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Book The Henry Irving Shakespeare  The Works of William Shakespeare  vol  4

Download or read book The Henry Irving Shakespeare The Works of William Shakespeare vol 4 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Henry Irving Shakespeare  Volume 4

Download or read book The Henry Irving Shakespeare Volume 4 written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-03 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Irving, the influential and controversial Victorian actor, was closely involved in the publication of this distinctive Shakespeare edition. As an actor, his concern was largely with the intellectual project of seeing each play as a unified work, rather than with producing strong emotional effects in the audience. In the words of his obituary in The Times, he appealed to scholars 'by his reverent and often acute treatment of the text', and accustomed playgoers to look for 'more than empty amusement'. To the edition, he brought a sense of the plays in performance which has never been equalled before or since. Addressing a general readership, he both included notes on cuts used by professional companies and suggested others that would facilitate amateur performances. Gordon Browne's illustrations, which suggest the contemporary styles of stage costume, are another attractive feature of this edition, which will appeal to Shakespearians and theatre historians alike. This volume contains King Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It and Twelfth Night or What You Will.

Book The Henry Irving Shakespeare

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-09-20
  • ISBN : 9781694612335
  • Pages : 438 pages

Download or read book The Henry Irving Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Irving, the influential and controversial Victorian actor, was closely involved in the publication of this distinctive Shakespeare edition. As an actor, his concern was largely with the intellectual project of seeing each play as a unified work, rather than with producing strong emotional effects in the audience. In the words of his obituary in The Times, he appealed to scholars 'by his reverent and often acute treatment of the text', and accustomed playgoers to look for 'more than empty amusement'. To the edition, he brought a sense of the plays in performance which has never been equalled before or since. Addressing a general readership, he both included notes on cuts used by professional companies and suggested others that would facilitate amateur performances. Gordon Browne's illustrations, which suggest the contemporary styles of stage costume, are another attractive feature of this edition, which will appeal to Shakespearians and theatre historians alike. This volume contains: King Henry V. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Much Ado About Nothing. As You Like It. Twelfth Night, or What You Will.

Book A Companion to British Literature  Volume 4

Download or read book A Companion to British Literature Volume 4 written by Robert DeMaria, Jr. and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to British Literature, Victorian and Twentieth-Century Literature, 1837 - 2000

Book Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving

Download or read book Personal Reminiscences of Henry Irving written by Bram Stoker and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shakespeare Studies

Download or read book Shakespeare Studies written by James R. Siemon and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-03-06 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare Studies is an annual peer-reviewed volume featuring the work of performance scholars, literary critics and cultural historians. The journal focuses primarily on Shakespeare and his contemporaries, but embraces theoretical and historical studies of socio-political, intellectual and artistic contexts that extend well beyond the early modern English theatrical milieu. In addition to articles, Shakespeare Studies offers opportunities for extended intellectual exchange through its thematically-focused forums, and includes substantial reviews. An international Editorial Board maintains the quality of each volume so that Shakespeare Studies may serve as a reliable resource for all students of Shakespeare and the early modern period – for research scholars and also for teachers, actors and directors. Volume 51 includes a Forum on the work of Michael D Bristol, with contributions from J. F. Bernard, Gail Kern Paster, James Siemon, Jill Ingram, Unhae Park Langis and Julia Reinhard Lupton, Anna Lewton-Brain and Brooke Harvey, Nicholas Utzig, and Paul Yachnin. Volume 51 includes articles from the Next Generation Plenary of the Shakespeare Association of America and essays by Laurence Senelick ("A Gift to Anti-Semites: Shylock on the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Stage"), Christopher D'Addario ("Metatheater and the Urban Everyday in Ben Jonson's Epicoene and The Alchemist"), and Denise A. Walen ("Elbowing Katherine of Valois"). Book reviews consider eleven important publications on liberty of speech and female voice; theaters of catastrophe; adaptations of Macbeth; staging touch in Shakespeare's England; the criticism of Hugh Grady; Shakespeare and World War II film; Shakespeare and digital pedagogy; Shakespeare and forgetting; Shakespeare and disability studies, and Shakespeare's private life.

Book The Works of William Shakespeare

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  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Hansebooks
  • Release : 2018-01-04
  • ISBN : 9783337413804
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book The Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Hansebooks. This book was released on 2018-01-04 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The works of William Shakespeare - Volume 4 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1888. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Book The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage

Download or read book The Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian Stage written by J. Richards and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-10-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study of the depictions of the Ancient World on the Victorian and Edwardian stage, this book analyzes plays set in and dramatising the histories of Greece, Rome, Egypt, Babylon and the Holy Land. In doing so, it seeks to locate theatre within the wider culture, tracing its links and interaction with other cultural forms.

