Studying Shakespeare: A Guide to the PlaysThis engaging book draws on all of Shakespeare's plays to show they can still be used as a guide to life.
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A Guide to the Plays Laurie Maguire. Introduction. Shakespeare: The. Story. On June 17, 1994 a modernized Shakespeare tragedy took place on the freeway outside Los Angeles, playing live to a huge TV audience. A black man appeared to have ...
A Guide to the Plays Laurie Maguire. Introduction. Shakespeare: The. Story. On June 17, 1994 a modernized Shakespeare tragedy took place on the freeway outside Los Angeles, playing live to a huge TV audience. A black man appeared to have ...
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... Shakespeare heroes. Newspaper headlines regularly give us “real-life-Romeo-and-Juliet” stories. The compound adjective describes couples who marry despite family hatred (Serbian/Croatian romance is but the most recent of this genre), as ...
... Shakespeare heroes. Newspaper headlines regularly give us “real-life-Romeo-and-Juliet” stories. The compound adjective describes couples who marry despite family hatred (Serbian/Croatian romance is but the most recent of this genre), as ...
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... Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, in recent decades criticism has ventured into new terrain – the invigorating challenges of structuralism, poststructuralism, new historicism, cultural materialism, feminism. These innovative ...
... Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, in recent decades criticism has ventured into new terrain – the invigorating challenges of structuralism, poststructuralism, new historicism, cultural materialism, feminism. These innovative ...
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... Shakespeare's favorite sources: it supplied the base for the characters of Theseus, Julius Caesar, Brutus, Mark Antony, Coriolanus, Timon, Alcibiades, Pompey, and Cicero. Shakespeare could have consulted the Latin translation of the ...
... Shakespeare's favorite sources: it supplied the base for the characters of Theseus, Julius Caesar, Brutus, Mark Antony, Coriolanus, Timon, Alcibiades, Pompey, and Cicero. Shakespeare could have consulted the Latin translation of the ...
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... Shakespeare through Philemon Holland's translation in 1603, portray identity as flexible, multiple, and changeable. Plutarch's (and Shakespeare's) interest in the flux of identity is extended by the French essayist Michel de Montaigne ...
... Shakespeare through Philemon Holland's translation in 1603, portray identity as flexible, multiple, and changeable. Plutarch's (and Shakespeare's) interest in the flux of identity is extended by the French essayist Michel de Montaigne ...
Contents
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2 Marital Life Shakespeare and Romance | 50 |
3 Political Life Shakespeare and Government | 88 |
4 Public Life Shakespeare and Social Structures | 140 |
5 Real Life Shakespeare and Suffering | 180 |
Works Cited | 223 |
Index | 235 |
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