Author : Ari Berk
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 40,58 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763647942
Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 24,16 MB
Release : 2010-05-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393079848
Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
Author : Jan Kott
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 2015-01-21
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0804152195
Shakespeare, Our Contemporary is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare. More than that, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions. Peter Brook and Charles Marowitz are among the many directors who have acknowledged their debt to Jan Kott, finding in his analogies between Shakespearean situations and those in modern life and drama the seeds of vital new stage conceptions. Shakespeare, Our Contemporary has been translated into nineteen languages since it appeared in 1961, and readers all over the world have similarly found their responses to Shakespeare broadened and enriched.
Author : J. Hart
Publisher : Springer
Page : 525 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2011-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0230118143
This book is concerned with language, genre, drama, and literary and historical narrative and examines the comedy of Shakespeare in the context of comedies from Italy, Spain, and France in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 23,5 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0061840904
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.
Author : Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 12,46 MB
Release : 2021-09-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0192846302
Tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close readings of key documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables
Author : John Elsom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1134950357
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : S. Brown
Publisher : Springer
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 2013-05-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137319402
The plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries has inspired interpretations in every genre and medium. This book offers perspectives on the ways in which practitioners have used Renaissance drama to address contemporary concerns and reach new audiences. It provides a resource for those interested in the creative reception of Renaissance drama.
Author : E.A.J. Honigmann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2016-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349047643
Author : Aleksandr Tikhonovich Parfenov
Publisher : University of Delaware Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 38,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780874136197
Throughout his career, from the early play Love's Labour's Lost to one of his last romances, The Winter's Tale, Shakespeare was intrigued by Russia. Reciprocating that intrigue over the last few centuries, Russia, as so many other countries, has claimed Shakespeare as its own. The essays in this book represent the work of Russian and Ukrainian scholars from three different perspectives: explaining the plays to Russian audiences, discussing Russian theater for Western audiences, and dealing with contemporary criticism.
