Shakespeare and the Rhetoricians by Marion Trousdale
$30.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
This is a critical study of a Renaissance view of language and of the ways in which such a view changes our sense of Shakespeare's plays. Using school texts, commonplace books, and other manuscript materials, Trousdale argues that Shakespeare saw words as separate from things and fictions as artifices c ...Show more
The Cambridge Companion To Shakespeare by Stanley Wells (ed.)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
Shakespeare in Parts by Simon Palfrey
$16.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: good-very good
Shakespeare's drama originally circulated in the form of the individual actor's part, containing only a single character's speeches and cues. This collaboration of theatre history with literary criticism captures Shakespeare's development as a writer, showing how scripting and acting work together to pr ...Show more
Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare | Reading Level: near fine
This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA, each book includes an essay on the theatrical world o ...Show more
King Lear by William Shakespeare
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: New Penguin Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
Part of "The New Penguin Shakespeare" series, this text looks at "King Lear" with an introduction, a list of further reading, commentary and a short account of the textual problems of the play. The series is used and recommended by the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library | Reading Level: very good
Designed to appeal to the booklover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful gift editions of much loved classic titles. Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Comedy turns to tragedy as two couples fall in and out of love in Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shake ...Show more
Shakespeare: For All Time by Stanley W Wells
$40.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Oxford Shakespeare (Hardcover) | Reading Level: very good
A leading Shakespeare scholar pens an entertaining and informative account of Shakespeare's life work and legacy. of color illustrations.
No Bed for Bacon - The story of Shakespeare and Lady Viola in love by Caryl Brahms; S J Simon
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: good
By Me, William Shakespeare by Robert Payne
$16.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: good-very good
"....entertaining, and ... highly illuminating ... his research has been thorough and he offers some intriguing speculations regarding the influence on certain plays of ... national events ... He also offers some excellent shafts of criticism, particularly with respect to the final plays." -Publishers' ...Show more
Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare
$8.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: The Arden Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
"Sources, Analogues, and Contexts," a rich selection of historical and literary writing, gives readers an understanding of Antony and Cleopatra's origins, from the earlier texts that inspired Shakespeare, especially those by Herodotus, Plutarch, and Virgil, to later works by Chaucer, Mary Sidney (Counte ...Show more