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Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism

Shakespeare and the Truth of Love - The Mystery of 'The Phoenix and Turtle' (Hardcover): J. Bednarz Shakespeare and the Truth of Love - The Mystery of 'The Phoenix and Turtle' (Hardcover)
J. Bednarz
R1,409 Discovery Miles 14 090 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This is a comprehensive study of Shakespeare's forgotten masterpiece 'The Phoenix and Turtle'. Bednarz confronts the question of why one of the greatest poems in the English language is customarily ignored or misconstrued by Shakespeare biographers, literary historians, and critics.

Renaissance Literature and its Formal Engagements (Hardcover): M. Rasmussen Renaissance Literature and its Formal Engagements (Hardcover)
M. Rasmussen
R1,402 Discovery Miles 14 020 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

After theory and the new historicism, what might a self-conscious turn to formal analysis in Renaissance literary studies look like today? The essays address this question from a variety of critical perspectives, embodying a renewed engagement with questions of form.

The Genius of Shakespeare (Paperback, Main Market Ed.): Jonathan Bate The Genius of Shakespeare (Paperback, Main Market Ed.)
Jonathan Bate 1
R336 Discovery Miles 3 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With an introduction by Simon Callow Judgements about the quality of works of art begin in opinion. But for the last two hundred years only the wilfully perverse (and Tolstoy) have denied the validity of the opinion that Shakespeare was a genius. Who was Shakespeare? Why has his writing endured? And what makes it so endlessly adaptable to different times and cultures? Exploring Shakespeare's life, including questions of authorship and autobiography, and charting how his legacy has grown over the centuries, this extraordinary book asks how Shakespeare has come to be such a powerful symbol of genius. Written with lively passion and wit, The Genius of Shakespeare is a fascinating biography of the life - and afterlife - of our greatest poet. Jonathan Bate, one of the world's leading Shakespearean scholars, has shown how the legend of Shakespeare's genius was created and sustained, and how the man himself became a truly global phenomenon. 'The best modern book on Shakespeare' Sir Peter Hall

A Companion To Shakespeare's Works Volume I The Tragedies (Hardcover, Volume I): R Dutton A Companion To Shakespeare's Works Volume I The Tragedies (Hardcover, Volume I)
R Dutton
R5,126 Discovery Miles 51 260 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This four-volume "Companion to Shakespeare's Works," compiled as a single entity, offers a uniquely comprehensive snapshot of current Shakespeare criticism.


Complementing David Scott Kastan's "A Companion to Shakespeare "(1999), which focused on Shakespeare as an author in his historical context, these volumes examine each of his plays and major poems using all the resources of contemporary criticism from performance studies to feminist, historicist, and textual analyses.


Scholars from all over the world - Australia, Canada, France, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and United States - have joined in the writing of new essays addressing virtually the whole of Shakespeare's canon from a rich variety of critical perspectives. A mixture of younger and more established scholars, their work reflects some of the most interesting research currently being conducted in Shakespeare studies.


Arguing for the persistence and utility of genre as a rubric for teaching and writing about Shakespeare's works, the editors have organized the four volumes in relation to generic categories: namely, the tragedies, the histories, the comedies, and the poems, problem comedies and late plays. Each volume thus contains individual essays on all texts in the relevant category as well as more general essays looking at critical issues and approaches more widely relevant to the genre.


This ambitious project offers a provocative roadmap to Shakespeare studies at the dawning of the twentieth-first century.

This companion to Shakespeare's tragedies contains original essays on every tragedy from "Titus Andronicus" to "Coriolanus" as well as thirteen additionalessays on such topics as Shakespeare's Roman tragedies, Shakespeare's tragedies on film, Shakespeare's tragedies of love, Hamlet in performance, and tragic emotion in Shakespeare.

Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving - Great Shakespeareans: Volume VI (Hardcover): Richard Schoch Macready, Booth, Terry, Irving - Great Shakespeareans: Volume VI (Hardcover)
Richard Schoch
R6,244 Discovery Miles 62 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This title offers a comprehensive critical analysis of the most important Shakespearean critics, editors, actors and directors. This volume focuses on Shakespeare's reception by figures in Victorian theatre. "Great Shakespeareans" offers a systematic account of those figures who have had the greatest influence on the interpretation, understanding and cultural reception of Shakespeare, both nationally and internationally. In this volume, leading scholars assess the contribution of William Charles Macready, Edwin Booth, Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry to the afterlife and reception of Shakespeare and his plays. Each substantial contribution assesses the double impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding, interpretation and appreciation of Shakespeare, provide a sketch of their subject's intellectual and professional biography and an account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures or works within the same field.

Shakespeare's Letters (Hardcover): Alan Stewart Shakespeare's Letters (Hardcover)
Alan Stewart
R1,819 Discovery Miles 18 190 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Shakespeare's plays are stuffed with letters - 111 appear on stage in all but five of his dramas. But for modern actors, directors, and critics they are frequently an awkward embarrassment. Alan Stewart shows how and why Shakespeare put letters on stage in virtually all of his plays. By reconstructing the very different uses to which letters were put in Shakespeare's time, and recapturing what it meant to write, send, receive, read, and archive a letter, it throws new light on some of his most familiar dramas. Early modern letters were not private missives sent through an anonymous postal system, but a vital - sometimes the only - means of maintaining contact and sending news between distant locations. Penning a letter was a serious business in a period when writers made their own pen and ink; letter-writing protocols were strict; letters were dispatched by personal messengers or carriers, often received and read in public - and Shakespeare exploited all these features to dramatic effect. Surveying the vast range of letters in Shakespeare's oeuvre, the book also features sustained new readings of Hamlet, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merchant of Venice and Henry IV Part One.

Shakespeare: Three Problem Plays (Hardcover): Nicholas Marsh Shakespeare: Three Problem Plays (Hardcover)
Nicholas Marsh
R2,865 Discovery Miles 28 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Focusing on All's Well that Ends Well, Measure for Measure and Troilus and Cressida, Nicholas Marsh uses close analysis of extracts from the plays to build the reader's confidence when approaching Shakespeare's Problem Plays, and exploring the unresolved competing discourses they dramatize. In the first part of the text, chapters on Openings, Young Men, Women, Politics, and Society, Fools and fools, and Drama highlight the multiple interpretations these plays provoke. In the second part, discussion of where the Problem Plays stand in relation to Shakespeare's life and works, a chapter about the historical and cultural context, and a comparison of five critical views, with suggestions for further reading, provide a bridge towards further study.

Shakespeare and Gesture in Practice - Shakespeare in Practice (Hardcover, 1st Ed. 2090): Darren Tunstall Shakespeare and Gesture in Practice - Shakespeare in Practice (Hardcover, 1st Ed. 2090)
Darren Tunstall
R3,173 Discovery Miles 31 730 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

When actors perform Shakespeare, what do they do with their bodies? How do they display to the spectator what is hidden in the imagination? This is a history of Shakespearean performance as seen through the actor's body. Tunstall draws upon social, cognitive and moral psychology to reveal how performers from Sarah Siddons to Ian McKellen have used the language of gesture to reflect the minds of their characters and shape the reactions of their audiences. This book is rich in examples, including detailed analysis of recent performances and interviews with key figures from the worlds of both acting and gesture studies. Truly interdisciplinary, this provocative and original contribution will appeal to anyone interested in Shakespeare, theatre history, psychology or body language.

Harold Bloom's Shakespeare (Hardcover, 1st ed): C Desmet, Robert Sawyer Harold Bloom's Shakespeare (Hardcover, 1st ed)
C Desmet, Robert Sawyer
R4,027 Discovery Miles 40 270 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Harold Bloom is one of the most influential—and controversial—of contemporary Shakespeare critics. These essays examine the sources and impact of his Shakespearean criticism. Through focused and sustained study of this writer as literary icon and his Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, the essays address a wide range of issues, from the cultural role of Shakespeare to the ethics of literary theory and criticism.

