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Offers a glimpse into the life of Shakespeare through vignettes of his family and his relationships with them. This book notes to what extent Shakespeare's family experiences were typical or atypical of the time, and includes at the end of each chapter a discussion of scenes from Shakespeare's plays presenting the relevant familial relationship.

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Through these vivid and animated sketches, readers will come to know about Shakespeare's life and times.

While the book has a lively, accessible narrative tone within chapters, its organization and features make it highly useful to the school library market as well as the academic world.

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This is a reference guide to Early Modern English - the form of English used by Shakespeare - covering the rules, conventions, and possibilities of choice that make his texts so linguistically rich.

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Through an examination of six plays, this book presents an innovative analysis of political developments in the last decade of Elizabethan rule.

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A detailed analysis of how Shakespeare's insults become integrated into his dramatic art and how they mirror Elizabethan society and culture.

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The law is a central theme in many of Shakespeare's plays and every play in the canon makes reference to legality or justice.

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Through historical and bibliographical research, and through analysis of Shakespeare's work, the author places Shakespeare among the supreme artists of the world. In subsequent chapters Professor Alexander establishes an order among the plays that reveals a gradual development of Shakespeare's art.

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Shakespeare's liminal spaces provides a unique set of perspectives through which Shakespeares forests, battlefields, shores and gardens are revealed as deliberate dramatic devices with the capacity to destabilise social structures.

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In this, her last book, Rosalie L. Colie suggests that by linking "forms"--verse forms, devices, motives, themes, conventions, genres--to the culture from which a writer springs and to his selection and organization of materials, we can understand the processes by which he becomes what he is, and is enabled to do what he does. She is particularly

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A dictionary that includes ailments, general medical concepts and cures and therapies in Shakespeare, but also body parts, bodily functions, and entries on 'the pathological body' taking into account recent critical work on the early modern body.

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More than just a book of definitions, this dictionary provides a comprehensive account of Shakespeare's portrayal of military life, tactics, and technology. The military action of many of Shakespeare's plays show that he possessed an extraordinarily detailed knowledge of warfare, both ancient and modern. Edelman at Edith Cowan Uni, WA.

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Suggesting that textual mediators have a positive rather than negative role, this book argues that any reader of Shakespeare, scholar, student, or general reader, approaches Shakespeare through edited versions that have a relationship to what Shakespeare may actually have intended and written.

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Suggests that textual mediators have a positive rather than negative role and that they are collaborators who can shape and enable our response to Shakespeare's plays. This book argues that these edited versions of Shakespeare's work determines what Shakespeare may actually have intended and written.

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Includes various types of non-standard and informal language, and lists the examples found in Shakespeare's works. These include dialect forms, colloquial forms, non-standard and variant forms, fashionable words, and puns.

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