Preface: Why Shakespeare? ;Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon ;Theatre in Shakespeare's time ;Shakespeare in London ;Plays of the 1590s ;Shakespeare and comic form ;Return to tragedy ;The classical plays ;Tragi-comedy ;Epilogue ;Chronology: Shakespeare's works ;Further reading ;Index

Preface: Why Shakespeare? ;Shakespeare and Stratford-upon-Avon ;Theatre in Shakespeare's time ;Shakespeare in London ;Plays of the 1590s ;Shakespeare and comic form ;Return to tragedy ;The classical plays ;Tragi-comedy ;Epilogue ;Chronology: Shakespeare's works ;Further reading ;Index

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  • Author: Stanley Wells
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • ISBN: 0198718624
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 145

Looking at his early life and education, this title explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which he drew. Examining the theatres and theatrical profession of the time, it also considers how Shakespeare experienced this world, both as an actor and as a writer. Examining Shakespeare's narrative poems, sonnets, and all of his plays, this VSI outlines their sources, style, and originality over the course of Shakespeare's career, to consider the fundamental impact his work has had for subsequent generations.


The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
  • ISBN:
  • Category : Poetry
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 127

"The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare is a gripping and intense drama that explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the destructive consequences of violence. Set in ancient Rome, the play follows the tragic downfall of the noble general Titus Andronicus and his family as they become embroiled in a cycle of vengeance and bloodshed. At the heart of the story is the brutal conflict between Titus Andronicus and Tamora, Queen of the Goths, whose sons are executed by Titus as retribution for their crimes. In retaliation, Tamora and her lover, Aaron the Moor, orchestrate a series of heinous acts of revenge against Titus and his family, plunging them into a spiral of madness and despair. As the body count rises and the atrocities escalate, Titus is consumed by grief and rage, leading to a climactic showdown that culminates in a shocking and tragic conclusion. Along the way, Shakespeare explores themes of honor, justice, and the nature of humanity, offering a searing indictment of the cycle of violence and the capacity for cruelty that lies within us all.


A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 184


King Lear

King Lear

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 152


The Two Gentlemen of Verona

The Two Gentlemen of Verona

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  • Author: William Shakespeare
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN:
  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 78


Moving Shakespeare Indoors

Moving Shakespeare Indoors

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  • Author: Andrew Gurr
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1107040639
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 307

This book examines the conditions of the original performances in seventeenth-century indoor theatres.


The Facts about Shakespeare

The Facts about Shakespeare

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  • Author: William Allan Neilson
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  • Category :
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 566


Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy

Shakespeare & the Uses of Comedy

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  • Author: Joseph Allen Bryant
  • Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
  • ISBN: 9780813130958
  • Category : Literary Criticism
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 300

In Shakespeare's hand the comic mode became an instrument for exploring the broad territory of the human situation, including much that had normally been reserved for tragedy. Once the reader recognizes that justification for such an assumption is presented repeatedly in the earlier comedies -- from The Comedy of Errors to Twelfth Night -- he has less difficulty in dispensing with the currently fashionable classifications of the later comedies as problem plays and romances or tragicomedies and thus in seeing them all as manifestations of a single impulse. Bryant shows how Shakespeare, early a.


The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

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  • Author: Emma Smith
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521195233
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 259

An indispensable reference tool for Shakespeare students and enthusiasts, this compact guide provides authoritative summaries of each of Shakespeare's works.


Equivocation

Equivocation

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  • Author: Bill Cain
  • Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
  • ISBN: 0822225913
  • Category : Drama
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 131

"England, 1605: A terrorist plot to assassinate King James I and blow Parliament to kingdom come with 36 barrels of devilish gunpowder! Shagspeare (after a contemporary spelling of the Bard's name) is commissioned by Robert Cecil, the prime minister, to write the "true historie" of the plot. And it must have witches! The King wants witches! But as Shag and the acting company of the Globe, under the direction of the great Richard Burbage, investigate the plot, they discover that the King's version of the story might, in fact, be a cover-up. Shag and his actors are confronted with the ultimate moral and artistic dilemma. Speak truth to power-and perhaps lose their heads? Or take the money and lie? Is there a third option-equivocation? A high-stakes political thriller with contemporary resonances, EQUIVOCATION gallops from the great Globe to the Tower of London to the halls of Parliament to the heart of Judith, Shag's younger daughter, who finds herself unexpectedly at the very heart of the political, dramatic and-ultimately-human mystery." - from publisher's website.