An Oxford Anthology of Shakespeare

An Oxford Anthology of Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1989
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0192822403

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This elegantly-crafted anthology presents over two hundred of the finest examples of Shakespeare's work, ranging from two-line aphorisms to sonnets and even complete scenes. Ideal for browsing, it allows readers to revisit favorite passages such as Hamlet's soliloquy or the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet, or to discover unfamiliar gems. Above all, it permits readers to savor Shakespeare's unequaled capacity to portray the peaks and valleys of human experience. In creating the anthology, Stanley Wells--the General Editor of the Oxford Shakespeare--has selected those passages which he finds most attractive in their own right and which suffer least from being read out of context. Arranged according to subject matter, this volume, which is based on the text of the Complete Oxford Shakespeare, also contains a play-by-play index and glossary.

Shakespeare

Shakespeare
Author: Stanley Wells
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2003
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0195160932

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From the entry of Shakespeare's birth in the Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero was represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly illustrated book tells the story of Shakespeare's life, his writings, and his afterlife. Drawing on a lifetime's experience of studying, teaching, editing, and writing about Shakespeare, Stanley Wells combines scholarly authority with authorial flair in a book that will appeal equally to the specialist and the untutored enthusiast. Chapters on Shakespeare's life in Stratford and in London offer a fresh view of the development of the writer's career and personality. At the core of the book lies a magisterial study of the writings themselves--how Shakespeare set about writing a play, his relationships with the company of actors with whom he worked, his developing mastery of the literary and rhetorical skills that he learned at the Stratford grammar school, the essentially theatrical quality of the structure and language of his plays. Subsequent chapters trace the fluctuating fortunes of his reputation and influence. Here are accounts of adaptations, productions, and individual performances in England and, increasingly, overseas; of great occasions such as the Garrick Jubilee and the tercentenary celebrations of 1864; of the spread of Shakespeare's reputation in France and Germany, Russia and America, and, more recently, the Far East; of Shakespearian discoveries and forgeries; of critical reactions, favorable and otherwise, and of scholarly activity; of paintings, music, films and other works of art inspired by the plays; of the plays' use in education and the political arena, and of the pleasure and intellectual stimulus that they have given to an increasingly international public. Shakespeare, said Ben Jonson, was not of an age but for all time. This is a book about him for our time.

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare

The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare
Author: Arthur F. Kinney
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 846
Release: 2012
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780199566105

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Contains forty original essays.

William Shakespeare The Complete Works

William Shakespeare  The Complete Works
Author: William Shakespeare
Publsiher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 1423
Release: 2005-04-21
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780191608391

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The second Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction. Included here for the first time is the play The Reign of King Edward the Third as well as the full text of Sir Thomas More. This new edition also features an essay on Shakespeare's language by David Crystal, and a bibliography of foundational works.

The Norton Shakespeare Based on the Oxford Edition Later plays

The Norton Shakespeare  Based on the Oxford Edition  Later plays
Author: William Shakespeare,Stephen Greenblatt,Walter Cohen,Jean Elizabeth Howard,Katharine Eisaman Maus,Andrew Gurr
Publsiher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 0393931455

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Upon publication in 1997, The Norton Shakespeare set a new standard for teaching editions of Shakespeare's complete works.

The New Oxford Shakespeare

The New Oxford Shakespeare
Author: Gary Taylor,Gabriel Egan
Publsiher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 776
Release: 2017
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780199591169

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"Authorship Companion: Cutting-edge research in attribution studies; A new perspective on the dating of Shakespeare's plays, and on his dramatic collaborations; Combines the work of senior scholars with exciting new voices; Explores the latest developments in the understanding of Shakespeare's style and methods for detecting and describing it; Covers the entire breadth of Shakespeare's writing, across the plays and the poems; A record of all early documents relevant to authorship and chronology; A survey and synthesis of past scholarship to 2016; Individual case studies combined with broader analysis of theories and methods."--Publisher's description.

Shakespeare in the Theatre An Anthology of Criticism

Shakespeare in the Theatre  An Anthology of Criticism
Author: Stanley (ed.) WELLS
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2024
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: OCLC:960010819

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After Shakespeare

After Shakespeare
Author: John Gross
Publsiher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192804723

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No writer has served as such a powerful source of inspiration for other writers as Shakespeare. No writer has attracted such widespread and varied comment. This unique anthology draws on the vast literature that plays little part in formal Shakespeare criticism and scholarship, but that shows with immediacy and passion the enormous impact Shakespeare has had on our cultural life. Novelists, poets, and playwrights are all represented. So are philosophers, historians, composers, film-makers, politicians. Shakespearean characters and motifs are shown fuelling the genius of Goethe and Dostoevsky, Aldous Huxley and Emily Dickinson, John Updike and Duke Ellington, Nabokov and Proust. Shakespeare the man fires the imagination of Kipling and Joyce, Borges and Anthony Burgess. Herman Melville writes a poem about Falstaff. D. H. Lawrence anatomizes Hamlet. R. K. Narayan describes a Shakespeare lesson in an Indian classroom. John Osborne adapts Coriolanus. Ionescu reworks Macbeth.The choice of critical responses is equally wide-ranging. Jean-Paul Sartre proves an unexpectedly expert commentator on King Lear. Alfred Dreyfus and Nelson Mandela console themselves with Shakespeare during their imprisonment. And curiosities abound - parodies, burlesques, strange echoes and eccentricities. Throughout the book we can see Shakespeare changing lives, opening up fresh horizons and reaching out to 'the great globe itself'.