eBook: Arden Dictionary Of Shakespeare Quotations

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.

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Ebook: DK Eyewitness Guide: Shakespeare

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

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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Shakespeare A to Z: The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life & Times, & More

Shakespeare A to Z: 
The Essential Reference to His Plays, His Poems, His Life & Times, & More

This massive and fascinating volume of Shakespeareana is unquestionably a classic compendium of information on the Bard of Avon. Here are synopses of all of Shakespeare's plays by act and scene; sketches of all of his characters, as well as the historic personages on whom some of them were based; biographies of his contemporaries in the Elizabethan theater; portraits of many of the actors who achieved fame in his plays; and mentions of many modern theatrical works that have been influenced by him. One can also find definitions of literary and theatrical terms relevant to his work, along with descriptions of the places that figured so prominently in Shakespeare?s plays. The book is truly a treasure trove of information for students of Shakespeare, of English literature, and of Elizabethan and modern theater.

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eBook: The Shakespeare Name Dictionary

 J. Madison Davis, A. Daniel Frankforter “The Shakespeare Name Dictionary"
Routledge | 2004-03-18 | ISBN: 0415971144 | 552 pages | PDF | 4,93 MB

The authors cover everything: characters (Touchstone, the clown in As You Like It), places (Tours, the French city mentioned in Henry VI), animals (Tray, one of King Lear's three dogs), buildings (the Tower of London), officials (Roman Tribunes), rivers (the Trent), nationals ("Transylvanian"), nicknames (Monsieur Traveller, applied to Jaques in As You Like It), astrological groupings (Trigon, an astrological group of three signs), and much more.

The Shakespeare Name Dictionary identifies them all in full, readable entries. The authors' coverage includes such information as the historical errors in Shakespeare's plays, as well as variant interpretations of names. Line references in the plays are keyed to the Oxford Shakespeare. With fuller coverage than anything currently available, The Shakespeare Name Dictionary-available in paperback for the first time--is the ultimate guide to the plays.

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