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  • Fools of Time

    Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy

    par Northrop Frye ...
    Collections series Alexander Lectures
    In the Alexander Lectures for 1965-66 at the University of Toronto, Dr. Frye describes the basis of the tragic vision as "being in time," in which death as "the essential event that gives shape and form to life ... defines the individual, and marks him off from the continuity of life that flows indefinitely between the past and the future."In Dr. Frye's view, three general types can be ... En savoir plus

    $32.79 CAD

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  • Pericles

    William Shakespeare is widely considered to have been the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. More than 400 years after Shakespeare’s death, his plays are still performed more than any other playwright and have been translated into every major language in the world. This edition of Pericles includes a table of contents. ... En savoir plus

    $2.70 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Introducing Shakespeare

    A Graphic Guide

    par Nick Groom ...
    Collections series Graphic Guides
    Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think.Nick Groom and Piero explore how Shakespeare became so famous and influential, and why he is still widely ... En savoir plus

    $6.39 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare's Festive Comedy

    A Study of Dramatic Form and Its Relation to Social Custom

    par C. L. Barber ...
    "A book ahead of its time. . . . revolutionized the ways that Shakespeareans thought of comedy in relation to its social setting—especially festive comedy." —James Shapiro, Columbia UniversityIn this classic work, acclaimed Shakespeare critic C. L. Barber argues that Elizabethan seasonal festivals such as May Day and Twelfth Night are the key to understanding Shakespeare's comedies. Brilliantly ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Shakespearean Star

    Laurence Olivier and National Cinema

    par Jennifer Barnes ...
    Laurence Olivier was one of the best-known and most pioneering actor-directors of Shakespeare on screen. This is the first study to provide a comprehensive analysis of Olivier's Shakespearean feature films and his unique Shakespearean star image. Through an examination of Olivier's unmade film Macbeth, as well as his adaptations of Shakespeare's Henry V, Hamlet and Richard III, Jennifer Barnes ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD

  • Misreading Shakespeare

    Modern Playwrights and the Quest for Originality

    par Wagdi Zeid ...
    A dynamic new study in literary and dramatic influence, Misreading Shakespeare defines and explores the relation between two modern playsEdward Bonds Lear and Tom Stoppards Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Deadand Shakespeares King Lear and Hamlet. While some see the modern plays as derivative, others claim that they are as original as the Shakespearean plays. The effort to define and explore this ... En savoir plus

    $5.39 CAD

  • The Routledge Guide to William Shakespeare

    Demystifying and contextualising Shakespeare for the twenty-first century, this book offers both an introduction to the subject for beginners as well as an invaluable resource for more experienced Shakespeareans.In this friendly, structured guide, Robert Shaughnessy:introduces Shakespeare’s life and works in context, providing crucial historical backgroundlooks at each of Shakespeare’s plays in ... En savoir plus

    $81.06 CAD

  • Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare

    The Debt Never Promised

    par Fred B. Tromly ...
    Some of Shakespeare's most memorable male characters, such as Hamlet, Prince Hal, and Edgar, are defined by their relationships with their fathers. In Fathers and Sons in Shakespeare, Fred B. Tromly demonstrates that these relationships are far more complicated than most critics have assumed. While Shakespearean sons often act as their fathers' steadfast defenders, they simultaneously resist ... En savoir plus

    $71.19 CAD

  • There Is Nothing Like a Thane!

    The Lighter Side of Macbeth

    Modifié par Clive Francis ...
    There is Nothing Like a Thane is a follow-up to Clive Francis's highly successful There is Nothing Like a Dane! The Lighter Side of Hamlet. Thane is a hilarious compilation of unintentional funny moments from a variety of productions of Macbeth - interwoven with Francis's witty caricatures. It also delves into the many superstitions, which have dogged the play since 1603, making it possibly the ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Cleopatra

    I Am Fire and Air

    par Harold Bloom ...
    Collections 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 ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Creative Legacies

    Artists, Writers, Performers, Readers

    We celebrate Shakespeare as a creator of plays and poems, characters and ideas, words and worlds. But so too, in the four centuries since his death in 1616, have thinkers, writers, artists and performers recreated him. Readers of this book are invited to explore Shakespeare's afterlife on the stage and on the screen, in poetry, fiction, music and dance, as well as in cultural and intellectual life ... En savoir plus

    $39.99 CAD

  • Shakespearean Sensations

    Experiencing Literature in Early Modern England

    Modifié par Katharine A. Craik, Tanya Pollard ...
    This strong and timely collection provides fresh insights into how Shakespeare's plays and poems were understood to affect bodies, minds and emotions. Contemporary criticism has had surprisingly little to say about the early modern period's investment in imagining literature's impact on feeling. Shakespearean Sensations brings together scholarship from a range of well-known and new voices to ... En savoir plus

    $43.19 CAD