. Other features that help you figure out this important work include

    * Life and background of the author
    * Introduction to and synopsis of the play
    * Analysis of all the characters and a character map
    * Summaries of each of the five acts
    * A review section that tests your knowledge and suggests essay topics

Classic literature or modern-day treasure — you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.

PDF, .2MB
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Film: A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002)

2011-09-11T22:12:00.000-07:00

 A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002)

Well... it's a movie. And it's based on A Midsummer Night's Dream...

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0323248/

.avi, 700MB
Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/rBycMKJ/MidsummerRave(2002).part3.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/m9xEcjr/MidsummerRave(2002).part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/nFXjdVS/MidsummerRave(2002).part1.rar

eBook: A Midsummer Night's Dream (The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated Edition)

2011-09-09T21:05:00.000-07:00

A Midsummer Night's Dream 

(The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated Edition)
By William Shakespeare, Edited by R. A. Foakes

Cambridge University Press | Updated Edition | 2003 | 168 pages | siPDF | 5 MB

Professor Foakes offers a new perspective on Shakespeare's most popular comedy, and also a profound archetypal play.

The introduction describes the two main traditions in the stage history of A Midsummer Night's Dream, one emphasising charm and innocence, the other stressing darker suggestions of violence and sexuality, and relates them to similar traditions in critical interpretation, showing that both are necessary to a full understanding of the play.

Illustrations show the variety of ways in which the play has been staged, including Peter Brook's 1970 production. The editorial commentary is especially concerned to help the reader visualize the play in performance.

For this updated edition of A Midsummer Night's Dream the editor has added a new section to the Introduction which takes account of the number of important professional theatre performances since the famous Peter Brook production of 1970, and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which has appeared in recent years. The Reading List has also been revised and augmented.

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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VF8CJ0LN

Film: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

2011-09-07T22:04:00.000-07:00

 A Midsummer Night's Dream 

Directed by Max Reinhardt 

IMDB:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026714/

What?! James Cagney, Mickey Rooney & Dick Powell doing Shakespeare? Yes, indeed, and very well, too.

This is one of the most magical films of the 1930's. Warner Brothers lavished great care upon it and it glows like the moonlight in many of its most famous scenes.

The plot is a familiar one to all lovers of Shakespeare. Four desperate lovers steal away into the enchanted forest outside ancient Athens. There they are spied upon by the King of Fairies, Oberon, who is having domestic difficulties of his own with his fair Queen, Titania. Meanwhile, seven intellectually-challenged Athenian rustics have come to the same woods to practice a play they wish to perform at the nuptial celebrations of the local nobility. Puck, the fairy mischief-maker, has a ball causing difficulty for nearly everyone.

Hal Mohr, the Cinematographer, did a marvelous job. He makes you think he was filming by moonlight. For this film he was awarded the only Oscar ever won due to a write-in vote. The dreamy Mendelssohn music is also used to great effect.

The entire cast is excellent and the American accents of many of them does no injury to the Shakespearean verse. This was Olivia de Havilland's film debut and she is beautiful. Others include Ian Hunter, Joe E. Brown, Anita Louise, Victor Jory, Frank McHugh, Jean Muir, Hugh Herbert, Arthur Treacher & Billy Barty. Ross Alexander, groomed for stardom by Warners, had his best role here as one of the young lovers. Fame never smiled on him and two years later, relegated to minor films, he was to die a suicide.

AVI, 1.2GB
Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/FpApdHq/SHK-AMND1935.part1.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/dvwaNvf/SHK-AMND1935.part2.rar
http://www.fileserve.com/file/7xVckFa/SHK-AMND1935.part3.rar

A beautiful film; highly recommended

Music: The Oregon Trio - Music For A Midsummer Night's Dream

2011-09-05T20:52:00.000-07:00

The Oregon Trio 

Music For A Midsummer Night's Dream

A musical score created by The Oregon Trio for a production of the Shakespeare play by the Oregon Shakespeare Theater in Ashland, Oregon, in 1998.

Tracklisting:
01. Prologue (Towner) - 3:05
02. Puckish Business (Towner) - 1:26
03. Love in Idleness (Oregon) - 2:09
04. What Hempen Homespuns Have We Swaggering Here? (Towner) - 1:16
05. Titania's Lament (Gonzalez/Oregon) - 2:11
06. Oberon's Blessing (Towner) - 1:48
07. Bottom's Dream (Moore/Towner) - 1:17
08. Nightmare (Moore/Towner) - 2:28
09. Hermia's Galliard (Towner) - 2:18
10. SUITE: Spotted snakes, Thorny Hedgehogs - The Fairies Enter - Oberon's Wrath (Oregon) - 1:55
11. Music Box (Towner) - 1:11
12. The Ousel Cock (Moore) - 1:13
13. Now the Hungry Lion Roars (Moore) - 1:45
14. Pursue Me Not (Moore) - 0:31
15. Lord, What Fools these Mortals Be! (Oregon) - 1:10
16. The Moon Looks with a Water Eye (Moore/Towner) - 3:42
17. Serenade (Towner) - 2:31
18. Rehearsing for the Duke (Oregon) - 2:59
19. Spirit of Another Sort (McCandless) - 1:29
20. Oberon and Titania's Dance (Towner) - 1:47
21. Oberon's Blessing (Reprise) (Towner) - 1:53

320kbps, 98MB
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=VMB3K2PC

Thanks to our friends at AvaxHome for this share

Audio: Hamlet, read by Frank Muller

2011-09-04T11:28:00.000-07:00

Hamlet 

Read by Frank Muller
Recorded Books (1990), MP3, from 4 CD's (4 hours), 64 tracks, 80 kbps

In this unusual recording, the talented actor Frank Muller reads Shakespeare's complete work with all stage directions, in the tradition of actors/managers/authors auditioning plays for their companies. Muller's interpretation allows us to listen directly to the author's voice, without extraneous distractions. He brings to life the story of Hamlet, the complex tragic hero bent on avenging his father's murder yet racked by uncertainty brought on by the strength and eloquence of his own conscience.

Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/PHdf26K/SHK-HAML-rbaud.rar

Respect to our friends at The Pirate Bay for this.

Viva Le Pirate Bay

Audio Play: Hamlet, John Gielgud

2011-09-04T11:23:00.000-07:00

 Hamlet

John Gielgud

This outstanding historical recording made in 1941 for radio is widely regarded as one of the finest Hamlet performances ever, and one of John Gielgud's greatest moments. Though he went on to record it for commercial release, nothing matched this recording in the BBC studios, made before the days of editing.

