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  • The Comedy of Errors
    William Shakespeare
    The Comedy of Errors is one of William Shakespeare’s early plays. It is his shortest and one of his most farcical comedies, with a major part of the humour coming from slapstick and mistaken identity, in addition to puns and word play. After both being separated from their twins in a shipwreck, Antiholes and his slave Dromio go to Ephesus to find them. The other set of twins li...
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    10,86 €

  • Hamlet
    William Shakespeare
    The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1601. It is Shakespeare’s longest play, with 29,551 words. The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet’s uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks reve...
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    13,32 €

  • A Midsummer Night’s Dream
    William Shakespeare
    A Midsummer Night’s Dream, as part of the Macmillan Modern Shakespeare Series, is a large format illustrated text which is an ideal and easy introduction to Shakespeare’s plays. The dominant theme in A Midsummer Night’s Dream is love, a subject to which Shakespeare returns constantly in his comedies. Shakespeare explores how people tend to fall in love with those who appear bea...
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    10,60 €

  • Othello
    William Shakespeare
    Othello is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare, probably in 1603, set in the contemporary Ottoman-Venetian War fought for the control of the Island of Cyprus, since 1489 a possession of the Venetian Republic. The port city of Famagusta finally fell to the Ottomans in 1571 after a protracted siege. The play is set in motion when Othello, a heroic black general in the servic...
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    13,37 €

  • The Tempest
    William Shakespeare
    The Tempest is a play by English playwright William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610-1611, and thought to be one of the last plays that Shakespeare wrote alone. The Tempest is a play about magic, betrayal, love and forgiveness. It is set on an island somewhere near Italy where Prospero, the one-time Duke of Milan, and his beautiful daughter, Miranda, live with a sprite cal...
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    10,72 €

  • Julius Caesar
    William Shakespeare
    The Tragedy of Julius Caesar is a history play and tragedy by William Shakespeare first performed in 1599. Although the play is named Julius Caesar, Brutus speaks more than four times as many lines as the title character, and the central psychological drama of the play focuses on Brutus. Julius Caesar is a tragedy, as it tells the story of an honourable hero who makes several c...
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    12,11 €

  • Sonnets
    William Shakespeare
    William Shakespeare’s sonnet was first published in 1609. Its structure and form are a typical example of the Shakespearean sonnet. This sonnet attempts to define love, by telling both what it is and is not. In the first quatrain, the speaker says that love-' the marriage of true minds'-is perfect and unchanging; it does not 'admit impediments,' and it does not change when it f...
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    10,72 €

  • The Merry Wives of Windsor
    William Shakespeare
    The Merry Wives of Windsor or Sir John Falstaff and the Merry Wives of Windsor is a comedy by William Shakespeare first published in 1602, though believed to have been written in or before 1597. Falstaff decides to fix his financial woe by seducing the wives of two wealthy merchants. The wives find he sent them identical letters and take revenge by playing tricks on Falstaff wh...
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    12,14 €

  • Cymbeline
    William Shakespeare
    Cymbeline, also known as The Tragedies of Cymbeline or Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Canoelike. King Cymbeline of Britain banishes his daughter Innogen’s husband, who then makes a bet on Innogen’s fidelity. Innogen is accu...
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    13,32 €

  • Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy
    Shakespeare and Digital Pedagogy is an international collection of fresh digital approaches for teaching Shakespeare. It describes 15 methodologies, resources and tools recently developed, updated and used by a diverse range of contributors in Great Britain, Australia, Asia and the United States. Contributors explore how these digital resources meet classroom needs and help fac...
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    115,18 €

  • Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies
    Grant W. Smith / Grant WSmith
    ’Names as Metaphors in Shakespeare’s Comedies’ presents a comprehensive study of names in Shakespeare’s comedies. Although names are used in daily speech as simple designators, often with minimal regard for semantic or phonological suggestiveness, their coinage is always based on analogy. They are words (i.e., signs) borrowed from previous referents and contexts, and applied to...
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    76,98 €

  • Shakespeare’s resources
    John Drakakis
    A challenging re-appraisal of the ways in which we have conceived of ’source’ study in relation to Shakespeare. By combining a theoretical and a practical approach this study challenges existing shibboleths and proposes new ways of conceiving the relations between Texts (oral and literary) and their antecedents. ...
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    144,38 €

  • Shakespeare and the denial of territory
    Pascale Drouet
    This book examines three Shakespeare plays in which abusive banishment participates in a dialectics of deterritorialisation and reterritorialisation (King Richard II, King Lear and Coriolanus). It draws on analyses by French philosophers (notably Deleuze and Foucault), so as to understand strategies of resistance when one is denied one’s territory. ...
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    145,08 €

  • Hamlet Translations
    This interdisciplinary collection discusses how Shakespeare’s Hamlet has been translated into different languages and cultures at various historical moments and for different purposes: performance, reading, artistic experimentation, language-learning, nation-building and personal identity-formation. There are many Hamlets, and rather than straightforward replicas of the origina...
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    138,87 €