Book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare

Download or read book The Complete Works of William Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Shakespeare (1564-1616) is acknowledged as the greatest dramatist of all time. He excels in plot, poetry and wit, and his talent encompasses the great tragedies of Hamlet, King Lear, Othello and Macbeth as well as the moving history plays and the comedies such as A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew and As You Like It with their magical combination of humour, ribaldry and tenderness.

Book The Oxford Shakespeare

    Book Details:
  • Author : William Shakespeare
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2011-08-25
  • ISBN : 0198186428
  • Pages : 310 pages

Download or read book The Oxford Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-08-25 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deftly combining history and tragedy, Shakespeare's tale of bad government and usurpation had great political immediacy for its first audiences. This version of the text is based on the early quartos and first Folio of 1623. It is complemented by an introduction that places the play in its own time, thorough textual notes, and full commentary.

Book A Strange Eventful History

Download or read book A Strange Eventful History written by Michael Holroyd and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-03-02 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PLEASE NOTE: THIS EBOOK DOES NOT CONTAIN PHOTOS INCLUDED IN THE PRINT EDITION. Deemed "a prodigy among biographers" by The New York Times Book Review, Michael Holroyd transformed biography into an art. Now he turns his keen observation, humane insight, and epic scope on an ensemble cast, a remarkable dynasty that presided over the golden age of theater. Ellen Terry was an ethereal beauty, the child bride of a Pre-Raphaelite painter who made her the face of the age. George Bernard Shaw was so besotted by her gifts that he could not bear to meet her, lest the spell she cast from the stage be broken. Henry Irving was an ambitious, harsh-voiced merchant's clerk, but once he painted his face and spoke the lines of Shakespeare, his stammer fell away to reveal a magnetic presence. He would become one of the greatest actor-managers in the history of the theater. Together, Terry and Irving created a powerhouse of the arts in London's Lyceum Theatre, with Bram Stoker—who would go on to write Dracula—as manager. Celebrities whose scandalous private lives commanded global attention, they took America by stormin wildly popular national tours. Their all-consuming professional lives left little room for their brilliant but troubled children. Henry's boys followed their father into the theater but could not escape the shadow of his fame. Ellen's feminist daughter, Edy, founded an avant-garde theater and a largely lesbian community at her mother's country home. But it was Edy's son, the revolutionary theatrical designer Edward Gordon Craig, who possessed the most remarkable gifts and the most perplexing inability to realize them. A now forgotten modernist visionary, he collaborated with the Russian director Stanislavski on a production of Hamlet that forever changed the way theater was staged. Maddeningly self-absorbed, he inherited his mother's potent charm and fathered thirteen children by eight women, including a daughter with the dancer Isadora Duncan. An epic story spanning a century of cultural change, A Strange Eventful History finds space for the intimate moments of daily existence as well as the bewitching fantasies played out by its subjects. Bursting with charismatic life, it is an incisive portrait of two families who defied the strictures of their time. It will be swiftly recognized as a classic. Please note: This ebook edition does not contain photos and illustrations that appeared in the print edition.

Book The Henry Irving Shakespeare

Download or read book The Henry Irving Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Irving, the influential and controversial Victorian actor, was closely involved in the publication of this distinctive Shakespeare edition. As an actor, his concern was largely with the intellectual project of seeing each play as a unified work, rather than with producing strong emotional effects in the audience. In the words of his obituary in The Times, he appealed to scholars 'by his reverent and often acute treatment of the text', and accustomed playgoers to look for 'more than empty amusement'. To the edition, he brought a sense of the plays in performance which has never been equalled before or since. Addressing a general readership, he both included notes on cuts used by professional companies and suggested others that would facilitate amateur performances. Gordon Browne's illustrations, which suggest the contemporary styles of stage costume, are another attractive feature of this edition, which will appeal to Shakespearians and theatre historians alike.