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It's hard for any director to make HAMLET sound new, so Naxos has done the opposite: they've made it sound old. This is a remastered version of a 1948 performance with John Gielgud in the title role. Though the sound quality is better than you'd expect, some of the dramaturgy seems outdated now, and the actress playing Ophelia is noticeably weak. But Gielgud overpowers any shortcomings, demonstrating why he owned this role during his career and why all subsequent Hamlets try to measure up to him. In the music of his voice, all the play's famous soliloquies and witty exchanges that you've heard a dozen times before suddenly sound fresh, an ironic pleasure in a sixty-year-old recording.

ogg vorbis files, 90MB

Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/7NcvnpB/SHK-HamlGiel.rar

This share comes via our friends at Demonoid

eBook: A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Ben Greet Shakespeare For Young Readers

2011-09-03T22:37:00.000-07:00

A Midsummer Night's Dream 

The Ben Greet Shakespeare For Young Readers

An adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, published in 1912, with lovely illustrations by Arthur Rackham.

PDF, 3.8MB
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UF1PRNQ3

From The Internet Archive

eBook: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Made Easy Study Guides)

2011-09-01T22:30:00.000-07:00

A Midsummer Night's Dream 

(Shakespeare Made Easy Study Guides)

Tanya Grosz, Linda Wendler

PDF | 51 pages | 2.24 MB

These guides support and extend the struggling reader's introduction to great literature. Each easy-to-use guide contains 11 strategically targeted reproducible exercises to maximize vocabulary development and comprehension skills. The guide also includes helpful suggestions for adapting the program to meet specific needs of ELL, LD and adult students.

Download:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NQHS6VQ9

eBook: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

2011-08-30T22:25:00.000-07:00

 A Midsummer Night's Dream 

(Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations)

by Harold Bloom

This invaluable new literary reference presents a selection of the best contemporary criticism of one of Shakespeare's greatest plays, introduced by an essay from esteemed scholar Harold Bloom and featuring a bibliography, index, and chronology of the Bard's life.

PDF, 2MB
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http://www.megaupload.com/?d=LWK7IOWU

eBook: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Classics Illustrated Comic Book 1951

2011-08-28T22:23:00.000-07:00

A Midsummer Night's Dream

Comic Book 

Classics Illustrated were comic book adaptations from classic literature. This is a very cool comic book adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream, published in 1951. It is in cbr format, a popular format for digital comic books; you may need to install a freeware reader to view .cbr files.

More info on CBR files here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comic_Book_Archive_file

We use this CBR reader::
http://download.cnet.com/CDisplay-Image-Display/3000-18488_4-10162238.html

cbr, 13.3MB
Download:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=WDAHOAPP

Audio: John Gielgud - Ages Of Man (1966)

2011-08-25T09:10:00.000-07:00

John Gielgud - Ages Of Man

Sir John Gielgud performing soliloquies and sonnets from Shakespeare.

Online review:

No one, but no one, could recite Shakespearean verse with greater taste, verve, intelligibility, and sheer beauty than Sir John Gielgud. [This is the] original Columbia Masterworks LP of the 1960s; OP for years. It's a specially produced condensation of Gielgud's late-'50s/early-'60s recital tour: There is no narration beyond the performer's own brief introductions and no musical interludes--and none is needed, since Sir John's voice was one of the twentieth century's most remarkable musical instruments. His recitation of the Bard's gems (including soliloquies from "Richard II," "Hamlet," and some sonnets) are crystalline: if you fear being unable to follow the verse, Gielgud will soothe and occasionally ratchet you into understanding. An indispensable addition to any Shakespearean collection or library of spoken poetry.

This LP is a condensed version that is also available on DVD, info here. Per visitor request, if anyone has links for the video version, please post them in the comments - I'd love to see it too.

MP3, LP rip, 320kbps, runs 44 minutes, 101MB
Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/GACbf4p/SHK-GielgudAges.rar

Found at this super-terrific blog, thanks Tardy Music for sharing!

eBook: Much Ado About Nothing (Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

2011-08-23T22:23:00.000-07:00

Much Ado About Nothing

(Webster's Thesaurus Edition)

by William Shakespeare

There are many editions of Much Ado About Nothing. This educational edition was created for self-improvement or in preparation for advanced examinations. The bottom of each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text, including synonyms and antonyms. Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings. A running thesaurus at the bottom of each page is useful to students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®), GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations. This edition exposes the reader to a maximum number of “difficult, and often encountered” words in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages.

PDF , 1,4 MB
Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/R3epBJa/SHK-MuchAdoTE.rar

eBook: Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare by Bruce W. Young

2011-08-22T22:28:00.000-07:00

Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare

Bruce W. Young

From the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet to Othello's misguided murder of Desdemona to the betrayal of King Lear by his daughters, family life is central to Shakespeare's dramas. This book helps students learn about family life in Shakespeare's England and in his plays. The book begins with an overview of the roots of Renaissance family life in the classical era and Middle Ages. This is followed by an extended consideration of family life in Elizabethan England. The book then explores how Shakespeare treats family life in his plays. Later chapters then examine how productions of his plays have treated scenes related to family life, and how scholars and critics have responded to family life in his works. The volume closes with a bibliography of print and electronic resources.

The volume begins with a look at the classical and medieval background of family life in the Early Modern era. This is followed by a sustained discussion of family life in Shakespeare's world. The book then examines issues related to family life across a broad range of Shakespeare's works. Later chapters then examine how productions of the plays have treated scenes concerning family life, and how scholars and critics have commented on family life in Shakespeare's writings. The volume closes with a bibliography of print and electronic resources for student research. Students of literature will value this book for its illumination of critical scenes in Shakespeare's works, while students in social studies and history courses will appreciate its use of Shakespeare to explore daily life in the Elizabethan age.

280 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB
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eBook: Much Ado About Nothing (The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated Edition)

2011-08-21T22:34:00.000-07:00

Much Ado About Nothing 

(The New Cambridge Shakespeare, Updated Edition)

Edited by F. H. Mares

Much Ado has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which the most famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of Elizabethan language.

For this updated edition Angela Stock has added a new section to the Introduction in which she reviews the romantic and the darker, more cynical aspects of the play in the light of late twentieth-century stage, film and critical interpretations. She also tackles the interesting question of Beatrice's proper age and the critical fortunes of Hero and Claudio in terms of the play's interest in sexuality and misogyny, eavesdropping and deception.

