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Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature - Gesture, Word and Devotion (Hardcover): Joseph Sterrett Prayer and Performance in Early Modern English Literature - Gesture, Word and Devotion (Hardcover)
Joseph Sterrett
R2,824 Discovery Miles 28 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Early modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questions of prayer, questions powerful enough to splinter the English church and to fuel a ferocious civil war. This collection of thirteen newly commissioned essays traces the controversy and value given to the performance of prayer, through the body, the spoken word and written text, as well as its representation on stage. Through close readings of the works of Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton and Henry Vaughan amongst others, this book examines the performative aspects of prayer in a range of literary modes. This broad range of study is expanded further with chapters focussing on the private religious diaries of men and women throughout the seventeenth century, and the convergence of music and prayer in the work of William Byrd.

As You Like It: Arden Performance Editions (Paperback): William Shakespeare As You Like It: Arden Performance Editions (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Volume editing by Nora J. Williams
R315 Discovery Miles 3 150 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

'I wish I had copies like this at Drama School. Essential notes on the language for those who will get up and speak it, not purely for those who will sit and study it. An incredibly useful tool with room on every page to make notes. Next time I'm in rehearsal on a Shakespeare play, I have no doubt that a copy from this series will be in my hand.' ADRIAN LESTER, Actor, Director and Writer Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Each edition offers: -Facing-page notes -Short, clear definitions of words -Easily accessible information about key textual variants -Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words -An easy to read layout -Space to write notes -A short introduction to the play

Comedies Volume 1 (Hardcover, New Ed): William Shakespeare Comedies Volume 1 (Hardcover, New Ed)
William Shakespeare
R583 R529 Discovery Miles 5 290 Save R54 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the first volume of Comedies containing The Comedy of Errors, The taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona. It also includes Loves Labour's Lost, Romeo and Juliet (sic) and A Midsummer Night's Dream.

The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint (Paperback, New Ed): William Shakespeare The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint (Paperback, New Ed)
William Shakespeare; Edited by John Kerrigan; Introduction by John Kerrigan; Notes by John Kerrigan
R284 R261 Discovery Miles 2 610 Save R23 (8%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

When a volume of poetry entitled 'Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted' appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had seen several performances. Some of the sonnets, speaking of the begetting of children, mortality and memory, art, desire and jealousy, are addressed to a beloved youth; others are addressed to a treacherous mistress, a 'dark lady'. Appended to the sonnets is A Lover's Complaint, a beautiful poem in rhyme royal in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

While Shakespeare's biographers continue their investigations, readers may find the 'secret' of the sonnets in the poetry itself. In this spirit John Kerrigan provides an illuminating introduction to the volume as a whole, together with commentaries on each poem, a textual history and advice about further reading.

Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays - The Textual Controversy (Paperback): John Payne Collier,... Notes and Emendations to the Text of Shakespeare's Plays - The Textual Controversy (Paperback)
John Payne Collier, Nicholas Esterhazy Stephen Armytage Hamilton, Thomas Duffus Hardy
R1,884 Discovery Miles 18 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The editor and forger John Payne Collier (1789 1883) claimed to have discovered a Second Folio of Shakespeare which had been 'corrected' in a mid-seventeenth-century hand. He published this catalogue of the emendations, including his commentary on them, in 1852. Collier then presented the so-called 'Perkins Folio' to the Duke of Devonshire, whose successor allowed it to be loaned in 1859 to the British Museum, where a thorough examination exposed it as a forgery. A storm of controversy followed and three of the key documents in the debate, all published in 1860, are also reissued here: 'An Inquiry into the Genuineness of the Manuscript Corrections in Mr. J. Payne Collier's Annotated Shakspere Folio, 1632' by Nicholas Hamilton (d.1915), assistant keeper of manuscripts at the British Museum; Collier's attempt to refute Hamilton's findings; and 'A Review of the Present State of the Shakespearian Controversy' by Thomas Duffus Hardy (1804 78).

King Henry IV Part 2 (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): William Shakespeare King Henry IV Part 2 (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
William Shakespeare; Edited by James C. Bulman
R433 Discovery Miles 4 330 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

More troubled and troubling than King Henry IV Part 1, the play continues the story of King Henry's decline and Hal's reform. Though Part 2 echoes the structure of the earlier play, it is a darker and more unsettling world, in which even Falstaff's revelry is more tired and cynical, and the once-merry Hal sloughs off his tavern companions to become King Henry V. James C. Bulman's authoritative edition provides a wealth of incisive commentary on this complex history play.

