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£9.99 paperback (2024) - ISBN 13: 9781529919998 | ISBN 10: 1529919991
**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2024** **LONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE 2024** Reeling from a disastrous love affair, actress Sonia Nasir finds love and hope in Shakespeare and Palestine. ‘A vital ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9780099594024 | ISBN 10: 0099594021
‘It’s got a thunderstorm in it. And revenge. Definitely revenge.’  Felix is at the top of his game as Artistic Director of the Makeshiweg Theatre Festival. His productions have amazed and confounded. Now he’s staging a Tempest like no oth ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783606719 | ISBN 10: 1783606711
Although Shakespeare is rightly celebrated for the continued relevancy of his plays and poetry today, we too often lose sight of the wider historical context which shaped his work. In Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen, Victor Kiernan shows that ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781783606887 | ISBN 10: 1783606886
The seventeenth century saw the brief flowering of tragic drama across Western Europe. And in the plays of William Shakespeare, this form of drama found its greatest exponent. These Tragedies, Kiernan argues, represented the artistic expression of a ... more
View book details£13.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781608462728 | ISBN 10: 1608462722
"Somehow, Shakespeare always seems to have something to say to us."(Nelson Mandela) The prison authorities on apartheid South Africa's Robben Island strictly censored the reading materials inmates received from the outside world. Yet, the prisoner ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781846972782 | ISBN 10: 1846972787
For the first time in 400 years, an author has dared to take on the voice of the world's most famous playwright. Christopher Rush's extraordinary novel takes as its dramatic theme the deathbed meeting between William Shakespeare and his lawyer, as t ... more
View book details£7.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781848311152 | ISBN 10: 184831115x
Shakespeare’s absolute pre-eminence is simply unparalleled. His plays pack theatres and provide Hollywood with blockbuster scripts; his works inspire mountains of scholarship and criticism every year. He has given us many of the very words we speak, ... more
View book details£12.99 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781934389294 | ISBN 10: 1934389293
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 r ... more
View book details£10.99 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780719064234 | ISBN 10: 0719064236
Beginning Shakespeare introduces students to the study of Shakespeare and grounds their understanding of his work in theoretical discourses. It breaks down fears and preconceptions to offer students both a map of the current critical practices of oth ... more
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