PDF | 7.2 MB
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http://www.fileserve.com/file/BbDYtZp/SHK-MuchAdoNew Cambridge.rar

eBook: Profiling Shakespeare By Marjorie Garber

2011-08-20T22:38:00.000-07:00

Profiling Shakespeare 

By Marjorie Garber 

The title of this collection, Profiling Shakespeare, is meant strongly in its double sense. These essays show the outline of a Shakespeare rather different from the man sought by biographers from his time to our own. They also show the effects, the ephemera, the clues and cues, welcome and unwelcome, out of which Shakespeare's admirers and dedicated scholars have pieced together a vision of the playwright, whether as sage, psychologist, lover, theatrical entrepreneur, or moral authority. This collection brings together classic pieces, hard-to-find chapters, and two new essays. Here, Garber has produced a book at once serious and highly readable, ranging broadly across time periods (early modern to postmodern) and touching upon both high and popular culture.

PDF | 2 MB
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Much Ado About Nothing (The Arden Shakespeare), 3rd Edition

2011-08-19T22:56:00.000-07:00

Much Ado About Nothing 

(The Arden Shakespeare), 3rd Edition
Edited by Claire McEachern

Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. It offers both the dancing wit of the "merry war" between the sexes, and a sobering vision of the costs of that combat for both men and women. Shakespeare dramatizes a social world in all of its vibrant particulars, in which characters are shaped by the relations between social convention and individual choice.

This edition of the play offers in its introduction and commentary an extensive discussion of the materials that informed Shakespeare's compositional choices, both those conventional sources and other contexts, from cuckold jokes to conduct books, which inform the ideas and identities of this play. Particular attention is devoted to Renaissance understandings of gender identity and social rank, as well as to the social valences of Shakespeare's stylistic choices. A treatment of staging possibilities offers illustrations drawn from the earliest and recent theatrical practices, and a critical history examines the fate of the play in the changing trends of academic scholarship.

PDF | 6.4 MB
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Introduction To Shakespeare in ARABIC

2011-08-18T23:01:00.000-07:00

William Shakespeare

Biography In Arabic

Originally printed in Lebanon. This appears to be a biography and introduction to the works of Shakespeare, aimed at younger readers. It is 56 pages and beautifully and lavishly illustrated.

DJVU format | 56 pages | 1.32 Mb
Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/WV6baVT/SHK-ShakesBioARABIC.rar

eBook: Shakespearean Summer Recipes by Alastair Williams

2011-08-17T23:22:00.000-07:00

 Shakespearean Summer Recipes 

by Alastair Williams

"There is nothing better than basking in the summer sun or relaxing on a long summer’s evening with delicious food and drink, whilst being serenaded by the Bard. Food, drink and Shakespeare go happily hand in hand, and there is no shortage of references to mankind’s favourite pastimes in his plays. A Midsummer Night’s Dream conjures up images of secluded lover’s picnics in forested glades, of dancing and merriment throughout balmy nights, and feasts of sweet and savoury delicacies fit for a (fairy) King. So, in summertime, and with Shakespeare’s blessing, “How shall we beguile/The lazy time if not with some delight?”"

Note: This is a nice idea, but the execution of this book is not the greatest, if you ask me. -64 pages, including a whole lot of blank pages for "Notes" and some quotations from A Midsummer Night's Dream. Worth a download if you really like cookbooks (I don't) or are really into Shakespeare (Bingo!)

PDF, 11.2 MB
Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/2sS5YBn/SHK-SummerRecipes.rar

Audio: Othello; Radio Show, 1953

2011-08-17T14:36:00.000-07:00

This is an adaption of Othello that originally aired on the American radio show "Suspense" in 1953. It runs just under an hour including the old commercial advertisements, and is a treat to listen to.

Cast:

Elliott Lewis as Othello

Cathy Lewis as Desdemona

Richard Widmark as Iago

Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/ndV97qW/SHK-OTR-OTHELL1953.rar

Film: Macbeth - Orson Welles, 1948 (Restored)

2011-08-15T13:59:00.000-07:00

Orson Welles

Format: avi, 700MB

This rip says it has dual audio tracks, but I could only play the English audio using Media Player Classic.

File includes optional Spanish subtitles.

IMDB:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040558/

Download:

http://www.fileserve.com/file/T7RQ4Pq/SHK-McBOrson.rar

eBook: Troilus and Cressida - Webster's Thesaurus Edition

2011-08-13T09:44:00.000-07:00

Troilus and Cressida (Webster's Thesaurus Edition) 

by William Shakespeare

There are many editions of Troilus and Cressida. This educational edition was created for self-improvement or in preparation for advanced examinations. The bottom of each page is annotated with a mini-thesaurus of uncommon words highlighted in the text, including synonyms and antonyms. Designed for school districts, educators, and students seeking to maximize performance on standardized tests, Webster’s paperbacks take advantage of the fact that classics are frequently assigned readings. A running thesaurus at the bottom of each page is useful to students who are actively building their vocabularies in anticipation of taking PSAT®, SAT®, AP® (Advanced Placement®), GRE®, LSAT®, GMAT® or similar examinations. This edition exposes the reader to a maximum number of “difficult, and often encountered” words in examinations. Rather than supply a single synonym, many are provided for a variety of meanings, allowing readers to better grasp the ambiguity of the English language, and avoid using the notes as a pure crutch. Having the reader decipher a word’s meaning within context serves to improve vocabulary retention and understanding. Each page covers words not already highlighted on previous pages.

PDF, 2MB
Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/M5NgV3j/SHK-ThesaurusTC.rar

eBook: Arden Dictionary Of Shakespeare Quotations

2011-08-11T22:22:00.000-07:00

Dictionary Of Shakespeare Quotations

Jane Armstrong
408 pages | PDF | 6 MB

In this enjoyable addition to the renowned Arden Shakespeare series, approximately 3000 quotations, both familiar and little-known, are drawn from throughout Shakespeare’s work, both plays and poems. Quotations are selected for their intrinsic interest and organized by topic, as being both user-friendly and stimulating for the casual reader, with speaker and play reference, and with some annotation to give a context to the quotation.

http://www.fileserve.com/file/r89jb59/SHK-ArdenDictQuot.rar
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Loris Tjeknavorian, London Symphony Orcestra - Othello

2011-08-10T18:28:00.000-07:00

 Loris Tjeknavorian, London Symphony Orcestra - Othello

Symphonic Suite from the ballet "Othello", op.31

Tracks:
Presentation of Iago's Character
Plotting Dance
Dialogue: Entry of Desdemona
Othello's Bravura Dance
Dialogue: Desdemona & Othello Pas de Deux
The Rage of Iago
Storm ~ Love Pas de Deux
Festive Dance
Dagger Dance
Othello's Rage
Jealousy Pas de Deux
Remorse of Othello
Finale: Deaths of Desdemona & Othello.

