Bold and Brave Women from Shakespeare (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)(Pevná vazba)

The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden (Strong Roy)(Pevná vazba)

Published in association with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, The Quest for Shakespeare's Garden traces the origins of garden history and the Elizabethan garden, as well as telling the story of the Bard's own garden in Stratford-upon-Avon. Beautifully presented, the text is accompanied by

Illustrated Stories from Shakespeare - Lesley Sims

The stories of six of Shakespeare's best-loved plays, beautifully retold and illustrated for children growing in reading confidence. Includes Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet and The Tempest as well as a short biography of the bard himself. Each story is

Usborne Complete Shakespeare (Milbourne Anna)(Pevná vazba)

This collection of stories from all Shakespeare's plays, with beautiful illustrations and quotations, is the perfect introduction to Shakespeare. Each story includes short details about the main characters, and famous and memorable quotations from the play. This is a fabulous book that will be

Shakespeare - The Theatre of Our World (Conrad Peter)(Pevná vazba)

Peter Conrad explores the phenomenon of Shakespeare, and assesses Shakespeare's global legacy across every continent and across every genre of the creative

All the Sonnets of Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

Intended for all readers of Shakespeare, this beautiful and ground-breaking book arranges Shakespeare's sonnets printed in 1609 in chronological order and intersperses the sonnets from the plays among them. A lively introduction provides essential background, while explanatory notes and modern

Stories from Shakespeare (McCaughrean Geraldine)(Pevná vazba)

These stories are intended as a way of introducing Shakespeare to lower secondary students. The language provides a flavour of the plays yet remains accesssible to a wide ability

A Warning for Fair Women: Adultery and Murder in Shakespeare's Theater (Christensen Ann C.)(Paperback)

A Warning for Fair Women is a 1599 true-crime drama from the repertory of Shakespeare's acting company. While important to literary scholars and theater historians, it is also readable, relevant, and stage-worthy today. Dramatizing the murder of London merchant George Saunders by his wife's lover,

Shakespeare Monologues for Women (Dixon Luke)(Paperback)

Fifty monologues for women drawn from across the Shakespeare canon. Ideal for actors of all ages and experience. Also includes uniquely formatted summarizations to each

Rad Girls Can: Stories of Bold, Brave, and Brilliant Young Women (Schatz Kate)(Pevná vazba)

Sonnets And Narrative Poems (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, 'Venus and Adonis' and 'The Rape of

Shakespeare and the Ethics of War (Gray Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

How does Shakespeare represent war? This volume reviews scholarship to date on the question and introduces new perspectives, looking at contemporary conflict through the lens of the

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance (Aebischer Pascale)(Pevná vazba)

Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance examines how rapid changes in performance technologies affect modes of spectatorship for early modern drama. It argues that seemingly disparate developments - such as the revival of early modern architectural and lighting technologies,

Shakespeare Book - Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK)(Pevná vazba)

This is the perfect study guide to the complete works of Shakespeare, covering everything from the romantic comedy of Romeo and Juliet to the tragedy Macbeth, alongside his Elizabethan history plays, sonnets, and other poems With detailed plot summaries and an in-depth analysis of the major

Shakespeare and Stratford (Scheil Katherine)(Pevná vazba)

As the site of literary pilgrimage since the eighteenth century, the home of the Royal Shakespeare Company and the topic of hundreds of imaginary portrayals, Stratford is ripe for analysis, both in terms of its factual existence and its fictional afterlife. The essays in this volume consider the

Shakespeare's Sonnets (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' Shakespeare's much-quoted sonnets are some of the most beautiful and moving poems in English literature. Dealing with love, beauty and the effects of time, they speak to us as directly now as they spoke to Elizabethan readers. This handsome edition of

The Complete Pelican Shakespeare (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at textual and literary-historical issues. The texts themselves have been scrupulously edited and are

Macbeth (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

Dark and violent, Macbeth is also the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's tragedies. Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions are realized. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must

Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

Initially described as a comedy, Shakespeare's explorations of prejudice, duty and the nature of justice make The Merchant of Venice a far darker, more alluring play. Part of the Macmillan Collector's Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket sized classics with gold foiled edges and ribbon

Tempest, The (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

Shakespeare and Faulkner: Selves and Others (Zender Karl F.)(Pevná vazba)

Shakespeare and Faulkner: Selves and Others explores the moral and ethical dilemmas that characters face inside themselves and in their interactions with others in the works of these two famed authors. Karl F. Zender's characterological study offers insightful, critically rigorous, and at times

The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

Controversial and sexually charged, The Taming of the Shrew is possibly William Shakespeare's first play, and certainly among the most performed. Petruchio's courtship of the unwilling 'shrew' Katherina poses the question: is it an examination of brute male domination or a passionate love story

Tragedy and Postcolonial Literature (Quayson Ato)(Pevná vazba)

This book examines tragedy and tragic philosophy from the Greeks through Shakespeare to the present day. It explores key themes in the links between suffering and ethics through postcolonial literature. Ato Quayson reconceives how we think of World literature under the singular and fertile rubric

The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

Hailed by The Washington Post as 'a definitive synthesis of the best editions' and by The Times of London as 'a monument to Shakespearean scholarship,' The Oxford Shakespeare is the ultimate anthology of the Bard's work: the most authoritative edition of the plays and poems ever published. Now,

A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare William)(Pevná vazba)

Gorgeous, strange and magical, A Midsummer Night's Dream is perhaps the best loved of Shakespeare's plays. A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and