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  • Shakespeare, Cinema, Counter-Culture

    Appropriation and Inversion

    by Ailsa Ferguson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Addressing for the first time Shakespeare’s place in counter-cultural cinema, this book examines and theorizes counter-hegemonic, postmodern, and post-punk Shakespeare in late 20th and early 21st century film. Drawing on a diverse range of case studies, Grant Ferguson presents an interdisciplinary approach that offers new theories on the nature and application of Shakespearean appropriations in ... Read more

    $89.31 CAD

  • The Shakespeare Hut

    A Story of Memory, Performance and Identity, 1916-1923

    by Ailsa Grant Ferguson ...
    This book tells the forgotten story of the Shakespeare Hut, a vast, mock-Tudor building for New Zealand Anzac soldiers visiting London on leave from the front lines. Constructed in Bloomsbury in 1916, the Hut was to be the only built memorial to mark Shakespeare's Tercentenary in the midst of war. With a purpose-built performance space, its tiny stage hosted the biggest theatrical stars of the age ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD

  • Antipodal Shakespeare

    Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916 - 2016

    by Philip Mead, Ailsa Grant Ferguson, Kate Flaherty, Professor Gordon McMullan, Dr Mark Houlahan ...
    Despite a recent surge of critical interest in the Shakespeare Tercentenary, a great deal has been forgotten about this key moment in the history of the place of Shakespeare in national and global culture – much more than has been remembered. This book offers new archival discoveries about, and new interpretations of, the Tercentenary celebrations in Britain, Australia and New Zealand and reflects ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare and Gender

    Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama

    by Dr Kate Aughterson, Ailsa Grant Ferguson ...
    Shakespeare and Gender guides students, educators, practitioners and researchers through the complexities of the representation of gender and sexuality in Shakespeare's work. Informed by contemporary and early modern debates and insights into gender and sexuality, including intersectionality, feminist geography, queer and performance studies and fourth-wave feminism, this book provides a lucid and ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Othello

    Revised Edition

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times.Othello is one of Shakespeare's great tragedies-written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • Macford: A Tragical Historie of York 2010 - 2014

    by Bob Dundas ...
    After a praised king is murdered in uncertain circumstances, a charismatic leader is elected to wear the weighty mantle. His reign is marked by an untrustworthy brother, selfless wife, devoted friend, and many more comic and tragic characters.When addiction threatens to destroy his legacy, Macford's actions change the course of York's history forever.Macford is a five act Shakespearean tragedy ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare's Sonnets

    by William Shakespeare ...
    A landmark of English poetry, this celebrated collection of 154 sonnets explores love, beauty, desire, betrayal, time, and mortality with remarkable emotional and philosophical depth. Written during the late Elizabethan era and first published in 1609, the poems occupy a central place in the literary history of the sonnet form and reveal Shakespeare's mastery of language, structure, and dramatic ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

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  • The Tempest (Illustrated)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The Tempest is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare After All

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work.Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate and revealing readings of the plays in chronological sequence, from The Two ... Read more

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  • The Merchant of Venice

    A Shakespearean Comedy

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series Book 17 - William Shakespeare Collection
    The Merchant of Venice is the story of Antonio, the drama's title character, and his friend Bassanio. Bassanio is in need of money so that he may woo Portia, a wealthy heiress. Bassanio asks Antonio for a loan and Antonio agrees to this loan, however all his money is tied up in shipping ventures. Together the two go to Shylock, a Jewish moneylender, to request a loan for Bassanio to be guaranteed ... Read more

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  • How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare

    by Ken Ludwig ...
    A foolproof, enormously fun method of teaching your children the classic works of William Shakespeare, by a Tony Award–winning playwright—now featuring two new chapters“You and your children will be transformed by the magic and mystery of Shakespeare and his stories in an instant.”—Sir Derek Jacobi, CBEWinner of the Falstaff Award for Best Shakespeare BookTo know some Shakespeare provides a head ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD