Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: The No Fear Shakespeare series contains a complete edition of a Shakespeare play on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an accessible, modern English translation on the right.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 370 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 270) Аннотация: Philip Edwards deals succinctly with the exhaustive commentary and controversy which Hamlet has provoked in the manifestation of its tragic energy. Robert Hapgood has contributed a new section on prevailing critical and performance approaches to the play in this updated edition. He discusses recent film and stage performances and actors of the Hamlet role as well as directors of the play. His…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 406 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 277) Аннотация: Professor Evans helps the reader to visualise the stage action of Romeo and Juliet, a vital element in the play's significance and useful to students approaching it for the first time. The history of the play in the theatre is accompanied by illustrations of notable productions from the eighteenth century onwards. A lucid commentary alerts the reader to the difficulties of language, thought and…
Скачать книгу (размер 850 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 168) Аннотация: A new section of the Introduction to this updated edition considers important professional theater productions and the large output of scholarly criticism on the play which have appeared in recent years. The Reading List has been revised and augmented to reflect the scope of the revised edition.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 279 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 252) Аннотация: To Shakespeare's contemporaries, Richard II was a balanced dramatisation of the central political and constitutional issue of the time, how to cope with an unjust ruler. But over the last century or so, the play came to be regarded as the poetic fall of a tragic hero. The Introduction to this edition provides a full context for both the Shakespearean and the modern views of King Richard's fall.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 080 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 213) Аннотация: Charles Edelman focuses on the play's sexual politics and recent scholarship devoted to the position of Jews in Shakespeare's time in this new edition. He surveys the international scope of theatrical interpretations of The Merchant in the 1980s and 1990s as well as different ways of tackling the troubling figure of Shylock.
Скачать книгу (размер 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 188) Аннотация: Much Ado has always been popular on the stage. This edition pays especial attention to the history and range of theatrical interpretation, in which the most famous actors, from the time of Garrick to the present, have appeared as the sparring lovers Benedick and Beatrice. A full commentary includes annotation of the many sexual jokes in the play that have been obscured by the complexity of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 236) Аннотация: Scott McMillin has added a new section on key events in scholarship and theater since the 1980s (including international, political, feminist and postcolonial analysis) to this updated edition of Shakespeare's Othello. The influence of historicism and cultural materialism are also taken into account, and a complete description of performances of the play on stage, film and television considers…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 075 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 212) Аннотация: One of Shakespeare's most popular yet controversial plays, this edition of The Taming of the Shrew considers its reception in the light of the hostility and embarrassment it often arouses, taking account of both scholarly defences and modern feminist criticism of the play. For this updated edition Ann Thompson has added new sections to the Introduction which describe the 'deeply problematic'…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally reedited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 105 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 218) Аннотация: Karl Klein's edition of Timon of Athens introduces Shakespeare's play as a complex exploration of a corrupt, moneyed society. Klein sees the protagonist not as a failed tragic hero, but as a rich and philanthropic nobleman, surrounded by greed and sycophancy, who is forced to recognise the inherent destructiveness of the Athenian society from which he retreats in disgust and rage. Klein…
Скачать книгу (размер 809 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 160) Аннотация: Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. Love, sex and death are the components of Shakespeare's classic story of the love of two young people which reaches across the barriers of family and convention. It encompasses great love, high drama, low comedy and a tragic ending. «Romeo and Juliet» is a pure tragedy of youth told in verse that is both youthful and intense. The loveliness and the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 151 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 227) Аннотация: Over the last two decades there has been a resurgence of theatrical interest in Shakespeare's Pericles, which has been rescued from comparative neglect and is now frequently performed. This development is charted in the introduction to this edition, which differs radically from any other currently available. Doreen DelVecchio and Antony Hammond reject the current orthodoxies that the text is…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 197 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 236) Аннотация: Edward III is a major new addition to the Shakespearean canon. Melchiori claims that Shakespeare is the author of a significant part of the play, the extent of which is discussed in detail. The introduction explores the play's historical background and its relationship to the early cycle of history plays. The commentary examines in depth the play's linguistic and poetic features, while an…
Скачать книгу (размер 3 013 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 592) Аннотация: The greatest works of tragedy from the Bard, this book features «Hamlet, Othello, King Lear» and «Macbeth».
Скачать книгу (размер 646 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 128) Аннотация: Shakespeare's Macbeth is one of the greatest tragic dramas the world has known. Macbeth himself, a brave warrior, is fatally impelled by supernatural forces, by his proud wife, and by his own burgeoning ambition. As he embarks on his murderous course to gain and retain the crown of Scotland, we see the appalling emotional and psychological effects on both Lady Macbeth and himself. The cruel…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 539 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 303) Аннотация: Je sais un banc où s'épanouit le thym sauvage, où poussent l'oreille-d'ours et la violette branlante. Il est couvert par un dais de chèvrefeuilles vivaces, de suaves roses musquées et d'églantiers. C'est là que dort Titania, à certain moment de la nuit, bercée dans ces fleurs par les danses et les délices; c'est là que la couleuvre étend…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece.
Скачать книгу (размер 973 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 192) Аннотация: Полный, неадаптированный текст произведения. The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works. The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal. Hamlet is not only one of Shakespeare's greatest plays but also the most fascinatingly problematic tragedy in world literature. First…
Скачать книгу (размер 401 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 80) Аннотация: Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality and beauty. This inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this remarkable verse in his or her library. Includes glossary of archaic terms.