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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 43 The Tempest and After Volume 43 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 43
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 44 Shakespeare and Politics Volume 44 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 44
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 47 Playing Places for Shakespeare Volume 47 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 47
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 48 Shakespeare and Cultural Exchange Volume 48 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 48
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 49 Romeo and Juliet and its Afterlife Volume 49 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 49
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 5 Textual Criticism Volume 5 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 5
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 50 Shakespeare and Language Volume 50 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 50
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 6 The Histories Volume 6 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 6
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 7 Style and Language Volume 7 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 7
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 8 The Comedies Volume 8 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 8
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 9 Hamlet Volume 9 Shakespeare Survey Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Disowning Knowledge
Book SynopsisReissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare's tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern skepticism provoked by the new science of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.Trade Review'These beautiful essays on Shakespeare, lucid, complicated, and deeply moving, are unique … for the conversation they forge between philosophy and literature. Unified by the twin themes of knowledge and acknowledgment, and thus by the relationship between scientific understanding and human understanding, the volume brings together some of the most remarkable literary essays in modern scholarship. Tp his now famous readings of six plays of Shakespeare, Cavell now adds a stunning … piece on Macbeth, containing complicated meditations about gender, sexuality and humanity.' Martha Nussbaum, author of Upheavals of Thought'Disowning Knowledge makes wonderfully clear why Stanley Cavell's career-long struggle with the philosophical problem of skepticism converges so forcefully with his preoccupation with Shakespearean theater. Admirers of Cavell's remarkable 1969 essay on King Lear and of his published readings of Othello and Coriolanus will be delighted to find them together in one volume and complemented by equally challenging commentaries on Antony and Cleopatra, Hamlet and The Winter's Tale. Shakespeareans who do not already know Cavell's previous work should prepare themselves for a demanding encounter with the most distinctive and powerful voice in contemporary Shakespeare criticism.' Professor Richard P. Wheeler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign'Stanley Cavell's essays on Shakespeare - deep, intellectually tenacious, and humane meditations on the nature of artistic genius - are thrilling and essential reading. They illuminate the relation between skepticism and theater, transform the language of literary criticism, and heighten the ethical significance of aesthetic response.' Professor Stephen Greenblatt, Harvard UniversityTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; Preface to the updated edition; 1. Introduction; 2. The avoidance of love: a reading of King Lear; 3. Othello and the stake of the other; 4. Coriolanus and interpretation of politics; 5. Hamlet's burden of proof; 6. Recounting gains, showing losses: reading The Winter's Tale; 7. Macbeth appalled; Index of names and titles.
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Cambridge University Press Twelfth Night
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Cambridge University Press Macbeth
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Cambridge University Press Alls Well that Ends Well
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Language
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Cambridge University Press Aeschylus The Oresteia
Book SynopsisThis is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. The volume's clear structure and guide to further reading will make this an invaluable guide for students and teachers alike.Trade Review'… Goldhill's deep knowledge and love of his subject matter is demonstrable and his Guide will prove an excellent starting point for those undergraduates and beyond who are studying Aeschylus either in the original or in translation.' The Journal of Classics TeachingTable of ContentsPreface; Chronology; 1. Drama and the city of Athens; 2. The Oresteia; 3. The influence of the Oresteia.
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Cambridge University Press Looking for Sex in Shakespeare
Book SynopsisStanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. This book, written with characteristic verve and accessibility, considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearean bawdy and innuendo from eighteenth-century editors to recent scholars and critics, Wells pays special attention to recent sexually orientated studies of A Midsummer Night's Dream, once regarded as the most innocent of its author's plays. He considers the Sonnets, some of which are addressed to a man, and asks whether they imply same-sex desire in the author, or are quasi-dramatic projections of the writer's imagination. Finally, he looks at how male-to-male relationships in the plays have been interpreted as sexual in both criticism and performance. Stanley Wells's lively, provocative, and open-minded book will appeal to a broad readership of students, theatregoers and ShakespearTrade Review'Looking for Sex in Shakespeare finds one of the most distinguished Shakespearean scholars in top form, witty, erudite and wonderfully sane. Illuminating the deep erotic riddles of the Sonnets, the rich performed life of the plays and the lascivious byways of post-modern criticism with equal insight, this collection is at once sufficiently amusing, serious and sexy to stand alongside the Shakespearean poetry that is its subject.' Michael Dobson'… this book offers clear, good-humoured answers …' Sunday Times'The leading scholar Stanley Wells has collected recent lectures on Bardic bawdy at the Globe into this handy packet of three essays.' The Independent'… stimulating and full of good sense; it contrives to be both fair-minded, and a bracing corrective to some current follies.' Sunday Telegraph'Mr Wells has fun with certain 'lewd interpreters', and everywhere shows a sanity and openness of judgment that critics and actors should note.' The Economist'… thoughtful and amusing … This is only a little book but it touches on some big theses: the relations between text and script and the different focuses of reader and performer (not always the same thing), as well as the frequent silliness of scholars and actors who are as fallible as the rest of us.' Around the Globe'Wells really has no equal writing today in terms of Shakespearean criticism and this superb book blows fresh air up the skirts of many a donnish fancy proving finally to be a corrective to many silliness which occlude the meaning of the plays rather than enhancing them.' Birmingham Post'It is a short, readable volume, which explores its subject with clarity and whose leisurely style reflects its origins in a series of public lectures.' Modern Literary ReviewTable of ContentsForeword Patrick Spottiswoode; Preface; Introduction; 1. Lewd Interpreters; 2. The originality of Shakespeare's Sonnets; 3. 'I Think he Loves the World only for him': Men loving Men in Shakespeare's plays.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey
