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  • Acting Shakespeare

    by Bertram Leon Joseph ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Shakespeare in Performance
    How did the actors for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays make his characters come to life, how did they convey his words? Can modern directors, actors, and even library readers of Shakespeare learn from them?Creating character and making the Elizabethan playwright’s poetry compelling for the audience is a problem which has seldom been resolved in modern times. This book demonstrates the hard course ... Read more

    $96.18 CAD

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  • Macbeth

    by William Shakespeare, SBP Editors ...
    Delve into the dark and treacherous world of Macbeth, William Shakespeare's most intense and captivating psychological tragedy. A cornerstone of classic English literature, this iconic play-often referred to as the "Scottish Play"-explores the corrosive and destructive nature of unchecked ambition and the complexities of human morality. The gripping narrative follows the brave Scottish general, ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Venus and Adonis

    A Poem

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Adonis tragically chooses the excitement of the hunt over the charms of the beautiful Venus. ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD

  • The Winter's Tale

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The Newly Revised Signet Classic Shakespeare Series The work of the world’s greatest dramatist edited by outstanding scholarsThe Winter’s TaleUnique Features of the Signet Classic Shakespeare•An extensive overview of Shakespeare’s life, world, and theater by the general editor of the Signet Classic Shakespeare series, Sylvan Barnet•Special introduction to the play by the editor, Frank Kermode, ... Read more

    Was $8.99 CAD Now $5.99 CAD

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  • Macbeth

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The New Cambridge Shakespeare
    The New Cambridge Shakespeare appeals to students worldwide for its up-to-date scholarship and emphasis on performance. The series features line-by-line commentaries and textual notes on the plays and poems. Introductions are regularly refreshed with accounts of new critical, stage and screen interpretations. This second edition of Macbeth provides a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD

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  • Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

    by Stanley Wells ...
    How does Shakespeare's treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Pre-eminent Shakespearean critic Stanley Wells draws on historical and anecdotal sources to present an illuminating account of sexual behaviour in Shakespeare's time, particularly in Stratford-upon-Avon and London. He demonstrates what we know or can deduce of the sex lives of ... Read more

    $11.59 CAD

  • Troilus and Cressida

    Third Series, Revised Edition

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    A revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often labelled a "problem" play because of its apparent blend of genres and its difficult themes. Set in the Trojan Wars it tells a story of doomed love and honour, offering a debased view of human nature in war-time and a stage peopled by generally ... Read more

    $20.19 CAD

  • Introducing Shakespeare

    A Graphic Guide

    by Nick Groom ...
    Series series Graphic Guides
    Shakespeare's absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with block-buster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, and even some of the thoughts we think.Nick Groom and Piero explore how Shakespeare became so famous and influential, and why he is still widely ... Read more

    $6.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Two Gentlemen of Verona: The Oxford Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Oxford Shakespeare General Editor: Stanley Wells The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers. - A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings - Wide-ranging introduction explores the lyrical language with which Shakespeare dramatizes competing kinds of love - ... Read more

    $109.79 CAD

  • Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion

    Edited by David Loewenstein, Michael Witmore ...
    Written by an international team of literary scholars and historians, this collaborative volume illuminates the diversity of early modern religious beliefs and practices in Shakespeare's England, and considers how religious culture is imaginatively reanimated in Shakespeare's plays. Fourteen new essays explore the creative ways Shakespeare engaged with the multifaceted dimensions of Protestantism, ... Read more

    $43.19 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Comedies

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Bart van Es ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From The Two Gentlemen of Verona in the early 1590s to The Two Noble Kinsmen at the end of his career around 1614, Shakespeare wrote at least eighteen plays that can be called 'comedies': a far higher number than that for any other genre in which he wrote. So what is a Shakespearean comedy? We associate these plays with such themes as mistaken identities, happy marriages, and exuberant cross ... Read more

    $7.19 CAD

  • The Shakespearean Ethic

    by John Vyvyan ...
    Originally published by Chatto & Windus in 1959, this book has long been out of print and largely neglected by Shakespearean scholars. It offers a viewpoint seldom considered: an unusual and exceptionally clear insight into Shakespeare’s philosophy. It does so with freshness, modesty and conviction.Appreciating the danger Shakespeare faced in writing at a time of major religious intolerance, ... Read more

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