The Two Noble Kinsmen (Hardcover, New): William Shakespeare The Two Noble Kinsmen (Hardcover, New)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Robert Kean Turner, Patricia Tatspaugh
R1,984 Discovery Miles 19 840 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries, textual notes on the plays and poems and an extensive Introduction. Since the late twentieth century, when scholarly attention began to focus on sexuality, collaboration and Shakespeare's late plays, The Two Noble Kinsmen has become an essential script. Turner and Tatspaugh's edition presents a strong case for taking the play more seriously now than ever before. A lively introduction discusses Shakespeare's craftsmanship in adapting a medieval tale for the Jacobean stage, the extent of co-authorship with John Fletcher, the rhetorical complexity of Shakespeare's late style, the themes of sexuality and friendship, and contemporary critical responses to the play. The edition demonstrates the theatrical vitality of The Two Noble Kinsmen and confirms it as a play for today.

Shakespeare's History Plays - Rethinking Historicism (Hardcover, New): Neema Parvini Shakespeare's History Plays - Rethinking Historicism (Hardcover, New)
Neema Parvini
R3,036 Discovery Miles 30 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Boldly moves criticism of Shakespeare's history plays beyond anti-humanist theoretical approaches This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare as a supremely intelligent and creative political thinker, whose history plays address and illuminate the very questions with which cultural historicists have been so preoccupied since the 1980s. In providing bold and original readings of the first and second tetralogies ( Henry VI, Richard III, Richard II and Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2), the book reignites old debates and re-energises recent bids to humanise Shakespeare and to restore agency to the individual in the critical readings of his plays. Key Features * Re-evaluates the legacy of new historicism and cultural materialism and intervenes in vital theoretical debates about human nature, the relationship between the individual and society, and the scope for individual political agency * Questions the anti-essentialist, anti-humanist theoretical framework that has held sway in Shakespeare studies since the 1980s and develops a critical practice which appreciates Shakespeare's startling insights into personal agency in history and ideology * Provides original new readings of the first and second tetralogies that demonstrate Shakespeare's unique and radical take on the workings of power, history, and individual agency Keywords Shakespeare, History Plays, Anti-humanism, New Historicism, Cultural Materialism, Critical Theory

A Midsummer Night's Dream - Coloring Novel Edition (Paperback): William Shakespeare A Midsummer Night's Dream - Coloring Novel Edition (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Contributions by Emilyann Girdner
R491 R458 Discovery Miles 4 580 Save R33 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Othello (Paperback, Revised): William Shakespeare Othello (Paperback, Revised)
William Shakespeare
R154 Discovery Miles 1 540 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this tragedy by William Shakespeare, the heroic Moor of Venice is driven to suspicion and finally murderous rage against his true love Desdemona by the cunning and hateful Iago.
This edition features an overview of Shakespeare's works by Sylvan Barnet, former Chairman of the English Department at Tufts University, as well as a comprehensive stage and screen history, dramatic criticism from the past and present, and sources from which Shakespeare derived this great work.

How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text (Hardcover): Eugene Giddens How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text (Hardcover)
Eugene Giddens
R1,896 Discovery Miles 18 960 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is an invaluable introductory guide for the English student who needs to decipher a page from a play, or a facsimile equivalent, from the Shakespearean period. The original quartos and folios of early play texts are increasingly subject to editorial and critical scrutiny, and electronic facsimiles are making the originals accessible to undergraduate and graduate students. Giddens provides a practical 'how to' guide to the original printed texts of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. He explains how the features of the play text came about, what the different elements mean, and who created them. The book provides that important first step towards bibliography and critical editing, presenting a detailed account of how to read these early texts and how they have been turned into the modern editions we are accustomed to.

Henry V (Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford) (Paperback): William Shakespeare Henry V (Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford) (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Text written by Henry N Hudson; Introduction by Charles Harold Herford
R272 Discovery Miles 2 720 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Troilus and Cressida (Paperback): Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate Troilus and Cressida (Paperback)
Eric Rasmussen, Jonathan Bate 1
R324 Discovery Miles 3 240 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

From the Royal Shakespeare Company - a modern, definitive edition of Shakespeare's great tragedy of love and war. With an expert introduction by Sir Jonathan Bate, this unique edition presents a historical overview of Troilus and Cressida in performance, takes a detailed look at specific productions, and recommends film versions. Included in this edition are interviews with two leading directors - Trevor Nunn and Michael Boyd - providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible. This edition also includes an essay on Shakespeare's career and Elizabethan theatre, and enables the reader to understand the play as it was originally intended - as living theatre to be enjoyed and performed. Ideal for students, theatre-goers, actors and general readers, the RSC Shakespeare editions offer a fresh, accessible and contemporary approach to reading and rediscovering Shakespeare's works for the twenty-first century.

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells
R2,810 Discovery Miles 28 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on traditional topics such as Shakespeare's biography and the transmission of his texts. Individual readings of the plays are given in the context of genre as well as through the cultural and historical perspectives of race, sexuality and gender, and politics and religion. Essays on performance survey the latest digital media as well as stage and film. Throughout the volume, contributors discuss Shakespeare in a global as well as a national context, a dramatist with a long and constantly mutating history of reception and performance.

The Merry Wives of Windsor (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): William Shakespeare The Merry Wives of Windsor (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
William Shakespeare; Edited by David Crane
R1,980 Discovery Miles 19 800 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. In this second edition of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor David Crane emphasises the liveliness of the play in stage terms. He also claims that this citizen comedy was an expression of Shakespeare's fundamental understanding of human life, conveyed centrally in the character of Falstaff. In the process he examines Shakespeare's free and vigorous use of different linguistic worlds. An account of the play's textual history concludes that at the time of its earliest performances Shakespeare's text was being adapted to specific theatrical needs, and as much in the possession of its players as of its author.

Coriolanus (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Lee Bliss Coriolanus (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Lee Bliss; Contributions by Bridget Escolme
R1,995 Discovery Miles 19 950 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Coriolanus, edited by Lee Bliss, provides a thorough reconsideration of what was probably Shakespeare's last tragedy. In the introduction, Bliss situates the play within its contemporary social and political contexts and pays particular attention to Shakespeare's manipulation of his primary source in Plutarch's Lives. The edition is alert to the play's theatrical potential, while the stage history also attends to the politics of performance from the 1680s onwards, including European productions following the Second World War. A new introductory section by Bridget Escolme accounts for recent theatrical productions as well as scholarly criticism of the last decade, with particular emphasis on gender and politics.

Shakespeare-Lexicon - Volume Two M-Z: A Complete Dictionary of All the English Words, Phrases and Constructions in the Works of... Shakespeare-Lexicon - Volume Two M-Z: A Complete Dictionary of All the English Words, Phrases and Constructions in the Works of the Poet (Paperback)
Alexander Schmidt, Gregor Sarrazin
R914 Discovery Miles 9 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Taming of a Shrew - The 1594 Quarto (Paperback): William Shakespeare The Taming of a Shrew - The 1594 Quarto (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Stephen Roy Miller
R959 Discovery Miles 9 590 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This is a modernized edition of an anonymous play, long known to scholars, which appears to be an alternative version of Shakespeare's popular comedy, The Taming of the Shrew. Stephen Miller suggests that an anonymous person rewrote Shakespeare's more complicated version, making it shorter, simpler and different in some ways. The main difference between the two plays concerns the framing story of Christopher Sly, the drunk, who disappears early on in Shakespeare's version. A Shrew, as it is usually known, contains additional material for Sly which is familiar to playgoers because it is often included in productions of Shakespeare's play. The Taming of a Shrew, The 1594 Quarto, provides a modernized text based upon a re-examination of the quarto and extensive commentary. Miller's introduction establishes a direct link between A Shrew and The Shrew and includes an illustrated stage history.

Macbeth (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): William Shakespeare Macbeth (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
William Shakespeare; Edited by A. R. Braunmuller
R1,994 Discovery Miles 19 940 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Macbeth provides a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. In his introduction, A. R. Braunmuller explores Macbeth's immediate theatrical and political contexts, particularly the Gunpowder Plot, and addresses such celebrated questions as: do the Witches compel Macbeth to murder; is Lady Macbeth herself in some sense a witch; is Macduff morally culpable? A new and well-illustrated account of the play in performance examines several cinematic versions, such as those by Kurosawa and Roman Polanski, as well as other dramatic adaptations. Several possible new sources are suggested and the presence of Thomas Middleton's writing in the play is also proposed.

Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (Paperback): Karen Raber Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory (Paperback)
Karen Raber
R968 Discovery Miles 9 680 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Shakespeare and Posthumanist Theory charts challenges in the field of Shakespeare studies to the assumption that the category "human" is real, stable, or worthy of privileging in discussions of the playwright's work. Drawing on a variety of methodologies - cognitive theory, systems theory, animal studies, ecostudies, the new materialisms - the volume investigates the world of Shakespeare's plays and poems in order to represent more thoroughly its variety, its ethics of inclusion, and its resistance to human triumphalism and exceptionalism. Karen Raber, a leading scholar in the field, clearly and cogently guides the reader through complex theoretical terrain, providing fresh, exciting readings of plays including Othello, The Tempest, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida and Henry IV Part 1.

Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year (Paperback): Allie Esiri Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year (Paperback)
Allie Esiri; Allie Esiri
R385 R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Save R36 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

From Allie Esiri, editor of the bestselling A Poem for Every Day of the Year and A Poem for Every Night of the Year, comes this beautiful gift anthology of Shakespeare's works. Shakespeare For Every Day of the Year is a magnificent collection of 366 extracts from Shakespeare's plays and poems. Each page of this unique book features an extract - which might be a famous poem, quote or scene - matched to the date it sits on - and an introductory paragraph which gives readers a new window into the work, time and life of the greatest writer in the English language. The book also includes synopses of each play, a comprehensive timeline covering Shakespeare's life, major historical events and offering context for his works, and an index of works which gathers the extracts under the title of the work they come from. Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is perfect for reading or sharing and brings you Shakespeare's best-known and best-loved classics alongside lesser known extracts. Esiri's entertaining and insightful thoughts on each entry will fill your year with wonder, laughter, wisdom and wit. 'Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year is not just for Christmas, but for all time.' - Helena Bonham Carter

King Lear - Graphic Novel (Paperback): Gareth Hinds King Lear - Graphic Novel (Paperback)
Gareth Hinds
R484 Discovery Miles 4 840 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A taut adaptation of Shakespeare's masterwork by Gareth Hinds -- the standard-bearer of graphic-novel retellings of literary classics.
In a graceful adaptation, Gareth Hinds transforms Shakespeare's timeless tale of pride and defiance, loyalty and ambition, betrayal and revenge into graphic-novel format, packing it with visual drama and providing accessible notes. This artful edition -- like an extraordinary stage performance -- offers a striking new perspective on one of the most powerful and beloved tragedies in the English language. Incorporating excerpts from the bard's own language, Gareth Hinds's inventive format opens the experience of KING LEAR to students and fans of graphic literature.

The First Part of King Henry IV (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): William Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Judith Weil, Herbert Weil; Contributions by Katharine Craik
R1,987 Discovery Miles 19 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of The First Part of King Henry IV offers a theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare's play and the history of its interpretation. In their introduction the editors, Herbert and Judith Weil, clarify the play's de-centred dramatic structure and call attention to the effects of civil war on a broad range of relationships. Falstaff's unpredictable vitality is also explored, together with such important contemporaneous values as honour, friendship, festivity and reformation. Lexical glosses make the rich wordplay accessible, while the notes provide a thorough commentary on Shakespeare's transformation of his sources. A supplementary section by Katharine Craik focuses on important modern interpretations.

The First Quarto of King Richard III (Paperback): William Shakespeare The First Quarto of King Richard III (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Peter Davison
R1,199 Discovery Miles 11 990 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Shakespeare's Richard III presents difficult textual problems. There are 2,000 verbal differences between the text of the first quarto (1597) and the version in the First Folio (1623). Although the narrative of the two plays is virtually identical, each has lines which are not found in the other, parts of the play are arranged differently, and the quarto deploys fewer characters. The text of the quarto is accompanied by a collation of variant readings and substantial textual notes. In a lengthy introduction Peter Davison proposes that Shakespeare's company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men, used a memorially reconstructed text of Richard III during a touring performance of the play, and that text provided the manuscript for the 1597 quarto. Using examples of touring practice of the past 400 years, Davison shows how the actors' involvement helped to produce the text we have.

The First Part of King Henry IV (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): William Shakespeare The First Part of King Henry IV (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Judith Weil, Herbert Weil; Contributions by Katharine Craik
R353 Discovery Miles 3 530 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of The First Part of King Henry IV offers a theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare's play and the history of its interpretation. In their introduction the editors, Herbert and Judith Weil, clarify the play's de-centred dramatic structure and call attention to the effects of civil war on a broad range of relationships. Falstaff's unpredictable vitality is also explored, together with such important contemporaneous values as honour, friendship, festivity and reformation. Lexical glosses make the rich wordplay accessible, while the notes provide a thorough commentary on Shakespeare's transformation of his sources. A supplementary section by Katharine Craik focuses on important modern interpretations.

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