With interviews with actors and directors including Simon Russell Beale, Bill Alexander and Richard Eyre, along with detailed looks at productions at the RSC and elsewhere, this new edition of the play offers innovative ways of looking at ...
New Shakespeare, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary.
Bringing the Shakespeare page to life.
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I asked Tracy Lawler Boen , to work with me to help Tom . While Tracy watched Tom in her mind's eye , I created more healing energy through my breath and with symbols . At last , a woman whom Tom had known came to him .
36 (1972), 1–5 (with translation and useful additional material); A. Goodman and Angus Mackay, “A Castilian Report on English Affairs, 1486, EHR, lxxxviii (1973), 92–9, which more plausibly identifies “Tamorlant' with Northumberland ...
At four o'clock they entered Westminster Hall, still wearingtheir crowns, to preside over the Coronation banquet attended by several thousand people. On bended knee the Mayorof London served them with hypocras (hot spiced wine), wafers, ...
The following titles are available : Dorothy E. Mason , Music in Elizabethan England ; Craig R. Thompson , The English Church in the Sixteenth Century ; Louis B. Wright , Shakespeare's Theatre and the Dramatic Tradition ; Giles E.
On 3 July, Richard followed his brother Clarence in signing an oath of allegiance to the new Prince of Wales, also an Edward, 'verey and undoubted Heyre of our said Sovereigne Lord. . . . in cas hereafter it happen You, ...
A riveting biography of Richard III, one of England’s most enigmatic and elusive kings.
Immediately after... they rushedinto the placewhere the youthful king was stayingand...took prisoner someother servants whowere attending him [including]Thomas Vaughan, an aged knight, theprince's chamberlain.
Included in this edition are interviews with an actor, a director and a designer – Simon Russell Beale, Bill Alexander and Tom Piper – providing an illuminating insight into the extraordinary variety of interpretations that are possible ...
Lincoln, Lovell and FitzGerald had no real experience of command and probably that task was given to Schwarz. The battle was bitterly contested for over three hours, but eventually, the lack of body armour on the Irish troops meant that ...
The reign of Richard III, the last Yorkist king and the final monarch of the Plantagenet dynasty, marked a turning point in British history. But despite his lasting legacy, Richard only ruled as king for the final two years of his life.
Discusses the plot, historical context, and characters of the Shakesperean classic play, and includes a timeline of the author's life and works.
In The Tragedy of King Richard III, Shakespeare chronicles the rise and fall of one of history's most repellent, and the theater's most mesmerizing, figures.
Richard III, Shakespeare’s long chronicle of Richard’s machinations to be king, is a tale of murder upon murder. He gains the throne, but only briefly.
This facsimile presents a photographic reproduction of an “ideal” copy of the First Folio of Shakespeare; Hinman attempts to represent each page in its most fully corrected state. This second edition includes an important new ...
"A quite wonderful ideaSo blindingly obvious, I can't understand why nobody had thought of it before. I will certainly use the texts myself."-- Sir Peter Hall
King Richard III remains one of the most infamous and recognizable monarchs in English or British history, despite only sitting on the throne for two years and fifty-eight days.