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Artus ohne Tafelrunde
Konrad Theiss Verlag 2011; US$ 8.68Hauptbeschreibung Was ist dran an den Geschichten, die nicht nur zu Heldensagen, sondern immer wieder auch zu historischen Romanen und Hollywoodfilmen inspirierten? Beriet sich König Artus wirklich einmütig mit seinen Rittern an der Tafelrunde? Gilt Karl der Große zu Recht als Sachsenschlächter oder stimmt gar die These, dass es ihn nie gegeben hat?... more...
Shakespeare on Stage
Nick Hern Books 2013; US$ 21.86Thirteen leading actors take us behind the scenes, each recreating in detail a memorable performance in one of Shakespeare?s major roles. Brian Cox on Titus Andronicus in Deborah Warner?s visceral RSC production Judi Dench on being directed by Franco Zeffirelli as a twenty-three-year-old Juliet Ralph Fiennes on Shakespeare?s least sympathetic... more...
Shakespearean Films/Shakespearean Directors
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 115.00Originally published in 1990, this book brought a new rigor and subtlety to the interpretation of film adaptations of Shakespeare. Drawing on traditional literary analysis, psychoanalysis, and current film theory about gender and subjectivity, the author combines close readings of seven films with historical and biographical studies of the directors... more...
Male Friendship in Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 32.00A study of the topic of friendship in the work of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. more...
Answerable Style
University of Minnesota Press 1953; US$ 67.50Answerable Style was first published in 1953. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. By the use of both new and traditional techniques of critical analysis, Arnold Stein presents in this volume of six... more...
Sir Thomas Browne
University of Minnesota Press 1950; US$ 67.50This original and perceptive study of the writings of the great seventeenth-century author of Religio Medici offers the general reader a view of the intellectual world of Brownes time, and for the special student of the period provides a more extended ex more...
Hamlet
MobileReference.com 2008; US$ 3.99This is an electronic edition of the complete book complemented by author biography. This booktable of contents linked to every act and scene. *****************. Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius,... more...
Family Life in the Age of Shakespeare
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 105.00From the star-crossed romance of Romeo and Juliet to Othello's misguided murder of Desdemona to the betrayal of King Lear by his daughters, family life is central to Shakespeare's dramas. This book helps students learn about family life in Shakespeare's England and in his plays. The book begins with an overview of the roots of Renaissance... more...
The Winter's Tale
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 50.00First performed in May 1611, The Winter's Tale is a play about reconciliation, atonement, and the healing effects of time. Leontes, a paranoid tyrant, suffers from his own rash behavior and jealous delusions. When his long-lost daughter returns and the statue of his dead wife magically comes back to life, order is restored, the family is reunited,... more...
A Midsummer Night's Dream - William Shakespeare, New Edition
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Presents critical essays on Shakespeare's comedy of fairies, lovers, and amateur actors in the woods outside Athens. more...









