Shakespeare on Stage

DescriptionShakespeare's women rarely reach the end of the play alive. Whether by murder or by suicide, onstage or off, female actors in Shakespear...

DescriptionThis study analyses concepts and representations of the soul in the poetry of William Shakespeare and John Donne. During the early moder...

DescriptionEarly modern England was a nation alive with intense religious debate, with often violent results. Central to these debates were questio...

Lewis examines cultural and theatrical intersections between early modern temporal concepts and early modern gendered identities. Through close rea...

For scholars and students of Shakespeare Studies, Book History and Early Modern Drama, this book overturns how we understand the relationships betw...

The Pursuit of Style in English Drama embraces and expands the concept of style to offer new readings of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Matthe...

DescriptionShakespeare's Pictures is the first full-length study of visual objects in Shakespearean drama. In several plays (Hamlet, The Merchant o...

Lewis examines cultural and theatrical intersections between early modern temporal concepts and early modern gendered identities. Through close rea...

Reducere. Written by a team of leading international scholars, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and War illuminates the ways Shakespeare's works provid...

Reducere. Draw back the curtain on the world of theatre and learn how the magic of a great stage performance is created. Designed for theatre appreciation st...

Presenting the first comprehensive study of how Shakespeare designed his plays to suit his playing company, Brett Gamboa demonstrates how Shakespea...

Focusing on the vocal dimensions of Shakespearean performance, this book will appeal to scholars and students interested in the history of the rece...

Reducere. William Shakespeare's characters are no longer confined to the stage. Hamlet deviously escapes from pirates. Caliban battles Puck in Fairy Land. An...

Description- How do actors prepare a script of a Shakespeare play for performance?- Where do directors begin?- What do Shakespeare's plays offer a ...

Reducere. "A remarkable book that takes us to the heart of Shakespeare's art and influence."--James Shapiro When Robert McCrum began his recovery from a life...

Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautifully illustrated guide to his life and works....

Reducere. The Renegado is one of the most shamelessly entertaining plays of its age, fetching its inspiration from a number of works by Cervantes, based on h...

To die or not to die? Georgia B&B proprietor Nina Fleet struts and frets to bring the curtain down on a Shakespearean actor's killer. It's nothing ...

Reducere. DescriptionStep on to a stage full of stories with this beautiful anthology of 12 stories from Shakespeare. Featuring much-loved classics such as T...

Reducere. "Wells is the Prospero of all the brave new worlds of the mind, and the Shakespeare of science fiction."- Brian Aldiss on H.G. Wells H.G. Wells is ...

This edition of Sir Thomas More is the first to bring the play into the context of a major Shakespeare series, to provide a substantial critical an...

Reducere. A collection of delicious anecdotes of a life spent on stages and film sets across the world--from Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Theatre to The So...

Reducere. Drawing on his eighteen years of experience as a teaching artist for Folger Shakespeare Library, Nick Newlin offers eighteen scenes to get young ac...

Reducere. "I can hardly believe that it is more than half a century since I first stepped on to the stage of the Old Vic Theatre and into a way of life that ...

Reducere. Making an audience fall in love with you. That's what great acting is all about-no matter whether you're in a casting room, on a stage, in film, or...

Reducere. How to write your story by putting on your writer's hat, then your editor's hat, then digging down to bring out the vital details of the story, and...

Reducere. The Song of Songs; Ruth; Esther; Jonah; and Daniel offer readers a range of pleasures not usually associated with the Bible. As distant in time fro...

Reducere. Well-bred, educated at Eton and the Central School for Speech and Drama in London, the youngest of four boys in an upper-class family, Peter H. was...

Reducere. "All the world's a stage", William Shakespeare wrote, "And all the men and women merely players." Sit back as the curtain goes up on the dramas, so...

Inspired by American playwright Sarah Ruhl?s 100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write, his book is a series of miniature reflections, meditations, and...

Reducere. She received two Emmy Awards as the irrepressible Phyllis on The Mary Tyler Moor Show. . .she won an Oscar for her supporting role as a frustrated ...

