Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521854482
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 84

Book Description
Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite with the critics and has attracted widely different styles of performance. At one extreme the play is seen as a religious allegory, at the other it has been interpreted as a comedy protesting against power and privilege. Brian Gibbons focuses on the unique tragi-comic experience of watching the play, the intensity and excitement offered by its dramatic rhythm, the reversals and surprises that shock the audience even to the end. The introduction describes the play's critical reception and stage history and how these have varied according to prevailing social, moral and religious issues, which were highly sensitive when Measure for Measure was written, and have remained so to the present day.

A School Shakespeare ...

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 712

Book Description

The Tempest (2010 edition)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198325000
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The Tempest is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198320104
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
This topical and relevant play is a new addition to the Oxford School Shakespeare. The text follows the redesign of the series, photographs of recent stage productions have been included, and the attractive cover design follows the revised series style.

Measure for Measure

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198393351
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Measure for Measure is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists and classroom notes.

The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780199536115
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedict, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P. Zitner discusses Shakespeare's transformation of his source material. He rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage. Allowing for the play's openness to reinterpretation by successive generations of readers and performers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.

THE OXFORD SHAKESPEARE: Pericles

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780199536832
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This edition of Pericles in the Oxford Shakespeare series is the only single-volume, modern-spelling edition both to offer a reconstruction of the original play and to reproduce the corrupt Quarto text of 1609 exactly as first printed.

As You Like It (2009 Edition)

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198328698
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
As You Like It is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.

This Is Shakespeare

Author: Emma Smith
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1524748552
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 263

Book Description
An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard’s inconsistencies and flaws, and focuses on revealing—not resolving—the ambiguities of the plays and their changing topicality A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no other. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality, and literary mastery. A man who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn’t tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant. In This Is Shakespeare, Emma Smith—an intellectually, theatrically, and ethically exciting writer—takes us into a world of politicking and copycatting, as we watch Shakespeare emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd (the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day), flirting with and skirting around the cutthroat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval, and technological change. Smith writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity, and sex. Instead of offering the answers, the Shakespeare she reveals poses awkward questions, always inviting the reader to ponder ambiguities.

Julius Caesar

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Assassins
Languages : en
Pages : 96

Book Description