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“john h astington”

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  • Actors and Acting in Shakespeare's Time

    The Art of Stage Playing

    by John H. Astington ...
    John Astington brings the acting style of the Shakespearean period to life, describing and analysing the art of the player in the English professional theatre between Richard Tarlton and Thomas Betterton. The book pays close attention to the cultural context of stage playing, the critical language used about it, and the kinds of training and professional practice employed in the theatre at various ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Stage and Picture in the English Renaissance

    The Mirror up to Nature

    by John H. Astington ...
    This book presents a new approach to the relationship between traditional pictorial arts and the theatre in Renaissance England. Demonstrating the range of visual culture in evidence from the mid-sixteenth to mid-seventeenth century, from the grandeur of court murals to the cheap amusement of woodcut prints, John H. Astington shows how English drama drew heavily on this imagery to stimulate the ... Read more

    $122.39 CAD

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  • Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (37 Plays + 160 Sonnets + 5 Poetry Books + 150 Illustrations)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    This ebook contains William Shakespeare's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare On Stage

    Thirteen Leading Actors on Thirteen Key Roles

    by Julian Curry ...
    Series series Shakespeare On Stage
    Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles.* Brian Cox on Titus Andronicus in Deborah Warner's visceral RSC production* Judi Dench on being directed by Franco Zeffirelli as a twenty-three-year-old Juliet* Ralph Fiennes on Shakespeare's least sympathetic hero Coriolanus... ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reverberating Song in Shakespeare and Milton

    Language, Memory, and Musical Representation

    by Erin Minear ...
    In this study, Erin Minear explores the fascination of Shakespeare and Milton with the ability of music-heard, imagined, or remembered-to infiltrate language. Such infected language reproduces not so much the formal or sonic properties of music as its effects. Shakespeare's and Milton's understanding of these effects was determined, she argues, by history and culture as well as individual ... Read more

    $82.44 CAD

  • Shame in Shakespeare

    by Ewan Fernie ...
    Series series Accents on Shakespeare
    One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. Shakespeare's ultimately positive portrayal of the emotion challenges this view. Drawing on philosophers and theorists of shame, Shame in Shakespeare analyses the shame and humiliation suffered by the tragic hero, providing not only a new approach to ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Forensic Shakespeare

    by Quentin Skinner ...
    Series series Clarendon Lectures in English
    Forensic Shakespeare illustrates Shakespeare's creative processes by revealing the intellectual materials out of which some of his most famous works were composed. Focusing on the narrative poem Lucrece, on four of his late Elizabethan plays (Romeo and Juliet, The Merchant of Venice, Julius Caesar and Hamlet) and on three early Jacobean dramas, (Othello, Measure for Measure and All's Well That ... Read more

    $22.39 CAD

  • Medieval Shakespeare

    Pasts and Presents

    Edited by Ruth Morse, Helen Cooper, Peter Holland ...
    For many, Shakespeare represents the advent of modernity. It is easy to forget that he was in fact a writer deeply embedded in the Middle Ages, who inherited many of his shaping ideas and assumptions from the medieval past. This collection brings together essays by internationally renowned scholars of medieval and early modern literature, the history of the book and theatre history to present new ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Cleopatra

    I Am Fire and Air

    by Harold Bloom ...
    Series series Shakespeare's Personalities
    From Harold Bloom, one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, comes an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Cleopatra—one of the Bard’s most riveting and memorable female characters—in “a masterfully perceptive reading of this seductive play’s endless wonders” (*Kirkus Reviews*).**Cleopatra is one of the most famous women in history—and thanks to Shakespeare, one of the most ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • Master of Shadows

    The Secret Diplomatic Career of the Painter Peter Paul Rubens

    by Mark Lamster ...
    Although his popularity is eclipsed by Rembrandt today, Peter Paul Rubens was revered by his contemporaries as the greatest painter of his era, if not of all history. His undeniable artistic genius, bolstered by a modest disposition and a reputation as a man of tact and discretion, made him a favorite among monarchs and political leaders across Europe—and gave him the perfect cover for the ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare for Freedom

    Why the Plays Matter

    by Ewan Fernie ...
    Shakespeare for Freedom presents a powerful, plausible and political argument for Shakespeare's meaning and value. It ranges across the breadth of the Shakespeare phenomenon, offering a new interpretation not just of the characters and plays, but also of the part they have played in theatre, criticism, civic culture and politics. Its story includes a glimpse of 'Freetown' in Romeo and Juliet, ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • The Life of Michelangelo

    by John Symonds ...
    Michelangelo was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, poet, and engineer of the High Renaissance who exerted an unparalleled influence on the development of Western art. Despite making few forays beyond the arts, his versatility in the disciplines he took up was of such a high order that he is often considered a contender for the title of the archetypal Renaissance man, along with his fellow ... Read more

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