Reducere. Gertrude and Claudius are the "villains" of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet's father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who m...

A fresh look at a play usually regarded as the first component of a three-part historical epic, this edition argues that Henry VI Part 1 is a 'preq...

This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2 as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the English renaissance theatre, with its exploration...

Reducere. Acclaimed as one of the classics of 20th century children's literature, The Mouse and His Child is a moving story about two clockwork mice thrown o...

Reducere. Based loosely on The Science of Discworld II: the Globe, Lords & Ladies, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Shakespeare Codex is a new Discworld st...

Reducere. Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: Old West Collection. Readers will love this collection of s...

Reducere. A comprehensive study guide offering in-depth explanation, essay, and test prep for William Shakespeare's Macbeth, known as an "actor's play" for i...

Our Signet Classic Shakespeare Series was extensively revised in 1998. We offer the best of everything -- unforgettable works edited by eminent Sha...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by...

Reducere. "Exquisite... enthralling... This short, modest and brilliant book does more than many more grandiose tomes to renew the reader's fascination with ...

Step on to a stage full of stories with this beautiful anthology of 12 stories from Shakespeare, rewritten to be accessible to children aged 7+.

Reducere. From director and cofounder of the Royal Shakespeare Company Peter Brook, The Empty Space is a timeless analysis of theatre from the most influenti...

A comprehensive, illustrated introduction that gives full critical and stage histories of the play, with detailed on-page commentary and textual no...

Are you studying Shakespeare and looking for a handy summary of plots, characters and interpretations? Or are you a keen theatregoer wanting essent...

Michael Hattaway's introduction to this bestselling edition accounts for what makes this popular play both innocent and dangerous. This third editi...

Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students detailed on-page commentary note...

Reducere. Shakespeare's Richard II presents a momentous struggle between Richard II and his cousin Henry Bolingbroke. Richard is the legitimate king; he succ...

Reducere. The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by...

Reducere. For this updated edition of one of Shakespeare's most problematic plays, Tom Lockwood has added a new introductory section on the latest scholarly ...

DescriptionIn this updated edition of King Richard II, Claire McEachern provides a fresh introductory section in which she discusses the most impor...

New individual play texts, these editions have been developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company and include unique material to help the read...

Includes material to help reader understand and enjoy Shakespeare on the stage as well as on the page. This book features scene-by-scene summary, o...

Reducere. The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by...

Reducere. The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by...

Reducere. DescriptionMuch Ado about Nothing has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical...

Reducere. 12th Night like you have never read it before: quick, fun, and easy to understand. Designed for 9-20+ actors, kids of all ages, or anyone who wants...

Best novel. The big one . . . stands above all the others . . . beautifully written, and wonderfully elegiac, a book that I will long remember, and...

Reducere. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, Shakespeare stages the workings of love. Theseus and Hippolyta, about to marry, are figures from mythology. In the wo...

The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by...

Reducere. The authoritative edition of The Two Gentlemen of Verona from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for st...

1610. Two 12-year old London kids accidentally travel back in time over four hundred years, landing jobs in the Globe Theatre where they work along...

Not for nothing is William Shakespeare considered possibly the most famous writer in history; his works have had a lasting effect on culture, vocab...

DescriptionEdited by the eminent A.R. Braunmuller, this thorough edition of King John--the first scholarly edition in almost fifteen years--makes a...

Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successfully for film. This new and innovative edition rec...

Contains a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre. This book provides a separate introduction to A Midsummer Night's Dr...

DescriptionGiven the wealth of formal debate contained in this tragedy, Troilus and Cressida was probably written in 1602 for a performance at one ...

Love's Labour's Lost, now recognized as one of the most delightful and stageworthy of Shakespeare's comedies, came into its own both on the stage a...

This new edition is based on the 1623 First Folio text and challenges conventional thinking about the nature and relationship of the earliest texts...

The world's most famous love story told by one of Australia's most respected authors. This is the well-known story of Juliet Capulet and her love f...