The plays of Shakespeare : a thematic guide / by Cahn, Victor L.

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The problem plays of Shakespeare : a study of Julius Caesar, Measure for measure, Antony and Cleopatra / by Schanzer, Ernest

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Stages and playgoers : from guild plays to Shakespeare / by Hill, Janet, 1943-

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Teaching Shakespeare

Table of Contents: “…The Course in Shakespeare: Genre and Canon; 9. Plays Within Plays in Shakespeare's Early Comedies; IV. Exemplary Approaches to Particular Plays; V. …”
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Open-space learning : a study in interdisciplinary pedagogy by Monk, Nicholas, Rutter, Carol Chillington, Neelands, Jonothan, Heron, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…Open-space Learning -- Copyright -- Series Editor's Preface -- Dedication -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Additional Materials -- Contents -- Illustrations and Tables -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE: Shakespeare and Open-space Learning -- CHAPTER TWO: On Trial: Shakespeare and the Law -- CHAPTER THREE: Learning to Play with Shakespeare -- CHAPTER FOUR: Re-opening Spaces: Between Production and Curriculum -- CHAPTER FIVE: Open-space Learning: Practice into Theory -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index…”
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William Shakespeare by Baker, William, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The New Regime, the Problem Plays; 8. Shakespeare as Collaborator; 9. The Last Years: The Late Romances; 10. …”
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Languages of Theatre Shaped by Women. by Gay, Jane de

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Preliminaries; Contents; List of Illustrations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Speaking in Tongues -- Making (Sense of) Women's Languages in Theatre; 1 Seizing Speech and Playing with Fire: Greek Mythological Heroines and International Women's Performance; 2 Lear's Daughters on Stage and in Multimedia and Fiona Shaw's King Lear Workshops as Case Studies in Breaking the Frame; 3 Playing (with) Shakespeare: Bryony Lavery's Ophelia and Jane Prendergast's I, Hamlet; 4 Theorizing Practice-Based Research: Performing and Analysing Self in Role as 'I, Hamlet'…”
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The serious game : Ingmar Bergman as stage director by Törnqvist, Egil, 1932-2015

Table of Contents: “…. -- William Shakespeare, King Lear -- August Strindberg, Miss Julie -- August Strindberg, A dream play -- William Shakespeare, Hamlet -- Eugene O'Neill, Long day's journey into night -- Yukio Mishima, Madame de Sade -- Henrik Ibsen, A doll's house -- Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt -- William Shakespeare, The winter's tale -- J.B.P. …”
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Shakespeare on the Edge : Border-crossing in the Tragedies and the Henriad. by Hopkins, Lisa

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Marriage and Land Law in Shakespeare and Middleton by Bunker, Nancy Mohrlock, 1949-

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Barbarous play : race on the English Renaissance stage by Bovilsky, Lara, 1973-

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Practicing the city : early modern London on stage by Levine, Nina S., 1950-

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Theatre, finance and society in early modern England by Leinwand, Theodore B.

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Shakespeare : the dark comedies to the last plays : from satire to celebration by Foakes, R. A.

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Making a Match : Courtship in Shakespeare and His Society. by Cook, Ann Jennalie, 1934-2017

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Colonial women : race and culture in Stuart drama by Hutner, Heidi

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Attributing authorship : an introduction by Love, Harold, 1937-2007

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Engendering a nation : a feminist account of Shakespeare's English histories by Howard, Jean E. (Jean Elizabeth), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Part Part I MAKING GENDER VISIBLE A re-viewing of Shakespeare's history plays -- chapter 1 THOROUGHLY MODERN HENRY -- chapter 2 THE HISTORY PLAY IN SHAKESPEARE'S TIME -- chapter 3 FEMINISM, WOMEN, AND THE SHAKESPEAREAN HISTORY PLAY -- chapter 4 THE THEATER AS INSTITUTION -- part Part II WEAK KINGS, WARRIOR WOMEN, AND THE ASSAULT ON DYNASTIC AUTHORITY The first tetralogy and King John -- chapter 5 HENRY VI, PART I -- chapter 6 HENRY VI, PART II -- chapter 7 HENRY VI, PART III -- chapter 8 RICHARD III -- chapter 9 KING JOHN -- part Part III GENDER AND NATION Anticipations of modernity in the second tetralogy -- chapter 10 RICHARD II -- chapter 11 THE HENRY IV PLAYS -- chapter 12 HENRY V.…”
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The Name and Nature of Tragicomedy. by Foster, Verna A.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- General Editors' Preface -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Name of Tragicomedy: Problems of Identity -- 2 Early English Tragicomedy: From Providential Design to Metatheatre -- 3 Shakespearean Tragicomedy -- Measure for Measure: The Duke's Problem Play versus Shakespeare's Tragicomedy -- The Winter's Tale: Tragicomedy of Wonder -- 4 The Tragicomedy of Sexuality and Surprise: Beaumont and Fletcher, and Massinger -- Sexuality and Tragicomic Genre in the Plays of Fletcher -- The Moral Tragicomedy of Massinger -- 5 Tragicomedy in Transition -- 6 Modern Tragicomedy I: Tragicomedy and Realism -- Ibsen: The Wild Duck -- Chekhov: The Cherry Orchard -- Synge: The Playboy of the Western World -- O'Casey: Juno and the Paycock -- Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire -- 7 Modern Tragicomedy II: Metatheatre and the Absurd -- Beckett: Waiting for Godot -- Ionesco: The Chairs and The Killer -- Pinter: The Caretaker and No Man's Land -- Conclusion: The Nature of Tragicomedy -- Select Bibliography -- Index.…”
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The development of Shakespeare's imagery by Clemen, Wolfgang

