Folger Library, Two Decades of Growth
Author: Louis B. Wright
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 1978-07
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780918016553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Louis B. Wright
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 1978-07
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780918016553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-05-03
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0393079848
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
Author: James Shapiro
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-04-19
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 1416541632
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author: Frank Northen Magill
Publisher: Magill Surveys
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Contains biographical information on Shakespeare, sonnets, critical analysis and summaries of his 37 plays, and quotations from his works.
Author: Nicholas Potter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2009-07-28
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1137019093
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shakespeare's late plays are a 'mixed bag' with a common theme: from the fiendishly jealous Leontes to the saintly Pericles; from the ineffectual Cymbeline to the omnipotent Propspero; from the 'sprites and goblins' of The Tempest to the famous bear of The Winter's Tale, the characters have excited wonder and contempt while the range of incident is almost irresponsibly extravagant. Was Shakespeare losing his grip, or his interest, or both? Was he striking out in some bold new theatrical direction? This Guide provides a critical survey of the major debates and issues surrounding the late plays, from the earliest published accounts to the present day. Nicholas Potter offers a clear guiding narrative and an exploration of literary history, focusing on how criticism of these remarkable works, and attempts to make sense of them, have developed over the years.
Author: Marjorie Garber
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2009-12-01
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0307390969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare." Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. Marjorie Garber delves into ten plays to explore the interrelationships between Shakespeare and contemporary culture, from James Joyce's Ulysses to George W. Bush's reading list. From the persistence of difference in Othello to the matter of character in Hamlet to the untimeliness of youth in Romeo and Juliet, Garber discusses how these ideas have been re-imagined in modern fiction, theater, film, and the news, and in the literature of psychology, sociology, political theory, business, medicine, and law. Shakespeare and Modern Culture is a brilliant recasting of our own mental and emotional landscape as refracted through the prism of the protean Shakespeare.
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press
Published: 2018-11-11
Total Pages: 184
ISBN-13: 9780353395954
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