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Cambridge University Press The Biblical Drama of Medieval Europe
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Cambridge University Press A History of Shakespeare on Screen
Book SynopsisA History of Shakespeare on Screen chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare's plays from the earliest exhibitions in music halls and nickelodeons to today's multi-million dollar productions shown in megaplexes. This edition updates the chronology to 2003, with a new chapter on recent films.Trade Review"...The best book this reviewer has ever read on this subject, this title is a must for any library, where it will serve undergraduates through faculty interested in film and/or Shakespeare." ChoiceTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgments to second edition; Preface to first edition; Acknowledgments; List of abbreviations; 1. Shakespeare in silence: from stage to screen; 2. Hollywood's four seasons of Shakespeare; 3. Laurence Olivier directs Shakespeare; 4. Orson Welles: Shakespeare for the art houses; 5. Electronic Shakespeare: from television to the web; 6. Spectacle and song in Castellani and Zeffirelli; 7. Shakespeare movies in the age of angst; 8. Other Shakespeares: translation and expropriation; 9. Shakespeare in the cinema of transgression, and beyond; 10. The renaissance of Shakespeare in moving images; 11. Shakespeare in love, in love with Shakespeare: the adoration after the millennium.
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Domestic Loss
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder 9 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 9
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and the Authority of Performance
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Cambridge University Press Historiography and Ideology in Stuart Drama
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Cambridge University Press The First Quarto of Othello The New Cambridge Shakespeare The Early Quartos
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Cambridge University Press The Politics of Performance in Early Renaissance Drama
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Cambridge University Press Wilde
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Tragic Cosmos
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press An Introduction to PostColonial Theatre
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Cambridge University Press Impersonations
Book SynopsisWhy was England the only country in Europe to maintain an all-male public theatre in the Renaissance? Stephen Orgel uses this question as the starting point of a fresh and stimulating exploration of the representation of gender in Elizabethan drama and society. Why were boys used to play female roles in drama, and how did such cross-dressing impact on the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries? What was the place of women in the Renaissance theatre, either on the stage or in the audience? And what did society make of those women who significantly and successfully violated accepted gender boundaries? At once provocative and witty, lucid and stylish, Impersonations will reshape our understanding of the Renaissance theatre, and make us rethink our own inadequate categories of gender, power and sexuality.Trade Review'In [this] brilliant short book ... Orgel writes with unfailing clarity and authority, laying bare the steps of his own thinking step by step, encouraging us to entertain objections to his argument, each of which he carefully answers, while never losing sight of the central theme of his book.' New York Review of Books'Orgel's strength is in the sharp local perception - the scholarly insistence, for example, that despite the fantasies of critics and directors the text of Edward II does not call for an on-stage poker. Such rigour is a useful corrective to critical orthodoxies which abjure the unfashionably empirical.' New Theatre QuarterlyTable of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The performance of desire; 3. The eye of the beholder; 4. Call me Ganymede; 5. Masculine apparel; 6. Mankind witches; 7. Visible figures.
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespearean Forest
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Cambridge University Press A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Cambridge University Press Aristophanes
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Cambridge University Press Jonson Shakespeare and Early Modern Virgil
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Chekhov Cambridge Companions to Literature
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Cambridge University Press The Homoerotics of Early Modern Drama 21 Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture Series Number 21
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Cambridge University Press Othello
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Cambridge University Press The Theatre of Sam Shepard
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Cambridge University Press Drama at the Heart of the Secondary School Projects to Promote Authentic Learning David Fulton Books
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Cambridge University Press Gender and the Italian Stage
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Troy
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Cambridge University Press Language and Stage in Medieval and Renaissance England
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Cambridge University Press King Henry V
Book SynopsisThis is the first stage history of Shakespeare''s King Henry V to cover the play''s theatrical life since its first performance in 1599. Staging this play has always been a political act, and the substantial introduction traces its theatrical interventions into conflicts from the Napoleonic Wars to Vietnam and the Falklands crisis, offering a complete account of the play''s fortunes: from its absence in the seventeenth century to its dominant position as historical spectacle in the Victorian period, through twentieth-century productions, which include the popular films by Olivier and Branagh. Together they raise vital interpretative questions: is Henry V an epic of English nationalism, a knowing and cynical piece of power politics, or an anti-war manifesto? The volume also includes the play text, illustrations and detailed footnotes about major performances.Trade Review'I cannot recommend too highly the whole series (a bargain at £16.99 for each play) to all theatre lovers, theatregoers, theatre practitioners, and anybody who enjoys Shakespeare.' Robert Tanitch, What's on in LondonTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Series editors' preface; List of abbreviations; Select chronology of English-language performances; Introduction; King Henry V and commentary; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Beckett
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