Classic plays / drama

Book SynopsisThis book about the work of actor director John Bell is essential reading for anyone interested in Australian theatre and in Shakespearean performance. Adrian Kiernander lucidly explains how, for over five decades, Bell has revived and reinvented theatre in Australia with his interpretations of radical new drama and particularly his innovative approach to staging Shakespeare’s plays.Table of ContentsSeries Editor’s Preface Acknowledgments Note on References Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One: A National Theatre Chapter Two: Acting Against Tradition Chapter Three: Directing New Australian Plays Chapter Four: Entrepreneur and Teacher Chapter Five: Australian Shakespeares Epilogue: Australian Shakespeare in the New Millennium Appendix: Table of Productions Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series, now repackaged in award-winning modern covers to inspire Shakespearians of all ages.

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of Shakespeare''s journey into the Forest of Arden, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with two acclaimeddirectors (Dominic Cooke and Michael Boyd) andan actor (Naomi Frederick),looks at specific productions in the play''s history, and a new introduction by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Bate.Trade Review'Invigorating, radical and original ! I look forward to using it at my desk and perhaps in my classroom over many years, enjoying Jonathan Bate's perceptive comments, trusting Eric Rasmussen's textual scholarship.' -- Professor Peter Holland, Times Literary SupplementTable of ContentsIntroduction About the Text Key Facts As You Like It Textual Notes Scene-by-scene Analysis As You Like It in Performance: the RSC and Beyond Four Centuries of As You Like It : An Overview At the RSC The Director's Cut: interviews with Dominic Cooke and Michael Boyd Playing Rosalind: an interview with Naomi Frederick Shakespeare's Career in the Theatre Shakespeare's Works: a Chronology Further Reading and Viewing References Acknowledgements and Picture Credits.

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Book SynopsisThis new edition of Shakespeare''s controversial comedy, developed by and for the RSC, includes new interviews with acclaimed directors Gregory Doran and Phyllida Lloyd and the actress Michelle Gomez, looks at specific productions in the play''s history, and a completely new introduction by acclaimed scholar Jonathan Bate.

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Book SynopsisThis edition of As You Like It reprints the Bevington edition of the play accompanied by four sets of primary documents and illustrations. Including pastoral poetry, ballads, diatribes, jest books, maps and woodcuts, the documents contextualizes a variety of themes exploring the joys and trials of rural life.Table of ContentsTo be confirmed.

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Book SynopsisFirst Published in 2002. This is a collection of essays and commentary on the later Shakespearian tragedies of Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Anthony and Cleopatra and Richard II.Table of ContentsChapter 1 On Imaginative Interpretation; Chapter 2 The Torch of Life: An Essay on Julius Caesar; Chapter 3 The Eroticism of Julius Caesar; Chapter 4 Rose of May: An Essay on Life-Themes in Hamlet; Chapter 5 The Milk of Concord: An Essay on Life-Themes in Macbeth; Chapter 6 The Royal Occupation: An Essay on Coriolanus; Chapter 7 The Transcendental Humanism of Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 8 The Diadem of Love: An Essay on Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 9 Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 10 A Note on Antony and Cleopatra; Chapter 11 The Prophetic Soul;

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Book SynopsisIn this book, renowned Renaissance drama critic Arthur F. Kinney argues that Shakespeare's method of composing plays through networks of meanings can be seen as a harbinger of today's information technology. Drawing upon hypertext and cognitive theory--areas that have for some time promised to take on more importance in the sphere of Shakespeare Studies--as well as the central metaphor of the Routledge collection The Renaissance Computer, Kinney looks in detail at four objects/images in Shakespeare's plays--mirrors, maps, clocks, and books--and explores the ways in which they make up networks of meaning within single plays and across the dramatist's body of work that anticipate in some ways the networks of meaning or information now possible in the computer age.Trade Review"...[H]ighly informative historical research." -- Bruce Boehrer, Studies in English LiteratureTable of ContentsPreface Introduction Shakespeare's Mirrors Shakespeare's Maps Shakespeare's Clocks Shakespeare's Books Conclusion: Shakespeare's Webs Index

