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9780230200951
William Shakespeare: Complete Works order quantity
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NZ$ 75.00 each
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Author: The RSC Shakespeare
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
This is the first and only edition to be developed by and for the Royal Shakespeare Company, the world's leading Shakespeare theatre company. It is illustrated with photographs of performances chosen by RSC Directors. It is beautifully packaged, with clear, reader-friendly single-column page design on crisp white paper. It features outstanding on-page notes which explain words and phrases unfamiliar to a modern audience, including the slang, political references and bawdy humour often ignored or censored in competing editions. It is a definitive modern-spelling edition of Shakespeare's text based on the 1623 First Folio. It is suitable for undergraduates or A-level students of Literature or Drama; lecturers or teachers of Literature or Drama.It is also suitable as birthday, christmas, wedding or graduation gifts. It is useful in Public Libraries, Academic Libraries, School Libraries.Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare ... more
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9780230003507
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Author: The RSC Shakespeare
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this fresh new Complete Works combines the very latest scholarship with elegant writing and design. It boasts a wealth of features that will appeal to public and academic libraries, teachers, students and lovers of Shakespeare everywhere, including: a definitive modernized edition of Shakespeare's text based on the 1623 "First Folio" (the first and original Complete Works lovingly assembled by Shakespeare's fellow actors and the version of Shakespeare's text preferred by many actors and directors today); thought-provoking essays on each play and a superb general introduction by Professor Jonathan Bate; jargon-free on-page notes which explain words or references unfamiliar to modern audiences; photographs of classic or unusual performances; clear, single-column page design, with plenty of space for writing notes; and, a key facts 'box' for each play which summarises the plot, ... more
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9780230003514
William Shakespeare: Complete Works (Leather Bound) order quantity
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Author: The RSC Shakespeare
Published by: Palgrave Macmillan
This handsome "Collector's" edition of the "Complete Works of Shakespeare" was developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company and is edited by two of the world's leading Shakespeare scholars. This limited printing is published to mark the launch of what we hope will become the classic 21st-century edition of Shakespeare. This is a unique opportunity to purchase a timeless gift which will enrich the bookshelf of anyone who appreciates English Literature and Drama. This single volume is bound in soft brown goatskin, with two gold ribbon markers, matching head and tail-bands and gold lettering on the spine and front cover. Fastened with a decorative clasp, it is delivered tissue wrapped in a bespoke gift box. Inside, the text is clearly presented using a spacious single-column page design on high-quality white paper and is illustrated with photographs of performances chosen by RSC directors.
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9780713997736
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Author: Stanley Wells (Shakespeare Centre, Stratford-upon-Avon)
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
The Elizabethan and Jacobean periods are often known as the age of Shakespeare. One of the greatest of all English figures, Shakespeare is a dominant force in our imaginations, a yardstick for great poetry and plays, and a quintessential Englishman. Yet, to consider him as an icon is to forget that he was one among a community of immensely talented writers and actors, and that he threw himself into the theatrical life of his time with dedicated professionalism. In a lifetime that spanned the greatest period of our drama he responded to the works of Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, and Ben Jonson, wrote parts for a company of actors that included the great Richard Burbage, and collaborated with Thomas Middleton and John Fletcher. In "Shakespeare and Co", one of the greatest living Shakespeare scholars breaks new ground in an engaging and illuminating study of the lives and careers of Shakespeare's contemporaries, a vital part of the ... more
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9781401302207
Reduced Shakespeare: The Attention-impaired Reader's Guide to the World's Best Playwright order quantity
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Author: Reed Martin
Published by: Hyperion
 
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9780571216338
Actors On Shakespeare - "Much Ado About Nothing" order quantity
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Author: Saskia Reeves
Published by: Faber and Faber
The enduring popularity and success of Shakespeare is an international and cross-cultural phenomenon. The aim of the "Actors on Shakespeare" series is to provide an accessible, contemporary commentary to each of the plays via the top-class actors who have performed them.
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9780452289864
All the World's a Grave: a tragedy order quantity
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Author: John Reed
Published by: Plume Books
An epic tragedy of love, war, murder, and madness, plucked from the pages of Shakespeare In "All the World's a Grave," John Reed reconstructs the works of William Shakespeare into a new five-act tragedy. The language is Shakespeareas, but the drama that unfolds is as fresh as the blood on the stage. Prince Hamlet goes to war for Juliet, the daughter of King Lear. Having captured Juliet as his brideaby reckless warahe returns home to find that his mother has murdered his father and married Macbeth. Enter Iago, who persuades Hamlet that Juliet is having an affair with Romeo. As the Prince goes mad with jealousy, King Lear mounts his army. . . This play promises to be the most provocative and entertaining work to be added to the Shakespeare canon since Tom Stoppardas "Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead,"
 
