His company had always supported the Earl of Essex, who was popular with the ordinary people, and the Earl of Southampton was Essex's closest friend. Essex had been a favourite at court for many years. Although he had annoyed the Queen ...
The Shakespeare Book has visual plot summaries of each one, with diagrams to show the intricate web of relationships in plays such as A Midsummer's Night Dream.
9 Wither's account of the stationer's statutory freedom “ to belye his Authors intentions ” ( sig . H5 ' ) is largely correct , though , in fairness , most stationers did make reasonable attempts to produce an accurate text .
With a foreword by the renowned critic Fred Moten, this edition is the first of its kind and puts Othello’s blackness and interiority front and center, forcing us to confront the complex world that ultimately dooms him.
This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems.
Presents a collection of critical essays on the works of William Shakespeare.
Aliki combines literature, history, biography, archaeology, and architecture in this richly detailed and meticulously researched introduction to Shakespeare′s world-his life in Elizabethan times, the theater world, and the Globe, for ...
If the editor be Mr. Granville-Barker, so much the better: he will test the questionable passages on the stage, and retain readings that a mere man of letters would tamper with. If the editor be Mr. William Poel, he will print the text ...
Readings (yr English Poetry. Cambridge (also as pp. 242—64 in Jean E. Howard, ed., Shakespeare Reproduced: The '1th in History and Ideology, New York, 1987). Hardin, Richard F. (1989). 'Chronicles and Mythmaking in Shakespeare'sJoan of ...
The authoritative edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on the facing ...
Nine Lives of William Shakespeare