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  • Shakespeare and the Resistance

    The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny

    de Clare Asquith ...
    Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his countryThe 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a pair of poems dedicated to the young Earl of Southampton: Venus and ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Shadowplay

    The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare

    de Clare Asquith ...
    In 16th century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: England, it seemed, had become a police state, fearful of threats from abroad and plotters at home. This age of terror was also the era of the greatest creative genius the world has ever known: William Shakespeare. ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

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    Shakespeare and the Resistance

    The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny

    de Clare Asquith ...
    Narrado por Allan Corduner ...

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    7 hora 27 minutos

    Shakespeare's largely misunderstood narrative poems contain within them an explosive commentary on the political storms convulsing his countryThe 1590s were bleak years for England. The queen was old, the succession unclear, and the treasury empty after decades of war. Amid the rising tension, William Shakespeare published a pair of poems dedicated to the young Earl of Southampton: Venus and ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

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  • Macbeth

    de William Shakespeare, SBP Editors ...
    Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition.The play is set in Scotland. Returning from battle with his companion Banquo, the nobleman Macbeth meets a group of witches. They predict that Macbeth will first become thane (baron) of ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibros

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  • The Royal Ghosts

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    de Samrat Upadhyay ...
    "Startlingly good" stories of Nepali society set against the backdrop of violent Maoist insurgencies ( San Francisco Chronicle).From an author like "a Buddhist Chekhov," The Royal Ghosts features characters trying to reconcile their true desires with the forces at work in Nepali society ( San Francisco Chronicle). As political violence rages, these people struggle with their duties to their aging ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ian McKellen on Macbeth

    Performing Shakespeare

    de Ian McKellen, Julian Curry ...
    Series series Shakespeare on Stage
    Ian McKellen discusses playing Macbeth, in this ebook taken from Shakespeare On Stage: Thirteen Leading Actors on 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 ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Making Make-Believe Real

    Politics as Theater in Shakespeare's Time

    de Garry Wills ...
    Shakespeare’s plays abound with kings and leaders who crave a public stage and seize every opportunity to make their lives a performance: Antony, Cleopatra, Richard III, Othello, and many others. Such self-dramatizing characters appear in the work of other playwrights of the era as well, Marlowe’s Edward II and Tamburlaine among them. But Elizabethan playwrights were not alone in realizing that a ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

    de Sarah Beckwith ...
    Shakespeare lived at a time when England was undergoing the revolution in ritual theory and practice we know as the English Reformation. With it came an unprecedented transformation in the language of religious life. Whereas priests had once acted as mediators between God and men through sacramental rites, Reformed theology declared the priesthood of all believers. What ensued was not the tidy ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Common Prayers

    The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age

    de Daniel Swift ...
    Societies and entire nations draw their identities from certain founding documents, whether charters, declarations, or manifestos. The Book of Common Prayer figures as one of the most crucial in the history of the English-speaking peoples. First published in 1549 to make accessible the devotional language of the late Henry the VIII's new church, the prayer book was a work of monumental religious, ... Leer más

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  • Shakespeare

    Poet and Citizen

    de Victor Kiernan ...
    'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.'Times Literary SupplementAlthough Shakespeare is rightly celebrated for the continued relevancy of his plays and poetry today, we too often lose sight of the wider historical context which shaped his work. In Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen, Victor Kiernan shows that Shakespeare was ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Shakespeare for Freedom

    Why the Plays Matter

    de 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, ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England

    Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama

    de Kristen Poole ...
    Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural spaces that focused attention on interactions between the human and the demonic or divine: the ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD