William Shakespeare, Tragedies - Modern Critical Views
For centuries William Shakespeare's creative genius has challenged even the most highly regarded critics. This volume offers the latest generation's efforts to analyze his work. Examined text include King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, Troilus and Cressida, Othello, Coriolanus, Antony and Cleopatra, and Macbeth.
William Shakespeare, Histories - Modern Critical Views
Shakespeare's vibrant history plays, including "Richard II"; "Richard III"; "Henry IV", Parts I and II; and "Henry V", spring to life with all the drama of the feuds, rivalries, and epic battles on which they were based. Aware of the historical past and a keen observer of his own times, Shakespeare's true genius lies in the timeless universality he lends to the lives of these legendary royals and the schemers and dreamers who made up their worlds. This new edition of critical essays covering the Bard's history plays also includes a chronology, bibliography, index and introductory essay by renowned Shakespearean scholar Harold Bloom.
William Shakespeare's comedies - including 'A Midsummer Night's Dream', 'As You Like It', 'Twelfth Night', 'The Merchant of Venice', and more - are funny, allusive, difficult, profound, and unforgettable, and have served as templates for other comedic works throughout the centuries. This invaluable new study guide contains a selection of the finest contemporary criticism of these classic plays.
The Life and Career of William Paulet c. 1475 - 1572
Despite his remarkable, long, life at the centre of the Tudor court politics and English political life, this is the first full-length biography of Sir William Paulet. Born in Wiltshire in 1475, he lived to the advanced age of 97, during which time he held the posts of Lord Treasurer, Master of the King's Wards, Comptroller of the Household, Lord Chamberlain and President of the Council. His intimate involvement with royal government under three successive monarchs makes Paulet one of the most influential men of his age, and a fascinating subject with which to explore the economic, political and ecclesiastical landscape of Tudor England.
Based on fact, this is the story of William Marshal, the greatest knight of the Middle Ages, unsurpassed in the tourneys, adeptly manoeuvring through the colourful, dangerous world of Angevin politics to become one of the most powerful magnates of the realm and eventually regent of England. From minor beginnings and a narrow escape from death in childhood, William Marshal steadily rises through the ranks to become tutor in arms to the son of King Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.
