13 books in Drama - Shakespeare
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Soul of the Age
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $35.00
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: Hardcover, 496 pages
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $35.00
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >
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eBook.
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Soul of the Age
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $35.00
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >
A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Written by Jonathan Bate
Format: eBook
On Sale: April 7, 2009
Price: $35.00
“One man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.”
In this illuminating, innovative biography, Jonathan Bate, one of today’s most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, has found a fascinating new way to tell the story of the great dramatist. Using the Bard’s own immortal list of a man’s seven ages in... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover.
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Shakespeare After All
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: eBook, 1008 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $20.00
In Shakespeare After All, Marjorie Garber—professor of English and director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University—gives us a magisterial work of criticism, authoritative and engaging, based on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years. Richly informed by Shakespearean scholarship of the latter half... Read more >
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: eBook, 1008 pages
On Sale: November 19, 2008
Price: $20.00
In Shakespeare After All, Marjorie Garber—professor of English and director of the Humanities Center at Harvard University—gives us a magisterial work of criticism, authoritative and engaging, based on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years. Richly informed by Shakespearean scholarship of the latter half... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Shakespeare For Beginners
Written by Brandon Toropov
Illustrated by Joe Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Price: $14.95
Despite the reshifting of values that has affected every aspect of life in the 21st century, William Shakespeare still stands as the greatest writer the English language has ever produced. Even so, many people have never read him. If you have never read “the Bard”–or if you’ve tried and given up... Read more >
Written by Brandon Toropov
Illustrated by Joe Lee
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 17, 2008
Price: $14.95
Despite the reshifting of values that has affected every aspect of life in the 21st century, William Shakespeare still stands as the greatest writer the English language has ever produced. Even so, many people have never read him. If you have never read “the Bard”–or if you’ve tried and given up... Read more >
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Shakespeare & Co.
Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Written by Stanley Wells
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $14.95
From the dean of Shakespeare studies comes a lively, entertaining work of biography that firmly locates Shakespeare within the hectic, exilarating world in which he lived and worked.
Theatre in Shakespeare's day was a growth industry. Everyone knew everyone else, and they all sought to learn, borrow, or steal from one another... Read more >
Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Written by Stanley Wells
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 18, 2008
Price: $14.95
From the dean of Shakespeare studies comes a lively, entertaining work of biography that firmly locates Shakespeare within the hectic, exilarating world in which he lived and worked.
Theatre in Shakespeare's day was a growth industry. Everyone knew everyone else, and they all sought to learn, borrow, or steal from one another... Read more >
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Shakespeare After All
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $20.00
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate... Read more >
Written by Marjorie Garber
Format: Trade Paperback, 1008 pages
On Sale: September 20, 2005
Price: $20.00
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country’s foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie Garber offers passionate... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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The Duchess of Malfi
Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
Edited by Frank Kermode
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $17.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
The Maid’s Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
The... Read more >
Seven Masterpieces of Jacobean Drama
Edited by Frank Kermode
Format: Trade Paperback, 688 pages
On Sale: May 10, 2005
Price: $17.95
Edited and with an Introduction by Frank Kermode
A Woman Killed with Kindness by Thomas Heywood
Volpone by Ben Jonson
The Revenger’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
The Maid’s Tragedy by John Fletcher and Francis Beaumont
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside by Thomas Middleton
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
The... Read more >
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Me and Shakespeare
Adventures with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays... Read more >
Adventures with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob
Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Me and Shakespeare
My Late Life Adventure with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
One man’s post-retirement passion for the works of history's greatest literary genius becomes an inspiring intellectual and spiritual adventure--and a lesson in the ageless wisdom to be found in literature.
In the twilight of a successful career as a book editor, Herman Gollob attended a superb Broadway production of Hamlet with Ralph... Read more >
My Late Life Adventure with the Bard
Written by Herman Gollob
Format: eBook
On Sale: September 9, 2003
Price: $15.00
One man’s post-retirement passion for the works of history's greatest literary genius becomes an inspiring intellectual and spiritual adventure--and a lesson in the ageless wisdom to be found in literature.
In the twilight of a successful career as a book editor, Herman Gollob attended a superb Broadway production of Hamlet with Ralph... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Playing Shakespeare
An Actor's Guide
Written by John Barton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $13.95
Now in its first American edition, Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright.
Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage... Read more >
An Actor's Guide
Written by John Barton
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2001
Price: $13.95
Now in its first American edition, Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright.
Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and David Suchet–John Barton demonstrates how to adapt Elizabethan theater for the modern stage... Read more >
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The Comedies of Shakespeare
(A Modern Library E-Book)
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $24.95
This Modern Library edition presents all fourteen comedies--each complete and unabridged--in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are:
The Tempest
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure
The Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
A Midsummer-Night's Dream
The... Read more >
(A Modern Library E-Book)
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $24.95
This Modern Library edition presents all fourteen comedies--each complete and unabridged--in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are:
The Tempest
The Two Gentlemen of Verona
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Measure for Measure
The Comedy of Errors
Much Ado About Nothing
Love's Labour's Lost
A Midsummer-Night's Dream
The... Read more >
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The Histories and Poems of Shakespeare
(A Modern Library E-Book)
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $23.00
This Modern Library edition presents all ten histories--each complete and unabridged--in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are:
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Richard III
Henry VIII
Included also are the Bard's great narrative poems: Venus and Adonis... Read more >
(A Modern Library E-Book)
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $23.00
This Modern Library edition presents all ten histories--each complete and unabridged--in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are:
King John
Richard II
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Richard III
Henry VIII
Included also are the Bard's great narrative poems: Venus and Adonis... Read more >
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The Tragedies of Shakespeare
(A Modern Library E-Book)
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $24.95
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(A Modern Library E-Book)
Written by William Shakespeare
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 1, 2000
Price: $24.95
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