Download FLAC (247MB):
http://www.fileserve.com/file/7ePDvsP/SHK-OtelloSuiteFLAC.rar

Download 320 (118MB):
http://www.fileserve.com/file/s3tpc9a/SHK-OtelloSuite320.rar

Audio: From Shakespeare with Love - Sonnets

2011-08-07T21:58:00.000-07:00

From Shakespeare with Love
Audio

William Shakespeare’s ‘sugared sonnets’ circulated privately amongst his friends and colleagues for many years, but the public had to wait until their publication in 1609 to enjoy these masterpieces on every aspect of love. Whether it’s fidelity, obsession, jealousy or the love of friends, Shakespeare seems to know about it all. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of their publication, a rich variety of have been brought together to show the many different ways in which these sonnets can be interpreted.

The story: only days after finishing his widely-praised production of "Hamlet in the West End", David Tennant came into the Naxos AudioBooks studio to record some of Shakespeare's finest sonnets, including "Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?". He joined a strong cast of readers presenting some 70 sonnets in fresh performances to mark the 400th anniversary of the first publication of "The Sonnets" in 1609.

37MB, 96kbps, MP3
Download:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/nTGPZfa/SHK-AUDIOWithLove.rar

Ebbok: Michelle Ephraim - Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage

2011-08-07T21:43:00.000-07:00

Reading the Jewish Woman on the Elizabethan Stage

by Michelle Ephraim 

The first book-length examination of Jewish women in Renaissance drama, this study explores fictional representations of the female Jew in academic, private and public stage performances during Queen Elizabeth I's reign; it links lesser-known dramatic adaptations of the biblical Rebecca, Deborah, and Esther with the Jewish daughters made famous by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare on the popular stage. Drawing upon original research on early modern sermons and biblical commentaries, Michelle Ephraim here shows the cultural significance of biblical plays that have received scant critical attention and offers a new context with which to understand Shakespeare's and Marlowe's fascination with the Jewish daughter.Protestant playwrights often figured Elizabeth through Jewish women from the Hebrew scripture in order to legitimate her religious authenticity. Ephraim argues that through the figure of the Jewess, playwrights not only stake a claim to the Old Testament but call attention to the process of reading and interpreting the Jewish bible; their typological interpretations challenge and appropriate Catholic and Jewish exegeses. The plays convey the Reformists' desire for propriety over the Hebrew scripture as a prisca veritas, the pure word of God as opposed to that of corrupt Church authority. Yet these literary representations of the Jewess, which draw from multiple and conflicting exegetical traditions, also demonstrate the elusive quality of the Hebrew text. This book establishes the relationship between Elizabeth and dramatic representations of the Jewish woman: to play the Jewess is to engage in an interpretive play that both celebrates and interrogates the religious ideology of Elizabeth's emerging Protestant nation.Ephraim approaches the relationship between scripture and drama from a historicist perspective, complicating our understanding of the specific intersections between the Jewess in Elizabethan drama, biblical commentaries, political discourse, and popular culture. This study expands the growing field of Jewish studies in the Renaissance and contributes also to critical work on Elizabeth herself, whose influence on literary texts many scholars have established.

PDF, 1MB
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http://www.fileserve.com/file/SVpYuEz/SHK-JewishWoman.rar

Ebook: Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France by Margaret W. Ferguson

2011-08-07T21:39:00.000-07:00

Dido's Daughters: Literacy, Gender, and Empire in Early Modern England and France

Margaret W. Ferguson

Our common definition of literacy is the ability to read and write in one language. But as Margaret Ferguson reveals in Dido's Daughters, this description is inadequate, because it fails to help us understand heated conflicts over literacy during the emergence of print culture. The fifteenth through seventeenth centuries, she shows, were a contentious era of transition from Latin and other clerical modes of literacy toward more vernacular forms of speech and writing.

Fegurson's aim in this long-awaited work is twofold: to show that what counted as more valuable among these competing literacies had much to do with notions of gender, and to demonstrate how debates about female literacy were critical to the emergence of imperial nations. Looking at writers whom she dubs the figurative daughters of the mythological figure Dido—builder of an empire that threatened to rival Rome—Ferguson traces debates about literacy and empire in the works of Marguerite de Navarre, Christine de Pizan, Elizabeth Cary, and Aphra Behn, as well as male writers such as Shakespeare, Rabelais, and Wyatt. The result is a study that sheds new light on the crucial roles that gender and women played in the modernization of England and France.

PDF, 4MB

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Ebook: DK Eyewitness Guide: Shakespeare

2011-07-13T20:55:00.000-07:00

DK Eyewitness Guide: Shakespeare

A look at a variety of topics pertaining to Elizabethan society in general and to Shakespeare's life in particular. Each spread sports a short introduction accompanied by numerous captioned photos and reproductions of places, people, and objects. Text and illustrations combine to enable readers to acquire a quick understanding of many interesting details that might be either overlooked or lost in a more standard prose text. For example, there are close-up photos of beautifully embroidered gloves and intricate carvings on a child's chair, items owned by wealthy Elizabethans. In addition, there is information that is sure to appeal to readers who might mistakenly regard Elizabethans as "stuffy," such as the fact that they "kicked footballs made from inflated pigs' bladders" or that "coneycatchers" (gamblers who cheated) were commonplace. The text and illustrations are superb, and the thorough index makes the material readily accessible.

Be an eyewitness to one of the world's greatest ever playwrights – from his Elizabethan world and the stories that inspired him to boy actors playing women and dramatic special effects.

See what the interior of the Globe Theatre looked like.

Find out how the music used in plays was like today's film themes.

Discover what Shakespeare did when the theatres were closed due to the plague.

Shakespeare is one of the titles in this classic series that combines visual brilliance with informative text to provide everything one needs for projects, reference or just plain old discovery.

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I have this book in hardcover, and highly recommend it!

eBook: Shakespeare: A Critical Study of his Mind and Art By Edward Dowden

2011-07-13T12:51:00.000-07:00

Shakespeare: A Critical Study of his Mind and Art 

By Edward Dowden

Dowden's critical study of 1875 approaches Shakespeare from the human side, showing how Shakespeare the man is visible through his art. Moving from Shakespeare's early plays to his late period, and grouping the plays according to key stages in his career, the book traces the growth of Shakespeare's intellect and character from youth to full maturity

Dowden does not seek to align Shakespeare with any particular single character from his plays, but sees aspects of Shakespeare in many of his dramatic creations, demonstrating how Shakespeare represents many different sides of human life. The reader is provided with an insight into the questions at the forefront of Shakespeare's mind, his most intense moments of inspiration and his discoveries about human life. Outlining the differences between the youthful Shakespeare and Shakespeare as a mature and experienced man, the book enables us to better understand Shakespeare's character and genius.

