Human Life in Shakespeare
Author : Henry Giles
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Human beings in literature
ISBN :
Author : Henry Giles
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 41,81 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Human beings in literature
ISBN :
Author : Henry Giles
Publisher :
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,13 MB
Release : 1868
Category : Human beings in literature
ISBN :
Author : Ari Berk
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 12,87 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 : Harold Bloom
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 774 pages
File Size : 18,86 MB
Release : 2008-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0007292848
Harold Bloom, the doyen of American literary critics and author of 'The Western Canon', has spent a professional lifetime reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. In this magisterial interpretation, Bloom explains Shakespeare's genius in a radical and provocative re-reading of the plays.
Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 43,79 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 : James Shapiro
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 33,10 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 : Dominic Dromgoole
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 13,36 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Shakespeare has always been a big part of the author's life. This is the story of how he has stumbled, shambled and occasionally glided through the years with Shakespeare as his guide. It also shows us what Shakespeare's rough-and-ready genius can teach us about love, war, sex, death, drunkenness, friendship.
Author : Paula Marantz Cohen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 15,48 MB
Release : 2021-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0300258321
An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy While exploring Shakespeare's plays with her students, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that teaching and discussing his plays unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in the classroom. In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare's genius lay with his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways. Cohen takes her readers through a selection of Shakespeare's most famous plays, including Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and clearly about how we treat "the other." Cohen argues that only through close reading of Shakespeare can we fully appreciate his empathetic response to race, class, gender, and age. Wise, eloquent, and thoughtful, this book is a forceful argument for literature's power to champion what is best in us.
Author : Jan Kott
Publisher : Doubleday
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 23,79 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 : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 1885
Category : Life cycle, Human
ISBN :