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Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, An Imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
xvii, 262 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shakespeare in London offers a lively and engaging new reading of some of Shakespeare's major work, informed by close attention to the language of his drama. The focus of the book is on Shakespeare's London, how it influenced his drama and how he represents it on stage. Taking readers on an imaginative journey through the city, the book moves both chronologically, from beginning to end of Shakespeare's dramatic career, and also geographically, traversing...
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
179 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shakespeare and biography is not a new biography of Shakespeare, but a study of what biographers have said about Shakespeare--from the first formal biography in the early 18th century by Nicholas Rowe, to others who have written recent biographical accounts. The emphasis is on what sorts of issues these biographers have found especially interesting, how contemplation of these issues has changed and grown, and the ways those changes reflect new cultural...
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
What is the significance of Shylock's ring in "The Merchant of Venice"? How does Shakespeare create Gertrude's closet in "Hamlet"? How and why does Ariel prepare a banquet in "The Tempest"? In order to answer these and other questions, "Shakespeare and material culture" explores performance from the perspective of the material conditions of staging. In a period just starting to be touched by the allure of consumer culture, in which objects were central...
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Series
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity shows the range, extent and variety of Shakespeare's responses to classical antiquity. Individual chapters on Virgil, Ovid, Classical Comedy, Seneca, and Plutarch show how Shakespeare's understanding of and use of classical authors, and of the classical past more generally, changed and developed in the course of his career. An opening chapter shows the kind of classical learning he acquired through his education,...
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