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Book SynopsisJohn Lyly is the first collection of essays dedicated solely to the work of this University Wit, celebrity prose writer, and playwright to the court of Elizabeth. Lyly''s energy and wit inspired his contemporaries to follow new directions in prose fiction and stage comedy, and his writings still illuminate sixteenth-century culture for the modern reader. The twenty-four essays in this selection include some older classics, but most date from 1990 onwards and reflect current critical concerns with politics and sexuality, class and audience. Both Euphues books and the eight plays receive some detailed attention. The essays are grouped into four sections: Lessons in Wit, Courting the Queen, Playing with Desire, and Performing Lyly. A biographical summary and critical survey are provided in the introduction; other voices and insights are alluded to in the notes and listed in the wide-ranging bibliography.Trade Review'Lunney's collection of essays is an indispensable handbook for students, teachers and scholars alike. It outlines the major strands in scholarship and gives an excellent summary of the often contradictory ideas about the mostly neglected literary works of John Lyly.' Sixteenth-Century StudiesTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Lessons in Wit: Euphues and his Erasmus, Judith Rice Henderson; 'A large occasion of discourse': John Lyly and the art of civil conversation, Catherine Bates; The prose style of John Lyly, Jonas A. Barish; The humanist in the market: gendering exchange and authorship in Lyly's Euphues romances, Joan Pong Linton. Part II Courting the Queen: Elizabethan epideictic drama: praise and blame in the plays of Peele and Lyly, R. Headlam Wells; The monarchy of love in Lyly's 'Endimion', Robert S. Knapp; Lyly's 'Endimion' and 'Midas': the Catholic question in England, David Bevington; 'O unquenchable thirst of gold': Lyly's 'Midas' and the English quest for empire, Annaliese Connolly; The subversion of flattery: the Queen's body in John Lyly's 'Sapho and Phao', Theodora A. Jankowski; Lyly's chimerical vision: witchcraft in 'Endymion', Christine M. Neufeld; 'I would fain serve': John Lyly's career at court, Derek B. Alwes; John Lyly and the politics of language, Leah Scragg. Part III Playing with Desire: John Lyly and the language of play, Jocelyn Powell; The disarming of the knight: comic parody in Lyly's Endymion, Sara Deats; Ovidian myth in Lyly's courtship comedies, Jeff Shulman; The Woman in the Moon: cursed be Utopia, Michael Pincombe; Constructions of female homoerotics in early modern drama, Denise A. Walen; Cross-dressing and John Lyly's 'Gallathea', Christopher Wixson; 'Jack hath not Jill': failed courtship in Lyly and Shakespeare, David Bevington; The transformation of stage courtship, Anne Jennalie Cook. Part IV Performing Lyly: Female roles and the children's companies: Lyly's Pandora in 'The Woman in the Moon', Maurice Charney; Speaking pictures: style and spectacle in Lylyian comedy, Leah Scragg; The confusions of 'Gallathea': John Lyly as popular dramatist, Kent Cartwright; Playing with Lyly: theatrical criticism and non-Shakespearean drama, Kate D. Levin; Name index.

