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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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Sohmer sets out to show that JULIUS CAESAR was the first play performed at the new Globe Theatre on 12 June 1599. Drawing on many areas of expertise Sohmer sheds new light not only on JULIUS CAESAR but on a variety of accepted beliefs regarding Shakespeare's plays. For students and academics of Shakespearean studies.

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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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A comprehensive critical reference source for landscape, plants and gardens in Shakespeare.

Originally published: London: Continuum, 2008.

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Shakespeare's plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. This is a A-Z reference guide to political and economic terms, concepts and references in Shakespeare.

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The contributors to this volume share the belief that Shakespeare is the author who most effectively sets forth the multifarious pagaent of politics. They discuss a broad range of Shakespeare's dramatic poetry from the perspective of the political theorist.

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This study analyzes the role of the sentenia (proverb, maxim, adage) in the rhetorical process of invention and, particularly, Shakespeare's use of the proverb as a master theme.

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A challenging re-appraisal of the ways in which we have conceived of source study in relation to Shakespeare. By combining a theoretical and a practical approach this study challenges existing shibboleths and proposes new ways of conceiving the relations between Texts (oral and literary) and their antecedents.

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A challenging re-appraisal of the ways in which we have conceived of source study in relation to Shakespeare. By combining a theoretical and a practical approach this study challenges existing shibboleths and proposes new ways of conceiving the relations between Texts (oral and literary) and their antecedents.

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Focuses on Shakespeare's sexual language, some of which is notoriously difficult to unravel and whose roots go back into earlier literature. This is a comprehensive but concise reference guide to sexual language and imagery in Shakespeare.

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Originally published in 1997 by the Continuum International Publishing Group Inc.

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Explains he special effects used to represent storms in the earl modern playhouses, and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language. With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest -- .

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Explains the special effects used to represent storms in the early modern playhouses, and details how those effects filter into Shakespeare's dramatic language. With chapters on Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, Pericles and The Tempest -- .

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The author makes use of scripts and scholarship about original stagings of Shakespeare and suggests how those productions related to modern staging.

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A landmark collection of essays by leading scholars, giving a sustained analysis of theatre technologies in early modern England and how they effected the drama of the time.

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A landmark collection of essays by leading scholars, giving a sustained analysis of theatre technologies in early modern England and how they effected the drama of the time.

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Shakespeares tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd defines Thomas Kyds dramatic canon and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeares drama. Groundbreaking in its implications for our understanding of Shakespeares dramatic development, the book aims to revolutionise our understanding of the early modern canon.

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Shakespeare's tutor: The influence of Thomas Kyd defines Thomas Kyd's dramatic canon and indicates where and how Kyd contributed to the development of Shakespeare's drama. Groundbreaking in its implications for our understanding of Shakespeare's dramatic development, the book aims to revolutionise our understanding of the early modern canon.

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This book aims to reclaim the idea of Shakespeare's universality and revolutionary potential in the modern world through arresting new readings of his drama.