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Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives,
this volume examines J.M. Coetzee's novels from Dusklands to Diary
of a Bad Year. The choice of essays reflects three broad goals:
aligning the South African dimension of Coetzee's writing with his
"late modernist" aesthetic; exploring the relationship between
Coetzee's novels and his essays on linguistics; and paying
particular attention to his more recent fictional experiments.
These objectives are realized in essays focusing on, among other
matters, the function of names and etymology in Coetzee's fiction,
the vexed relationship between art and politics in apartheid South
Africa, the importance of film in Coetzee's literary sensibility,
Coetzee's reworkings of Defoe, the paradoxes inherent in
confessional narratives, ethics and the controversial politics of
reading Disgrace, intertextuality and the fictional
self-consciousness of Slow Man. Through its pronounced emphasis on
the novelist's later work, the collection points towards a
narrato-political and linguistic reassessment of the Coetzee canon.
Originally published in 1988, John Ford: Critical Re-Visions offers
a wholesale reconsideration of the reputation of a major Caroline
playwright. The volume takes an historical perspective and offers a
better understanding of Ford's achievement in the light of the
theatrical and social conditions of his own day. The collection of
essays was assembled for the 400th anniversary of the playwright's
birth. The contributors, well known scholars in the field, work
from a variety of critical positions: insights associated with a
new historicist, feminist, structuralist and post-structuralist
theory are represented, together with more traditional approaches.
The essays range from detailed readings of the individual plays,
including 'Tis Pity She's a Whore, Perkin Warbeck, Love's Sacrifice
and The Lady's Trial to more wide-ranging studies of imagery and
theatrical convention; several help to illuminate our understanding
of Ford's plays in the theatre of his own time, while another
offers a detailed account of post-war stage, film and television
productions.
Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of
Shakespeare's four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is
its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also the only
tragedy to feature a main character, Iago, who truly seems evil,
betraying and deceiving those that trust him purely for spite and
with no political goal. This edition, the first to give full
attention to these themes, includes an extensive introduction
stresses the public dimensions of the tragedy, paying particular
attention to its treatment of color and social relations. Designed
to meet the needs of theatre professionals, the edition includes an
extensive performance history, while on-page commentary and notes
explain language, word play, and staging. Collated and edited from
all existing printings, this entirely new edition uses modern day
spelling to make readings smoother. Appendices are included which
explain the dating problems many have found in the play, describe
the music that has traditionally accompanied it, and provide a full
translation of the Italian novella from which the story derives.
Like all editions of the Oxford Shakespeare in the Oxford World
Classics series, Othello includes a full index to the introduction
and commentary. It is illustrated with production photographs and
related art, and features a durable sewn binding for lasting use.
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading
scholars in editions designed to interpret and
This edition brings five of Marston"s most interesting plays
together in a readable and helpful form. They are collected with
modern spelling, full commentaries, textual notes and
introductions, in texts newly edited from the original quartos. A
survey of criticism of Marston is included. The edition of
Sophonisba (a play highly praised by T. S. Eliot) is the first
modernised text to appear in one hundred years. Another textual
innovation is the relegation to an appendix of Webster's obtrusive
additions to The Malcontent. Marston"s plays have enjoyed popular
revivals in English theatres over the last decade, and the authors"
commentary is designed to alert readers to theatrical effects. The
playwright"s language is elucidated here far more fully than in any
other collection.
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Fresh explorations of the tragicomic drama, setting the familiar
plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries alongside Irish and
European drama. Tragicomedy is one of the most important dramatic
genres in Renaissance literature, and the essays collected here
offer stimulating new perspectives and insights, as well as
providing broad introductions to arguably lesser-known European
texts. Alongside the chapters on Classical, Italian, Spanish, and
French material, there are striking and fresh approaches to
Shakespeare and his contemporaries -- to the origins of mixed genre
in English, to the development of Shakespearean and Fletcherian
drama, to periodization in Shakespeare's career, to the language of
tragicomedy, and to the theological structure of genre. The
collection concludes with two essays on Irish theatre and its
interactions with the London stage, further evidence of the
persistent and changing energy of tragicomedy in the period.