Table of Contents: “…IMAGERY IN THE HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE CRITICISM; PART I THE DEVELOPMENT OF IMAGERY IN THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE'S EARLY AND MIDDLE PERIOD; 3· Titus Andronicus; 4· THE EARLY COMEDIES; 5· Henry VI; 6. …”
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Textual revisions : reading literature and film

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Making theatre : from text to performance by Mudford, Peter

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Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage by Degenhardt, Jane Hwang

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Islamic conversion and Christian resistance on the early modern stage by Degenhardt, Jane Hwang

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Re-humanising Shakespeare : literary humanism, wisdom and modernity by Mousley, Andy, 1959-

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Shakespeare's style by Charney, Maurice

Table of Contents: “…The banishment of Falstaff in the 'Henry IV' plays -- 14. Shakespeare's illiterates -- 15. The wit combat of Beatrice and Benedick in 'Much ado about nothing' -- 16. …”
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Shakespeare and the Book Trade by Erne, Lukas

Table of Contents: “…Paratext, playbooks and Shakespeare's invisible authorshipThe bibliographic makeup of Shakespeare's playbooks; Shakespeare's theatrical playbooks; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Shakespeare's publishers; Prologue: William Leake's reissue of q3 The Merchant of Venice in 1652; Shakespeare's publishers and the early modern book trade; The chief publishers of Shakespeare's poems; The chief publishers of Shakespeare's plays; Incidental Shakespeare publishers; Conclusion; Chapter 5 The reception of printed Shakespeare; The early status of playbooks and survival rates.…”
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Contemporary theatre in Mayan Mexico : death-defying acts by Underiner, Tamara L.

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Contemporary theatre in Mayan Mexico : death-defying acts by Underiner, Tamara L.

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Tales, tellers and texts by Cliff Hodges, Gabrielle

Table of Contents: “…'Play out the play': approaching Shakespeare's plays with primary school children through active storytelling / Sarah Gordon ; 11. …”
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A poetics for screenwriters by Lee, Lance, 1942-

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Shakespeare's imaginary constitution : late-Elizabethan politics and the theatre of law by Raffield, Paul

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A commentary on Shakespeare's Richard III by Clemen, Wolfgang

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Magic as a Political Crime in Medieval and Early Modern England : a History of Sorcery and Treason by Young, Francis

Table of Contents: “…'A Breach in Nature': Magic as a Political Crime in Early Stuart England, 1603-42; James VI and Magical Treason; James's English Reign; The Case of Sir Thomas Lake; Magical Treason in the Plays of Shakespeare; The Poisoning of James I…”
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Humanities Insights : William Shakespeare: King Lear. by Lennard, John

Table of Contents: “…Unity and Division""; ""2.3 A Play by Shakespeare""…”
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A feminist companion to Shakespeare.

Table of Contents: “…Monarchs who cry: the gendered politics of weeping in the English history play; 25. Shakespeare's women and the crisis of beauty -- Part VIII. …”
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The Great Globe and All Who It Inherit : Narrative and Dialogue in Story-telling with Halliday, Vygotsky, and Shakespeare by Kellogg, David

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Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations by Gerzic, Marina

Table of Contents: “…: Playfulness in Shakespearean Adaptations -- Section I: Page to Stage/Stage to Page -- 2 "This Great Stage of Fools": Anachronisms and Mockery in Three Victorian Burlesques of King Lear -- 3 "Covering the Main Points": Playing with The Tempest in Margaret Atwood's Hag-Seed -- 4 "I Wish the Bastards Dead": Adapting Richard III in Children's Literature -- 5 Playing with Genre and Form: The 'Magic Art' of Graphic Novel Adaptation in Shakespeare -- 6 When Fictions Collide: Shakespearean Inspiration and Adaptation in Terry Pratchett'S Wyrd Sisters -- Section II: Practising Shakespeare On Stage and Screen -- 7 Byte-Size Shakespeare: The Irreverent Play of Shakespeare Republic -- 8 An Irreverent Richard III Redux: [Re]Cripping the Crip -- Section III: Adapting the Man -- 9 Bill Begins: The Rise of the Contemporary Shakespeare 'Origin Story' -- 10 William Shakespeare and Elizabeth I: The Special Relationship? …”
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The Seagull : a Play In Four Acts. by Chekhov, Anton Pavlovich

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Macbeth by Verdi, Giuseppe, 1813-1901

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