Preface

Preface
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 494
Release: 1805
Genre:
ISBN:

Preface to Shakespeare

Preface to Shakespeare
Author: Samuel Johnson
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 61
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 3732694674

Reproduction of the original: Preface to Shakespeare by Samuel Johnson

Prefaces to Shakespeare

Prefaces to Shakespeare
Author: Tony Tanner
Publisher: Belknap Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Dramatists, English
ISBN: 9780674064249

In the final ten years of his life, Tony Tanner tackled the largest project any critic in English can take on, writing a preface to each of Shakespeare's plays. This collection serves as a comprehensive introduction for the general reader. Tanner brings Shakespeare to life, explicating everything from big-picture issues such as the implications of shifts in Elizabethan culture to close readings of Shakespeare's deployment of complex words in his plays.--[book jacket].

Shakespeare and Game of Thrones

Shakespeare and Game of Thrones
Author: Jeffrey R. Wilson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 121
Release: 2020-11-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1000228681

It is widely acknowledged that the hit franchise Game of Thrones is based on the Wars of the Roses, a bloody fifteenth-century civil war between feuding English families. In this book, Jeffrey R. Wilson shows how that connection was mediated by Shakespeare, and how a knowledge of the Shakespearean context enriches our understanding of the literary elements of Game of Thrones. On the one hand, Shakespeare influenced Game of Thrones indirectly because his history plays significantly shaped the way the Wars of the Roses are now remembered, including the modern histories and historical fictions George R.R. Martin drew upon. On the other, Game of Thrones also responds to Shakespeare’s first tetralogy directly by adapting several of its literary strategies (such as shifting perspectives, mixed genres, and metatheater) and tropes (including the stigmatized protagonist and the prince who was promised). Presenting new interviews with the Game of Thrones cast, and comparing contextual circumstances of composition—such as collaborative authorship and political currents—this book also lodges a series of provocations about writing and acting for the stage in the Elizabethan age and for the screen in the twenty-first century. An essential read for fans of the franchise, as well as students and academics looking at Shakespeare and Renaissance literature in the context of modern media.