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Much Ado About Nothing
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 60.00Presents essays written from the seventeenth through the early twenty-first centuries that offer an analysis and critique of "Much Ado about Nothing," and includes a summary of the play and excerpts of key passages. more...
Henry V
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 60.00The wild and undisciplined young man known as Prince Hal in the two-part Henry IV plays matures into a courageous and deft leader. Based on the life of its title monarch, Henry V chronicles the events surrounding the battle of Agincourt in 1415, part of the Hundred Years' War. This invaluable new study guide contains a selection of the finest criticism... more...
Romeo and Juliet
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 36.00Edited and introduced by Yale University professor and distinguished literary critic Harold Bloom, Bloom's Guides are comprehensive study guides for both students and adults. Emphasizing summary and analysis, these volumes are designed to provide the necessary materials with which readers can gain a better understanding of the most widely read... more...
Richard III
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 60.00Equal parts tragedy and history play, Richard III chronicles the rise and short reign of its diabolical title character. Of this masterful creation, esteemed critic Harold Bloom has written, "The manipulative, highly self-conscious, obsessed hero-villain moves himself from being the passive sufferer of his own moral and/or physical deformity to... more...
The Comedy of Errors
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 60.00In the Shakespearean play that most closely resembles farce, two sets of identical twins, each separated for years, arrive in Ephesus and leave a trail of confusion and mistaken identity in their wake. While evoking one of Shakespeare's recurring themes---the restorative power of love--- this early work contains some of the playwright's developing... more...
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Macbeth is William Shakespeare's stark tale of a tormented nobleman driven to pursue a murderous plot by his ambition to usurp the throne of Scotland. The tautly constructed tragedy is a ruthlessly economic drama, marked by a continuous eloquence that is astonishing even for Shakespeare. This new edition of the Scottish play features full-length... more...
Politeness in Shakespeare: Applying Brown and Levinson´s politeness theory to Shakespeare's comedies
Diplomica Verlag 2009; US$ 46.37Penelope Brown and Stephen Levinson have proposed that power (P), distance (D), and the ranked extremity (R) of a face-threatening act are the universal determinants of politeness levels in dyadic discourse. This claim is tested here for Shakespeare's use of Early Modern English in Much Ado about Nothing, Measure for Measure, The Taming of the Shrew,... more...
Shakespeares Schriftraum
Diplomica Verlag 2010; US$ 14.01William Shakespeares Drama 'Julius Caesar' gilt als eines der meistkommentierten und rhetorisch brillantesten des offiziellen Kanons. Dennoch findet es aus Gründen politischer wie textlicher Zusammenhänge immer weniger auf deutsche Bühnen. Dieses Buch versucht über eine dekonstruktivistische Lektüre, die sich auf die Selbstreflexivität und Räumlichkeit... more...
Bloom's How to Write about Shakespeare's Histories
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 54.00Shakespeare's vibrant history plays, including Richard III, Henry V, and the two parts of Henry IV, spring to life with all the drama of the feuds, rivalries, and epic battles on which they were based. While Shakespeare was aware of the historical past and a keen observer of his own times, his true genius lies in the timeless universality he lends... more...
Faust
Amsterdam University Press 2010; US$ 23.50Faust is het nieuwste deel in de AUP-reeks ?Tekst in Context?, waarnaar veel literatuurminnende docenten in het voortgezet onderwijs hebben uitgekeken. Op een uitdagende wijze presenteert dit boek de tradities van een groots literair thema: de Engelse Faust van Christopher Marlowe, de Duitse Historia van Docor Faustus, La Damnation de Faust van Hector... more...









