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1	Shakespeare After All more books like this by Professor Marjorie Garber add to wishlist Richly informed by Shakespearean scholarship of the latter half of the 20th century, this book offers passionate and revealing readings of all 38 of Shakespeare's plays, in chronological sequence. see all copies from $11.50! new only from $11.96! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Works of Shakespeare more books like this by Isaac Asimov, Rafael Palacios add to wishlist Containing plot synopses for all of Shakespeare's plays, this book is designed to make Shakespeare's works easier to understand. It explains many of the historical and mythological references and features maps to provide a geographical context. see all copies from $25.00! new only from $122.49!
3	Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare more books like this by Clare Asquith add to wishlist A revelatory new look at how Shakespeare secretly addressed the most profound political issues of his day, and how his plays embody a hidden history of England. In 16th-century England many loyal subjects to the crown were asked to make a terrible choice: to follow their monarch or their God. The era was one of unprecedented authoritarianism: ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare more books like this by Emma Smith add to wishlist This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Shakespeare. more books like this by Mark Van Doren add to wishlist This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without a hint of pedantry, Van Doren elucidates both the ... see all copies from $2.93! new only from $9.56! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Shakespeare and Modern Culture more books like this by Professor Marjorie Garber add to wishlist From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars and author of "Shakespeare After All" comes a magisterial new study that delves into 10 plays to explore the interrelationship between Shakespeare and 20th-century and contemporary culture. see all copies from $7.95! new only from $12.73! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Shakespeare Modern Essays in Criticism more books like this by Leonard F Dean (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $33.40! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Northrop Frye on Shakespeare more books like this by Northrop Frye add to wishlist Well-known as a critic, Northrop Frye is also a renowned educator. This book, for the first time, allows us access to his classroom. Here he discusses Shakespeare's comedies, histories and tragedies, and introduces us to a new category - Shakespeare's romances, those glittering, frightening, magical plays of the playwright's later years. Dr. Frye ... see all copies from $3.90! new only from $5.68! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Introducing Shakespeare more books like this by George B. Harrison add to wishlist This work provides the background to Shakespeare's plays. The author shows how Shakespeare came to occupy his current position at the pinnacle of English literature, how little we know of his life and how recent scholarship has made immense strides in illuminating his works. Subsequent chapters consider what we know about the social and political ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $23.05! \| first editions
10	Introduction to Shakespeare more books like this by Marchette Chute add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.32! \| signed copies \| first editions
11	Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screen more books like this by David Bevington, Michael Greenwald, Anne Marie Welsh add to wishlist Shakespeare: Script, Stage, Screenis the only Shakespeare textbook to combine an anthology of Shakespeare's plays with histories of their stage productions and analyses of the films. This textbook approaches Shakespeare's plays through the lens of interpretation, combining film theory, literary theory, and close readings of the texts to provide ... see all copies from $19.30! new only from $49.00!
12 view cover	Shakespeare our contemporary more books like this by Jan Kott add to wishlist This book is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare; more than that, however, it is one of the few critical works to have strongly influenced theatrical productions. see all copies from $2.80! new only from $11.17! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	A New Mimesis: Shakespeare and the Representation of Reality more books like this by A D Nuttall add to wishlist In pursuit of a powerful, common-sense argument about realism, renowned scholar A. D. Nuttall discusses English eighteenth-century and French neo-classical conceptions of realism, and considers "Julius Caesar", "Coriolanus", "The Merchant of Venice", "Othello", and both parts of "King Henry IV" as a prolonged feat of mimesis, with particular ... see all copies from $5.24! new only from $15.83! \| SVS
14 view cover	Much Ado about Nothing more books like this by Christina Lacie (Editor) add to wishlist Each book in the "Shakespeare Made Easy" series presents the complete text of a Shakespeare play with the original lines printed on left-hand pages and a modern, easy-to-understand 'translation' of Shakespeare's Elizabethan English on facing right-hand pages. In addition to the play, each book presents helpful background information for students ... see all copies from $2.50! new only from $3.19! \| SVS
15 view cover	Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory, 1945-2000 more books like this by Russ McDonald, Ph.D. (Editor) add to wishlist "Shakespeare: Criticism and Theory" is an anthology of about 50 of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century. It introduces students to the variety of theoretical positions, thematic claims, methodologies, and modes of argument in Shakespeare criticism over the last 50 years. ... see all copies from $43.08! new only from $51.74! \| SVS
16 view cover	Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience more books like this by David Bevington, Blackwell Publishers (Creator) add to wishlist The extended second edition of this inspiring introduction to Shakespeare offers readers more insights into what makes Shakespeare great, and why we still read and perform his works. A highly innovative introduction to the extraordinary phenomenon of Shakespeare, this work: explores Shakespeare's works through the 'Seven Ages of Man', from ... see all copies from $5.25! new only from $19.50!
17 view cover	Disowning Knowledge: In Six Plays of Shakespeare more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist Since the publication of his celebrated first essay on Shakespeare, The Avoidance of Love: A reading of King Lear, Stanley Cavell has continued to explore radically new and provocative interpretations of a number of the plays. This volume collects those writings for the first time and includes pieces not previously published. The essays are bound ... see all copies from $9.25! new only from $99.00!
18 view cover	Shakespeare and Popular Voice more books like this by Professor Annabel Patterson add to wishlist In Shakespeare and the Popular Voice Annabel Patterson challenges as counter-intuitive the common opinion that Shakespeare was anti-democratic, contemptuous of the crowd and an unfailing supporter of Elizabethan social hierarchy. She shows that this view was constructed in the 19th century and rendered influential especially by Coleridge, as part ... see all copies from $19.99! new only from $37.30! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Shakespeare and Modernity more books like this by Hugh Grady (Editor) add to wishlist This fascinating collection traces the ways in which Shakespeare has been reassessed over the years and explores many issues concerning Shakespeare's modernity. see all copies from $21.95! new only from $21.95! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Shakespeare Well-Versed: A Rhyming Guide to All His Plays more books like this by James Muirden, David Eccles (Illustrator) add to wishlist "Shakespeare Well Versed" will enchant readers with clever, rhyming synopses of all of the bard's plays. James Muirden skillfully employs varied rhyme schemes to bring to life the high points and high jinks of these classic works. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Lectures on Shakespeare more books like this by W. H. Auden add to wishlist "W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden has announced that in his course ...he proposes to read all Shakespeare's plays in chronological order." The "New York Times" reported this item on September 27, 1946, giving notice of a rare opportunity to hear ... see all copies from $2.76! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide more books like this by Stanley Wells (Editor), Lena Cowen Orlin (Editor) add to wishlist Edited by Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin, Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide provides a practical and stimulating guide to all aspects of Shakespeare studies. The volume comprises over 40 specially commissioned essays by an outstanding team of Shakespeare scholars; each essay is written in an accessible and engaging style, and is followed by ... see all copies from $4.68! new only from $43.70! \| first editions
23	Meaning of Shakespeare more books like this by Harold C. Goddard add to wishlist see all copies from $5.00! first editions
24 view cover	Alternative Shakespeares more books like this by John Drakakis add to wishlist When critical theory met literary studies in the 1970s and '80s, some of the most radical and exciting theoretical work took as its subject the long mythologized, quasi-sacred figure of Shakespeare. Alternative Shakespeares is a unique collection of essays by founding figures in this movement to remake Shakespeare studies. Drawing upon ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $20.50! \| first editions
25 view cover	All of Shakespeare more books like this by Maurice Charney add to wishlist -- Richard Levin, State University of New York, Stony Brook see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS

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