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9781841213385
Antony and Cleopatra: A Shakespeare Story order quantity
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Author: Andrew Matthew
Published by: The Watts Publishing Group
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9781903436608
Arden Shakespeare Series: A Midsummer Nights Dream order quantity
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: A & C Black (Publishers) Ltd
The Arden Shakespeare is the established edition of Shakespeare's work. Justly celebrated for its authoritative scholarship and invaluable commentary, Arden guides you a richer understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of A Midsummer Nights Dream provides, a clear and authoritative text, detailed notes and commentary on the same page as the text, a full introduction discussing the critical and historical background to the play and appendices presenting sources and relevant extracts.
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9781904271222
Arden Shakespeare Series: As You Like It order quantity
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: A & C Black (Publishers) Ltd
With its cross-dressed heroine, gender games and explorations of sexual ambivalence, its Forest of Arden and melancholy Jacques, "As You Like it" speaks directly to the twenty-first century. Juliet Dusinberre demonstrates that Rosalind's authority in the play grows from new ideas about women and reveals that Shakespeare's heroine reinvents herself for every age. But "As You Like it" is also deeply rooted in Elizabethan culture. Through the concealing medium of literary pastoral, Shakespeare addresses some of the hottest issues of his own time, including the fortunes of the Earl of Essex and the theatre's confrontation with Puritan disapproval; this new edition connects the play to the Elizabethan court and its dynamic queen and demonstrates that the play's vital roots in its own time give it new life in ours.
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9781904271338
Arden Shakespeare Series: Hamlet order quantity
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Author: William Shakespeare (Author) , Ann Thompson (Edited by) , Neil Taylor (Edited by)
Published by: A & C Black (Publishers) Ltd
The core of the ground-breaking, three text edition, this self-contained, free-standing volume gives readers the Second Quarto text (1604-5) and includes in its Introduction, notes and Appendices all the reader might expect to find in any standard Arden edition. As well as a full, illustrated Introduction to the play's historical, cultural and performance contexts and a thorough survey of critical approaches to the play, an appendix contains the additional passages found only in the 1623 text. "The new Arden Hamlet is a pathbreaking edition, one that promises to change irrevocably our understanding of Shakespeare's greatest play." - Professor James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare ?Hamlet's latest editors have undertaken a heroic task with great skill and thoroughnesss.? - Stanley Wells, The Observer "(The) new Arden Hamlet is quite simply the most comprehensive edition of the play currently available, ... more
 
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9781903436219
Arden Shakespeare Series: Julius Caesar order quantity
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: A & C Black (Publishers) Ltd
This edition of "Julius Caesar" provides a lively edition of one of Shakespeare's most familiar and studied plays. The introduction sets the play in the context of the last years of Elizabeth I's reign, with rebellion stirring and conflicts over the calendar. It also explains the conscious use of classical rhetoric in the language of Caesar himself, contrasting with the "modern" language of Cassius, and discusses Shakespeare's subtle use of his main source, Plutarch.
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9781904271352
Arden Shakespeare Series: King Henry IV Part 1 order quantity
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: A & C Black (Publishers) Ltd
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. The full and engaging introduction devotes extensive discussion to the play's language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority.
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9781904271086
Arden Shakespeare Series: King Henry V order quantity
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: A & C Black (Publishers) Ltd
Distinguished editor T.W. Craik makes an independent and balanced examination of the many textual problems of Henry V, providing many new emendations. "Craik's commentary is particularly ample and detailed, with careful attention to the play's language, textual problems, the interpretation of stage directions, and Shakespeare's handling of source materials he builds up a distinct though traditionalist reading which, critically sympathetic and undogmatic, finds the play at once simple and subtle." John Jowett, Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare Survey, 1997 'With the exceptionally thorough Arden notes, and the extensive editorial coverage, including recent stage history, this Henry V is the one to have.'Times Higher Education Supplement'Craik's commentary is exemplary in its thorough treatment of critical concerns, glossaries and explanations, theatrical matters, and source material.'Barry Gaines, University of New ... more
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9781903436257
Arden Shakespeare Series: King Henry VIII order quantity
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: A & C Black (Publishers) Ltd
King Henry VIII has one of the fullest theatrical histories of any play in the Shakespeare canon, yet has been consistently misrepresented, both in performance and in criticism. This edition offers a new perspective on this ironic, multi-layered, collaborative play, revealing it as a complex meditation on the progress of Reformation which sees English life since Henry VIII's day as a series of bewildering changes in national and personal allegiance and represents 'history' as the product of varied and contradictory testimony. McMullan makes a powerful claim for the rehabilitation of Henry VIII, providing the fullest performance history of any edition to date and reading the work not as a marginal 'late' Shakespeare play but as a play which is paradigmatic of the achievement of Renaissance drama as a whole.'This is a staggeringly brilliant, captivating edition that will undoubtedly occasion a huge surge of critical interest in this ... more
 
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