Teachers can use this collection of eight mini-books to introduce students to Shakespeare's timeless tales. The comic-book format makes the plays easy to read and is sure to engage students. Narratives are written in modern-day English, while the characters' dialogues are kept in Shakespeare's verse. Plays include Hamlet, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, and The Tempest.
Loose ends and red herrings are the stuff of detective fiction, and under the scrutiny of master sleuths J. Sutherland and C. Watts Shakespeare's plays reveal themselves to be as full of mysteries as any Agatha Christie novel.
As they explore the puzzles Shakespeare's genuius becomes ever more apparent. Shrewd and entertaining, these essays add a new dimension to the pleasure of reading or watching Shakespeare.
Rife with arcane references, unfamiliar expressions, and words of his own invention, Shakespeare's texts can intimidate even the most learned reader. "Shakespeare's Language, Second Edition" is a comprehensive and straightforward guide to the ornate and sometimes bewildering language that may be unfamiliar to today's readers of Shakespeare's plays and poetry.This revised and updated edition contains more than 17,000 definitions - more than 2,000 of which are new - from the adjective "chop-fallen" in "Hamlet" to the verb "beshrew" ...
Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays––A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, and The Tempest.
Product Description The "New Casebook" offers a collection of lively and innovative contemporary criticism on Shakespeare's romances: "Pericles", "Cymbeline", "The Winter's Tale" and "The Tempest". The essays gathered in this volume exemplify the current diversity in critical practice and cover a broad range of topics including gender, religious politics, nationalism, topography, colonialism and "medico-moral" discourse. Alison Thorne's detailed introduction locates the romances in their generic, critical and historical contexts.
