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Cliffs Complete: Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew
By: Sweeney, Diana
Published by: Hungry Minds

This play within a play is a delightful farce about a fortune hunter who marries and 'tames' the town shrew. The comedy, often produced today because of its accessibility, is one of the plays Shakespeare intended for the general public rather than for the nobility. CliffsComplete combines the full original text of The Taming of the Shrew with a helpful glossary and CliffsNotes -quality commentary into one volume. more...

Price: $9.99

Cliffs Notes: Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida
By: Lowers, James K.
Published by: Cliffs Notes

This tragedy is about a prince and a woman who is playing hard to get. After finally winning her love, he discovers that she is not who he thought she was (and she's unfaithful). Love and war and the losses involved with a frustrated heart are the play's main themes. more...

Price: $4.95

The Comedies of Shakespeare
By: Shakespeare, William
Published by: Modern Library

This Modern Library edition presents all fourteen comedies--each complete and unabridged--in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are: The Tempest The Two Gentlemen of Verona The Merry Wives of Windsor Measure for Measure The Comedy of Errors Much Ado About Nothing Love's Labour's Lost A Midsummer-Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice As You Like It The Taming of the Shrew All's Well That Ends Well Twelfth-Night The Winter's Tale more...

Price: $24.95

The Comedy of Errors
By: Shakespeare, William
Published by: The Floating Press

The Comedy of Errors is one of Shakespeare's most popular short comedy plays. The plot is driven by two cases of mistaken identity and witty pun-drenched dialogue. Antipholus of Syracuse and his servant of Dromio of Syraceuse visit the town of Ephesus, not realizing that this is the home of Antipholus of Ephesus and Dromio of Ephesus, their twin brothers lost to them at sea years before. Before reuniting, the doppelgangers cause chaos amongst friends and family when they all... more...

Price: $3.95

Cosmetics in Shakespearean and Renaissance Drama
By: Karim-Cooper, Farah
Published by: Edinburgh University Press

This original study examines how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries dramatise the cultural preoccupation with cosmetics. Farah Karim-Cooper analyses contemporary tracts that address the then contentious issue of cosmetic practice and identifies a ‘culture of cosmetics’, which finds its visual identity on the Renaissance stage. She also examines cosmetic recipes and their relationship to drama as well as to the construction of early modern identities. more...

Price: $107.46

Cymbeline
By: Shakespeare, William
Published by: Penguin Classics

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart). The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features:. * Authoritative, reliable texts. * High quality introductions and notes. * New, more readable trade trim size. * An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of texts more...

Price: $8.00

Enter The Body
By: Rutter, Carol Chillington
Published by: Routledge

One of the most provocative writers on women's performances of Shakespeare on stage and film in Britain today, Rutter speculates on how the theatre `plays' women's bodies and how audiences read them. more...

Price: $48.95

Exit, Pursued by a Bear
By: McConnell, Louise
Published by: A & C Black

This A-Z guide includes entries for all Shakespeare's plays, poems and characters as well as the terms used in theatre and stagecraft. more...

Price: $34.00

Food in Shakespeare
By: Fitzpatrick, Joan
Published by: Ashgate

A study of common and exotic food in Shakespeare's plays, this book is the first to explore early modern English dietary literature to understand better the uses, as well as the social and moral implications, of food in Shakespearean drama. Food in Shakespeare provides an historically accurate account of the range of, and conflicts between, contemporary ideas that informed the representations of foodstuff in the plays. more...

Price: $99.95

Gothic Shakespeares
By: Drakakis, John (ed.); Townshend, Dale (ed.)
Published by: Routledge

In Gothic Shakespeares , Shakespeare is considered alongside major Gothic texts and writers - from Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Lewis and Mary Shelley, up to and including contemporary Gothic fiction and horror film. This volume offers a highly original and truly provocative account of Gothic reformulations of Shakespeare, and Shakespeare’s significance to the Gothic. more...

Price: $39.95

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