eBook: The Case for Shakespeare: The End of the Authorship Question

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eBook: Shakespeare's Kitchen: Renaissance Recipes for the Contemporary Cook

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eBook: Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof By Stephen M. Buhler

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

David Farley-Hills

Shakespeare And The Rival Playwrights, 1600-1606

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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)

 

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)

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

 

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

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

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

 

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

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

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

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

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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