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  • Imagining Antiquity in Shakespeare’s England

    Edited by Heather James, Andrew Wallace ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    The essays in this edited collection extend our understanding of the challenges and opportunities that the classical world afforded Shakespeare and his contemporaries. At the same time, they encourage modern scholarship to reevaluate the significance of antiquity in early modern England. Studies of classical heritage often focus on imitation and the transmission of specific classical texts in ... Read more

    $152.09 USD

  • Unholy Hunger

    A Novel

    by Heather James ...
    Evelyn Barrett wants to die. As long as her daughter's murderer dies with her, she is ready to go. Why did this man--this stranger--destroy her family? Why has he not been brought to justice? Why is she forced to live a life of anger and grief? Amid a million questions she cannot answer, Evelyn knows one thing for sure: this murderer must be punished for his crime.Before it all, she was a ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare's England

    by Heather James ...
    The range of poetic invention that occurred in Renaissance English literature was vast, from the lyric eroticism of the late sixteenth century to the rise of libertinism in the late seventeenth century. Heather James argues that Ovid, as the poet-philosopher of literary innovation and free speech, was the galvanizing force behind this extraordinary level of poetic creativity. Moving beyond mere ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare After All

    A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction

    by Michael Scott ...
    Your complete introduction to ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare has been hailed as one of the greatest thinkers of all time, one of the world's finest artists, poets and dramatists.Shakespeare: A Complete Introduction introduces and explains the plays by looking at how they work, taking you on a journey through the genres of comedy, history and tragedy. The best known and most popular plays are ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer

    Edited by Piero Boitani, Jill Mann ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer is an extensively revised version of the first edition, which has become a classic in the field. This new volume responds to the success of the first edition and to recent debates in Chaucer Studies. Important material has been updated, and new contributions have been commissioned to take into account recent trends in literary theory as well as in studies of ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • King John

    Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
    The authoritative edition of King John from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Like most of Shakespeare’s history plays, King John presents a struggle for the English crown. The struggle this time, however, is strikingly cold-blooded and brutal.John, the younger brother of the late Richard I, is the king, and a savage one ... Read more

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  • This Is Shakespeare

    by Emma Smith ...
    An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicalityA genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Cymbeline

    Third Series

    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    In Cymbeline, Ancient Britain's female heir to the throne is slandered by a decadent Italian while the Romans invade Britain to retain it as part of their empire. Shakespeare's late romance is full of unpredictable conjunctions that are explored in the comprehensive introduction to this new, fully-illustrated Arden edition. Valerie Wayne takes a transformative look at the play's critical and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Timon of Athens

    Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
    The real Timon of Athens lived there in the fifth century BCE, making him a contemporary of Socrates and Pericles. Shakespeare presents Timon as a figure who suffers such profound disillusionment that he becomes a misanthrope, or man-hater. This makes him a more interesting character than the caricature he had become to Shakespeare’s contemporaries, for whom “Timonist” was a slang term for an ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • The Tragedies of William Shakespeare

    Series series Shakespeare: His Work and World
    Shakespeare’s gift for writing tragedies was powerful indeed. His ability to create epic tragic characters—think Hamlet, Lear, and the star-crossed Romeo and Juliet—and scenarios is virtually unrivalled. Readers examine the Bard’s major tragedies and their significance, and touch upon the state of theatre and dramatic performance in Shakespeare’s England for good measure. ... Read more

    $31.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • King John

    Third Series

    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third series, Arden offers the best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume guides you to a deeper understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of King John provides:- A clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of scholarship.- Detailed notes and commentary on ... Read more

    $19.99 USD