Includes essays on Venus and Adonis, A midsummer night's dream, Othello, Macbeth, The tempest, Cardenio, and King Lear.
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected ...
Discovering that a mysterious ancient treasure has been bequeathed to her literary publishing family, 12-year-old Colophon Letterford explores clues hidden in antique paintings, secret passages and a locked mausoleum to discover a link ...
But why is he killing? And how can he be stopped? A gripping, shocking page turner, The Shakespeare Secret masterfully combines modern murder and startling true revelations from the life of Shakespeare.
deeply embraced by Dee, when he placed in the mouth of Adam, in Paradise Lost, the words, Well hast thou taught the way that might direct Our knowledge, and the scale of Nature set From centre to circumference, whereon In contemplation ...
While they were hacking at each other, along came Thomas Watson, good friend of Marlowe's, fellow poet. Watson protested or intervened or drew his own sword – accounts apparently differ – and the next thing wild Master Bradley was ...
... Owen, 106–108 Weir, Fred,150 West, Sam,44, 56 Whymper, William,151 Williamson, Paul, 106, 108 Willis, Jerome,53 Wilmot, Gary, 44 Woodfield, Sally,99, 100, 102, 124, 132, 137, 145, 182–184 Woodward, Lawrence, 107,108 Woodward, Peter, ...
This book presents voluminous, striking, unmediated textual correspondences between the Greek and Shakespearean plays, and illuminating historical background.
This edition develops on the expansion undertaken in the second edition: changes include rewritten and developed chapters on Hamlet, King Lear, and The Winter's Tale, among others.
Kate Stanley, Jennifer Lee Carrell's dauntless Shakespearean scholarturned- director, made a memorable-and New York Times bestselling- debut in Interred with Their Bones.
Lings's particular genius lies in his ability to convey, as perhaps no one else has ever done, the theatrical renderings of these texts, leaving readers with deep and lasting impressions not only of these masterpieces of dramatic artistry, ...