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Paperback:
9780495911197 | 1 reprint edition (Wadsworth Pub Co, March 11, 2011), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Each volume of EVANS SHAKESPEARE is edited by a Shakespearean scholar.
Product Description: Focusing on the practical means and media of Shakespeare's stage, this study envisions horizons for his achievement in the theatre. Bridging the gap between today's page- and stage-centred interpretations, two renowned Shakespeareans demonstrate the artful means by which Shakespeare responded to the competing claims of acting and writing in the Elizabethan era...read more
Hardcover:
9780521895323 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 30, 2008), cover price $99.99
9780134001449, titled "Essentials of Anatomy and Physiology" | Prentice Hall, November 1, 1996, cover price $63.84 | also contains Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology | About this edition: This one-semester text offers an even depth of presentation, innovative pedagogical features and a focus on the application of concepts.
Paperback:
9780521182836 | Reissue edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, December 30, 2010), cover price $44.99 | About this edition: Focusing on the practical means and media of Shakespeare's stage, this study envisions horizons for his achievement in the theatre.
Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare. It is arguably the most famous speech in the Western world - though few of us can remember much about it. This book carefully unpacks the individual words, phrases and sentences of Hamlet's soliloquy in order to reveal how and why it has achieved its remarkable hold on our culture. Hamlet's speech asks us to ask some of the most serious questions there are regarding knowledge and existence. In it, Shakespeare also expands the limits of the English language. Douglas Bruster therefore reads Hamlet's famous speech in "slow motion" to highlight its material, philosophical and cultural meaning and its resonance for generations of actors, playgoers and readers.
Hardcover:
9780826489975 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 15, 2007, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy is quoted more often than any other passage in Shakespeare.
Paperback:
9780826489982 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, April 15, 2007, cover price $22.95
Hardcover:
9780521416641 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 1, 1993, cover price $57.99 | also contains Jericho
Paperback:
9780521607063 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2005, cover price $49.99
This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue. Reading the prologue in performed as well as printed contexts, Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann take us beyond concepts of stability and autonomy in dramatic beginnings to reveal the crucial cultural functions performed by the prologue in Elizabethan England.While its most basic task is to seize the attention of a noisy audience, the prologue's more significant threshold position is used to usher spectators and actors through a rite of passage. Engaging competing claims, expectations and offerings, the prologue introduces, authorizes and, critically, straddles the worlds of the actual theatrical event and the 'counterfeit' world on stage. In this way, prologues occupy a unique and powerful position between two orders of cultural practice and perception.Close readings of prologues by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, including Marlowe, Peele and Lyly, demonstrate the prologue's role in representing both the world in the play and playing in the world. Through their detailed examination of this remarkable form and its functions, the authors provide a fascinating perspective on early modern drama, a perspective that enriches our knowledge of the plays' socio-cultural context and their mode of theatrical address and action.
Hardcover:
9780415334426 | Routledge, January 1, 2005, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: This eye-opening study draws attention to the largely neglected form of the early modern prologue.
Paperback:
9780415334433 | Routledge, January 1, 2005, cover price $40.95
Miscellaneous:
9780203362686 | Routledge, November 10, 2004, cover price $36.95
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Hardcover:
9780312294380 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, March 5, 2003), cover price $130.00
Paperback:
9780312294397 | 1 edition (Palgrave Macmillan, March 5, 2003), cover price $40.00
Hardcover:
9780838639023 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $90.00
Product Description: William Shakespeare is perhaps the most frequently quoted author of the English-speaking world. His plays, in turn, "quote" a wide variety of sources, from books and ballads to persons and events. In this dynamic study of Shakespeare's plays, Douglas Bruster demonstrates that such borrowing can illuminate the world in which Shakespeare and his contemporary playwrights lived and worked, while also shedding light on later cultures that quote his plays...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
Hardcover:
9780803213036 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, December 1, 2000, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: William Shakespeare is perhaps the most frequently quoted author of the English-speaking world.
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