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  • Shakespeare's Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary

    by Vivian Thomas, Nicki Faircloth ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
    Shakespeare lived when knowledge of plants and their uses was a given, but also at a time of unique interest in plants and gardens.His lifetime saw the beginning of scientific interest in plants, the first large-scale plant introductions from outside the country since Roman times, and the beginning of gardening as a leisure activity. Shakespeare's works show that he engaged with this new world to ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

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  • William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing - Unabridged

    by William Shakespeare ...
    One of William Shakespeare's most beloved and oft-performed comedies, "Much Ado About Nothing" is the story of two headstrong young lovers who are brought together...almost entirely against their will.Returning from victory in war, the Italian Prince Don Pedro and his officers - including the veteran Benedick and the young Claudio - are enjoying a well-deserved vacation at the sprawling estate of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Othello

    Revised Edition

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times.Othello is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies-written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Coriolanus

    by Bridget Escolme ...
    Series series The New Cambridge Shakespeare
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Coriolanus, edited by Lee Bliss, provides a thorough ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy

    The Al-Hamlet Summit; Richard III, an Arab Tragedy; The Speaker’s Progress

    by Mr Sulayman Al Bassam ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Play Collections
    Sulayman Al Bassam is one of the world's leading contemporary dramatists. His adaptations of Shakespeare, performed around the world, have won many awards and met with widespread acclaim on four continents.This volume brings together for the first time three of Al Bassam's adaptations of Shakespearean plays - including versions of Hamlet, Richard III and Twelfth Night - collectively known as The ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Stay, Illusion!

    The Hamlet Doctrine

    by Simon Critchley, Jamieson Webster ...
    The figure of Hamlet haunts our culture like the ghost haunts Shakespeare’s melancholy Dane. Arguably, no literary work is more familiar to us. Everyone knows at least six words from Hamlet, and most people know many more. Yet the play—Shakespeare’s longest—is more than “passing strange,” and it becomes even more complex when considered closely.Reading Hamlet alongside other writers, philosophers, ... Read more

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  • Helen Mirren on Cleopatra

    Performing Shakespeare

    by Helen Mirren, Julian Curry ...
    Series series Shakespeare on Stage
    Helen Mirren discusses playing Cleopatra, in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors in Thirteen Key Roles.In each volume of the Shakespeare On Stage series, a leading actor takes us behind the scenes, recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare's major roles. They discuss their character, working through the play scene by scene, with refreshing ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Old, Bold and Wont Be Told

    Shakespeares Amazing Ageing Ladies

    by Yvonne Oram ...
    Thoroughly researched and accessible, ‘Old, Bold and Won’t Be Told’ considers closely Shakespeare’s development of his older female characters, who defy conventional stereotypes and act with power, influence and creativity. Shakespeare refers to standard characteristics of the ageing woman – her loss of looks, ‘inappropriate’ sexuality, flouting of male governance and inability to hold her tongue ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Broadcast your Shakespeare

    Continuity and Change Across Media

    Edited by Dr Stephen O'Neill ...
    This volume of essays contributes to current debates about Shakespeare in new media. It importantly develops the field by providing a comparativist approach to Shakespeare's dynamic media history. Contributors to Broadcast Your Shakespeare address the variety of ways Shakespeare texts have been expressed through different media and continue to be. Writing at the intersection of Shakespeare studies ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader

    Edited by Peter J. Smith, Dr. Deborah Cartmell ...
    Series series Arden Early Modern Drama Guides
    This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's rich stage and screen performance, looking closely at major contemporary performances, including Josie Rourke's film starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Vanessa ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Hamlet, the Ghost, and a New Document

    by David George ...
    Shakespeare’s ghost is not merely “a conventional literary figure still trailing on to the stage all the trappings of classic myth while Shakespeare gives visible form to the fears of the popular mind. In Hamlet, from the first apprehensions of the soldiers on the watch to the moment when the apparition at length breaks silence with its dreadful tale, the circumstance with which it is imagined is ... Read more

    $30.38 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Henry IV, Parts I and II

    Critical Essays

    Edited by David Bevington ...
    Series series Shakespearean Criticism
    Originally published in 1986. This volume points to the rich variety of critical responses to the Henry IV plays and their complexity. It includes selections from characteristic thought of the neoclassical age, character criticism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, historical and new criticism, theatrical interpretation and other pieces by the likes of Samuel Johnson and W. H. Auden. The ... Read more

    $81.99 CAD