Book Description
Not heeding the advice of a wiser man, Will Shakespeare came to London and stayed for twenty-five years, writing plays that have become our classics.
Author : Anne Terry White
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 1955
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Not heeding the advice of a wiser man, Will Shakespeare came to London and stayed for twenty-five years, writing plays that have become our classics.
Author : Aliki
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2000-08-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0064437221
From Hamlet to Romeo and Juliet to A Midsummer Night′s Dream, Shakespeare′s celebrated works have touched people around the world. Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare′s world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for which he wrote his plays. Then she brings history full circle to the present-day reconstruction of the Globe theater. Ages 8+
Author : J. R. Mulryne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 16,71 MB
Release : 1997-06-12
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780521599887
The rebuilding of the Globe theatre (1599-1613) on London's Bankside, a few yards from the site of the playhouse in which many of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, must rank as one of the most imaginative enterprises of recent decades. It has aroused intense interest among scholars and the general public worldwide. This book offers a fully illustrated account of the research that has gone into the Globe reconstruction, drawing on the work of leading scholars, theatre people and craftsmen to provide an authoritative view of the twenty years of research and the hundreds of practical decisions entailed. Documents of the period are explored afresh; the techniques of timber-framed building and the decorative practices of Elizabethan craftsmen explained; and all of this reconciled with the requirements of the actors and restrictions of modern architectural design. The result is a book that will fascinate scholarly readers and laymen alike.
Author : Toby Forward
Publisher : Candlewick Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,15 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Theater
ISBN : 9780763626945
In the present tense, tells of the times during which the Globe Theatre was built and gives its history; includes a pop-up theater, punch-out characters to use in it, and two booklets of scenes from Shakespeare's plays.
Author : Lauren Gunderson
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 27,2 MB
Release : 2018-06-18
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0822237725
Without William Shakespeare, we wouldn’t have literary masterpieces like Romeo and Juliet. But without Henry Condell and John Heminges, we would have lost half of Shakespeare’s plays forever! After the death of their friend and mentor, the two actors are determined to compile the First Folio and preserve the words that shaped their lives. They’ll just have to borrow, beg, and band together to get it done. Amidst the noise and color of Elizabethan London, THE BOOK OF WILL finds an unforgettable true story of love, loss, and laughter, and sheds new light on a man you may think you know.
Author : Dominic Dromgoole
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,87 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 : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 1901
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Author : Susan Cooper
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 5 pages
File Size : 17,50 MB
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0689845782
Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Standard Ebooks
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2022-10-17T20:00:57Z
Category : Drama
ISBN :
The Two Noble Kinsmen is Shakespeare’s final play written before his death in 1616. He collaborated on it with John Fletcher; later, Fletcher took over as playwright for the King’s Men. The plot derives from “The Knight’s Tale” in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. Thebes and Athens are at war. The tyrant Creon of Thebes commands Arcite and Palamon to fight for him. After a battle against Theseus, they end up captured and imprisoned. From their cell window, they see a beautiful woman named Emilia. Arcite and Palamon’s friendship turns into rivalry when they challenge each other to a fight to the death—with the victor claiming Emilia. This Standard Ebooks edition is based on the 1894 Royal Shakespeare edition. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks.
Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 19,78 MB
Release : 2013-04-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1623160332
(Book). Shakespeare was a man of the theatre to his core, so it is no surprise that he repeatedly contemplated the nuts and bolts of his craft in his plays and poems. Shakespeare scholar Nick de Somogyi here draws together all the cherishable set pieces including "All the world's a stage," Hamlet's encounters with the Players, and Bottom's amateur theatricals along with many other oblique but no less revealing glances, and further insights into theatre practice by Shakespeare's contemporaries and rivals. De Somogyi's commentary takes us through the entire process of Shakespeare's theatrical production, from its casting and auditions, via rehearsals, costumes, and props, to its premiere and audience reception. Shakespeare on Theatre eavesdrops on the urgently whispered noises-off in the "tiring-house" and inhales the heady aroma of the Globe's first audiences.