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As one of the most adventurous literary and cultural critics of his
generation, Terence Hawkes' contributions to the study of
Shakespeare and the development of literary and cultural theory
have been immense. His work has been instrumental in effecting a
radical shift in the study of Shakespeare and of literary studies.
This collection of essays by some of his closest colleagues,
friends, peers, and mentees begins with an introduction by John
Drakakis, outlining the profound impact that Hawkes' work had on
various areas of literary studies. It also includes a poem by
Christopher Norris, who worked with Hawkes for many years at the
University of Cardiff, as well as work on translation, social
class, the historicist and presentist exploration of Shakespearean
texts, and teaching Shakespeare in prisons. The volume features
essays by former students who have gone on to establish reputations
in areas beyond the study of literature, and who have contributed
ground-breaking volumes to the pioneering New Accents series. It
concludes with Malcolm Evans' innovative account of the migration
of semiotics into the area of business. This book is a vibrant and
informative read for anyone interested in Hawkes' unique blend of
literary and cultural theory, criticism, Shakespeare studies, and
presentism.
For more than four centuries, cultural preferences, literary
values, critical contexts, and personal tastes have governed
readers' responses to Shakespeare's sonnets. Early private readers
often considered these poems in light of the religious, political,
and humanist values by which they lived. Other seventeenth- and
eighteenth- century readers, such as stationers and editors,
balanced their personal literary preferences against the imagined
or actual interests of the literate public to whom they marketed
carefully curated editions of the sonnets, often successfully.
Whether public or private, however, many disparate sonnet
interpretations from the sonnets' first two centuries in print have
been overlooked by modern sonnet scholarship, with its emphasis on
narrative and amorous readings of the 1609 sequence. First Readers
of Shakespeare's Sonnets reintroduces many early readings of
Shakespeare's sonnets, arguing that studying the priorities and
interpretations of these previous readers expands the modern
critical applications of these poems, thereby affording them
numerous future applications. This volume draws upon book history,
manuscript studies, and editorial theory to recover four lost
critical approaches to the sonnets, highlighting early readers'
interests in Shakespeare's classical adaptations, political
applicability, religious themes, and rhetorical skill during the
seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
"Oedipus Tyrannos is the first Greek play many readers encounter,
and this version is their ideal gateway. Emily Wilson's verse line
is effortlessly graceful, whether in taut, tense dialogue exchanges
or in the lyrical choral odes." -JAMES ROMM, Bard College
If you're a wheelchair-user, you've got a simple choice: either you
suck sweets in a corner and watch television all day or you try to
change the world around you. There ain't gonna be no magic pill in
my day. This is the (mostly) true story of Martin Naughton AKA
Michael Collins in a wheelchair. Martin is an agitator. A
disruptor. A seeker of justice and planter of (truth) bombs. But
will his anarchic quest for equality be derailed by dreams of love
and new horizons? Based on the real life of Martin Naughton and his
campaign for independence for disabled people in Ireland, No Magic
Pill, written by Christian O'Reilly, is a joyful, shameless,
no-holds-barred story of one man's fight for justice and love. This
edition was published to coincide with the production at Black Box,
Galway, and the Civic, Tallaght, for Dublin Theatre Festival in
October 2022.
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.
Race may dominate everyday speech, media headlines and public
policy, yet still questions of racialized blackness and whiteness
in Shakespeare are resisted. In his compelling new book Ian Smith
addresses the influence of systemic whiteness on the interpretation
of Shakespeare's plays. This far-reaching study shows that
significant parts of Shakespeare's texts have been elided,
misconstrued or otherwise rendered invisible by readers who have
ignored the presence of race in early modern England. Bringing the
Black American intellectual tradition into fruitful dialogue with
European thought, this urgent interdisciplinary work offers a deep,
revealing and incisive analysis of individual plays, including
Othello, The Merchant of Venice and Hamlet. Demonstrating how
racial illiteracy inhibits critical practice, Ian Smith provides a
necessary anti-racist alternative that will transform the way you
read Shakespeare.
Times are tough for the family in the wood They'd eat like kings if
only they could But hunger gnaws - famine stalks the land Something
quite wicked has the upper hand! Poor mother and father must do
"what is best"... And Hansel and Gretel will be put to the test!
Armed with their very last slice of bread Will they eat to survive
Or ........leave ....................a
..........................trail
...................................home
..............................................instead? The school
edition of Carl Grose and Kneehigh Theatre Company's acclaimed
version of Hansel & Gretel, which includes notes for teachers
and those studying the play for GCSE English, as written by Anthony
Banks.
First, do no harm. How do we defend the "truth" when no one agrees
what it is and many have reason to undermine it? Very freely
adapting Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, Robert Icke's
gripping moral thriller uses the lens of medical ethics to examine
urgent questions of faith, belief, and scientific rationality.
After a critically acclaimed run at London's Almeida Theatre, The
Doctor transferred to the West End in September 2022. This revised
and updated edition was published to coincide with the new
production.
Pearl, Jan and Linda are enjoying a long-awaited break on the Holy
Island of Lindisfarne, when a surprise visitor turns up. They
haven't seen Shelley for years, and their retreat becomes a reunion
- and pretty soon, a riot. But a lot has changed since they were
last together and, cut off from the mainland, tensions rise with
the tide. As the sky darkens, the island grows restless with echoes
of the past. Will the four still be friends when dawn breaks?
