The Globe Guide to Shakespeare

by Andrew Dickson

Author	: Andrew Dickson
Publisher	: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages	: 828
Release	: 2016-09-06
Genre	: Drama
ISBN	: 1681772647

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With full coverage of the thirty-nine Shakespearian plays (including a synopsis, full character list, stage history, and a critical essay for each), this comprehensive guide is both a quick reference and an in-depth background guide for theatre goers, students, film buffs, and lovers of literature. Along with an exploration of the Bard's sonnets and narrative poems, The Globe Guide to Shakespeare features fascinating accounts of Shakespeare's life and the Globe Theater itself, with colorful details about each play's original performance.This comprehensive guide includes up-to-date reviews of the best films and audio recordings of each play, from Laurence Olivier to Baz Luhrmann, Kozintsev to Kurosawa. The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is the quintessential celebration of all things Shakespearian.

The Globe Guide to Shakespeare

by Andrew Dickson

Author	: Andrew Dickson
Publisher	: Profile Books
Total Pages	: 828
Release	: 2016-02-25
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 1782832475

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The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is the ultimate guide to the life and work of the world's greatest playwright: William Shakespeare. With full coverage of the 39 Shakespearian plays, including a synopsis, full character list, stage history and a critical essay for each, this comprehensive guide is both a quick reference and in-depth background guide for theatre goers, students, film buffs and lovers of literature alike. The Globe Guide to Shakespeare also explores Shakespeare's sonnets and the narrative poems, combined with fascinating accounts of Shakespeare's life and theatre, exploring in colourful detail each play's original performances. This comprehensive guide includes up-to-date reviews of the best films and audio recordings of each play, from Laurence Olivier to Baz Luhrmann, Kozintsev to Kurosawa. The Globe Guide to Shakespeare is a celebration of all things Shakespearian. Published to coincide with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death.

Creative Shakespeare

by Fiona Banks

Author	: Fiona Banks
Publisher	: A&C Black
Total Pages	: 250
Release	: 2013-12-16
Genre	: Drama
ISBN	: 1408156857

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This unique book desribes the ways in which educational practitioners at Shakespeare's Globe theatre bring Shakespeare to life for students of all ages.The Globe approach is always active and inclusive - each student finds their own way into Shakespeare - focussing on speaking, moving and performing rather than reading. Drawing on her rich and varied experience as a teacher, Fiona Banks offers a range of examples and practical ideas teachers can take and adapt for their own lessons. The result is a stimulating and inspiring book for teachers of drama and English keen to enliven and enrich their students' experience of Shakespeare.

Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare

by Isaac Asimov

Author	: Isaac Asimov
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 1542
Release	: 1978
Genre	: English literature
ISBN	:

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Explains the historical, legendary, and mythological background of 38 plays and 2 narrative poems.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays

by Cynthia Greenwood

Author	: Cynthia Greenwood
Publisher	: Penguin
Total Pages	: 372
Release	: 2008
Genre	: Drama
ISBN	: 9781592577088

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Here art thou real Shakespeare. The resurgence of interest in Shakespeare's plays - largely due to recent film adaptations - has reminded the world that Shakespearean theatre is a social art form. This guide focuses on the essence of the spoken word of his plays rather than simply dissecting them. It also explores the cultural and historical contexts for the major plays, offering the director's and actor's perspective in addition to that of the scholar and close reader. Each major play is explored in depth, explaining Shakespearean terms Offers commentary on the experience of each play on and off stage with attention to language and verse Appendixes include Shakespeare's likely collaborations, a glossary, suggested further reading, and resources for viewing live performances and video/audio recordings Perfect for students, general readers, theatregoers, and actors Published to commemorate Shakespeare's 443rd birthday

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

by Margreta De Grazia

Author	: Margreta De Grazia
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 381
Release	: 2010-03-25
Genre	: Drama
ISBN	: 0521886325

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Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to the literary, historical, cultural and performative aspects of Shakespeare works.

Worlds Elsewhere

by Andrew Dickson

Author	: Andrew Dickson
Publisher	: Random House
Total Pages	: 514
Release	: 2015-10-15
Genre	: Literary Criticism
ISBN	: 1448155096

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Anti-apartheid activist, Bollywood screenwriter, Nazi pin-up, hero of the Wild West: this is Shakespeare as you have never seen him before. ‘Extraordinarily exhilarating ... like no other Shakespeare criticism you have ever read’ (Margaret Drabble) ~ ‘A tour de force by any standards’ (David Crystal) ~ ‘Revelatory’ (James Shapiro) ~ ‘Brilliantly original’ (Michael Pye) From the sixteenth-century Baltic to the American Revolution, from colonial India to the skyscrapers of modern-day Shanghai, Shakespeare’s plays appear at the most fascinating of times and in the most unexpected of places. But what is it about William Shakespeare – a man who never once set foot outside England – that has made him at home in so many places around the globe? Travelling across four continents, six countries and 400 years, Worlds Elsewhere is an attempt to understand how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is – and why.

Thinking Shakespeare (Revised Edition)

by Barry Edelstein

Author	: Barry Edelstein
Publisher	: Theatre Communications Group
Total Pages	: 231
Release	: 2018-07-03
Genre	: Performing Arts
ISBN	: 155936890X

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Thinking Shakespeare gives theater artists practical advice about how to make Shakespeare’s words feel spontaneous, passionate, and real. Based on Barry Edelstein’s thirty-year career directing Shakespeare’s plays, this book provides the tools that artists need to fully understand and express the power of Shakespeare’s language.

The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide

by Emma Smith

Author	: Emma Smith
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 259
Release	: 2012-03-22
Genre	: Drama
ISBN	: 0521195233

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An indispensable reference tool for Shakespeare students and enthusiasts, this compact guide provides authoritative summaries of each of Shakespeare's works.