Shakespeare's Kings
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-03-13
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0743200314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compares the historical kings with their portrayal in Shakespeare's plays.
Author: John Julius Norwich
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2001-03-13
Total Pages: 438
ISBN-13: 0743200314
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compares the historical kings with their portrayal in Shakespeare's plays.
Author: Jeffrey Kahan
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2008-04-18
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1135973652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Is King Lear an autonomous text, or a rewrite of the earlier and anonymous play King Leir? Should we refer to Shakespeare’s original quarto when discussing the play, the revised folio text, or the popular composite version, stitched together by Alexander Pope in 1725? What of its stage variations? When turning from page to stage, the critical view on King Lear is skewed by the fact that for almost half of the four hundred years the play has been performed, audiences preferred Naham Tate's optimistic adaptation, in which Lear and Cordelia live happily ever after. When discussing King Lear, the question of what comprises ‘the play’ is both complex and fragmentary. These issues of identity and authenticity across time and across mediums are outlined, debated, and considered critically by the contributors to this volume. Using a variety of approaches, from postcolonialism and New Historicism to psychoanalysis and gender studies, the leading international contributors to King Lear: New Critical Essays offer major new interpretations on the conception and writing, editing, and cultural productions of King Lear. This book is an up-to-date and comprehensive anthology of textual scholarship, performance research, and critical writing on one of Shakespeare's most important and perplexing tragedies. Contributors Include: R.A. Foakes, Richard Knowles, Tom Clayton, Cynthia Clegg, Edward L. Rocklin, Christy Desmet, Paul Cantor, Robert V. Young, Stanley Stewart and Jean R. Brink
Author: Peter Saccio
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000-04-20
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 019988076X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Published: 1907
Total Pages: 650
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the romantic tragedy about the relationship between Mark Antony and the Queen of Egypt.
Author: Alvin B. Kernan
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9780300072587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Eminent literary critic Alvin Kernan takes us back to the court performances of some of Shakespeare's most famous plays, showing how the courtly setting influenced the bard's work. Kernan argues that Shakespeare was a great dramatist whose plays commented on political and social concerns of his patrons and who adjusted his own art to pander to court needs. 30 illustrations.
Author: Sonya Shafer
Publisher:
Published: 2015-02
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9781616342791
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Victoria Alexander
Publisher:
Published: 2017-01-13
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 9781542547390
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From #1 New York Times bestselling author, Victoria Alexander, a second-chance romance Christmas novella-with the naughtiest dogs in England!! Sir Oliver Stanhope's beloved late great-aunt, who raised him so devotedly, has charged Oliver with the care of her adorable-but very naughty-Yorkshire terriers, Melchoir, Balthazar, and Gaspar. Thankfully, she's also arranged for D.K. Lawrence, celebrated dog trainer to the aristocracy, to help train the little terrors. But when Diana K. Lawrence, once the love of Oliver's life, arrives on his doorstep with her giant Great Dane in tow, Oliver wonders how he'll survive the canine chaos andthe too-close-for-comfort presence of the only woman to touch his heart...and he can't help but wonder if his aunt had something special in mind with her last, precious Christmas gift... This novella was previously published in the Santa Paws anthology