Contributors: SARAH DEWAR-WATSON, MATTHEW TREHERNE, ROBERT HENKE,
GERAINT EVANS, NICHOLAS HAMMOND, ROSKING, SUZANNE GOSSETT, GORDAN
MCMULLAN, MICHAEL WINMORE, JONATHAN HOPE, MICHAEL NEILL, LUCY
MUNRO, DEANA RANKIN
Would you like to experience amazing clarity, peace and freedom,
even in the midst of challenging circumstances? In this
ground-breaking new book, bestselling author Michael Neill shares
an extraordinary new understanding of how life works that turns
traditional psychology on its head. This revolutionary approach is
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The Merchant of Venice is now the most contentious of Shakespeare's
plays. Its only rival in this respect is Othello, and this is
because both plays deal with dangerous issues of race. In Othello
Iago uses the protagonist's colour both to goad his victim's
jealousy and to excite the animosity of Venetians against this
visible outsider; in The Merchant Shylock's Jewishness renders him,
from the beginning, the object of general opprobrium in Christian
Venice. But whereas the Moor is treated as a generally sympathetic
character, the Jew appears to be cast in an entirely negative
light. Or so, at least, many critics believe. In this book,
however, one of the best respected critics of Shakespeare, Michael
Neill, takes issue with this simplistic view, providing a fresh
reading of the play and arguing that in it, as always, Shakespeare
refuses to allow us the comfort of any single "view of the world".
This Norton Critical Edition of John Webster s 1612 13 tragedy
offers a newly edited and annotated text together with a full
introduction and illustrative materials intended for student
readers. The Duchess of Malfi s themes of love, loyalty, and
betrayal have resonated through the centuries, making this a
perennially popular play with audiences and readers alike. This
volume includes a generous selection of supporting materials, among
them Webster s likely sources for the play (William Painter, George
Whetstone, Simon Goulart, and Thomas Beard) as well as related
works by Webster and George Wyther on widows, funerals, and
memorializing death. A generous selection from Mark H. Curtis s
classic essay, The Alienated Intellectuals of Early Stuart England,
tells readers as much about the character of Bosola as it does
about his creator. Henry Fitzgeffrey (1617) and Horatio Busino
(1618) provide early responses to the play. Criticism is
thematically organized to provide readers with a clear sense of The
Duchess of Malfi s central themes of dramaturgy; the politics of
family, court, and religion; and gender. Also included are essays
on contemporary re-imaginings of the play and its critical
reception over time. Contributors include Don D. Moore, J. L.
Calderwood, Inga-Stina Ewbank, D. M. Bergeron, Christina Luckyj, B.
Correll, D. C. Gunby, M. C. Bradbrook, Frank Whigham, Lee Bliss,
Rowland Wymer, B. Chalk, Michael Cordner, Kathleen McCluskie,
Theodora Jankowski, and Pascale Aebischer. A selected bibliography
is also included."
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"The next good mood I find my father in, I'll get him quite
discarded" With these chillingly offhand words, Beatrice-Joanna,
the spoilt daughter of a powerful nobleman, plots to get rid of the
family servant who has crossed her once too often. The Changeling's
vivid tale of sexual appetite, repulsion, betrayal and lunacy
remains one of the most compelling tragedies of the 17th century.
Exposing the vexed relationship between servants and masters,
setting notions of `change' against the revelation of psychological
'secrets' as ways of explaining human behaviour, and exploring the
idea of love as a `tame madness', the play reveals the terrifying
consequences of ungoverned sexual appetite and betrayal. Featuring
the full and modernized play text, this revised edition includes
incisive commentary notes which explain the nuances of the play's
vibrant, colloquial language and demonstrate its sly delight in the
characters' conscious and unconscious wordplay. Michael Neill's
illuminating introduction provides a firm grounding in the play's
socio-political context, demonstrates how careful close-reading can
expand your enjoyment of the play, explains the play's violent
linkage of comic and tragic plots and gives theatrical life to the
text via a discussion of its stage history, with a particular
emphasis on the most interesting recent productions. The New
Mermaids plays offer: * Modernized versions of the play text edited
to the highest textual standards * Fully annotated student editions
with obscure words explained and critical, contextual and staging
insight provided on each page * Full Introductions analyzing
context, themes, author background and stage history
The freshly edited and annotated text comes with a full
introduction and illustrative materials intended for student
readers. The Spanish Tragedy was well known to sixteenth-century
audiences, and its central elements-a play-within-a-play and a
ghost bent on revenge-are widely believed to have influenced
Shakespeare's Hamlet. This volume includes a generous selection of
supporting materials, among them Kyd's likely sources (Virgil,
Jacques Yver, and the anonymous "The Earl of Leicester Betrays His
Own Servant"), Thomas Nashe's satiric criticism of Kyd, Michel de
Montaigne and Francis Bacon on revenge, and "The Ballad of The
Spanish Tragedy," which suggests the play's initial reception.
"Criticism" is thematically organized to provide readers with a
clear sense of the play's major themes. Contributors include
Michael Hattaway, Jonas A. Barish, Donna B. Hamilton, G. K. Hunter,
Lorna Hutson, Molly Smith, J. R. Mulryne, T. McAlindon, and Andrew
Sofer. A Selected Bibliography is also included.