  • HAMLET
    Evelyn Samuel
    STUDY GUIDE on Shakespeare’s HAMLET.This GUIDE is a MUST for ALL students to achieve TOP grades in English LITERATURENEW unique literature Study Guide on Shakespeare’s play HamletUnique structure with detailed explanation next to textIn depth identification of language devices, exploration of themes, characters analysis, exam style questionsA MUST for ALL students studying Shak...
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    26,31 €

  • Culinary Shakespeare
    David B Goldstein
    Eating and drinking—vital to all human beings—were of central importance to Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Culinary Shakespeare, the first collection devoted solely to the study of food and drink in Shakespeare’s plays, reframes questions about cuisine, eating, and meals in early modern drama. As a result, Shakespearean scenes that have long been identified as important an...
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    49,89 €

  • Childhood in Contemporary Performance of Shakespeare
    Gemma Miller
    Child characters feature more numerously and prominently in the Shakespearean canon than in that of any other early modern playwright. Focusing on stage and film productions from the past four decades, this study addresses how Shakespeare’s child characters are reflected, refracted and reinterpreted in performance. By adopting an interdisciplinary approach that incorporates clo...
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    51,10 €

  • The Nose
    Ksana Blank / Aleksandra Volkova
    This literary guide leads students with advanced knowledge of Russian as well as experienced scholars through the text of Nikolai Gogol’s absurdist masterpiece 'The Nose.' Part I focuses on numerous instances of the writer’s wordplay, which is meant to surprise and delight the reader, but which often is lost in English translations. It traces Gogol’s descriptions of everyday li...
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    41,52 €

  • Hamlet
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    HAMLET: SHAKESPEARE RETOLDShakespeare’s 400-year-old language can be tough to understand...but, with Shakespeare Retold, it’s easy!Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard’s lines in the same form and pacing.Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phrase, ea...
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    11,29 €

  • Julius Caesar
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    JULIUS CAESAR: SHAKESPEARE RETOLDShakespeare’s 400-year-old language can be tough to understand...but, with Shakespeare Retold, it’s easy!Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard’s lines in the same form and pacing.Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phr...
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    10,05 €

  • Twelfth Night
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    TWELFTH NIGHT: SHAKESPEARE RETOLDShakespeare’s 400-year-old language can be tough to understand...but, with Shakespeare Retold, it’s easy!Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard’s lines in the same form and pacing.Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phr...
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    10,06 €

  • Macbeth
    James Anthony / William Shakespeare
    MACBETH: SHAKESPEARE RETOLDShakespeare’s 400-year-old language can be tough to understand...but, with Shakespeare Retold, it’s easy!Written line-by-line in the same iambic pentameter versification of the originals, it offers a contemporary interpretation of the Bard’s lines in the same form and pacing.Quickly understand each character, each plot twist, each convoluted phrase, e...
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    10,11 €

  • Notes on Shakespeare - Lectures by Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) was an English poet, theologian, literary critic, philosopher, and co-founder of the English Romantic Movement. He was also a member of the famous Lake Poets, together with William Wordsworth and Robert Southey. Coleridge had a significant influence on the the work of Ralph Waldo Emerson and American Transcendentalism in general, and played a...
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    22,01 €

  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets Among His Private Friends
    William Shakespeare
    Intended for all readers, an exciting, innovative approach to Shakespeare’s Sonnets.'His sugared Sonnets among his private friends.' That’s how Shakespeare’s Sonnets were described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poet-with a penchant for irreverent fun-getting together with friends to read his new sonnet cycle. Numerous ...
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    23,07 €

  • Shakespeare’s Sonnets Among His Private Friends
    Carl D. Atkins / Carl DAtkins / William Shakespeare
    An exciting, innovative approach to reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets!'His sugared Sonnets among his private friends.' That’s how Shakespeare’s Sonnets were described in the only contemporary reference to them. This brings up the image of a talented, young poet-with a penchant for irreverent fun-getting together with friends to read his new sonnet cycle. Numerous sonnet cycles were...
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    18,16 €

  • Conversations with Sam Shepard
    Jackson R Bryer
    A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musi...
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    157,99 €

  • Conversations with Sam Shepard
    Jackson R Bryer
    A prolific playwright, Sam Shepard (1943-2017) wrote fifty-six produced plays, for which he won many awards, including a Pulitzer Prize. He was also a compelling, Oscar-nominated film actor, appearing in scores of films. Shepard also published eight books of prose and poetry and was a director (directing the premiere productions of ten of his plays as well as two films); a musi...
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    42,53 €

  • The Plays of William Shakspeare. .. Volume the Third. Containing Prolegomena, &c
    Anonymous
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    25,55 €

  • Prospero’s Island
    Edward Everett 1822-1909 Hale / Henry Cabot 1850-1924 Lodge
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    14,80 €

  • The Plays of William Shakspeare. .. Volume the Twentyfirst. Containing Romeo and Juliet
    Anonymous
    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work....
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    23,68 €


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