Book Henry Irving

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard Foulkes
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2017-11-30
  • ISBN : 1351156462
  • Pages : 230 pages

Download or read book Henry Irving written by Richard Foulkes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henry Irving (1838-1905), the first actor to be knighted, dominated the theatre in Britain and beyond for over a quarter of a century. As an actor, he was strikingly different with his idiosyncratic pronunciation, his somewhat ungainly physique, and his brilliant psychological portrayals of virtue and villainy. As a director of spectacular, and commercially driven, entertainments, Irving anticipated Hollywood directors from D.W. Griffith to Stephen Spielberg. And as manager of the Lyceum Theatre, where audiences included the leading public figures of the day, he controlled every aspect of the performance. This collection of essays by leading theatre scholars explores each element of Irving's art: his acting, his contribution to the plays he commissioned, his flair for the stage picture, and his ear for incidental music. Like Wagner, Irving was a proponent of a holistic approach to the stage, that is, blending together acting, painting, music, and architecture to create harmonious, balanced, and artistic theatre. Irving emerges not only as the peer of such eminent contemporaries as Tennyson, Sullivan, Shaw, and Burne-Jones, but also as a powerful influence on the twentieth-century theatre.

Book The Academy

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1906
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 660 pages

Download or read book The Academy written by and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book General introduction and life of Shakespeare  by Edward Dowden  Shakespeare as a playwright  by Henry Irving  Love s labour s lost  The comedy of errors  Two gentlemen of Verona  Romeo and Juliet  King Henry VI  pt  1  v 2  King Henry VI  pt  2 3  King Henry VI  condensed by Charles Kemble  The taming of the shrew  A midsummer night s dream  King Richard II  v 3  King Richard III  King John  Merchant of Venice  King Henry IV  pt  1 2  v 4  King Henry V  The merry wives of Windsor  Much ado about nothing  As you like it  Twelfth night  or  What you will  v 5  All s well that ends well  Julius Caesar  Measure for measure  Troilus and Cressida  Macbeth  v 6  Othello  Anthony and Cleopatra  Coriolanus  King Lear  v 7  Timon of Athens  Cymbeline  The tempest  Titus Andronicus  The winter s tale  v 8  Hamlet  King Henry VIII  Pericles  Poems

Download or read book General introduction and life of Shakespeare by Edward Dowden Shakespeare as a playwright by Henry Irving Love s labour s lost The comedy of errors Two gentlemen of Verona Romeo and Juliet King Henry VI pt 1 v 2 King Henry VI pt 2 3 King Henry VI condensed by Charles Kemble The taming of the shrew A midsummer night s dream King Richard II v 3 King Richard III King John Merchant of Venice King Henry IV pt 1 2 v 4 King Henry V The merry wives of Windsor Much ado about nothing As you like it Twelfth night or What you will v 5 All s well that ends well Julius Caesar Measure for measure Troilus and Cressida Macbeth v 6 Othello Anthony and Cleopatra Coriolanus King Lear v 7 Timon of Athens Cymbeline The tempest Titus Andronicus The winter s tale v 8 Hamlet King Henry VIII Pericles Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Steam Engine  4

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  • Author : Daniel Kinnear Clark
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1824
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 514 pages

Download or read book The Steam Engine 4 written by Daniel Kinnear Clark and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Oxford Shakespeare  The Complete Sonnets and Poems

Download or read book The Oxford Shakespeare The Complete Sonnets and Poems written by William Shakespeare and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-02-14 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare's Sonnets are among the most complex and beautiful poems ever written. Their exploration of love, praise, homo- and hetero-sexual desire is enacted in the richest, densest writing in English. And the first printed work to which Shakespeare's name was attached was the erotic narrative poem, Venus and Adonis, which developed a sumptuous vocabulary in which to explore love, praise of the beloved, sexual desire, and the power of rhetoric. That poem was so popular that most of Shakespeare's contemporaries thought of him as primarily a poet, rather than a playwright. Yet despite the power of Shakespeare's poems, and their foundational place within his oeuvre, modern readers have seldom been encouraged to engage with his non-dramatic works as a whole. This new edition explains how this state of affairs has arisen, and why it needs to be changed. The volume contains the complete Sonnets and poems with a full commentary. An extensive and lively introduction explores Shakespeare's poetic development, and shows how the poems relate to each other and to his dramatic works. The Sonnets are freshly interpreted, not as cryptic fragments of autobiography, but as works which ask their readers to think about relationships between lyric poems and the historical circumstances which may have given rise to them. The narrative poems Venus and Adonis and Lucrece are placed where they belong, at the origin of Shakespeare's thinking about what it means to desire and to be desired. The edition responds to the most recent scholarly work on the interpretation and dating of Shakespeare's poems and Sonnets. It also explores what the poems may have meant to their earliest readers. For this reason it also includes poems attributed to Shakespeare in the seventeenth century, as well as those printed under his name in The Passionate Pilgrim in 1599.