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Shakespeare, memory, and modern Irish literature explores the intertextual connections between early modern English and modern Irish literature. Characterising the relationship as dismemorial, the book explores how ghosts, bodies, and the land are sites of literary connection through which contemporary Ireland draws on Shakespeares England.

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This book provides a comparative analysis of Shakespeare's reception and translation in Japan and Germany. It explicitly compares and contrasts the two, including consideration of their mutual awareness, but also covers issues relating to the international reception and translation of the entire Shakespeare canon.

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The issue has even been debated in a moot court before three justices of the Supreme Court--with an intriguing outcome.

Whalen's book is the first to provide a clear, concise, readable summary for the general reader, one that analyzes the main arguments for both the man from Stratford-on-Avon and the earl of Oxford.

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The issue has even been debated in a moot court before three justices of the Supreme Court--with an intriguing outcome.

Whalen's book is the first to provide a clear, concise, readable summary for the general reader, one that analyzes the main arguments for both the man from Stratford-on-Avon and the earl of Oxford.

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For many years scholars have puzzled over the whereabouts of the young William Shakespeare. Where was he and what was he doing during the 'lost years' between leaving school and appearing as an actor and playwright in London This literary detective story throws fresh light on the problems, and provides some answers.

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This essential study takes a fresh look at The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, Cymbeline and Pericles. Part I uses carefully selected short extracts for close textual analysis, while Part II examines the contexts and key criticism. The volume is an ideal introductory guide for those who are studying Shakespeare's late plays for the first time.

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This book explores the reasons for the lasting freshness and modernity of Shakespeare's plays, while revising the standard history of English medieval and Renaissance drama. Robert Knapp argues that changes in the authority of English monarchs, in the differentiation and integration of English society, in the realization of human figures on stage,

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This Guide offers a comprehensive survey of the key criticism on Shakespeare's tragedies, from the seventeenth century through to the present day. Introducing essential concepts, themes and debates, and summarising major critical texts, Nicolas Tredell examines how the category of Shakespeare's tragedies has been constructed, contested and changed.

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In modern life we are all too familiar with ideas of image and celebrity. This highly original study investigates the early evolution of Shakespeare's public image', or reputation, as a man, an actor and a poet, both from his own viewpoint and from that of his contemporaries.

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Why do Shakespeare's works continue to exert so strong an influence and have such lasting appeal What do they have to offer modern readers and play-goers The author seeks to answer these questions in this wide-ranging critical survey of Shakespeare's career as a poet and playwright.

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This book looks at four of Shakespeare's plays - As You Like It, King Lear, Pericles, and The Winter's Tale - and the primary source texts on which they are based, to show how the dramatist refashioned earlier works.

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A guide to Shakespearean language. It examines the relation of the modern actor to the Shakespearean text; the nuances of his language; and the fundamentals of grammar. It also considers the iambic code and the importance of formal rhetoric in Elizabethan England.

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Mr. Burckhardt does not discuss the plays as theatre. Instead he states: "This book is concerned with what Shakespeare meant. I believe that Shakespeare's plays, to put it bluntly, have messages and that these messages are discoverable, in fact, statable...Shakespeare not only abides our questions, he tells us what questions to ask; he took infinit

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Argues for Shakespeare's inclusion within a metaphysical tradition that opposes empiricism and Cartesian dualism. Through readings of 3 plays - "The Tempest", "King Lear" and "Twelfth Night", this title proposes that Shakespeare's manner of depicting life on stage itself constitutes an 'answer' to metaphysical questions raised by later thinkers.

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Argues for Shakespeare's inclusion within a metaphysical tradition that opposes empiricism and Cartesian dualism. Through readings of 3 plays - "The Tempest", "King Lear" and "Twelfth Night" - this title proposes that Shakespeare's manner of depicting life on stage itself constitutes an 'answer' to metaphysical questions raised by later thinkers.