Jonathan Bate
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Description
xix, 471 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Bate's Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Description
662 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, was one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century. He was one of Britain's most important poets, his work infused with myth; a love of nature, conservation, and ecology; of fishing and beasts in brooding landscapes.With an equal gift for poetry and prose, and with a soul as capacious as any poet in history, he was also a prolific children's writer and has been hailed as the greatest English letter-writer since John...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Description
xxii, 586 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
On the 250th anniversary of Wordsworth's birth comes a highly imaginative and vivid portrait of a revolutionary poet who embodied the spirit of his age. Published in time for the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth's birth, this is the biography of a great poetic genius, a revolutionary who changed the world. Wordsworth rejoiced in the French Revolution and played a central role in the cultural upheaval that we call the Romantic Revolution. He...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
xiv, 361 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Ben Jonson famously accused Shakespeare of having "small Latin and less Greek." But he was exaggerating. Shakespeare was steeped in the classics. Shaped by his grammar school education in Roman literature, history, and rhetoric, he moved to London, a city that modeled itself on ancient Rome. He worked in a theatrical profession that had inherited the conventions and forms of classical drama, and he read deeply in Ovid, Virgil, and Seneca. In a book...
6) Adding to stability and reconstruction operations: the case for evidence-based 'tactical economics'
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Description
1 online resource (65 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
8) Henry V
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play. A comedy built around the confusions of doubling, cross - dressing and identity, it is also a play about the ideal of male friendship an what happens to those friendships when men fall in love. William Carroll's engaging Introduction focuses on the traditions and sources that stand behind the play and explores Shakespeare's unique and bold treatment...
10) Richard II
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Written in 1595, "Richard II" occupies a significant place in the Shakespeare canon. It marks the transition from the earlier history plays dominated by civil war and stark power to a more nuanced representation of the political conflicts of England's past where character and politics are inextricably intertwined. Deftly combining history with tragedy, its tale of bad government and usurpation had great political immediacy for its first audiences...
12) Coriolanus
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This generously annotated updated edition of Coriolanus provides a thorough reconsideration of Shakespeare's remarkable, and probably his last, tragedy. A substantial introduction situates the play within its contemporary social and political contexts - dearth, riots, the struggle over authority between James I and his first parliament, the travails of Essex and Ralegh - and pays particular attention to Shakespeare's shaping of his primary source...
13) Twelfth night
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelfth Night is a recommended text for A Level OCR English Literature. In this edition of Twelfth Night, illustrations have been extended and updated; the preliminary notes have been expanded; reading lists have been updated, and include websites; and the classroom notes have been brought in line with recent practice.
Twelfth Night, in the popular Oxford School Shakespeare series, updated with a fresh new look. Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the text of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" in which confusion reigns when twin brothers, both named Antipholus, arrive in the same town with their twin servants, both named Dromios, after a lifetime apart; and includes explanatory notes, scene-by-scene plot summaries, and other resources.