Another information-packed, time-saving tool for teachers from the authors of Novels and Plays, this book contains 30 teaching guides for some of the best literature commonly taught in grades 6-12. With activities, discussion questions, writing assignments, and interdisciplinary extensions, these are complete lesson plans.
Gateway to the Great Books is a 10-volume series of books originally published by Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc. in 1963 and edited by Mortimer Adler and Robert Maynard Hutchins. The set includes selections - short stories, plays, essays, letters, and extracts from longer works - by more than one hundred authors.
An ebook collection of all the plays of Shakespeare
The Complete Shakespeare Reader is a collection of all of Shakespeare’s 38 plays. No internet connection required; read plays at your leisure on any computer. An excellent study resource for any English Literature student. Provides in-depth full-text searching to all of Shakespeare’s plays.
Translation and film adaptation of theatre have received little study. In filling that gap, this book draws on the experiences of theatrical translators and on movie versions of plays from various countries. It also offers insights into such concerns as the translation of bilingual plays and the choice between subtitling and dubbing of film.
With a thirty-year run of award-winning, critically acclaimed, and commercially successful plays, from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1967) to The Invention of Love (1997), Tom Stoppard is arguably the pre-eminent playwright in Britain today. His popularity also extends to the United States, where his plays have won three Tony awards and his screenplay for Shakespeare in Love won the 1998 Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.