448 Pages | PDF | 13 MB
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eBook: Shakespeare and Venice by Graham Holderness

2011-07-12T16:26:00.000-07:00

Shakespeare and Venice 

by Graham Holderness

Shakespeare and Venice is the first book length study to describe and chronicle the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages and has persisted in fiction and film to the present day. Graham Holderness focuses specifically on how that mythology was employed by Shakespeare to explore themes of conversion, change, and metamorphosis.

Identifying and outlining the materials having to do with Venice which might have been available to Shakespeare, Holderness provides a full historical account of past and present Venetian myths and of the city's relationship with both Judaism and Islam. Holderness also provides detailed readings of both The Merchant of Venice and of Othello against these mythical and historical dimensions and concludes with discussion of Venice's relevance to both the modern world and to the past.

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eBook - Voices Of Shakespeare's England, Edited by John A. Wagner

2011-07-12T16:21:00.000-07:00

Voices Of Shakespeare's England, 

Contemporary Accounts Of Elizabethan Daily Life

Edited by John A. Wagner

This valuable volume comprises excerpts from and analysis of 51 documents–from letters and diaries to public records and polemics–providing a detailed look into the era. The well-written introduction discusses economic, social, religious, political, and literary life, and a section on “Evaluating and Interpreting Primary Documents.” Each selection is then presented within its historical context, defining important vocabulary and offering questions, discussion topics, activities, and references to focus exploration. The document topics range from pamphlets describing the Elizabethan criminal underworld to educational philosophies and from accounts of contemporary performances of Macbeth to critiques of Elizabethan playgoers' habits, encouraging readers to digest and evaluate the ideas that spawned and nurtured the golden age of theater.

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Film: Amleto - Da Shakespeare a Laforgue by Carmelo Bene - Hamlet in ITALIAN

2011-07-10T12:56:00.000-07:00

Amleto - Da Shakespeare a Laforgue 

by Carmelo Bene

What a wonderful find! Our visitor Diego sent these links for an avant garde 1974 Italian television production of Hamlet! I only wish it had subtitles, but if you are familiar with Hamlet, you will recognize the action even if you don't understand all the dialogue. 

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0881893/

Amleto (Hamlet in Italian):
https://rapidshare.com/files/3424462752/Carmelo_Bene_-_Amleto__Da_Shakespeare_A_Laforgue__TV.part1.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/1946753294/Carmelo_Bene_-_Amleto__Da_Shakespeare_A_Laforgue__TV.part2.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/2859727856/Carmelo_Bene_-_Amleto__Da_Shakespeare_A_Laforgue__TV.part3.rar
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https://rapidshare.com/files/2152061262/Carmelo_Bene_-_Amleto__Da_Shakespeare_A_Laforgue__TV.part6.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/483593910/Carmelo_Bene_-_Amleto__Da_Shakespeare_A_Laforgue__TV.part7.rar
https://rapidshare.com/files/4066404201/Carmelo_Bene_-_Amleto__Da_Shakespeare_A_Laforgue__TV.part8.rar
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And this is the link for "Riccardo III" (this one is a very small .wmv file found years ago in the Italian TV archive web site):
https://rapidshare.com/files/3366856954/Carmelo_Bene_-_Riccardo_III.wmv

Two pages about Carmelo Bene:
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/feature-articles/bene/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2002/mar/18/artsfeatures2

"His Hamlet was more inspired by the French surrealist poet Jules Laforgue than by Shakespeare, and he was to do five different versions of it on stage, plus a film feature in 1973, Un Amleto di Meno (One Hamlet Less), and a definitively ironical version in 1987, which he called Hommelette For Hamlet." (J.F.Lane, The Guardian)

All the wonderful links above are from Diego - Thank you!

Molto bene! Gracias, Diego!

eBook: Shakespeare's Letters

2011-07-04T22:15:00.000-07:00

Shakespeare's Letters

Alan Stewart
| 360 pages | PDF | 5,7 MB

Shakespeare's plays are stuffed with letters - 111 appear on stage in all but five of his dramas. But for modern actors, directors, and critics they are frequently an awkward embarrassment. Alan Stewart shows how and why Shakespeare put letters on stage in virtually all of his plays. By reconstructing the very different uses to which letters were put in Shakespeare's time, and recapturing what it meant to write, send, receive, read, and archive a letter, it throws new light on some of his most familiar dramas. Early modern letters were not private missives sent through an anonymous postal system, but a vital - sometimes the only - means of maintaining contact and sending news between distant locations. Penning a letter was a serious business in a period when writers made their own pen and ink; letter-writing protocols were strict; letters were dispatched by personal messengers or carriers, often received and read in public - and Shakespeare exploited all these features to dramatic effect. Surveying the vast range of letters in Shakespeare's oeuvre, the book also features sustained new readings of Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice and Henry IV Part One.

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Ebook: Christopher Marlowe. Poet & Spy by Park Honan

2011-07-03T12:06:00.000-07:00

Christopher Marlowe. Poet & Spy

by Park Honan
Oxford University Press | 2006 | 438 pages | PDF | 6 Mb

The book features new information on Marlowe's six-and-a-half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, his shocking blasphemy and his street fights, his methods of preparing himself for writing, and his alleged atheism. The book includes new facts about Marlowe's adventures on the continent, where he was caught with a counterfeit coin, a hanging offense, but talked his way out of the noose and was returned to England in irons.
Christopher Marlowe's life was the most spectacular of any English dramatist. One of the great playwrights of his age, second only to Shakespeare, he was also a secret agent as well as the central figure in a murder mystery. Now, Park Honan offers the most thoroughly researched and detailed biography of Marlowe to appear in over fifty years. Honan, the acclaimed biographer of Shakespeare, takes us from Marlowe's childhood in Canterbury to his mysterious death in Deptford, shedding much light on this shadowy individual.

Honan describes his attraction to scientists such as Thomas Harriot and other hard-headed realists bent on innovation and free thought. In addition, there are new details on spies and business agents that Marlowe knew, a more exact account of the circumstances that led to his murder, and a fresh description of his evolving relationship with Shakespeare. The author of Tamberlaine the Great and Doctor Faustus, Christopher Marlowe changed the nature of the English stage. Researched in archives in England, Europe, and the United States, this superb biography paints an unforgettable portrait of one of the most remarkable figures in English literature.

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eBook: Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater

2011-04-04T21:28:00.000-07:00

Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater

By Milly S. Barranger 400 Pages | PDF | 1.24 MB

Those who delight in the workings of the theater -- the greasepaint, the crowds, and the stars -- will be engrossed by Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater, author Milly Barranger's backstage account of the life of pioneering director Margaret Webster (1905-72).