Shakespeare, Marlow and the Politics of France (Hardcover): R Hillman Shakespeare, Marlow and the Politics of France (Hardcover)
R Hillman
R2,659 Discovery Miles 26 590 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Taking a wide-ranging intertextual approach, Richard Hillman produces fresh readings of some familiar Early Modern English plays by setting them against political and cultural discourses concerning France, as the latter informed contemporary English consciousness. The English works explored go beyond those directly representing French affairs, on the premise that dramatic treatments of English historical topics, notably by Shakespeare and Marlowe, were inflected by events across the Channel.

How To Do Things With Shakespeare - New Approaches, New Essays (Hardcover): L. E. Maguire How To Do Things With Shakespeare - New Approaches, New Essays (Hardcover)
L. E. Maguire
R3,445 Discovery Miles 34 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of 12 essays uses the works of Shakespeare to show how experts in their field formulate critical positions.
A helpful guidebook for anyone trying to think of a new approach to Shakespeare
Twelve experts take new critical positions in their field of study using the writings and analysis of Shakespeare, to show how writers (students and academics) find topics and develop their ideas
Features autobiographical prefaces that explain how the experts chose their topics and why the editor commissioned these particular essays, topics, and authors
Argues that literary research is a reaction to experiences, thoughts or feelings
Essays are arranged in small dialogues of two or three, forming a debate
Teaches students to respond individually to cultural positions

The Merchant of Venice (Hardcover): Christopher McCullough The Merchant of Venice (Hardcover)
Christopher McCullough
R1,395 Discovery Miles 13 950 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This volume, while it raises all the questions appertaining to the cultural, historical and critical contexts of the play, has as its primary focus the play as theatrical performance. This focus is not taken in isolation, but observed in terms of all the social, material and practical aspects of theatrical production. The questions raised are those that face actors, stage managers and directors, scenic and costume designers, in the rehearsal room and on the stage.

The Shakespearean Marriage - Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands (Hardcover): L. Hopkins The Shakespearean Marriage - Merry Wives and Heavy Husbands (Hardcover)
L. Hopkins
R4,010 Discovery Miles 40 100 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Marriage features to a greater or lesser extent in virtually every play Shakespeare wrote - as the festive end of comedy, as the link across the cycles of the history plays, as a marker of the difference between his own society and that depicted in the Roman plays, and, all too often, as the starting-point for the tragedies. Situating his representations of marriage firmly within the ideologies and practices of Renaissance culture, Lisa Hopkins argues that Shakespeare anatomises marriage much as he does kingship, and finds it similarly indispensable to the underpinning of society, however problematic it may be as a guarantor of personal happiness.

Shakespeare After Mass Media (Hardcover): R. Burt Shakespeare After Mass Media (Hardcover)
R. Burt
R1,434 Discovery Miles 14 340 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Shakespeare in mass media–particularly film, video, and television–is arguably the fastest growing research agenda in Shakespeare studies. Shakespeare after Mass Media provides both students and scholars with the most comprehensive resource available on the market for studying the extraordinary afterlife of Shakespeare’s plays in a wide range of media. From marketing to electronic Shakespeares, comics to romance novels, Star Trek to Kenneth Branagh, radio and popular music to Bartlett’s Quotations, the contributors explore the contemporary cultural significance of Shakespeare with theoretical sophistication and accessible writing.

Coriolanus (Hardcover): William Shakespeare Coriolanus (Hardcover)
William Shakespeare
R532 Discovery Miles 5 320 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611 - Metaphor and National Identity (Hardcover): Jane Pettegree Foreign and Native on the English Stage, 1588-1611 - Metaphor and National Identity (Hardcover)
Jane Pettegree
R1,416 Discovery Miles 14 160 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This original and scholarly work uses three detailed case studies of plays - Shakespeare's "Antony and Cleopatra," "King Lear" and "Cymbeline "- to cast light on the ways in which early modern writers used metaphor to explore how identities emerge from the interaction of competing regional and spiritual topographies.

Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (Hardcover, New): J. Kingsley-Smith Shakespeare's Drama of Exile (Hardcover, New)
J. Kingsley-Smith
R1,406 Discovery Miles 14 060 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Exile defines the Shakespearean canon, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona to The Two Noble Kinsmen. This book traces the influences on the drama of exile, examining the legal context of banishment (pursued against Catholics, gypsies and vagabonds) in early modern England; the self-consciousness of exile as an amatory trope; and the discourses by which exile could be reshaped into comedy or tragedy. Across genres, Shakespeare's plays reveal a fascination with exile as the source of linguistic crisis, shaped by the utterance of that word "Banished".

The Winter's Tale (Hardcover): S Hampton-Reeves, Ros King The Winter's Tale (Hardcover)
S Hampton-Reeves, Ros King
R2,363 Discovery Miles 23 630 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This Handbook provides an introductory guide to "The Winter's Tale" offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.

Antony and Cleopatra - New Critical Essays (Paperback): Sara M. Deats Antony and Cleopatra - New Critical Essays (Paperback)
Sara M. Deats
R1,793 Discovery Miles 17 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Complementing other volumes in the Shakespeare Criticism Series, this collection of twenty original essays will expand the critical contexts in which Antony and Cleopatra can be enjoyed as both literature and theater. The essays will cover a wide spectrum of topics and utilize a diversity of scholarly methodologies, including textual and performance-oriented approaches, intertextual studies, as well as feminist, psychoanalytical, Marxist, and postcolonial inquiries. The volume will also feature an extensive introduction by the editor surveying the under-examined performance history and critical trends/legacy of this complex play. Contributors include prominent Shakespeare scholars David Bevington, Dympna Callaghan, Leeds Barroll, David Fuller, Dorothea Kehler, and Linda Woodbridge.

Shakespeare and Conflict - A European Perspective (Hardcover): C. Dente, S. Soncini Shakespeare and Conflict - A European Perspective (Hardcover)
C. Dente, S. Soncini
R1,877 Discovery Miles 18 770 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What are Shakespeare's uses of the conceptual space of conflict? And what has been the role played by principles, patterns and situations of conflict in the construction of the Shakespeare myth, and in its European and then global spread? This collection looks, from a truly pan-European vantage point, at the variety of conflictive and conflicting dimensions embedded in Shakespeare's texts (Part I); at the way Shakespeare's universe of discourse has been enlisted to address and dramatize conflicts of a socio-political, cultural or aesthetic nature (Part II); and at how Shakespearean meanings have been renegotiated through reception and reproduction in actual historical contexts of strife or outright belligerence (Part III). The fascinatingly complex picture that emerges from the original studies gathered here provides new insight into Shakespeare's unique position in world literature and culture.

Shakespeare's Theater of Likeness (Hardcover, New): R.A. Shoaf Shakespeare's Theater of Likeness (Hardcover, New)
R.A. Shoaf
R913 Discovery Miles 9 130 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

The word "like" occurs some 2,400 times in the writings ascribed to Shakespeare. So many occurrences of the word suggest that Shakespeare's is a theater of likeness, "as you like it." This book demonstrates that part of the enduring value of Shakespeare's art is his poetry of likeness here, in the "land of unlikeness," where human beings invent their likenesses. It shows that Shakespeare's theater is also Shakespeare's theory of the psychology of likeness and unlikeness in the human striving for the most elusive (and allusive) of all attainments, an individual identity. "This is an extraordinary book, an examination like no other of Shakespeare's plays, a brilliant study . . . that will help shape for the next generation the way the world reads Shakespeare. It is long, dense, exciting, and exact. . . . But those to whom this method is congenial will treasure this work and will come to a new understanding of where Shakespeare's great power resides." - Mark Taylor, Professor of English, Manhattan College. "Professor Shoaf has picked up on Shakespeare's use of the word 'like' with its interesting ambiguities. . . . I can imagine this book being cited by Shakespeare critics and scholars in all kinds of contexts for years and years. . . . This book looks like a winner." - Norman N. Holland, Marston-Milbauer Professor of English, University of Florida. "I find this book to be a valuable and useful contribution to the understanding of Shakespeare. It is original and stimulating." - Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University.

