wyszukanych pozycji: 101
Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays
ISBN: 9780198786542 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Wells's accomplishments include editing the entire canon of Shakespeare plays for the ground-breaking Oxford Shakespeare and over his lifetime, Wells has made significant contributions to debates over literary criticism of the works, genre study, textual theory, Shakespeare's afterlife in the theatre, and contemporary performance. The volume is introduced by Peter Holland and its thirty...
This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known a...
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119,27 zł |
Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism
ISBN: 9780198711773 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a rich, varied, and wonderfully evocative collection of eyewitness accounts of Shakespearian performances over the centuries. Theatre generates an excitement that stimulates fine prose: here are Hazlitt's famous accounts of Edmund Kean as Richard III and Hamlet, Bernard Shaw on Forbes-Robertson's Hamlet and his hilarious descriptions of Augustin Daly's productions, Max Beerbohm on Gordon Craig, and Kenneth Tynan on Olivier and Wolfit. Here too are lesser-known pieces by great writers: the German novelist Theodor Fontane on Charles Kean, Evelyn Waugh on...
Shakespeare in the Theatre offers a rich, varied, and wonderfully evocative collection of eyewitness accounts of Shakespearian performances over the c...
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414,16 zł |
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh
ISBN: 9780198769729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian...
Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare ...
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71,23 zł |
William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction
ISBN: 9780198718628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare.
Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and theatrical profession of the time, he also considers how Shakespeare experienced this world, both as an actor and as a writer. Examining Shakespeare's narrative poems, sonnets, and all of his... In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world'...
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45,78 zł |
William Shakespeare: The Complete Works
ISBN: 9780199267187 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 1424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. Combines scholarship with editorial material. This work includes a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary allusions to Shakespeare, glossary, consolidated bibliography, and an index of first lines of Sonnets.
Combines scholarship with editorial material. This work includes a foreword, list of contents, general introduction, essay on language, contemporary a...
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101,79 zł |
Shakespeare: A Life in Drama
ISBN: 9780393315622 / Angielski / Miękka / 1959 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Considering the playwright and his work, the author theorizes that Shakespeare's elusive personality is a result of his supremacy as a dramatist--that he submerged his identity in his characters--and assesses evolving meanings of the plays and poems.
Considering the playwright and his work, the author theorizes that Shakespeare's elusive personality is a result of his supremacy as a dramatist--that...
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130,73 zł |
Shakespeare the Poet and His Plays
ISBN: 9780413767103 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Why do Shakespeare's works continue to exert so strong an influence and have such lasting appeal? What do they have to offer modern readers and play-goers? The author seeks to answer these questions in this wide-ranging critical survey of Shakespeare's career as a poet and playwright.
Why do Shakespeare's works continue to exert so strong an influence and have such lasting appeal? What do they have to offer modern readers and play-g...
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103,69 zł |
Perymedes the Blacksmith and Pandosto by Robert Greene: A Critical Edition
ISBN: 9780367110185 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 548 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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248,92 zł |
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh
ISBN: 9780198703297 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing with essays on the men and women who have given great stage performances in his plays from Elizabethan times to our own. They include both English and American performers such as David Garrick, Sarah Siddons, Charlotte Cushman, Ira Aldridge, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving, Ellen Terry, Edith Evans, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Peggy Ashcroft, Janet Suzman, Judi Dench, Ian...
Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare ...
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104,53 zł |
Looking for Sex in Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780521832847 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 122 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. One of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespearian scholars considers the extent to which sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing relies on interpretation by actors, directors and critics. Tracing interpretations of Shakespearian "bawdy" and "innuendo" from the eighteenth-century to the present, Stanley Wells pays special attention to interpretations of A Midsummer Night's Dream, the Sonnets and homosexual relationships in the plays.
One of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespearian scholars considers the extent to which sexual meaning in Shakespeare's writing relies on int...
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256,91 zł |
Shakespeare Survey: Volume 52, Shakespeare and the Globe
ISBN: 9780521660747 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of the previous year's textual and critical studies and of major British performances. The books are illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs. The current editor of Survey is Peter Holland. The first eighteen volumes were edited by...
Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948 Survey has published the best international scholarship in English ...
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448,56 zł |
Shakespeare: For All Time
ISBN: 9780195160932 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly illustrated book tells the story of Shakespeare's life, his writings, and his afterlife.
