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The great Shakespeare Jubilee festival was held at Stratford, under the direction of David Garrick. The occasion was the dedication of the new town hall and the presentation by Garrick of a statue of Shakespeare. Immense interest, enthusiasm, and controversy were aroused by the plans, which involved not only theatrical and rhetorical festivities but fireworks, processions and a horserace.

This book was originally published in 1964 to coincide with the 400^th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth. It describes the festival, which touched heights of success and depths of...

Originally published in 1961, this book is a study of the ways actors since the time of Shakespeare have portrayed the character of Shylock. A pioneering work in the study of performance history as well as in the portrayal of Jews in English literature. Specifically it studies Charles Macklin, Edmund Kean, Edwin Booth, Henry Irving and more recent performers.

To know some Shakespeare provides a head start in life. His plays are among the great bedrocks of Western civilization and contain the finest writing of the past 450 years. Many of the best novels, plays, poems, and films in the English language produced since Shakespeare's death in 1616--from Pride and Prejudice to The...

The great dramatist Ben Jonson wrote that William Shakespeare ""was not of an age, but for all time."" In the nearly four centuries since his death, Shakespeare's plays still have a tremendous impact on everything from the classroom to popular culture. Now you can have at your fingertips all the vital details on the most influential writer in the history of the English language--straight from one of the most trusted sources of information in the world.

In Shakespeare, Encyclopaedia Britannica presents a...

The Roman poet Ovid was one of the most-imitated classical writers of the Elizabethan age and a touchstone for generations of English writers. In The Ovidian Vogue, Daniel Moss argues that poets appropriated Ovid not just to connect with the ancient past but also to communicate and compete within late Elizabethan literary culture.

Moss explains how in the 1590s rising stars like Thomas Nashe and William Shakespeare adopted Ovidian language to introduce themselves to patrons and rivals, while established figures like Edmund Spenser and Michael Drayton alluded to Ovid's works...

Als sich 1990 der Vorhang uber Heiner Mullers Berliner Inszenierung Hamlet/Maschine senkte, entdeckte die Kritik in Hamlet den Idealisten des Burger-Forums, der den Ausverkauf der DDR an den Kapitalisten Fortinbras (= BRD) nicht verhinderte. Politischer schien kein Zeitstuck - aktuell in einem brisanten Moment deutscher Geschichte war wieder einmal der 'dritte deutsche Klassiker' Shakespeare. Seine Buhnekarriere untersucht diese Studie mit einer Methode, die Hermeneutik und Semiotik zu verbinden sucht: von den Anfangen uber die Shakespeare-Kritik im 19. Jahrhundert (Hegel), das Theater der...