Following the smash hits Ladies' Day and Ladies Down Under, Amanda
Whittington's Ladies Unleashed is the third play in her Ladies
Trilogy. A moving comedy about friendship, growing older and living
for today, it was first performed at Hull Truck Theatre in
September 2022, directed by Mark Babych. The Ladies are back, and
amateur theatre companies - as well as their audiences - are sure
to delight in their riotous exploits.
Shakespeare and the Cultivation of Difference reveals the
relationship between racial discrimination and the struggle for
upward social mobility in the early modern world. Reading
Shakespeare's plays alongside contemporaneous conduct literature -
how-to books on self-improvement - this book demonstrates the ways
that the pursuit of personal improvement was accomplished by the
simultaneous stigmatization of particular kinds of difference. The
widespread belief that one could better, or cultivate, oneself
through proper conduct was coupled with an equally widespread
belief that certain markers (including but not limited to
"blackness"), indicated an inability to conduct oneself properly,
laying the foundation for what we now call "racism." A careful
reading of Shakespeare's plays reveals a recurring critique of the
conduct system voiced, for example, by malcontents and social
climbers like Iago and Caliban, and embodied in the struggles of
earnest strivers like Othello, Bottom, Dromio of Ephesus, and
Dromio of Syracuse, whose bodies are bruised, pinched, blackened,
and otherwise indelibly marked as uncultivatable. By approaching
race through the discourse of conduct, this volume not only exposes
the epistemic violence toward stigmatized others that lies at the
heart of self-cultivation, but also contributes to the broader
definition of race that has emerged in recent studies of
cross-cultural encounter, colonialism, and the global early modern
world.
Casual Shakespeare is the first full-length study of the thousands
of quotations both in and of Shakespeare's works which represent
intertextuality outside of what is conventionally appreciated as
literary value. Drawing on the insights gained as a result of a
major, ongoing Digital Humanities project, this study posits a
historical continuum of casual quotation which informs
Shakespeare's own works as well as their afterlives. In this
groudbreaking, rigorous analysis, Dr. Regula Trillini offers
readers a new approach and understanding of the use and impact
quotes like the infamous, 'To be or not to be,' have had througout
literary history.
Mrs Kay's 'Progress Class' are unleashed for a day's coach trip to
Conway Castle in Wales - in an exuberant celebration of the joys
and agonies of growing up and being footloose, fourteen and free
from school. 'The skill and zest of the show ...derive from its
success in following the adult argument through while preserving
all the fun of a story mainly played by children ...I have rarely
seen a show that combined such warmth and such bleakness.' The
Times This edition contains the music to the play.
This is the complete play which is translated into plain English.
Although "The Tempest" was the first play to appear in the first
official Folio printing of Shakespeare's plays, it was almost
certainly the last play he wrote. It held pride of place in that
first collection, presumably because the editors thought it to be
his masterpiece; a crowning glory to the career of the most
brightest of playwrights. Needless to say, we had to select the
very best artists to do it justice, and to bring you the stunning
artwork that you've come to expect from our titles. Poignant to the
last, this book is a classic amongst classics.
Based on the electrifying novel by Bret Easton Ellis, the musical
tells the story of Patrick Bateman, a young and handsome Wall
Street banker with impeccable taste and unquenchable desires.
Patrick and his elite group of friends spend their days in chic
restaurants, exclusive clubs, and designer labels. But at night,
Patrick takes part in a darker indulgence, and his mask of sanity
is starting to slip...
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Nativity
(Paperback)
Peter Whelan, Bill Alexander
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R328
Discovery Miles 3 280
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Weird isn't it. Years of the same old thing and then suddenly,
without warning, tomorrow is a stranger. An old starship. Far from
Earth. Prema Ramesh, the ship's grieving commander, seeks solace in
the sacred mission of her ancestors: leading the remnants of
humanity towards the Destination. A bountiful world on which their
descendants will one day thrive. But after centuries in the void,
the creaking vessel is falling apart, its crew is suffering. What
good is a promised paradise when the present is unbearable? So when
rumour spreads of another viable, much closer planet, the crew
begin to dream of different possibilities. It could all end now. A
new future beckons. But first the old structures must crumble. They
won't fall without a fight. A playful adaptation of Chekhov's
tragicomic final work. Joy in the infinite, loss on a galactic
scale, small lives and great ambitions adrift in the cosmos. This
edition is published to coincide with the world premiere at the
Yard Theatre, London, in September 2022. A The Yard Theatre, ETT
and HOME Manchester production, co-commissioned by The Yard Theatre
and ETT.
Jungian Theory for Storytellers is a toolkit for anyone using
Jungian archetypes to create stories in fiction, TV, film, video
games, documentaries, poetry, and many other media. It contains a
detailed classification of the archetypes, with relevant examples,
and explains how they work in different types of narratives.
Importantly, Bassil-Morozow explores archetypes and their
significance in characterization, individuation, plot and
story-building. Bassil-Morozow also presents an overview of Jung's
thoughts on creativity and other Jungian concepts, including the
unconscious, ego, persona and self and the individuation process,
and shows how they are linked to conflict. The book provides an
explanation of relevant Jungian terms for a non-Jungian audience
and introduces the idea of the hero's journey, with examples
included throughout. Accessibly written yet academic, both
practical and engaging, and written with a non-Jungian audience in
mind, Jungian Theory for Storytellers is an ideal source for
writers and screenwriters of all backgrounds, including academics
and teachers, who want to use Jungian theory in their work or are
seeking to understand relevant Jungian ideas.
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