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(Hardback)
By: Nicolas Tredell
ISBN: 9781137404893
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Prof Katherine Duncan-Jones
ISBN: 9781408130148
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
(Paperback, New edition)
By: Stanley Wells
ISBN: 9780413767103
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Jelena Marelj
ISBN: 9781350061385
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Jelena Marelj
ISBN: 9781350175006
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2020
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Stephen Lynch
ISBN: 9780313307263
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Leslie O'Dell
ISBN: 9780313311451
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Sigurd Burckhardt
ISBN: 9780691622385
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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
(Hardback)
By: Sigurd Burckhardt
ISBN: 9780691649160
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Michael Witmore
ISBN: 9780826490438
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
(Paperback)
By: Michael Witmore
ISBN: 9780826490445
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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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.
(Hardback)
By: Howard M. Felperin
ISBN: 9780691642222
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Benet Brandreth
ISBN: 9781350087972
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Benet Brandreth
ISBN: 9781350087965
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Howard M. Felperin
ISBN: 9780691619606
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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If Shakespeare's last plays--Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter's Tale, The Tempest, and Henry VIII--are to be neither debunked nor idealized but taken seriously on their own terms, they must be examined within the traditions and conventions of romance. Howard Felperin defines this relatively neglected literary mode and locates these plays within it.
(Hardback)
By: Howard M. Felperin
ISBN: 9780691646473
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Kiernan Ryan
ISBN: 9781472586995
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Dr Miranda Fay Thomas
ISBN: 9781350228146
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Janice Valls-Russell
ISBN: 9781350125872
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Alysia Kolentsis
ISBN: 9781350235977
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2021
UK Publication Date: 17th June 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Richard Wilson
ISBN: 9781350433854
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Aug 2025
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Matthias Bauer
ISBN: 9781350436367
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2024
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)
By: Professor Christopher R. Wilson
ISBN: 9781847064950
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Music pervades Shakespeare's work. In addition to vocal songs and numerous instrumental cues there are thousands of references to music throughout the plays and many of the poems. This book discusses Shakespeare's musical imagery according to categories defined by occurrence in the plays and poems.
(Hardback)
By: Boika Sokolova
ISBN: 9781350125957
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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