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    This volume, number 4 in the Shakespeare series published by AfterMath, focuses on the culture of the typical people who would have attended the Elizabethan theatre in which Shakespeare’s plays were originally performed.“A Warwickshire Lad,” by George Madden Martin“The People for Whom Shakespeare Wrote,” by Charles Dudley Warner“Old English Jest-Book,” by W. Carew Hazlitt“Folk-Lore of Shakespeare, ... Read more

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    Series series The 30-Minute Shakespeare
    Planning a school or amateur Shakespeare production? The best way to experience the plays is to perform them, but getting started can be a challenge: The complete plays are too long and complex, while scene selections or simplified language are too limited."The 30-Minute Shakespeare" is a new series of abridgements that tell the story” of each play from start to finish while keeping the beauty of ... Read more

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  • Henry VI Part 1

    Series Book 1 - Folger Shakespeare Library
    The authoritative edition Henry VI, Part 1 from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.Henry VI, Part 1 is an uncompromising celebration of early English nationalism that contrasts the English with the French, portrayed here as effeminate and scheming.A boy king, Henry VI, is on the English throne, and the indomitable Talbot ... Read more

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  • Hunchback

    Historical Novels, #4

    by W.Wm. Mee ...
    Series Book 4 - Historical Novels
    Everybody loves to hate a 'bad guy' and Shakespeare's 'Richard III' is one of the 'badest' to ever grace a stage or bloody a page! 'Murder most foul' is his specialty, sparing neither friends, family, nor children! In this 'alternate tale', Richard's 'ghost' comes back to 'set the record straight'. Travel back to fifteenth century England when the Lancasters and the Yorks were caught up in the ... Read more

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  • Sir Thomas More, Shakespeare Apocrypha

    Elizabethan play, sometimes attributed in part to Shakespeare. According to Wikipedia: "William Shakespeare (baptised 26 April 1564 – died 23 April 1616) was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "The Bard"). His surviving ... Read more

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  • A Midsummer Night's Dream (Annotated)

    This version of William Shakespeare's famous comedic play A Midsummer Night's Dream has been extensively annotated and formatted for your reader. ... Read more

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  • Prospero's Daughter

    A Novel

    Set on a Caribbean island in the grip of colonialism, this novel is "masterful . . . simply wonderful . . . [an] exquisite retelling of The Tempest" ( Kirkus Reviews, starred review).When Peter Gardner's ruthless medical genius leads him to experiment on his unwitting patients—often at the expense of their lives—he flees England, seeking an environ where his experiments might continue without ... Read more

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  • When Honour's at the Stake (Routledge Revivals)

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Renaissance ideas of honour had a profound influence on the English people who formed Shakespeare’s audiences. In When Honour’s at the Stake, first published in 1973, Norman Council describes the increasing importance of these ideas to the themes and structure of a number of Shakespeare’s major plays.The validity of the most widely approved code of honour was being challenged on a variety of ... Read more

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  • King John and Henry VIII

    These two history plays—one written in the early days of Shakespeare’s career and one at the very end—are alike in the complexity of their political vision. King John probes the nature of good and evil as self-interest and ruthless ambition proceed unchecked while an unpopular ruler wages a brutal fight to keep his throne. Henry VIII is a sumptuous spectacle of pomp and ceremony, as well as an ... Read more

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  • Acting Shakespeare

    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

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  • Hamlet by William Shakespeare (Book Analysis)

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    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Hamlet with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Hamlet by William Shakespeare, a world-famous story of tragedy and lies, and is arguably Shakespeare’s most successful play. It tells the story of Hamlet and his quest for revenge after his father’s murder, which ultimately ends in death and deceit. The ... Read more

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  • Shakespeare and the Admiral's Men

    Reading across Repertories on the London Stage, 1594–1600

    by Tom Rutter ...
    For most of the 1590s, the Admiral's Men were the main competitors of Shakespeare's company in the London theatres. Not only did they stage old plays by dramatists such as Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd: their playwrights invented the genres of humours comedy (with An Humorous Day's Mirth) and city comedy (with Englishmen for My Money), while other new plays such as A Knack to Know an Honest ... Read more

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