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Book SynopsisDavid Bevington''s volume on George Peele looks at the literary achievement of that dramatist and author, who was born in London some time around 1556-8, was educated at Oxford, and returned to London to become a prolific writer until his death in 1596. He died at the age of forty, in poverty, and was never far from the threat of debtors'' prison throughout his adult life. Peele, like Greene and Marlowe, was caricatured in his immediate afterlife as the embodiment of a popular and thriving literary culture in London of the late sixteenth century: a world that was competitive and relentlessly unforgiving in its economic pressures, but also colourful, adventuresome, and vital. This volume collects together for the first time the best contemporary published work on Peele by a group of renowned scholars. They discuss Peele''s Lord Mayor''s Pageants, Court Entertainments, occasional poems, and his plays The Arraignment of Paris, The Old Wives Tale, The Battle of Alcazar, Edward I, David Trade Review'... Bevington's critical anthology is a worthwhile and substantial collection of essays on the life and work of this early and influential dramatist. ...' Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Lord Mayor's Pageants, Court Entertainments, Occasional Poems: Entertainments for court and city, A.R. Braunmuller; 'Many a 'Herdsman' more disposde to morne': Peele, Campion, and the Portugal expedition of 1589, Hugh Gazzard. Part II The Arraignment of Paris: Gifts and reasons: the contexts of Peele's 'The Araygnement of Paris', Louis Adrian Montrose; The triumph of chastity: form and meaning in The Arraignment of Paris, Andrew von Hendy; Pastoral poetry: the vitality and versatility of a convention, Hallett Smith; Elizabethan epideictic drama: praise and blame in the plays of Peele and Lyly, R. Headlam Wells. Part III The Old Wives Tale: The Protestant context of George Peele's 'pleasant conceited' 'Old Wives Tale', Frank Ardolino; Homely matter and multiple plots in Peele's 'Old Wives Tale', John D. Cox; 'Seeing is believing': action and narration in 'The Old Wives Tale' and 'The Winter's Tale', Philip Edwards; Old wives' tales, George Peele, and narrative abjection, Mary Ellen Lamb; 'Soft, who have we here?': the dramatic technique of 'The Old Wives Tale', Joan C. Marx; The hearth and the cell: art in 'The Old Wives Tale', Susan T. Viguers. Part IV The Battle of Alcazar: 'Alcazar': the text and the sources, David Bradley; Moors, villainy and 'The Battle of Alcazar', Peter Hyland; The Battle of Alcazar, Eldred Jones. Part V Edward I: 'Edward I': in peace triumphant, fortunate in wars, A.R. Braunmuller. Part VI David and Bathsheba: Peele's 'David and Bethsabe': reconsidering Biblical drama of the long 1590s, Annaliese Connolly; The House of David in Renaissance drama: a comparative study, Inga-Stina Ewbank; 'What words, what looks, what wonders?': language and spectacle in the theatre of George Peele, Inga-Stina Ewbank. Part VII Peele and Titus Andronicus: Mutius: an obstacle removed in Titus Andronicus, Brian Boyd; Name index.

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Book SynopsisIn uncovering the origin of the designation 'University Wits', Bob Logan examines the characteristics of the Wits and their influence on the course of Elizabethan drama. For the first time, Christopher Marlowe is placed in the context of the six University Wits, where his reputation stands out as the most prominent, and the impact of his university education on his works is clarified. The essays selected for reprinting assess the most significant scholarship written about Marlowe, including biographical studies, challenges to familiar assumptions about the poet/playwright and his works, compositions on groupings of his works, on individual works, and on subjects particular to Marlowe. Unique in its perspective and in the collection of essays, this book will interest all students and scholars of Renaissance poetry, drama, and specialized cultural contexts.Trade Review'..a particularly careful selection... this work is an excellent Marlowe resource for academic libraries and Marlowe enthusiasts.’ Reference Reviews 'While most obviously beneficial as an introduction to the field or a contextualization of the masses of criticism that abound on its subject, this volume also has much to offer the seasoned veteran of early modern scholarship.' Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Part I Biography of Marlowe: Marlowe's Life and Career: Chronology and Introduction, Constance B. Kuriyama; Christopher Marlowe, Matthew N. Proser. Part II Initiating Controversy: Challenges to Familiar Assumptions about Marlowe: Christopher Marlowe, T.S. Eliot; Biography, mythography, and criticism: the life and works of Christopher Marlowe, Lukas Erne; 'Writ in blood': Marlowe and the new historicists, Richard Wilson. Part III Essays on More Than a Single Work: Marlowe and the 'comic distance', J.R. Mulryne and S. Fender; Marlowe and the will to absolute play, Stephen Greenblatt. Part IV Essays on Individual Works: Dido, Queen of Carthage: Errant Eros: transgressions of sex, gender, and desire in 'Dido, Queene of Carthage', Sarah Munson Deats; Tamburlaine, 1 & 2: The structure of 'Tamburlaine', Clifford Leech; The contemporary perception of Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Richard Levin; Dr Faustus: 'The forme of Faustus fortunes good or bad', C.L. Barber; Marlowe and God, David Bevington; The Jew of Malta: Innocent Barabas, Alfred Harbage; Marlowe as experimental dramatist: the role of the audience in 'The Jew of Malta', Edward L. Rocklin; The Massacre at Paris: Mirrors for foolish princes, Judith Weil; 'The Massacre at Paris': Marlowe's messy consensus narrative, Rick Bowers; Edward II: History without morality: Edward II, Wilbur Sanders; The eye of the beholder, Stephen Orgel; Hero and Leander: Marlowe, 'Hero and Lander', and the art of leaping in poetry, Jane Adamson; Marlowe's Other Poetry: 'On the Death of Sir Roger Manwood', Ovid's Elegies 'The Passionate Shepherd', Hero and Leander, and Lucan's First Book: Marlowe's poems and classicism, Georgia E. Brown. Part V Essays on Particularized Interests: Marlowe's boy actors, Evelyn Tribble; Marlowe reruns: repertorial commerce and Marlowe's plays in revival, Roslyn L. Knutson; Name Index.

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Book SynopsisThomas Lodge was the most versatile of the pioneering professional writers of the English Renaissance, experimenting in an astonishing variety of forms. His long, eventful, and well-documented life makes him one of the most individualized figures of his age, and yet also one of the most representative. This is the first-ever collection of Lodge scholarship. It comprises a selection of the best and most important biographical and critical work, ranging from 1932 to 2008 and including first-time English translations. Charles Whitney's discerning introduction discusses each article or book chapter in the context of Lodge scholarship and beyond, and is supplemented by a bibliography of additional material. This unique collection offers a distinctive vantage on both Lodge and many current topics in Renaissance and early modern studies such as humanism, republicanism, romance, intertextuality, plagiarism, gender, colonization, Shakespearean sources, the histories of print and of reading, authorship, and English Catholicism and religious conflict.Trade Review'One of the great boons of the collection of scholarship gathered in this volume is the breadth of topics it covers in its attempt to represent scholarship on Lodge. Whitney has done a great service for scholarship on Lodge, and for the criticism of nondramatic literature of the Renaissance.' Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction; Catalogue of Authors; Additional Bibliography; Part I Biography: Thomas Lodge the man, Charles J. Sisson; Conclusion, Éliane Cuvelier [trans by Phillip John Usher]; Thomas Lodge (1558-September 1625), Charles Whitworth. Part II General Characterizations of Lodge's Achievement: Lodge, Richard Helgerson; The discontent of Elizabethan society, Éliane Cuvelier [trans by Phillip John Usher]; 'O vita! Misero longa, foelici brevi': Thomas Lodge's struggle for felicity, Arthur Kinney. Part III Romances: General Characterizations: Pastoral romance: Sidney and Lodge, and Nashe and the Elizabethan ’Realists’ Walter Davis; From Arden to America: Lodge's tragedies of infatuation, Katharine Wilson; 'Rosalynde' and Its Intertexts: Lyly's golden legacy: 'Rosalynde' and 'Pandosto', Nancy R. Lindheim; Wooing and winning in Arden: 'Rosalynde' and 'As You Like It', Charles Whitworth; Feigning female faining: Spenser, Lodge, Shakespeare and Rosalind, Clare R. Kinney; 'A note beyond your reach': prose romance’s rivalry with Elizabethan drama, Steve Mentz; 'Robin the Devil' and Shakespeare's 'King Lear:' Some romance sources for 'King Lear': Robert of Sicily and Robert the Devil, Donna B. Hamilton; A Margarite of America: Sea-knights and royal virgins: American gold and its discontents in Lodge's A Margarite of America (1596), Joan Pong Linton; 'Horror fiction of the 1590s' and 'Romance and revenge tragedy' from the 'Introduction' to 'A Margarite in America', Donald Beecher. Part IV Poetry: Lyrics: 'Poetic interludes' from 'Introduction' to 'Rosalind: Euphues' Golden Legacy Found After His Death in His Cell at Silexedra', Donald Beecher; 'Scillaes Metamorphosis' or 'Glaucus and Scilla': 'Glaucus and Scilla', William Keach; Imagining heterosexuality in the Epyllia, Jim Ellis; Lodge's Glaucus and Scilla and the conditions of Catholic authorship in Elizabethan England, R.W. Maslen. Part V Drama: The Wounds of Civil War: The choice of sources: evidence and ju

