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Distributed by Goldhil Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
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1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
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England is famous for is its vast array of poets and writers. Renowned as one of the greatest poets ever, Shakespeare was born in the Midlands, but it was in London where the flame of his future greatness kindled and burst into flame. He arrived in London's bawdy entertainment district and quickly conquered the hearts and minds of the Elizabethan audiences. Illustrated by dramatic reconstructions of late Elizabethan life and scenes from the plays...
462) Anonymous
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Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
2012.
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1 blu-ray (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
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Volume 1 of massive work by a leading Shakespeare scholar and lexicographer, a standard in the field, provides full definitions, locations, and shades of meaning in every word in Shakespeare's plays and poems. The 2 volumes contain more than 50,000 exact quotations, each precisely located. There is no other word dictionary comparable to this work.
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The finest and fullest guide to the peculiarities of Elizabethan syntax, grammar, and prosody, this volume addresses every idiomatic usage found in Shakespeare's works (with additional references to the works of Jonson, Bacon, and others). Its informative introduction, which compares Shakespearian and modern usage, is followed by sections on grammar (classified according to parts of speech) and prosody (focusing on pronunciation). The book concludes...
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Trust father of three William Shakespeare for all the advice you need for any parenting dilemma, in this witty and erudite guide-a handy collection of wisdom drawn from his most beloved works, from Hamlet to King Lear to Much Ado About Nothing.
With a series of cunningly extracted lines from his best-loved plays and sonnets, hilariously illustrated in a simple, almost child-like style, James Andrews proves once again that Shakespeare-expert on love,...
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Jonathan Bate is Foundation Professor of Environmental Humanities at Arizona State University and Senior Research Fellow at Oxford University. His many books include Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare. He broadcasts regularly for the BBC, is the coeditor of The RSC Shakespeare: Complete Works, and wrote an acclaimed one-man play for Simon Callow, Being Shakespeare. Twitter @profbate
From one of our most eminent and accessible...
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This volume contains a collection of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's lectures on Shakespeare, which he delivered up and down the country. Highly recommended for students and others with an interest in Shakespeare or Coleridge's work.
Contents include:
Greek Drama
Progress of the Drama
The Drama Generally, and Public Taste
Shakespeare, a Poet Generally
Shakespeare's Judgment Equal to his Genius
Recapitulation, and Summary of the Characteristics of Shakespeare's...
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"One of the Times Literary Supplement's Books of the Year 2020" "Finalist for the PROSE Award in Literature, Association of American Publishers" "Shortlisted for the Parnassus Prize, Memoria College" Scott Newstok is professor of English and founding director of the Pearce Shakespeare Endowment at Rhodes College. A parent and an award-winning teacher, he is the author of Quoting Death in Early Modern England and the editor of several other books....
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Roca Editorial de Libros
Pub. Date
2020.
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317 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Can Mimi undo the mayhem caused by her baking in this contemporary-fantasy retelling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream? Eleven-year-old Mimi Mackson comes from a big Indian American family: Dad's a renowned food writer, Mom's a successful businesswoman, and her three older siblings all have their own respective accomplishments. It's easy to feel invisible in such an impressive family, but Mimi's dream of proving she's not the least-talented...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2023
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284 pages ; 21 cm
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Holling Hoodhood está en problemas. Acaba de comenzar el señora Baker, y presiente que la maestra tiene algo en su contra. ¿Por qué otra razón lo haría leer a Shakespeare fuera del horario de class? Es el año 1967, y todo el mundo tiene cosas más importantes de qué preocuparse. Por un lado, está Vietnam, y por otro está el negocio familiar. Según el padre de Holling, nada es más importante que el negocio familiar. De hecho, todos los...
471) Complete Sonnets
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Complete Sonnets is a collection of 154 poems written by William Shakespeare, first published in 1609. They are considered to be the greatest sonnets and poems ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language. This powerful, thought-provoking collection is for anyone interested in exploring the themes of love, desire, and the human condition. Over 150 deal with love, friendship, death, the passage of time, and the nature of...
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Americans have embraced William Shakespeare for more than 250 years. Finding Shakespeare in America celebrates this long-standing love affair with the Bard by bringing together hundreds of Shakespeare-related attractions across the United States in a single guidebook that makes it easy to explore and celebrate Shakespeare's remarkable American legacy. You'll find:
• More than 200 festivals and theater companies devoted to the Bard
• More than...
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William Shakespeare, A Very Peculiar History' uniquely explores the life and works of the widely-regarded greatest writer of the English language. Through dispelling common myths (Could his father really not read or write? What really happened during 'the Lost Years'? Why did he retire from writing while only in his early 40s?) and revealing fascinating trivia, this book attempts to answer many of the often-disputed questions surrounding the life...
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In 1984, after a somewhat acrimonious move out of the National Library of Australia, the newly minted National Film and Sound Archive took up residence in the old Institute of Anatomy in Canberra. From the first day, it seems, living archivists were not the only occupants of the building. The place had a colourful history associated with human and other animal remains, including racehorse Phar Lap's heart and what was thought to be Ned Kelly's skull....
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Fool novels volume 3
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Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging--last seen in The Serpent of Venice--washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool. But the island is in turmoil. Egeus, the Duke's minister, is furious that his daughter Hermia is determined to marry Demetrius, instead of Lysander, the man he has chosen for her. The Duke decrees that if, by the time of...
477) As you like it
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Orlando’s older brother, Oliver, treats him badly and refuses him his small inheritance from their father’s estate. Meanwhile, Duke Frederick has forced his older brother into exile in the Forest of Arden. Orlando and Rosalind fall in love. Banished by her uncle, Rosalind assumes a male identity and leaves with Celia and their fool, Touchstone. Orlando flees Oliver’s murderous plots. In the Forest of Arden, Rosalind, in her male disguise, forms...
478) The tempest
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Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
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1 Blu-ray (1 hr. 50 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge. Includes bonus features.
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ResumenExpress.com presenta y analiza en esta guía de lectura la célebre tragedia Hamlet de William Shakespeare, figura eminente de la literatura inglesa. En ella, el héroe epónimo, príncipe de Dinamarca, pierde a su padre, el rey. Su madre se vuelve a casar con el hermano del difunto, Claudio, y posteriormente Hamlet se entera de que su padre fue asesinado por Claudio. Poco a poco, parece sumirse en la locura.
¡Ya no tienes que leer y resumir...
480) Afterlives of Endor
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Afterlives of Endor offers an analysis of the way early modern English literature addressed the period's anxieties about witchcraft and theatricality. What determined whether or not a demonologist imagined a trial as a spectacle? What underlying epistemological constraints governed such choices and what conceptions of witchcraft did these choices reveal? Pairing readings of demonological texts with canonical plays and poetry, Laura Levine examines...
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