Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Charles Knight
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 49,67 MB
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3385212154
Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.
Author : Samuel Schoenbaum
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 36,27 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Biography (as a literary form)
ISBN : 0198186185
This volume presents a study of the changing images and differing ways that the life of English poet and playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) has been interpreted throughout history. The author takes readers on a tour of the countless myths and legends which have arisen to explain the great dramatist's life and work, bringing the story right up to 1989. He reconstructs as much of the elusive author's life as possible, considering his family history, his economic standing, and his reputation with his peers; the Shakespeare who emerges may not always be the familiar one.
Author : Ari Berk
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 23,98 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 : Charles Knight
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 39,64 MB
Release : 1875
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Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 832 pages
File Size : 42,8 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 13,45 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 : William Shakespeare
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Page : 788 pages
File Size : 26,43 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : Charles Knight
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Page : 206 pages
File Size : 15,41 MB
Release : 1873
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Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 17,69 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 : Ian Doescher
Publisher : Quirk Books
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,3 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1594746559
The New York Times Best Seller Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2. Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.