Bargains with Fate - Psychological Crises and Conflicts in Shakespeare and His Plays (Hardcover, Softcover Reprint Of The... Bargains with Fate - Psychological Crises and Conflicts in Shakespeare and His Plays (Hardcover, Softcover Reprint Of The Original 1st Ed. 1991)
Bernard J. Paris
R1,421 Discovery Miles 14 210 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
A Leg Up on the Canon, Book 2 - Adaptations of Shakespeare's Comedies and Jonson's Volpone (Hardcover): Jim McGahern A Leg Up on the Canon, Book 2 - Adaptations of Shakespeare's Comedies and Jonson's Volpone (Hardcover)
Jim McGahern
R986 R860 Discovery Miles 8 600 Save R126 (13%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Shakespeare had extraordinary intelligence, unheard-of powers of observation and interpretation, a soaring imagination, a way with words that defies description, and a defining interest in the theater. He brought kings, queens, heroes, and peasantry to the stage so they could be seen in a more realistic fashion. Even so, in modern times, assistance is often needed to interpret Shakespeare's work.

In "A Leg Up on the Canon," author Jim McGahern provides an extensive biography of Shakespeare and offers an introductory guide to his histories, comedies, tragedies, romances, and poems. McGahern presents summaries of the texts, explanations of difficult passages, extensive historical context, and glossaries of terms no longer in use. In each volume, he outlines the plot of plays in that category and then delivers a one-act play with inclusive commentary. McGahern includes pertinent remarks and important speeches and soliloquies interlaced with brief explanations and descriptions of the actions on stage as well as plot developments.

"A Leg Up on the Canon," a four-volume series, provides insights into the word music of the talented man from Stratford.

Richard II - New Critical Essays (Hardcover): Jeremy Lopez Richard II - New Critical Essays (Hardcover)
Jeremy Lopez
R4,649 Discovery Miles 46 490 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Arguably the first play in a Shakespearean tetralogy, Richard II is a unique and compelling political drama whose themes still resonate today. It is one of the few Shakespeare plays written entirely in verse and its format presents unique theatrical challenges. Politically engaged and controversial, it raises crucial debates about the relationship between early modern art, audience response and state power. This collection provides a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the critical and theatrical history of the play. The substantial introduction surveys the history of critical interpretations of Richard II since the eighteenth century. The eleven newly written critical essays by leading and emerging scholars in the field then adopt an eclectic range of critical approaches that encourage scholars and students to pursue new and imaginative directions with the text.

Weyward Macbeth - Intersections of Race and Performance (Hardcover): S. Newstok, Ayanna Thompson Weyward Macbeth - Intersections of Race and Performance (Hardcover)
S. Newstok, Ayanna Thompson
R1,438 Discovery Miles 14 380 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Weyward Macbeth, a volume of entirely new essays, provides innovative, interdisciplinary approaches to the various ways Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' has been adapted and appropriated within the context of American racial constructions. Comprehensive in its scope, this collection addresses the enduringly fraught history of 'Macbeth' in the United States, from its appearance as the first Shakespearean play documented in the American colonies to a proposed Hollywood film version with a black diasporic cast. Over two dozen contributions explore 'Macbeth's' haunting presence in American drama, poetry, film, music, history, politics, acting, and directing - all through the intersections of race and performance.

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