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Much Ado About Nothing - Third Series (Hardcover, 3 Revised Edition): William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing - Third Series (Hardcover, 3 Revised Edition)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Claire McEachern
R2,636 Discovery Miles 26 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Much Ado About Nothing boasts one of Shakespeare's most delightful heroines, most dancing wordplay, and the endearing spectacle of intellectual and social self-importance bested by the desire to love and be loved in return. It offers both the dancing wit of the "merry war" between the sexes, and a sobering vision of the costs of that combat for both men and women. Shakespeare dramatizes a social world in all of its vibrant particulars, in which characters are shaped by the relations between social convention and individual choice. This edition of the play offers in its introduction and commentary an extensive discussion of the materials that informed Shakespeare's compositional choices, both those conventional sources and other contexts, from cuckold jokes to conduct books, which inform the ideas and identities of this play. Particular attention is devoted to Renaissance understandings of gender identity and social rank, as well as to the social valences of Shakespeare's stylistic choices. A treatment of staging possibilities offers illustrations drawn from the earliest and recent theatrical practices, and a critical history examines the fate of the play in the changing trends of academic scholarship. "The text is superb... the critical introduction is predictably smart and engaging, exactly the sort of essay one would recommend to students." Eric Rasmussen, Shakespeare Survey

King Richard ll (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition): William Shakespeare King Richard ll (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Andrew Gurr; Introduction by Claire McEachern
R1,987 Discovery Miles 19 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most important productions and scholarly criticism of recent years. Paying particular attention to the focus on religion in contemporary interpretations of the play, McEachern also analyses the increasing number of performances on stage and screen. Andrew Gurr's acclaimed introduction guides the reader through the play's action and politics, providing a thorough and engaging grounding in its structure, language and staging. An updated reading list completes the edition.

Much Ado About Nothing - Revised Edition (Hardcover, 2nd edition): Claire McEachern Much Ado About Nothing - Revised Edition (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Claire McEachern; William Shakespeare
R2,644 Discovery Miles 26 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Much Ado About Nothing "presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry. Claire McEachern's new introduction brings this best-seller right up to date, analysing recent developments in criticism and the latest productions of this comedy.

Believing in Shakespeare - Studies in Longing (Hardcover): Claire McEachern Believing in Shakespeare - Studies in Longing (Hardcover)
Claire McEachern
R2,828 Discovery Miles 28 280 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This ground breaking and accessible study explores the connections between the English Reformation's impact on the belief in eternal salvation and how it affected ways of believing in the plays of Shakespeare. Claire McEachern examines the new and better faith that Protestantism imagined for itself, a faith in which scepticism did not erode belief, but worked to substantiate it in ways that were both affectively positive and empirically positivist. Concluding with in-depth readings of Richard II, King Lear and The Tempest, the book represents a markedly fresh intervention in the topic of Shakespeare and religion. With great originality, McEachern argues that the English reception of the Calvinist imperative to 'know with' God allowed the very nature of literary involvement to change, transforming feeling for a character into feeling with one.

Henry V (Paperback): William Shakespeare Henry V (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Claire McEachern; Introduction by Claire McEachern; Series edited by Stephen Orgel, A. R. Braunmuller 1
R246 R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Save R17 (7%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Much Ado About Nothing - Revised Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition): Claire McEachern Much Ado About Nothing - Revised Edition (Paperback, 2nd edition)
Claire McEachern; William Shakespeare
R323 Discovery Miles 3 230 Ships in 9 - 17 working days

"Much Ado About Nothing "presents a battle of the sexes in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry. Claire McEachern's new introduction brings this best-seller right up to date, analysing recent developments in criticism and the latest productions of this comedy.

Religion and Culture in Renaissance England (Hardcover, New): Claire McEachern, Debora Shuger Religion and Culture in Renaissance England (Hardcover, New)
Claire McEachern, Debora Shuger
R2,830 Discovery Miles 28 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Essays by leading historians and literary scholars investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social, and literary forms from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. Individual essays discuss the relationship between religion and culture, and explore how religion informs some of the central texts of English Renaissance literature, including work by Foxe, Hooker, Shakespeare, Donne, Lanyer, and Milton. The collection demonstrates the massive centrality of religion to early modern constructions of gender, subjectivity, and nationhood.

The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (Hardcover): Claire McEachern The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (Hardcover)
Claire McEachern
R2,708 Discovery Miles 27 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Poetics of English Nationhood is a study of the formation of English national identity during the early modern period. Claire McEachern argues for the role of Reformation religious culture in the shaping of a Tudor-Stuart nation, and examines its presence in the writings of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Drayton. She shows how in their work the concept of nationality is always fluid; it crucially depends on a sense of intimacy that seeps across and above hierarchies and boundaries. McEachern shows how different kinds of language - literary, exegetical, parliamentary - personify power, thereby sealing the intimacy which binds the nation as an imagined community. The representation of faith, motherland, and crown in Tudor-Stuart texts, she argues, continually personified English political institutions, promoting both social order and collective unity. By focusing on the rhetorical forms of cultural unity in the Reformation era, McEachern traces a profound shift from a monarchically defined Englishness to a system based within the cultural institution of the common law.

King Richard ll (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition): William Shakespeare King Richard ll (Paperback, 3rd Revised edition)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Andrew Gurr; Introduction by Claire McEachern
R357 Discovery Miles 3 570 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most important productions and scholarly criticism of recent years. Paying particular attention to the focus on religion in contemporary interpretations of the play, McEachern also analyses the increasing number of performances on stage and screen. Andrew Gurr's acclaimed introduction guides the reader through the play's action and politics, providing a thorough and engaging grounding in its structure, language and staging. An updated reading list completes the edition.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Claire McEachern The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Claire McEachern
R2,598 Discovery Miles 25 980 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespeare's tragedies, cultural backgrounds, sub-genres and receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies and, in addition, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Essays from the first edition have been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship; the bibliography has been extensively updated; and four new chapters have been added, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare's tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.

