Literary studies: plays and playwrights Books

The book ""Drusilla with a Million , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future...

The book ""The Eye of Wilbur Mook , has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future...

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Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2018 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,7, Freie Universität Berlin (Deutsche Philologie), Veranstaltung: Aufbaumodul Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Im Zuge der...

This book offers a timely examination of the relationship between Shakespeare and contemporary digital media. By focusing upon a variety of 'Shakespearean' individuals, groups and communities and their 'online' presence, the book explores the role of...

The contents of the Shakespeare canon have come into question in recent years as scholars add plays or declare others only partially his work. Now, new literary and historical evidence demonstrates that five heretofore anonymous plays published or...

From the author's preface: "I am not aware that the attempt made in this small volume has been anticipated in any other. Even the notes of critics upon Shakespeare, superfluously full in pointing out his obligations, real or supposed, to secular...

Explanations of the legal terms used in the plays, poems and sonnets and a consideration of the criminal types presented, and a full discussion of the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy. The author has selected most of the legal passages in Shakespeare and...

Das Buch ""Der Meister Der Bergmannschen Officin Und Albrecht Durers Beziehungen Zur Basler Buchillustration (1896)"" von Werner Weisbach ist eine umfassende Untersuchung der Beziehungen zwischen Albrecht D�����rer und dem Meister der Bergmannschen...

""Der Athenische Volkskalender"" (1899) von Joannes N. Svoronos ist ein historisches Buch, das sich mit dem antiken Kalendersystem Athens besch�����ftigt. Es beinhaltet eine detaillierte Beschreibung der verschiedenen Monate, Tage und Feiertage, die im...

Das Historische Drama Der Griechen (1878) von Alfred Wagner ist ein Buch, das sich mit dem historischen Drama der Griechen besch�����ftigt. Es untersucht die griechische Dramatik und ihre Entwicklung von den Anf�����ngen bis zur klassischen Periode. Das...

Chroniques De Rome (1865) est un livre �����crit par A. S�����bastien Kauffmann. Il s'agit d'un recueil d'histoires et de r�����cits sur la ville de Rome au XIXe si�����cle. L'auteur explore diff�����rents aspects de la ville, tels que son architecture,...

Il libro ""Caratteri della Civilt������ Novella in Italia"" scritto da Pacifico Valussi nel 1868, offre una descrizione completa della cultura italiana del XIX secolo. L'autore analizza i cambiamenti sociali, politici ed economici che hanno avuto luogo...

New Historicism has been one of the major developments in literary theory over the last decade, both in the USA and Europe. In this book, Wilson and Dutton examine the theories behind New Historicism and its celebrated impact in practice on Renaissance...

In 1929, T. S. Eliot claimed that "Dante and Shakespeare divide the modern world between them; there is no third." Ulysses Explained argues that James Joyce may now be numbered along with Dante and Shakespeare among the giants of Western literature whose...

If you're a fan of Greek tragedy, you won't want to miss this fascinating collection of notes on the plays of Sophocles. Written by the renowned classicist Lewis Campbell, 'Paralipomena Sophoclea' offers fresh insights into the textual and interpretive...

This book provides insightful notes on one of Shakespeare's great tragedies, Anthony and Cleopatra. Written by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, a renowned Shakespearean scholar, this book is an invaluable resource for students and fans of Shakespeare...

This literary study of William Shakespeare's works provides readers with a comprehensive view of his historical and literary importance. Charles Knight's book contains essays, character analysis, and close reading of Shakespeare's plays, sonnets, and...

Discover the mystery and intrigue surrounding the autograph of William Shakespeare. Wise's book offers a detailed analysis of the provenance of the only surviving example of Shakespeare's handwriting, and sheds light on the controversies that have...

A study of the translations of Seneca's tragedies during the Elizabethan era, with an analysis of the translators and their works.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as...

