30 Great Myths About Shakespeare PDF Download

Author : Laurie Maguire
Release Date : 22 January 2013
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Genre : Literary Criticism
Pages : 224
ISBN 13 : 9780470658505

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Book Description: Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material—or its absence—can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.

30 Great Myths about Shakespeare

Author : Laurie Maguire,Emma Smith
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, ...

30 Great Myths about the Romantics

Author : Duncan Wu
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Brimming with the fascinating eccentricities of a complex andconfusing movement whose influences continue to resonate deeply,30 Great Myths About the Romantics adds great clarity towhat we know – or think we know – about one ofthe most important periods in literary history. Explores the various misconceptions commonly associated withRomanticism, offering provocative insights ...

Studying Shakespeare

Author : Laurie Maguire
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Genre : Literary Criticism
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This engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show theycan still be used as a guide to life. Introduces beginning students and general readers toShakespeare's plays by highlighting the connections between theissues addressed by the plays and those of our own time. Focuses on the characters, situations and ...

30 Great Myths about Jane Austen

Author : Claudia L. Johnson,Clara Tuite
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Genre : Literary Criticism
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A fascinating look into the myths that continue to shape our understanding and appreciation of Jane Austen. Was Jane Austen the best-selling novelist of her time? Are all her novels romances? Did they depict the traditional world of the aristocracy? Is Austen’s writing easy to understand? Well into the 21...

Playing Shakespeare

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Anchor
Genre : Performing Arts
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Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage. The ...

30 Great Myths about Chaucer

Author : Thomas A. Prendergast,Stephanie Trigg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Genre : Literary Criticism
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The facts and fictions that continue to shape our understanding of Chaucer and his place in literary tradition Is Chaucer the father of English literature? The first English poet? Was he a feminist? A political opportunist? A spy? Is Chaucer’s language too difficult for modern readers? 30 Great Myths about ...

Shakespeare and the Stars

Author : Priscilla Costello
Publisher : Nicolas-Hays, Inc.
Genre : Body, Mind & Spirit
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To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, this book offers fresh and exciting insights into the ever-popular works of the world’s greatest playwright. It specifically highlights Shakespeare’s use of the archetypal language of astrological symbolism in both obvious and subtle ways. Such references would have been ...

This Is Shakespeare

Author : Emma Smith
Publisher : Penguin UK
Genre : Drama
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A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really ...

Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations

Author : Marina Gerzic,Aidan Norrie
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Four hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, his works continue to not only fill playhouses around the world, but also be adapted in various forms for consumption in popular culture, including in film, television, comics and graphic novels, and digital media. Drawing on theories of play and adaptation, Playfulness ...

The Absolutely True Diary of a Part Time Indian

Author : Sherman Alexie
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Genre : Young Adult Fiction
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Bestselling author Sherman Alexie tells the story of Junior, a budding cartoonist growing up on the Spokane Indian Reservation. Determined to take his future into his own hands, Junior leaves his troubled school on the rez to attend an all-white farm town high school where the only other Indian is ...

Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study

Author : Dennis Austin Britton,Melissa Walter
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Literary Criticism
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This book asks new questions about how and why Shakespeare engages with source material, and about what should be counted as sources in Shakespeare studies. The essays demonstrate that source study remains an indispensable mode of inquiry for understanding Shakespeare, his authorship and audiences, and early modern gender, racial, and ...

Joss Whedon as Shakespearean Moralist

Author : J. Douglas Rabb,J. Michael Richardson
Publisher : McFarland
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Drawing on the works of Shakespeare and American screenwriter Joss Whedon, this study in narrative ethics contends that Whedon is the Shakespeare of our time. The Bard wrote before the influence of the modern moral philosophers, while Whedon is writing in the postmodern period. It is argued that Whedon's work ...

The Fictional Lives of Shakespeare

Author : Kevin Gilvary
Publisher : Routledge
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Modern biographies of William Shakespeare abound; however, close scrutiny of the surviving records clearly show that there is insufficient material for a cradle to grave account of his life, that most of what is written about him cannot be verified from primary sources, and that Shakespearean biography did not attain ...

Le Deuxi me Sexe

Author : Simone de Beauvoir
Publisher : Vintage
Genre : Social Science
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The classic manifesto of the liberated woman, this book explores every facet of a woman's life....

Sophie s World

Author : Jostein Gaarder
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre : Fiction
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One day Sophie comes home from school to find two questions in her mail: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" Before she knows it she is enrolled in a correspondence course with a mysterious philosopher. Thus begins Jostein Gaarder's unique novel, which is not only a ...