Barranger offers here the first book-length biography of Webster, a groundbreaking twentieth-century stage and opera director whose career challenged not only stage tradition but also mainstream attitudes toward professional women. Often credited with first having brought Shakespeare to Broadway, and renowned for her bold casting of an African American (Paul Robeson) in the role of Othello, Webster was a creative force in modern American and British theater.

Her story reveals the independent-minded artist undeterred by stage tradition and unmindful of rules about a woman's place in the professional theater. In addition to providing fascinating glimpses into Webster's personal and family life, Margaret Webster: A Life in the Theater also offers a who's-who list of the biggest names in New York and London theater of the time, as well as Hollywood: John Gielgud, Noël Coward, George Bernard Shaw, Uta Hagen, Sybil Thorndike, and John Barrymore, among others, all of whom crossed paths with Webster. Capping Webster's amazing story is her investigation and questioning by Senator Joseph McCarthy and HUAC, which left her unable to work for a year and from which she never fully recovered.

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eBook: Of Chastity and Power: Elizabethan Literature and The Unmarried Queen

2011-04-04T21:23:00.000-07:00

Of Chastity and Power: 

Elizabethan Literature and The Unmarried Queen

By Philippa Berry

216 pages | PDF | 5.4 Mb

In Of Chastity and Power, Philippa Berry combines Renaissance scholarship with feminist literary criticism to reject former accounts of the cult of Elizabeth, which presented both the queen's gender and her marital status as unproblematic.

Through readings of key Elizabethan texts by Lyly, Raleigh, Chapman, Shakespeare and Spenser, Phillipa Berry shows that while Elizabeth's combination of chastity with political and religious power was repeatedly idealized, it was also perceived as extremely disturbing. By placing these texts within a wider context of European culture and history, Berry shows that the figure of the unmarried queen implicitly challenged the masculine focus of Renaissance discourses of love and of absolutist political ideology, ultimately subverting the philosophical division between spirit and matter upon which Renaissance ideas of women were founded.

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eBook: Seeming Knowledge - Shakespeare And Skeptical Faith

2011-04-04T21:19:00.000-07:00

 Seeming Knowledge by John D. Cox

Shakespeare And Skeptical Faith

PDF | 355 pages | 1.8 MB

Seeming Knowledge revisits the question of Shakespeare and religion by focusing on the conjunction of faith and skepticism in his writing. Cox argues that the relationship between faith and skepticism is not an invented conjunction. The recognition of the history of faith and skepticism in the sixteenth century illuminates a tradition that Shakespeare inherited and represented more subtly and effectively than any other writer of his generation.

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eBook: The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama

2011-03-28T10:16:00.000-07:00

John D. Cox, 

The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama

268 pages | PDF | 1,4 MB

John Cox tells the intriguing story of stage devils from their earliest appearance in English plays to the closing of the theaters by parliamentary order in 1642. The book spans both medieval and Renaissance drama and includes the medieval Mystery cycles on the one hand, through to plays by Greene, Marlowe, Shakespeare (Henry VI Parts 1 and 2), Jonson, Middleton and Davenant.
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eBook: Shakespeare's Religious Language - Reference Guide

2011-03-27T09:09:00.000-07:00

Shakespeare's Religious Language

480 pages | PDF | 1.6 MB

A-Z reference guide to religious terms, concepts and references in Shakespeare. Religious issues and religious discourse were vastly important in the sixteenth and seventeenth century and religious language is key to an understanding of Shakespeare's plays and poems. This dictionary discusses just over 1000 words and names in Shakespeare's works that have some religious denotation or connotation. Its unique word-by-word approach allows equal consideration of the full religious nuance of each of these words, from 'abbess' to 'zeal'. It also gradually reveals the persistence, the variety, and the sophistication of Shakespeare's religious usage. Frequent attention is given to the prominence of Reformation controversy in these words, and to Shakespeare's often ingenious and playful metaphoric usage of them. Theological and religious commonplaces also assume a major place in the dictionary, as do overt references to biblical figures, biblical stories and biblical place-names; biblical allusions; church figures and saints.

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eBook: Texts and Traditions: Religion in Shakespeare by Beatrice Groves

2011-03-26T09:13:00.000-07:00

Beatrice Groves - Texts and Traditions: 

Religion in Shakespeare 1592-1604

PDF | 244 pages | 5.85 MB

Texts and Traditions explores Shakespeare's thoroughgoing engagement with the religious culture of his time. In the wake of the recent resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's Catholicism, Groves eschews a reductively biographical approach and considers instead the ways in which Shakespeare's borrowing from both the visual culture of Catholicism and the linguistic wealth of the Protestant English Bible enriched his drama. Through close readings of a number of plays--Romeo and Juliet, King John, 1 Henry IV, Henry V ,and Measure for Measure--Groves unearths and explains previously unrecognized allusions to the Bible, the Church's liturgy, and to the mystery plays performed in England in Shakespeare's boyhood. Texts and Traditions provides new evidence of the way in which Shakespeare exploited his audience's cultural memory and biblical knowledge in order to enrich his ostensibly secular drama and argues that we need to unravel the interpretative possibilities of these religious nuances in order fully to grasp the implications of his plays.

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eBook: Michael D. Bristol - Shakespeare and Moral Agency

2011-03-25T09:18:00.000-07:00

Michael D. Bristol - Shakespeare and Moral Agency

PDF | 212 pages | 5.24 MB

This work returns to the 19th century tradition of a moral or ethical criticism in the context of important new thinking in the field of ethics and moral philosophy. "Shakespeare and Moral Agency" presents a collection of new essays by literary and philosophy scholars considering character and action in Shakespeare's plays as heuristic models for the exploration of some salient problems in the field of moral inquiry. Together they offer a unified presentation of an emerging orientation in Shakespeare studies, drawing on recent work in ethics, philosophy of mind, and analytic aesthetics to construct a powerful framework for the critical analysis of Shakespeare's works. Contributors suggest new possibilities for the interpretation of Shakespearean drama by engaging with the rich body of contemporary work in the field of moral philosophy, offering significant insights for literary criticism, for pedagogy, and also for theatrical performance.

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eBook: Dennis Kezar - Guilty Creatures: Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

2011-03-24T09:38:00.000-07:00

Dennis Kezar - Guilty Creatures: 

Renaissance Poetry and the Ethics of Authorship

280 pages | PDF | 5,2 MB

In this innovative and learned study, Dennis Kezar examines how Renaissance poets conceive the theme of killing as a specifically representational and interpretive form of violence. Closely reading both major poets and lesser known authors of the early modern period, Kezar explores the ethical self-consciousness and accountability that attend literary killing, paying particular attention to the ways in which this reflection indicates the poet's understanding of his audience. Among the many poems through which Kezar explores the concept of authorial guilt elicited by violent representation are Skelton's "Phyllyp Sparowe", Spenser's "Faerie Queene", Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar", the multi-authored "Witch of Edmonton", and Milton's "Samson Agonistes".

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eBook: Hugh Grady- Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics

2011-03-24T09:33:00.000-07:00

Hugh Grady- Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics

PDF | 272 pages | 1.81 Mb

Shakespeare and Impure Aesthetics explores ideas about art implicit in Shakespeare's plays and defines specific Shakespearean aesthetic practices in his use of desire, death and mourning as resources for art. Hugh Grady draws on a tradition of aesthetic theorists who understand art as always formed in a specific historical moment but as also distanced from its context through its form and Utopian projections. Grady sees A Midsummer Night's Dream, Timon of Athens, Hamlet, and Romeo and Juliet as displaying these qualities, showing aesthetic theory's usefulness for close readings of the plays. The book argues that such social-minded 'impure aesthetics' can revitalize the political impulses of the new historicism while opening up a new aesthetic dimension in the current discussion of Shakespeare.
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eBook: Germaine Greer: Shakespeare's Wife

2011-03-23T09:52:00.000-07:00

Germaine Greer: Shakespeare's Wife 

Pages: 416 | PDF | 4.8MB

A polemical, ground-breaking study of Elizabethan England that reclaims Ann Hathaway’s rightful place in history. Little is known about the wife of the world’s most famous playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare’s will has been interpreted as evidence that she was nothing more than an unfortunate mistake from which Shakespeare did well to distance himself. Yet Shakespeare is above all the poet of marriage. Before him, there were few comedies or tragedies about wooing or wedding.

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eBook: Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Heywood

2011-03-22T10:06:00.000-07:00

Dramatists and Their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, and Heywood:

 Authorship, Authority, and the Playhouse (Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture) 

by Grace Ioppolo

PDF | 2 Mb

This book presents new evidence about the ways in which English Renaissance dramatists such as William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Thomas Heywood, John Fletcher and Thomas Middleton composed their plays and the degree to which they participated in the dissemination of their texts to theatrical audiences. Grace Ioppolo argues that the path of the transmission of the text was not linear, from author to censor to playhouse to audience - as has been universally argued by scholars - but circular.

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eBook: Margaret Healy - Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England: Bodies, Plagues and Politics

2011-03-21T10:11:00.000-07:00

Margaret Healy 

Fictions of Disease in Early Modern England:

 Bodies, Plagues and Politics

PDF | 291 pages | 2.15 MB

How did early modern people imagine their bodies? What impact did the new disease syphilis and recurrent outbreaks of plague have on these mental landscapes? Why was the glutted belly such a potent symbol of pathology? Ranging from the Reformation through the English Civil War, Fictions of Disease is a unique study of a fascinating cultural imaginary of "disease" and its political consequences. Healy's original approach illuminates the period's disease-impregnated literature, including works by Shakespeare, Heywood, Milton, Dekker, and others.
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eBook: Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England

2011-03-20T10:23:00.000-07:00

Desire and Dramatic Form in Early Modern England 

By Judith Haber 

PDF | 226 pages | April 2009 | 2 MB

This wide-ranging study investigates the intersections of erotic desire and dramatic form in the early modern period, considering to what extent disruptive desires can successfully challenge, change, or undermine the structures in which they are embedded. Through close readings of texts by Marlowe, Shakespeare, Webster, Middleton, Ford, and Cavendish, Haber counters the long-standing New Historicist association of the aesthetic with the status quo, and argues for its subversive potential. Many of the chosen texts unsettle conventional notions of sexual and textual consummation. Others take a more conventional stance; yet by calling our attention to the intersection between traditional dramatic structure and the dominant ideologies of gender and sexuality, they make us question those ideologies even while submitting to them. The book will be of interest to those working in the fields of early modern literature and culture, drama, gender and sexuality studies, and literary theory.
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eBook: William Shakespeare: Comedies by Harold Bloom

2011-03-18T10:29:00.000-07:00

William Shakespeare: Comedies by Harold Bloom

273 pages | PDF | 1,1 MB

William Shakespeare's comedies - including "A Midsummer Night's Dream", "As You Like It", "Twelfth Night", and "The Merchant of Venice" - are funny, allusive, difficult, profound, and unforgettable, and have served as templates for other comedic works and their authors throughout the centuries. This invaluable new study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of these classic plays.
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eBook: Twelfth Night: A Guide to the Play By John R. Ford -Greenwood Guide

2011-03-17T10:48:00.000-07:00

Twelfth Night: A Guide to the Play 

By John R. Ford

216 Pages | PDF | 11 MB

A thorough and detailed introduction to one of the most frequently studied and performed plays in the Shakespeare canon. The book includes discussions of the textual history of the play, its historical context and sources, and its dramatic structure and themes. The chapter on critical approaches to the play is especially good in that it presents a historical overview of the many different schools of Shakespeare criticism, including the views of modern critics who focus on the issues of gender, sexuality, and social class raised by the play. The concluding chapter, Twelfth Night in Performance, describes different productions over the centuries and how they have reflected and influenced contemporary critical interpretations. Because the critical discussions and sources cited are so scholarly and detailed, this volume would be most useful to teachers and to students in AP or college classes.
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eBook: Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage

2011-03-13T13:37:00.000-07:00

Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage

Joel Berkowitz,

304 pages | PDF | 2,55 MB

The professional Yiddish theatre started in 1876 in Eastern Europe; with the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881, masses of Eastern European Jews began moving westward, and New York—Manhattan’s Bowery and Second Avenue—soon became the world’s center of Yiddish theatre. At first the Yiddish repertoire revolved around comedies, operettas, and melodramas, but by the early 1890s America's Yiddish actors were wild about Shakespeare. In Shakespeare on the American Yiddish Stage, Joel Berkowitz knowledgeably and intelligently constructs the history of this unique theatrical culture.

The Jewish King Lear of 1892 was a sensation. The year 1893 saw the beginning of a bevy of Yiddish versions of Hamlet; that year also saw the first Yiddish production of Othello. Romeo and Juliet inspired a wide variety of treatments. The Merchant of Venice was the first Shakespeare play published in Yiddish, and Jacob Adler received rave reviews as Shylock on Broadway in both 1903 and 1905. Berkowitz focuses on these five plays in his five chapters. His introduction provides an orientation to the Yiddish theatre district in New York as well as the larger picture of Shakespearean production and the American theatre scene, and his conclusion summarizes the significance of Shakespeare’s plays in Yiddish culture.