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widely recognized as one of the world's leading life coaches. His
teachings have impacted everyone from housewives to CEOs and from
gang members in prison to leaders at the United Nations. For the
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to create far more than you ever thought possible with far less
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world have already used his 90-day programme to reconnect with
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Arguably the most perfectly poised of Restoration wit comedies, The
Man of Mode is a finished exercise in dramatic sprezzatura, or
nonchalance, matching the beguiling 'easiness' and 'complaisance'
of its central character. The play's imaginative brilliance depends
upon its author's ability to hint at the dark abyss of passion and
emotional violence at whose edge the modish denizens of the town
perform their graceful ballet. Its seemingly casual construction
and wanton breaches of comic decorum mask a ferocious artistic
control designed to upset the complacency of the audience's moral,
social and aesthetic assumptions by luring them into sympathy for a
character whose dangerous 'wildness' they ought to deplore. It is
at once among the funniest and the most unsettling of comedies in
English. The full, modernized play text is accompanied by incisive
commentary notes, while its engaging introduction unpacks the
complexity of the Restoration's political and theatrical context,
analyses the play's performance history (including Nicholas
Hytner's 2007 modern-dress version) and demonstrates Etherege's
linguistic finesse. This edition is supplemented by a plot summary
and an annotated bibliography. The New Mermaids plays offer: *
Modernized versions of the play text edited to the highest textual
standards * Fully annotated student editions with obscure words
explained and critical, contextual and staging insight provided on
each page * Full Introductions analyzing context, themes, author
background and stage history
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of this space, the warmth of it heals your mind and body. When you
operate from the infinite creative potential of this space, you
produce high levels of performance and creative flow. When you sit
in the openness of this space with others, you experience a level
of connection and intimacy that is breathtakingly enjoyable and
filled with love. And when you explore this space more deeply, you
will find yourself growing closer and closer to the divine, even if
you're not sure there is such a thing and wouldn't know how to talk
about it if there was. Every problem we have in life is the result
of losing our bearings and getting caught up in the content of our
own thinking. The solution to every one of those problems is to
find our way back home. This is both the invitation and the promise
of this book. One problem. One solution. Infinite possibilities.
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way of thinking about goals * the simple foundation of lasting
relationships * a radical new understanding of human emotion * the
secret to financial security in any economy * ideas to spark your
creativity, productivity, and so much more! * For those who want to
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In its towering central characters, vast geographical and
historical sweep, and its variety of style and mood, Anthony and
Cleopatra is perhaps the most ambitious of Shakespeare's designs.
Yet the degree and nature of its success remain surprisingly
contentious, and performances of the play have seldom matched the
extravagant expectations of its admirers. Michael Neill's
wide-ranging introduction from a number of angles, including those
of gender and race. He examines the sources and discusses the
theatrical challenge presented by Shakespeare's technique, with its
extraordinary tensions between rhetoric and action. A full stage
history further illustrates its theatrical fortunes; both here and
in the extensive commentary this edition illuminates the play's
theatrical dimensions as well as the rich complexity of its poetic
language. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's
Classics has made available the widest range of literature from
around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's
commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a
wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions
by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text,
up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Are you ready to make your dreams come true? Michael Neill is
widely recognized as one of the world's leading life coaches, and
his teachings have impacted everyone from housewives to CEOs and
from gang members in prison to leaders at the United Nations. For
the last decade, he has been sharing the principles that will allow
you to create far more than you ever thought possible with far less
struggle than you expected. Thousands of people from all over the
world have already used the principles behind this 90-day program
to reconnect with their creative spark and get their most important
ideas and projects out of their head and into the world. Now it's
your turn... What if you could accomplish more than you ever
imagined without the constant stress and pressure associated with
"high achievement?" What if creating what you want to see in the
world isn't dependent on believing in yourself, or even believing
that it's possible? Whether you want breakthrough results for your
business, yourself, or your life, this book will change the way you
see yourself as you learn to make the impossible possible!
There is a space within you where you are already perfect, whole,
and complete. It is pure consciousness - the space inside of which
all thoughts come and go. When you rest in the feeling of this
space, the warmth of it heals your mind and body. When you operate
from the infinite creative potential of this space, you produce
high levels of performance and creative flow. When you sit in the
openness of this space with others, you experience a level of
connection and intimacy that is breathtakingly enjoyable and filled
with love. And when you explore this space more deeply, you will
find yourself growing closer and closer to the divine, even if
you're not sure there is such a thing and wouldn't know how to talk
about it if there was. Every problem we have in life is the result
of losing our bearings and getting caught up in the content of our
own thinking; the solution to every one of those problems is to
find our way back home.This is both the invitation and the promise
of this book. One problem. One solution. Infinite possibilities.
Are you ready to begin?
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