Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of essays discussing historical aspects of William Shakespeare's comedy in which Beatrice and Benedick overcome the obstacles preventing their union and ultimately conceding to mutual love and respect for each other.
Download or read book Shakespeare Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 1012 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides image and full-text online access to back issues. Consult the online table of contents for specific holdings.
Download or read book The World Must be Peopled written by Michael D. Friedman and published by Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book surveys the impact of these recent productions and suggests additional ways in which a feminist approach to performance might produce theatrical versions of these plays more consistent with their generic features."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book English editions English Shakespeariana A Finzi written by Birmingham Shakespeare Library and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton written by Nancy Mohrlock Bunker and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-07-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton examines the dynamics of early modern marriage-making, a time-honored practice that was evolving, often surreptitiously, from patriarchal control based on money and inheritance, to a companionate union in which love and the couple’s own agency played a role. Among early modern playwrights, the marriage plays of Shakespeare and Middleton are particularly, though not uniquely, concerned with this evolution, observing the movement towards spousal choice determined by the couple themselves. Through the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean period, the role of the patriarch, though often compromised, remained intact: the father or guardian negotiated the financial terms. And, in a culture that was still tied to feudal practices, land law held a primary place in the bargain. This book, while following the arc of changing marriage practices, focuses on the ways in which the oldest determination of status, land, affects marital decisions. Land is not a constant topic of conversation in the twenty-one theatrical marriages scrutinized here, but it is a persistent and omnipresent truth of family and economic life. In paired discussions of marriage plays by Shakespeare and Middleton—The Taming of the Shrew/A Chaste Maid in Cheapside, All’s Well That Ends Well/A Trick To Catch the Old One, Measure for Measure/A Mad World, My Masters, The Merchant of Venice/The Roaring Girl, and Much Ado About Nothing/No Wit, No Help Like A Woman’s—this book explores the attempts, maneuvers, intrigues, ruses, and schemes that marriageable characters deploy in order to control spousal choice and secure land. Special attention is given to patriarchal figures whose poor judgment exploits inheritance law weaknesses and to the lack of legal protection and hence the vulnerability of women—and men—who engage the system in unconventional ways. Investigation into the milieu of early modern patriarchal influence in marriage-making and the laws governing inheritance practices enables a fresh reading of Shakespeare’s and Middleton’s marriage comedies.
Download or read book Shakespeare in Print written by Andrew Murphy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Described by the TLS as 'a formidable bibliographical achievement ... destined to become a key reference work for Shakespeareans', Shakespeare in Print is now issued in a revised and expanded edition offering a wealth of new material, including a chapter which maps the history of digital editions from the earliest computer-generated texts to the very latest digital resources. Murphy's narrative offers a masterful overview of the history of Shakespeare publishing and editing, teasing out the greater cultural significance of the ways in which the plays and poems have been disseminated and received over the centuries from Shakespeare's time to our own. The opening chapters have been completely rewritten to offer close engagement with the careers of the network of publishers and printers who first brought Shakespeare to print, additional material has been added to all chapters, and the chronological appendix has been updated and expanded.
Download or read book The London Stage 1920 1929 written by J. P. Wearing and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-03-27 with total page 1033 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatre in London has celebrated a rich and influential history, and in 1976 the first volume of J. P. Wearing’s reference series provided researchers with an indispensable resource of these productions. In the decades since the original calendars were produced, several research aids have become available, notably various reference works and the digitization of important newspapers and relevant periodicals. The second edition of The London Stage 1920–1929: A Calendar of Productions, Performers, and Personnel provides a chronological calendar of London shows from January 1920 through December 1929. The volume chronicles more than 4,000 productions at 51 major central London theatres during this period. For each entry the following information is provided: Title Author Theatre Performers Personnel Opening and Closing Dates Number of Performances Other details include genre of the production, number of acts, and a list of reviews. A comment section includes other interesting information, such as plot description, first-night reception by the audience, noteworthy performances, staging elements, and details of performances in New York either prior to or after the London production. Among the plays staged in London during this decade were Bulldog Drummond, The Emperor Jones, The Enchanted Cottage, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Hay Fever, Saint Joan, and Six Characters in Search of an Author, as well as numerous musical comedies (British and American), foreign works, operas, and ballets, revivals of English classics. A definitive resource, this edition revises, corrects, and expands the original calendar. In addition, approximately 20 percent of the material—in particular, information of adaptations and translations, plot sources, and comment information—is new. Arranged chronologically, the shows are fully indexed by title, genre, and theatre. A general index includes numerous subject entries on such topics as acting, audiences, censorship, costumes, managers, performers, prompters, staging, and ticket prices. The London Stage 1920-1929 will be of value to scholars, theatrical personnel, librarians, writers, journalists, and historians.
Download or read book The National Union Catalog Pre 1956 Imprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teaching Shakespeare Beyond the Centre written by K. Flaherty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Showcasing a wide array of recent, innovative and original research into Shakespeare and learning in Australasia and beyond, this volume argues the value of the 'local' and provides transferable and adaptable models of educational theory and practice.
Download or read book Shakespeare s Irrational Endings written by D. Margolies and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his audience by frustrating their expectations.
Download or read book A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare written by Dympna Callaghan and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. This is the explicitly political approach taken in the dynamic and newly updated edition of A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare. Provides the definitive feminist statement on Shakespeare for the 21st century Updates address some of the newest theatrical andcreative engagements with Shakespeare, offering fresh insights into Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and gender dynamics in early modern England Contributors come from across the feminist generations and from various stages in their careers to address what is new in the field in terms of historical and textual discovery Explores issues vital to feminist inquiry, including race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, social economies, religion, and capitalism In addition to highlighting changes, it draws attention to the strong continuities of scholarship in this field over the course of the history of feminist criticism of Shakespeare The previous edition was a recipient of a Choice Outstanding Academic Title award; this second edition maintains its coverage and range, and bringsthe scholarship right up to the present day
Download or read book The End of Satisfaction written by Heather Hirschfeld and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-17 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heather Hirschfeld recovers the historical specificity and the conceptual vigor of the term "satisfaction" as used in dramas of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries.
Download or read book At Home in the Law written by Jeannie Suk and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: place of prosecutorial discretion. Protection orders that prohibit all contact between suspected abusers and their partners are designed to end relationships - even over victims' objections. The law's rapidly changing picture of the home has fundamentally moved the boundary between public and private space. The result, unintended by domestic violence reformers, is to reduce the autonomy of women in relation to the state." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955 written by British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 2202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book British Books in Print written by and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