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eBook: The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England

2011-03-12T13:33:00.000-08:00

The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England

by M. Lindsay Kaplan
CHM | 164 pages | 1,03 mb

Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. M. Lindsay Kaplan reveals it to be an effective, if unstable, means of repudiating one's opposition, and shows how it was deployed by rulers and poets including Spenser, Jonson and Shakespeare. Her study challenges recent claims that the state controlled poets' criticisms by means of censorship, arguing instead that power relations between poets and the state are more accurately described in terms of the reversible charge of slander.
Note: This is a CHM file. It can be read with a Firefox add-on or many free CHM readers.

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eBook: The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage

2011-03-11T13:28:00.000-08:00

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage

Stanley Wells, Sarah Stanton

340 pages | PDF | 6 MB

This Companion is designed for readers interested in past and present productions of the plays and to accompany the increasing number of courses devoted to the history of Shakespeare in performance. It addresses both British and international performance, from subjects such as British performing tradition, and Shakespearean developments to broader cultural concerns, tragic and comic acting, women performers of Shakespeare, and touring companies, among others.

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eBook: Robert Shaughnessy - The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture

2011-03-11T13:24:00.000-08:00

Robert Shaughnessy

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture

PDF | 304 pages | 2.55 Mb

This Companion explores the remarkable variety of forms that Shakespeare's life and works have taken over the course of four centuries, ranging from the early modern theatrical marketplace to the age of mass media, and including stage and screen performance, music and the visual arts, the television serial and popular prose fiction. The book asks what happens when Shakespeare is popularized, and when the popular is Shakespeareanized; it queries the factors that determine the definitions of and boundaries between the legitimate and illegitimate, the canonical and the authorized and the subversive, the oppositional, the scandalous and the inane. Leading scholars discuss the ways in which the plays and poems of Shakespeare, as well as Shakespeare himself, have been interpreted and reinvented, adapted and parodied, transposed into other media, and act as a source of inspiration for writers, performers, artists and film-makers worldwide.

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eBook: Tiffany Stern - Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan

2011-03-10T19:43:00.000-08:00

Tiffany Stern 

Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan

PDF | 350 pages | 13.50 MB

Attention is often given to the performance of a text, but not to the shaping process behind that performance. The question of rehearsal is seldom confronted directly, though important textual moments - like revision - are often attributed to it. Furthermore, up until now, facts about theatrical rehearsal have been considered irrecoverable.
In this groundbreaking new study, Tiffany Stern gathers together two centuries' worth of historical material which shows how actors received and responded to their parts, and how rehearsal affected the creation and revision of plays. This is the first history of the subject, from the sixteenth century to the eighteenth. It examines the nature and changing content of rehearsal, drawing on a mass of autobiographical, textual, and journalistic sources, and in so doing throws new light on textual revision and transforms accepted notions of Renaissance, Restoration, and eighteenth-century theatrical practice. Plotting theatrical change over time, this book will revolutionize the fields of textual and theatre history alike.

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eBook: Peter Mudford - Making Theatre: From Text to Performance

2011-03-09T19:48:00.000-08:00

Peter Mudford 

Making Theatre: From Text to Performance

PDF | 264 pages | 11.74 MB

The reality of a play is in its performance. Making Theatre focuses on the processes by which performance is realized, analyzing three major areas: "Words" and the interpretation of text; "Vision" including scenery, costume and lighting; and "Music" which illustrates the importance of music in all stage action.The forms of theater covered include straight drama, the musical and opera. Taking productions well-known on both sides of the Atlantic, Peter Mudford examines plays by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pirandello, Beckett, Pinter, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller and David Mamet; musicals by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim; and operas by Verdi, Wagner and Berg.This account of what makes theater important and how it works will be invaluable to teachers and students of drama and performance, as well as all those interested in theater as art.

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eBook: Nancy Selleck - The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne and Early Modern Culture

2011-03-08T19:36:00.000-08:00

Nancy Selleck - The Interpersonal Idiom in Shakespeare, Donne and Early Modern Culture

PDF | 240 pages | 1.09 MB

Sixteenth-century English speakers understood identity in radically different terms than ours. The Interpersonal Idiom explores the ways early modern usage figures selves as a function of other selves, particularly in the tropes of humoralism, visual perception, and sexual constancy. Challenging the current critical preoccupation with subjectivity, Selleck argues that Shakespeare, Donne, and other early modern writers often emphatically resist emerging conventions of subjective authority and cast selfhood instead as the experience of others. Analyzing a diverse range of texts — from treatises on medicine, faculty psychology, and the controversy over women to drama, poetry, and devotional literature — Selleck’s study proposes a new theoretical understanding of identity in early modern culture.

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eBook: Shakespeare And Philosophy

2011-03-08T13:43:00.000-08:00

Shakespeare And Philosophy

Stanley Stewart
244 pages | PDF | 8 MB

Touching on the work of philosophers including Richardson, Kant, Hume, Wittgenstein, Nietzsche, and Dewey, this study examines the history of what philosophers have had to say about "Shakespeare" as a subject of philosophy, from the seventeenth-century to the present. Stewart's volume will be of interest to Shakespeareans, literary critics, and philosophers.

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eBook: Oxford Edition - Timon of Athens

2011-03-07T19:54:00.001-08:00

Timon of Athens

William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton

PDF | 2,2 MB

Timon of Athens is a bitterly intriguing study of a fabulously rich man who wastes his wealth on his friends, and, when he is finally impoverished, learns to despise humanity with a hatred that drives him to his grave. The play's response to matters topical in Jacobean London sharpens its thrust as satire. Yet the setting in ancient Athens allows it to read as a timeless fable, deeply relevant to a modern society that sees itself as pursuing material prosperity to the point of self-destruction. The first half of the play offers a satirical vision of a world of artifice and insincerity. The second half is a startlingly experimental drama in which a succession of Timon's real and false friends unsuccessfully challenge his commitment to his life as a misanthropic recluse in the woods. The play's plot structure is schematically clear, and the poetry of Timon's rage is arresting in its savage intensity. Yet readers have often detected loose ends, and the tone of writing is uneven. In his Introduction, John Jowett explains how these characteristics arise because the play was written as a collaboration between Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton. This edition pays full justice to Middleton's presence, explaining how his contribution gave the play its distinctive edge. We as readers need to read this play as a dialogue between writers of different temperaments, and this edition is the first to make such a reading possible. The Introduction provides the fullest account of the play's performance history available. The commentary is the most detailed ever to have been published. Appendices include source materials and a listing of major productions world-wide.

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