The Drama of Love, Life & Death in Shakespeare

The Drama of Love, Life & Death in Shakespeare
Author: Anthony Holden
Publisher: Miller/Mitchell Beazley
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2000
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781840002836


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Shakespeare is as much a figure of the 20th and 21st centuries as he is of the 16th and 17th, and Shakespeare in Love stands as evidence of our fascination. Written by a recognized expert, this book addresses two significant factors behind this continuing relevance. Firstly, there is the play's investigation of the most fundamental and timeless aspects of human nature. Play after play confronts what is immutable in man: our capacity for good and evil, our subservience to emotion. Each chapter examines themes recurrent in Shakespeare's dramas: love and hate; jealousy and revenge; and death and retribution among others. Secondly, there are the interpretation of the plays, many of which are films now lauded in their own right. Soul of the Age is illustrated with stills from the most famous adaptations: from the Olivier-starring Hamlet to 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Leonardo Di Caprio.

If We Were Villains

If We Were Villains
Author: M. L. Rio
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2017-04-11
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250095301


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“Much like Donna Tartt’s The Secret History, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.” —Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest "Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.” —New York Times Book Review On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it. A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. If We Were Villains was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and Mystery Scene says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."

Secrets of the Sonnets: Shakespeare's Code

Secrets of the Sonnets: Shakespeare's Code
Author: Peter Jensen
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 238
Release: 2006-08-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1430309237


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1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616-Shakespeare's Sonnets-Substitution code-1609 Quarto- 2. The Poet William Shakespeare-The Youth Henry Wriothesley-The Dark Lady Aemelia Bessano Lanyer- The Rival Poet Christopher Marlowe-Deciphering- Time and Timeline-Names and Identities.

Romio and Juliet (New)

Romio and Juliet (New)
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2020-03-25
Genre:
ISBN:


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William Shakespeare was famous writer. His one of the most popular tragedy drama story. He was born in April 1564, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom and died in April 23, 1616, Stratford-upon-Avon, United Kingdom.

Devouring Time

Devouring Time
Author: Philippa Sheppard
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Total Pages: 426
Release: 2017-05-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0773550224


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From Kenneth Branagh’s groundbreaking Henry V to Justin Kurzel’s haunting Macbeth, many modern filmmakers have adapted Shakespeare for the big screen. Their translations of Renaissance plays to modern cinema both highlight and comment on contemporary culture and attitudes to art, identity, and the past. A dynamic analysis of twenty-seven films adapted from Shakespeare’s works, Philippa Sheppard’s Devouring Time addresses a wide range of topics, including gender, ritual, music, setting, rhetoric, and editing. She argues that the directors’ choice to adapt these four-hundred-year-old plays is an act of nostalgia, not only for the plays themselves, but also for the period in which they were written, the association of genius that accompanies them, and the medium of theatre. Sheppard contends that millennial anxiety brought on by the social and technological revolutions of the last five decades has generated a yearning for Shakespeare because he is an icon of a literary culture that is often deemed threatened. Authoritative and accessible, Devouring Time’s investigations of filmmakers’ nostalgia for the art of the past shed light on Western concepts of gender, identity, and colonialism.

Hamlet

Hamlet
Author: Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2019-03-25
Genre:
ISBN: 9781091550148


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Complete Unabridged Beautiful Hamlet, or The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, by William Shakespeare is one of the most influential works of world literature. Enjoy it again or for the very first time in this stylish new paperback edition.

Nothing Like the Sun

Nothing Like the Sun
Author: Anthony Burgess
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1996
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780393315073


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Before Shakespeare in Love, there was Anthony Burgess's Nothing Like the Sun: a magnificent, bawdy telling of Shakespeare's love life.

King of Shadows

King of Shadows
Author: Susan Cooper
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 5
Release: 2012-03-06
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0689845782


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Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?

Shakespeare's Lyricized Drama

Shakespeare's Lyricized Drama
Author: Aleksandŭr Shurbanov
Publisher: University of Delaware Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2010
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0874130867


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This book explores Shakespeare's poetic drama as a blend of the dramatic and the lyrical. Through a series of minute textual analyses, it traces the gradual integration of the two modes from Love's Labour's Lost to Hamlet and the other mature tragedies. How this combination is effected in its details is a question that can help us understand better the specificity of Shakespeare's innovative work for the theater and the power of its impact.