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Book SynopsisLooking at some of the Shakespearean comedies, author John Vyvyan suggests they express a consistent, profoundly Christian philosophy of life based on the Platonic ideas of beauty and love. In A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and All's Well That Ends Well, the heroines bring to life the idea of love as the force that is awakened in the world by beauty which then leads the soul to perfection. Vyvyan believes that for Shakespeare, love was preeminent over human ideas of justice, that self-discovery was a supreme human experience, and that breaking faith with the idealas Agamemnon, Cressida, and Hector all do in Troilus and Cressida sowed the seeds of tragedy. The author's recognition of Shakespeare's use of allegory enables him to make sense of certain developments in these plays that seem weak or absurd from the psychological standpoint. He does not suggest that Shakespeare's philosophy is the most important thing about his plays; it is simply one thing about them that ought t

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Book SynopsisWilliam Baker is Distinguished Chair Qiantang River Professor, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, PRChina and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Northern Illinois University, USA. He is the author/editor of numerous books and his co-authored Harold Pinter: A Bibliographical History and his The Letters of Wilkie Collins were honoured by Choice as the year's most outstanding books (2006 and 2000).Brian Vickers is a Fellow of the British Academy and a Distinguished Senior Fellow in The School of Advanced Study, University of London., UK.Gary Watt is a Professor of Law at the University of Warwick, UK, and one of the General Editors of Law and Humanities. He was named UK 'Law Teacher of the Year' 2009. His publications include Shakespeare's Acts of Will: Law, Testament and Properties of Performance (The Arden Shakespeare, 2016) and, as general editor, A Cultural History of Law (Bloomsbury, 2019).

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Book SynopsisGreen in early modern England did not mean what it does today; but what did it mean? Unveiling various versions and interpretations of green, this book offers a cultural history of a color that illuminates the distinctive valences greenness possessed in early modern culture. While treating green as a panacea for anything from sore eyes to sick minds, early moderns also perceived verdure as responsive to their verse, sympathetic to their sufferings, and endowed with surprising powers of animation. Author Leah Knight explores the physical and figurative potentials of green as they were understood in Renaissance England, including some that foreshadow our paradoxical dependence on and sacrifice of the green world. Ranging across contexts from early modern optics and olfaction to horticulture and herbal health care, this study explores a host of human encounters with the green world: both the impressions we make upon it and those it leaves with us. The first two chapters consider the valTrade ReviewPrize: Winner of the British Society for Literature and Science Book Prize 2014 'Leah Knight’s Reading Green in Early Modern England is fresh, energetic, and rich in historical detail without forfeiting lucidity or personal voice. Readers will learn, in eco-friendly but unpolemical terms, about how exterior nature entered interior design, about the salubrious functions of green light for the eyes and flowery air for the lungs, about dancing trees and inscribed trees, and about how all these traditions shaped the scientific and literary writings of the period.' Robert N. Watson, Neikirk Distinguished Professor of English, UCLA 'We may think that the virtues of being 'green'--as an attitude towards the world and a philosophical and political movement--are essentially metaphorical, but in Knight's wide-ranging and penetrating analysis we see just how literally the early moderns took all things green. For the senses of sight, smell and hearing and the intellectual activities of reading and writing (and their associated acts of naming and carving), Knight shows that the green world was a powerfully charged agent of individual and collective good. All explorers of early modern ideas about our relationship with the natural world are in Knight's debt for this meticulous and perceptive study.' Gabriel Egan, Professor of Shakespeare Studies and the author of Green Shakespeare and the forthcoming Shakespeare and Ecocritical Theory ’... Knight connects seeing, breathing, painting, carving, and Early Modern literary culture. ... this detailed study will prove informative for those interested in Early Modern English concepts of the natural environment and human sensory perception. Summing Up: Recommended. Graduate students, faculty, researchers.' Choice 'Knight has produced an experimental, original, and fascinating book whose underlying messages suggests all criticism bears a green imprint.' Review of English Studies '... quirky, well-informed and literary ... [The bookTable of ContentsIntroduction: First Impressions; I: Impressed by Nature; 1: Seeing Green: Early Modern Optics on Gardens of Verse; 2: Breathing Green: Airs, Pollution, and the Green Solution; II: Impressing Nature; 3: Moving Green: Rhetorical Motivation and Botanical Animation; 4: Writing Green: Inscribing Early Modern Trees; III: Lasting Impressions; 5: Healing Green: Or, How Andrew Marvell Read Gerard's Herbal; 6: Conclusion: Easy Being? Green in Early Modern England

