Reading Shakespeare
ISBN: 9781352004366 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Lucidly written, with no jargon, this is an invaluable overview of Shakespeare's life and works for students who may be studying Shakespeare for the first time.This is an ideal set text for modules on Shakespeare, Jacobean Drama or Renaissance/ Early Modern Literature which may be offered at all levels of an undergraduate Literature degree.
Lucidly written, with no jargon, this is an invaluable overview of Shakespeare's life and works for students who may be studying Shakespeare for the f...
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We Find Ourselves in Other People's Stories: On Narrative Collapse and a Lifetime Search for Story
ISBN: 9780367788117 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We Find Ourselves in Other People’s Stories: On Narrative Collapse and a Lifetime Search for Story isa collection of five essays that dissolves the boundary between personal writing and academic writing, a longstanding binary construct in the discipline of composition and writing studies, in order to examine the rhetorical effects of narrative collapse on the stories we tell about ourselves and others. Taken together, the essays theorize the relationships between language and violence, between narrative and dementia, between genre and certainty, and between writing and life.
We Find Ourselves in Other People’s Stories: On Narrative Collapse and a Lifetime Search for Story isa collection of five essays that dissolves the ...
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Shakespeare: King Lear
ISBN: 9780333581766 / Angielski / Miękka / 117 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Brodie's Notes are invaluable study guides for English Literature GCSE and A-Level students, both for course work projects and at revision time. They provide useful insights into the literary works and increase understanding and enjoyment of the texts.
Written by experienced teachers and examiners, Brodie's Notes provide imaginative responses to the text being studied, and help to stimulate independent critical appraisal. Brodie's Notes are invaluable study guides for English Literature GCSE and A-Level students, both for course work projects and at revision ti...
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Hamlet
ISBN: 9781403920928 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This handbook presents the stage life of Hamlet in a scene-by-scene commentary. Readers are introduced to the three early texts, the context in which the play was written and first performed, and notable productions in its later history. A survey of recent criticism and a guide to further reading conclude this up-to-date account
This handbook presents the stage life of Hamlet in a scene-by-scene commentary. Readers are introduced to the three early texts, the context ...
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Twelfth Night
ISBN: 9781403920942 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book opens up Twelfth Night as a play to see and hear, provides useful contextual and source material, and considers the critical and theatrical reception over four centuries. A detailed performance commentary brings to life the many moods of Shakespeare's subtle but robust humour. Students are encouraged to imagine the theatrical challenges of Shakespeare's Illyria afresh for themselves, as well as the thought, creative responses and wonder it has provoked.
This book opens up Twelfth Night as a play to see and hear, provides useful contextual and source material, and considers the critical and th...
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The Merchant of Venice
ISBN: 9781403939609 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume, while it raises all the questions appertaining to the cultural, historical and critical contexts of the play, has as its primary focus the play as theatrical performance. The questions raised are those that face actors, stage managers and directors, scenic and costume designers, in the rehearsal room and on the stage.
This volume, while it raises all the questions appertaining to the cultural, historical and critical contexts of the play, has as its primary focus th...
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Henry V: A Guide to the Text and Its Theatrical Life
ISBN: 9781403940773 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Focusing on stage directions, implied stage action in the dialogue, and on production choices available at key moments, this Handbook treats the script like a rehearsal in progress and encourages the imagining of a physical narrative where the play's meanings and our responses are shaped by staged actions.
Focusing on stage directions, implied stage action in the dialogue, and on production choices available at key moments, this Handbook treats ...
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Richard III
ISBN: 9781403941442 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This study offers students and performers an expansive introduction to the rich history and exciting performance potential of Shakespeare's play. An extensive commentary focuses on the challenges to actors and directors in putting Richard III onstage and encourages the reader to engage imaginatively with Shakespeare's words. Separate chapters on stage, film, textual and critical history combine with the commentary to form a comprehensive and wide-ranging study of one of Shakespeare's most popular and theatrically thrilling plays.
This study offers students and performers an expansive introduction to the rich history and exciting performance potential of Shakespeare's play. An e...
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Measure for Measure
ISBN: 9781403944177 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern. This introductory guide offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performance, studies of influential performances, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading.
Measure for Measure generates much debate and is strikingly modern. This introductory guide offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commen...
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The Taming of the Shrew
ISBN: 9781403945402 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How might Katherine's final speech be staged in the twenty-first century? How might it have been staged in the sixteenth? Must this speech be played for irony, or should we understand her words as sincere? This Handbook foregrounds performance and history as interpretative issues, introducing students to a process of creative imaginative thought. It offers skills and materials with which to explore the variety of ways in which Shakespeare's "troubling comedy" or "light tragedy" might take on meaning today.
How might Katherine's final speech be staged in the twenty-first century? How might it have been staged in the sixteenth? Must this speech be played f...
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Racial Rhapsody: The Aesthetics of Contemporary U.S. Identity
ISBN: 9781032094878 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Toni Morrison and the New Black: Reading God Help the Child
ISBN: 9781032095264 / Angielski / Miękka / 116 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Poor Things: How Those with Money Depict Those without It
ISBN: 9781478031024 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Winter's Tale
ISBN: 9780230008526 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook provides an introductory guide to 'The Winter's Tale' offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.
This Handbook provides an introductory guide to 'The Winter's Tale' offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a b...
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Henry IV: Parts I and II
ISBN: 9780230019119 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This engaging double-volume Handbook explores the Henry IV plays as texts for performance as they unfold, moment by moment, on the stage. With scene-by-scene commentary, and including an account of their life on stage, film and in criticism, this guide illuminates two plays that together rank as one of Shakespeare's greatest achievements.
This engaging double-volume Handbook explores the Henry IV plays as texts for performance as they unfold, moment by moment, on the stage. Wit...
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Much ADO about Nothing
ISBN: 9780230222618 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This Handbook provides an introductory guide to the play offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptation, a wide sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading. This Handbook provides an introductory guide to the play offering a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, contextual documents, a brief his... |
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Ford: 'Tis Pity She's a Whore
ISBN: 9780230242999 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Tis Pity She's a Whore is one of the most controversial plays ever staged in the English theatre. This introductory guide to one of Ford's most read and performed plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading.
'Tis Pity She's a Whore is one of the most controversial plays ever staged in the English theatre. This introductory guide to one of Ford'... |
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Middleton and Rowley: The Changeling
ISBN: 9780230246072 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introductory guide to one of Middleton and Rowley's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and further reading. This introductory guide to one of Middleton and Rowley's most widely-studied plays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief ... |
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The Tempest
ISBN: 9781403934789 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The commentary at the heart of the book introduces readers to the challenge of reading The Tempest as a text and responding to the play in performance. Other sections discuss early performances and cultural contexts. A wide-ranging sample of critical responses accompanies consideration of key performances and productions on stage and film.
The commentary at the heart of the book introduces readers to the challenge of reading The Tempest as a text and responding to the play in p...
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
ISBN: 9781403945389 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This introductory guide to one Shakespeare's most read and performedplays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of the text and first performances, case studies of key performances and productions, a survey of film and TV adaptations, and a wide sampling of critical opinion and annotated further reading."
This introductory guide to one Shakespeare's most read and performedplays offers a scene-by-scene theatrically aware commentary, a brief history of th...
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