The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (Paperback, New ed): Claire McEachern The Poetics of English Nationhood, 1590-1612 (Paperback, New ed)
Claire McEachern
R1,576 Discovery Miles 15 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Poetics of English Nationhood is a study of the formation of English national identity during the early modern period. Claire McEachern argues for the role of Reformation religious culture in the shaping of a Tudor-Stuart nation, and examines its presence in the writings of Spenser, Shakespeare, and Drayton. She shows how in their work the concept of nationality is always fluid; it crucially depends on a sense of intimacy that seeps across and above hierarchies and boundaries. McEachern shows how different kinds of language - literary, exegetical, parliamentary - personify power, thereby sealing the intimacy which binds the nation as an imagined community. The representation of faith, motherland, and crown in Tudor-Stuart texts, she argues, continually personified English political institutions, promoting both social order and collective unity. By focusing on the rhetorical forms of cultural unity in the Reformation era, McEachern traces a profound shift from a monarchically defined Englishness to a system based within the cultural institution of the common law.

Religion and Culture in Renaissance England (Paperback, New ed): Claire McEachern, Debora Shuger Religion and Culture in Renaissance England (Paperback, New ed)
Claire McEachern, Debora Shuger
R1,266 Discovery Miles 12 660 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

These essays by leading historians and literary scholars investigate the role of religion in shaping political, social and literary forms, and their reciprocal role in shaping early modern religion, from the Reformation to the Civil Wars. Reflecting and rethinking the insights of new historicism and cultural studies, individual essays take up various aspects of the productive, if tense, relation between Tudor-Stuart Christianity and culture, and explore how religion informs some of the central texts of English Renaissance literature: the vernacular Bible, Foxe's Acts and Monuments, Hooker's Laws, Shakespeare's plays and sonnets, the poems of John Donne, Amelia Lanyer and John Milton. The collection demonstrates the centrality of religion to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, and its influence on early modern constructions of gender, subjectivity and nationhood.

Henry Iv, Part 2 - The Pelican Shakespeare (Paperback): William Shakespeare Henry Iv, Part 2 - The Pelican Shakespeare (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Claire McEachern 1
R245 Discovery Miles 2 450 Ships in 12 - 19 working days
Henry Iv, Part 1 - The Pelican Shakespeare (Paperback): William Shakespeare Henry Iv, Part 1 - The Pelican Shakespeare (Paperback)
William Shakespeare; Edited by Claire McEachern; Foreword by Claire McEachern
R271 R246 Discovery Miles 2 460 Save R25 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare's time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. This edition of Henry IV, Part 1 is edited with an introduction by Claire McEachern. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition): Claire McEachern The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
Claire McEachern
R848 Discovery Miles 8 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This revised and updated Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare's tragedies. Thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in criticism. Topics covered include the literary precursors of Shakespeare's tragedies, cultural backgrounds, sub-genres and receptions of the plays. The book examines the four major tragedies and, in addition, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. Essays from the first edition have been fully revised to reflect the most up-to-date scholarship; the bibliography has been extensively updated; and four new chapters have been added, discussing Shakespearean form, Shakespeare and philosophy, Shakespeare's tragedies in performance, and Shakespeare and religion.

Twelfth Night (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare) (Paperback): David Scott Kastan Twelfth Night (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare) (Paperback)
David Scott Kastan; Edited by Claire McEachern; William Shakespeare
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R222 Discovery Miles 2 220 Ships in 2 - 4 working days

"Twelfth Night," by William Shakespeare, is part of the "Barnes & Noble Shakespeare" series. This unique series features newly edited texts prepared by leading scholars from America and Great Britain, in collaboration with one of the world's foremost Shakespeare authorities, David Scott Kastan of Columbia University. Together they have produced texts as faithful as possible to those that Shakespeare wrote. Each volume in the "Barnes & Noble Shakespeare" includes:

  • New Scholarship - Premiere scholars introduce each play with contemporary scholarship. An essay on editing the text provides an in-depth look at the quartos and folios used in the edition.
  • Contextualizing Essays - Essays on Shakespeare's England, language, and life, along with essays on performing Shakespeare and significant performances frame the play in both historical and theatrical context for readers. A look at the lasting influence of the play on music, art, film, and dance creates an interdisciplinary framework with which to approach the play.
  • Better Notes - Through one-word margin definitions, facing-page glosses, and longer end notes after the play, our innovative approach to notes pulls readers away from the text fewer times while providing them with more information and comprehensive analysis.
  • Further Reading - An annotated bibliography of titles, hand-selected by the introduction author, takes readers beyond the edition for further reading.Widely regarded as Shakespeare's most perfect comedy, "Twelfth Night" follows the twisting paths that lead to love. The editor, Claire McEachern, provides an illuminating context for the play, showing how England's struggle to define a national religious identity underlies many of the play's conflicts.
All's Well That Ends Well (Revised Edition) (Paperback, New ed): Claire McEachern, Stephen Orgel, William Shakespeare All's Well That Ends Well (Revised Edition) (Paperback, New ed)
Claire McEachern, Stephen Orgel, William Shakespeare 1
R275 Discovery Miles 2 750 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century.

Each volume features:
* Authoritative, reliable texts
* High quality introductions and notes
* New, more readable trade trim size
* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts

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