Shakespeare's Local

Author: Pete Brown
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
ISBN: 0230767370
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 343

Book Description
Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and lean back, resting your head against the wall. And then consider this: who else has rested their head against that wall, over the last 600 years? Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims almost certainly drank in the George on their way out of London to Canterbury. It's fair to say that Shakespeare will have popped in from the nearby Globe for a pint, and we know that Dickens certainly did. Mail carriers changed their horses here, before heading to all four corners of Britain -- while sailors drank here before visiting all four corners of the world... The pub, as Pete Brown points out, is the 'primordial cell of British life' and in the George he has found the perfect case study. All life is here, from murderers, highwaymen and ladies of the night to gossiping pedlars and hard-working clerks. So sit back and watch as buildings rise and fall over the centuries, and 'the beer drinker's Bill Bryson' (TLS) takes us on an entertaining tour through six centuries of history, through the stories of everyone that ever drank in one pub.

Native Shakespeares

Author: Parmita Kapadia
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317089839
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Explored in this essay collection is how Shakespeare is rewritten, reinscribed and translated to fit within the local tradition, values, and languages of the world's various communities and cultures. Contributors show that Shakespeare, regardless of the medium - theater, pedagogy, or literary studies - is commonly 'rooted' in the local customs of a people in ways that challenge the notion that his drama promotes a Western idealism. Native Shakespeares examines how the persistent indigenization of Shakespeare complicates the traditional vision of his work as a voice of Western culture and colonial hegemony. The international range of the collection and the focus on indigenous practices distinguishes Native Shakespeares from other available texts.

Puzzling Shakespeare

Author: Leah Sinanoglou Marcus
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520071919
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292

Book Description

World-Wide Shakespeares

Author: Sonia Massai
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134345844
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 214

Book Description
World-Wide Shakespeares brings together an international team of leading scholars in order to explore the appropriation of Shakespeare's plays in film and performance around the world.

Local Shakespeares

Author: Martin Orkin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134274513
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 231

Book Description
This book shows how 'local', 'non-metropolitan' knowledges and experiences might extend our understanding of various aspects of Shakespeare's plays, using as a particular example the presentation of masculinity in the late plays.

Shakespeare's Pub

Author: Pete Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250033888
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

Book Description
"First published in Great Britain under the title Shakespeare's local by Macmillan"--T.p. verso.

Shakespeare's Trollop

Author: Charlaine Harris
Publisher: Minotaur Books
ISBN: 1429980044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 215

Book Description
Welcome back to Shakespeare - a charming Arkansas town with endless back roads, an eclectic mix of residents, and a dollop of noir. Featuring cleaning woman/karate expert Lily Bard, Charlaine Harris's series puts a unique spin on the traditional cozy to create mysteries that "work on every level. The writing and plotting are first rate [and] Lily is appealing in her own prickly way" --Washington Times In this installment, Lily discovers lifelong Shakespeare resident Deedra Dean murdered inside a car parked in a woodsy area outside town. Determined not to get involved, Lily wants to leave the police work to Sheriff Marta Schuster and her team of deputies, and concentrate on cleaning, high kicks, and her boyfriend Jack's impending visit. But when Deedra's notoriously promiscuous lifestyle provides an extensive list of suspects but very few clues, Lily has no choice but to resume the roll of amateur detective and join the investigation. In Shakespeare's Trollop, the fourth book in Charlaine Harris's highly acclaimed and darkly compelling series, Lily Bard delivers a hard-hitting mix of Southern charm and street smarts, a combination so alluring that long-time readers and newcomers will be dying to visit Shakespeare again.

Shakespeare's Money

Author: Robert Bearman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019875924X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
Shakespeare's Money explores what archival records can reveal about Shakespeare's economic and social success, shedding light on how he elevated his family from lowly status to minor gentry and how economic concerns were ever present in his daily life.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Author: Graham Bradshaw
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 135196352X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 286

Book Description
This eighth volume of The Shakespearean International Yearbook presents a special section on 'European Shakespeares', proceeding from the claim that Shakespeare's literary craft was not just native English or British, but was filtered and fashioned through a Renaissance awareness that needs to be recognized as European, and that has had effects and afterlives across the Continent. Guest editors Ton Hoenselaars and Clara Calvo have constructed this section to highlight both how the spread of 'Shakespeare' throughout Europe has brought together the energies of a wide variety of European cultures across several centuries, and how the inclusion of Shakespeare in European culture has been not only a European but also a world affair. The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Spain, Switzerland and South Africa, Canada, The Netherlands, India, Portugal, Greece, France, and Hungary. In addition to the section on European Shakespeares, this volume includes essays on the genre of romance, issues of character, and other topics.

The Shakespearean International Yearbook

Author: Professor Graham Bradshaw
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 140948954X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Book Description
In this issue of The Shakespearean International Yearbook, the special section surveys various means of 'Updating Shakespeare'. The section treats a variety of attempts and strategies, including by artists in Japan, China and Brazil, to adapt Shakespeare's works into local and present circumstances. The guest editor for the section is Tetsuo Kishi, Professor Emeritus in English at the University of Kyoto, co-author of Shakespeare in Japan (2006). The Shakespearean International Yearbook continues to provide an annual survey of important issues and developments in contemporary Shakespeare studies. Contributors to this issue come from the US and the UK, Poland, Japan and Brazil. In addition to the section on 'Updating', essays in this volume treat Shakespeare's poems, his narrative strategies, his relation to ideas such as tolerance and representation, and the afterlives of his work in writers such as Gay, Slowacki and Becket, and in theatrical relics.