Shakespeare
Author: Will Fowler
Publisher: Pearson UK
Published:
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 1292306033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Will Fowler
Publisher: Pearson UK
Published:
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 1292306033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Leslie Dunton-Downer
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2021-12-14
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 0744055962
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A comprehensive collection of the life and works of a literary great — William Shakespeare! The beautifully illustrated guide unravels the life and works of Shakespeare and his plays, from language, history, and themes to plays, poems, and sonnets. Explore the art of this famous playwright and his enduring legacy through the stunning gift format. Celebrate one of the theaters most influential contributors through his legendary works of comedy, tragedy, romance, and poetry. Inside this playbook, you’ll find: • A clear and accessible format. • Plot summaries of all 39 plays with lists of characters. • Guidance on how to read and interpret his great sonnets and narrative poems. • Plays ordered by time and genre, helping readers trace the development of Shakespeare’s topics, themes, and artistry. • Sidebars that clarify the mythological, geographical and historical context of each play and decode its language, dramatic action, and themes. • Illuminated guidance on how to approach reading the play and seeing it perform. Shakespeare fans will revel in the marvelous depiction of the Stratford-upon-Avon born Bard himself! His drama book allows you to dive into famous works like Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and explore Shakespeare’s sources and inspirations for each! Themes, plots, characters, and language are brought to life with act-by-act plot summaries, resumes of main characters, and in-depth analysis of Shakespeare’s use of the English language. Shakespeare: His Life and Works is a wonderful exploration of plays, poems, and sonnets in the context of his life and the Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre, further enriching your on the page (or stage, or screen!) experience.
Author: William Nicholas Knight
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9780820437774
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Shakespeare's authorship of his plays can no longer be in doubt with this book's clear identification of autobiographical passages throughout his work from his legal documents in Stratford and London courts. Shakespeare refers to the loss of his inheritance, by his father mortgaging it to his uncle, from early works such as Taming of the Shrew to the late Lear. His mother is referred to in As You Like It and Coriolanus; his twins in Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night; and the loss of his son from Merchant of Venice to Macbeth. His daughters, as recipients of his accumulated wealth, are subjects of his concern from Lear to The Tempest. More important, the knowledge of the law in his personal pursuits is revealed as a source for the legal content in his works, which found fit audiences among jurists at the Inns of Court law schools and in King James' Court. Shakespeare pleased the king on these matters enough to have him command his plays to be repeated on an occasion. For himself, Shakespeare learned from his own writing how to deal with the language of law theoretically and conceptually with such concepts as equity and mercy in Chancery. He used his own family life, personal documents, and legal problems to give impetus to his version of borrowed characters, plots, plays, and history. These personal events, from the placement of the references, give his plays, which sometimes end with a fictionalized, wish-fulfillment, or literary compensation, an autobiographical initial compulsion.
Author: Louis B. Wright
Publisher: Associated University Presse
Published: 1978-07
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780918016553
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Colleen Aagesen
Publisher: For Kids
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781556523472
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents the life and works of Shakespeare. Includes activities to introduce Elizabethan times, including making costumes, making and using a quill pen, and binding a book by hand.
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: Ari Berk
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 17
ISBN-13: 0763647942
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.