Drawing on a lifetime's experience of studying, teaching, editing, and writing about Shakespeare, Stanley Wells combines scholarly authority with authorial flair in a book that will appeal equally to the specialist and the untutored enthusiast. Chapters on Shakespeare's life in Stratford and in London offer a fresh... From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tom...
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369,94 zł |
Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide
ISBN: 9780199245222 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 744 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Edited by Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin, this stimulating and comprehensive guide to Shakespeare is an ideal text for undergraduate students. It includes over forty specially commissioned essays by an outstanding team of scholars. Each essay is written in an accessible and engaging style and is followed by annotated suggestions for further reading.
Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide is divided into four key parts. Part One offers concise introductions to the literary and historical contexts in which Shakespeare lived and worked. It covers the society, culture, language, theatre,... Edited by Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin, this stimulating and comprehensive guide to Shakespeare is an ideal text for undergraduate students. It ...
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197,89 zł |
Shakespeare & Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
ISBN: 9780307280534 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. From the dean of Shakespeare studies comes a lively, entertaining work of biography that firmly locates Shakespeare within the hectic, exilarating world in which he lived and worked.Theatre in Shakespeare's day was a growth industry. Everyone knew everyone else, and they all sought to learn, borrow, or steal from one another. Stanley Wells explores the theatre world from behind the scenes, examining how the great actors of the time influenced Shakespeare's work. He writes about the lives and works of the other major writers of the day and discusses Shakespeare's relationships-sometimes...
From the dean of Shakespeare studies comes a lively, entertaining work of biography that firmly locates Shakespeare within the hectic, exilarating wor...
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82,79 zł |
Re-Editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader: Based on Lectures Given at the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C.
ISBN: 9780198129349 / Angielski / Twarda / 1984 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader
Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader
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706,55 zł |
Shakespeare, Sex, & Love
ISBN: 9780199578597 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Here is a lively look at how Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality in his plays and poems relates to the sexual conventions, sexual mores, and actual sexual behaviors of his day.
Pre-eminent Shakespeare critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behavior--and its consequences--in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. Shakespeare's Stratford was a hotbed of small-town gossip; the town's records reveal many cases of slander involving accusations of cuckoldry and whoredom, as well as many... Here is a lively look at how Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality in his plays and poems relates to the sexual conventions, sexual mores, and ac...
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104,53 zł |
Twelfth Night: Critical Essays
ISBN: 9781138850811 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1986. Among the most frequently performed and high admired of Shakespeare's plays, Twelfth Night is examined here in this collection of writings from well-known essayists and scholars. The chapters present to the modern reader discussions of the play to enhance understanding and study of both the text and performances. Opening essays address individual characters; then some accounts of its potential and theatrical reviews are included; finally followed by critical studies looking at various parts and themes. The editor's introduction explains the usefulness... Originally published in 1986. Among the most frequently performed and high admired of Shakespeare's plays, Twelfth Night is examined here in... |
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191,87 zł |
Literature and Drama: With Special Reference to Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
ISBN: 9780415612289 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 130 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. First published in 1970. This book examines the areas of plays that are dependent upon the art of the theatre and the fluidity of interpretation to which this gives rise. It discusses the printing of plays and the limited attempts that have have been made to convey theatrical experience, taking as a particular example a masque by Ben Jonson. Finally, some of the problems created by the instability of theatrical art
First published in 1970. This book examines the areas of plays that are dependent upon the art of the theatre and the fluidity of interpretation to wh...
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217,80 zł |
Twelfth Night: Critical Essays
ISBN: 9781138850170 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 330 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1986. Among the most frequently performed and high admired of Shakespeare s plays, "Twelfth Night" is examined here in this collection of writings from well-known essayists and scholars. The chapters present to the modern reader discussions of the play to enhance understanding and study of both the text and performances. Opening essays address individual characters; then some accounts of its potential and theatrical reviews are included; finally followed by critical studies looking at various parts and themes. The editor s introduction explains the usefulness of... Originally published in 1986. Among the most frequently performed and high admired of Shakespeare s plays, "Twelfth Night" is examined here in this... |
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752,12 zł |
Literature and Drama : with special reference to Shakespeare and his contemporaries
ISBN: 9780415353083 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This book examines the areas of plays that are dependent upon the art of the theatre and the fluidity of interpretation to which this gives rise.
This book examines the areas of plays that are dependent upon the art of the theatre and the fluidity of interpretation to which this gives rise.
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959,60 zł |