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Book SynopsisTaking cross-disciplinary and comparative approaches to the volume's subject, this exciting collection of essays offers a reassessment of Shakespeare's erotic and Ovidian mythology within classical and continental aesthetic contexts. Through extensive examination of mythological visual and textual material, scholars explore the transmission and reinvention of Ovidian eroticism in Shakespeare's plays to show how early modern artists and audiences collectively engaged in redefining ways of thinking pleasure. Within the collection's broad-ranging investigation of erotic mythology in Renaissance culture, each chapter analyses specific instances of textual and pictorial transmission, reception, and adaptation. Through various critical strategies, contributors trace Shakespeare's use of erotic material to map out the politics and aesthetics of pleasure, unravelling the ways in which mythology informs artistic creation. Received acceptions of neo-platonic love and the Petrarchan tensions of uTrade Review’This collection of essays adds much to our knowledge of the many ways in which Ovid, the sexiest poet of late Antiquity, influenced Shakespeare, the sexiest poet of the late sixteenth century. [...]One would like to think that this timely and important volume consisting of essays that are all of equal strength could encourage further research in the creative appropriation of Ovid in England through continental routes of influence, especially with a critical eye on how Ovid shaped fictions and languages of sexuality, and how crucial the impact of his writing was on the expanding notions of the body in early modernity.’ CATHIERS '... this is an inspiring and often-fascinating volume.' Renaissance Quarterly '... the collection will be of interest to scholars of literature, as well as scholars of the visual and plastic arts, whose geographic focus includes England and larger Western Europe. ... scholars will find that this collection contains many new insights and also points to new directions in the study of Ovid in the Renaissance.' Sixteenth Century JournalTable of ContentsContents: Introduction: interacting with Eros: Ovid and Shakespeare, Agnes Lafont; Part I Erotic Aesthetics and Printing Politics: Ovid's 'meta-metamorphosis': book illustration and the circulation of erotic iconographical patterns, Ilaria Andreoli; Political uses of erotic power in an Elizabethan mythological programme: dangerous interactions with Diana in Hardwick Hall, Agnes Lafont. Part II Shakespeare's Erotic Power of Imagination: Erotic fancy/fantasy in Venus and Adonis, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Anthony and Cleopatra, Francois Laroque; Erotic perspectives: when Pyramus and Thisbe meet Hero and Leander in Romeo and Juliet, Janice Valls-Russell. Part III Shakespeare's Erotic Power of Recreation (and Miscreation): Parodic Interactions with Darker Desires: Priapus in Shakespeare: luxuriant gardens and luxurious brothels, Frederic Delord; Parody and the erotic beast: relocating Titania and Bottom, Stuart Sillars; Flirting with Erotic Taboos: Cupid, infantilism and maternal desire on the early modern stage, Jane Kingsley-Smith; Queering Pygmalion: Ovid, Euripides and The Winter's Tale, Sarah Annes Brown; Deadly Rapture: The 'new Gorgon': Eros, terror. and violence in Macbeth, Marguerite Tassi. Part IV Coda: Femmina masculo e masculo femmina: Ovidian mythical structures, Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo and As You Like It, Yves Peyre; General bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know Shakespeare worked with a collaborator on -- John Fletcher -- and is based on Chaucer''s Knight''s Tale. This revised edition includes a new introductory essay bringing the edition up-to-date in terms of both the play''s performance and critical history, and in particular with current thinking about the nature of Shakespeare''s collaboration with other playwrights. As scholars have begun to discover more about this aspect of his career, interest in the play has grown. This revised edition is ideal for undergraduate study, offering on-page annotations to the play text as well as a lengthy, illustrated introduction.Table of ContentsGeneral Editors Preface Introduction to the Revised Edition Introduction, The Two Noble Kinsmen Appendices References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewI think this is a really interesting project. The play avoids the obvious and gives a good insight into a range of personal stories, covering detainees from the ANC, the PAC and Black Consciousness (but I think it would be necessary in the introductory essay to give a clear account of the differences and relationships between them, set against the time-line of resistance to apartheid). So it offers a quite varied, significant and 'new' perspective/window on the inmates of Robben Island. And the play does give striking insights into the different groups of prisoners and how they reacted to their situation, as well as into the often ludicrously boneheaded and bureaucratic, and equally often callous and crass, behaviour of the warders and prison system. Professor Ralph Yarrow, University of East Anglia This play deals with an important and engaging topic: the lives and survival strategies of the political prisoners on Robben Island during the apartheid era (with a short reflection on the later betrayal of the ideals that governed those lives). It contains a great deal of fascinating material, based on written accounts of the experiences of prisoners and on interviews conducted by Matthew Hahn with former prisoners. The plays' "hook" is the prisoners' choosing of passages from Shakespeare's Complete Works, surreptitiously passed around the prison. Professor Derek Attridge, University of Warwick