We are proud to present this unique comprehensive commentary of SHAKE-SPEARES SONNETS, unlike any other work ever offered since publication of the Sonnets in 1609. For centuries, scholars have debated what the Sonnets might have meant, yet nobody to date...

William Shakespeare is viewed today as the quintessential English writer who has continued to influence art, poetry, philosophy and even science for over four centuries. His graphic imagery of Venice, Padua and Verona carefully braided with poignant...

"Splendid. This book continually surprises and entertains with its revelations about Shaw's engagement with an impressive array of historical and contemporary figures, ranging from Jesus to Virginia Woolf. This is a virtuoso performance by a maestro of...

This book is focused in the works of William Shakespeare. However, it is not a history book. It is a book of games inspired in his figure.

In this timely new study, Todd A. Borlik reveals the surprisingly rich potential for the emergent "green" criticism to yield fresh insights into early modern English literature. Deftly avoiding the anachronistic casting of sixteenth- and...

Ibsen's plays rank among those most frequently performed world-wide, rivaled only by Brecht, Chekhov, Shakespeare, and the Greek tragedies. By the time Ibsen died in 1906, his plays had already conquered the theaters of the Western world. Inviting...

That Shakespeare thematized time thoroughly, almost obsessively, in his plays is well established: time is, among other things, a 'devourer' (Love's Labour's Lost), one who can untie knots (Twelfth Night), or, perhaps most famously, simply 'out of joint'...

First published in English in 1961, this reissue relates the problems of form and style to the development of dramatic speech in pre-Shakespearean tragedy. The work offers positive standards by which to assess the development of pre-Shakespearean drama...

First published in 1987. This study removes some of the critical puzzles that Shakespeare's comedies of love have posed in the past. The author shows that what distinguishes the comedies is not their similarity but their variety - the way in which each...

First published in 1985.In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create self-conscious characters who seem 'lifelike' or 'realistic'. ...

Readings of Shakespeare were both influenced by and influential in the rise of Gothic forms in literature and culture from the late eighteenth century onwards. Shakespeare's plays are full of ghosts, suspense, fear-inducing moments and cultural anxieties...

'Kidnie's study presents original, sophisticated, and profoundly intelligent answers to important questions.' - Lukas Erne, University of Geneva'This is a fine and productive book, one that will surely draw significant attention and commentary well...

When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work centred on the quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. In Alternative Shakespeares, John Drakakis brought...

One of the most intense and painful of our human passions, shame is typically seen in contemporary culture as a disability or a disease to be cured. Shakespeare's ultimately positive portrayal of the emotion challenges this view. Drawing on...

Argument was the basis of Renaissance education; both rhetoric and dialectic permeated early modern humanist culture, including drama. This study approaches Shakespeare's history plays by analyzing the use of argument in the plays and examining the...

In the 1890s, when Henry James tried to achieve fame and financial security by turning to the theater, he was unceremoniously booed off the stage. Since the 1940s and '50s his fiction has nevertheless been consistently interpreted by composers and film...

This dictionary examines previously unnoted puns on the erotic attitudes and practices of the heterosexual and homosexual, the sexual deviant, and the impotent. It includes scatological puns in their usually bawdy contexts and ethnic puns, as sexually...

Eating and drinking—vital to all human beings—were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary Shakespeare, the first collection devoted solely to the study of food and drink in Shakespeare’s plays, reframes...

This groundbreaking text examines how artists on stage consciously perform age and aging. From Shakespeare to Beckett, dialogue and stage directions reveal varying understandings of age. Staging Age explores how performers respond to audience...

This volume deconstructs the underlying assumptions behind youth-culture Shakespeare and then analyzes specific "texts," from 10 Things I Hate about You to The Bomb-itty of Errors, from The Sandman to Reviving Ophelia. The authors explore the...

Franz Grillparzer’s (1791-1872) heroines – Sappho, Medea and Libussa among them – have engaged and intrigued audiences and readers since the nineteenth century. In his study of Grillparzer’s works, Matthew McCarthy-Rechowicz...