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Book SynopsisThis book discovers within early modern revenge tragedy the surprising shaping presence of a wide array of classical philosophies not commonly affiliated with the genre.

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Book SynopsisCharting a new course between performance studies and literary criticism, this book explores how recognition of the dramatic person is involved in theatrical materiality.

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Book SynopsisThis book brings together thirteen essays, by both established and emerging scholars, which examine the most influential meanings of roads in early modern literature and culture.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides diverse perspectives on Shakespeare and early modern literature that engage innovation, collaboration, and forward-looking practices.

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Book SynopsisThe first book-length study of hospitality in Shakespeare

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Book SynopsisTraces the history of Othello's contemporary citations, adaptations, and appropriations across genres?

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Book SynopsisAll’s Well That Ends Well (1607) is a comedy by William Shakespeare. All’s Well That Ends Well was likely inspired by the tale of Giletta di Narbona from Boccaccio’s Decameron. Unpopular during Shakespeare’s lifetime, the play remains one of his least staged works to this day. Despite this, scholars praise All’s Well That Ends Well for its moral ambiguity. “The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together; our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherish’d by our virtues.” For his wit and wordplay alone, William Shakespeare is often considered the greatest writer to ever work in the English language. Where he truly triumphs, however, is in his ability to portray complex human emotions, how these emotions contribute to relationships, and how these relationships interact with politics, culture, and religion. In All’s Well That Ends Well, as in so many of Shakespeare’s works, love is the center of attention. When Helena heals the King of France, who had been suffering from a persistent illness, he allows her to choose a husband from among his closest advisors. She selects the handsome Bertram, who disdains her for her lowborn social status. Although they marry, he leaves for Italy before consummating their union, failing to suspect the lengths to which Helena will go to get what she desires. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well is a classic of English literature reimagined for modern readers.

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Book SynopsisThe complete script to the critically acclaimed play.ÞÞ Shakespeare as written by ÊReader's DigestÊ acted by Monty Python and performed at the speed of the minute waltz.

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