Much Ado About Shakespeare 2016

Author : Donovan Bixley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781927262023
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Much Ado about Shakespeare written by Donovan Bixley and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's never been a period when Shakespeare was out of fashion. In his lifetime he was incredibly successful, and soon after his death his works were published to the world. Within these pages you'll find a new interpretation of Shakespeare's stages, a play on words, which sheds light on the colorful and exuberant world of Shakespeare's life and times. You won't find the sainted genius--solemn with quill and ink-stained hand. High of brow he may have been, but never high-brow. Never the snooty artist, locked away from the world, Shakespeare was in the thick of it. Much Ado About Shakespeare brings you the highs and lows, the tongue in cheek, the truth and imagination . . . the fantastical world of William Shakespeare in his own words and through the magnificent art of Donovan Bixley.

Author : Marina Fiorato
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466888989
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beatrice and Benedick written by Marina Fiorato and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-12-08 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden in the language of Shakespeare's best-loved comedy Much Ado About Nothing are several clues to an intriguing tale. It seems that the witty lovers Beatrice and Benedick had a previous love affair that ended bitterly. But how did they meet? Why did they part? And what brought them together again? When nineteen-year-old Beatrice is brought to live at her uncle's court in Sicily to be a companion to his daughter, she first meets Benedick, a young soldier who is there with a Spanish lord on a month-long sojourn. As they begin to wage their war of wit, their words mask their deep love for one another. But the pair are cruelly parted by misunderstanding and slander. Heartbroken, Benedick sails to England on the ill-fated Spanish Armada. Beatrice returns to her home in the North and an unwanted betrothal. While Benedick must fight for his life on board ship, Beatrice fights for her freedom from an arranged marriage. From the point of view of Beatrice and Benedick we hear the lovers tell their own story, taking us from the sunlit southern courts of Sicily, to the crippled Armada on the frozen northern seas, to the gorgeous Renaissance cities of the north. From Marina Fiorato, author of the acclaimed historical novel The Glassblower of Murano, comes a beautifully imagined Beatrice and Benedick.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780199536115
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sparkling with the witty dialogue between Beatrice and Benedict, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare's most enjoyable and theatrically successful comedies. This edition offers a newly edited text and an exceptionally helpful and critically aware introduction. Paying particular attention to analysis of the play's minor characters, Sheldon P. Zitner discusses Shakespeare's transformation of his source material. He rethinks the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its view of marriage. Allowing for the play's openness to reinterpretation by successive generations of readers and performers, Zitner provides a socially analytic stage history, advancing new views for the actor as much as for the critic.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1818 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Deborah Cartmell
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474284396
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Much Ado About Nothing: A Critical Reader written by Deborah Cartmell and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers an accessible and thought-provoking guide to this major Shakespearean comedy, surveying its key themes and evolving critical preoccupations. It also provides a detailed and up-to-date history of the play's rich stage and screen performance, looking closely at major contemporary performances, including Josie Rourke's film starring David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Vanessa Redgrave and James Earl Jones at the Old Vic, and the RSC's recent rebranding of it as a sequel. Moving through to four new critical essays, the guide opens up fresh perspectives, including contemporary directors' deployment of older actors within the lead roles, the play's relationship to Love's Labour's Lost, its presence on Youtube and the ways in which tales and ruses in the play belong to a wider concern with varieties of crime. The volume finishes with a guide to critical, web-based and production-related resources and an annotated bibliography provide a basis for further research.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486113191
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Five Great Comedies written by William Shakespeare and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-19 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inexpensive Dover edition brings together five of Shakespeare's most popular comedies, from the magic and mischief of A Midsummer Night's Dream to the rollicking farce of The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Author : Laura Wood
Publisher : Scholastic UK
ISBN 13 : 140719478X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under A Dancing Star written by Laura Wood and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In grey, 1930s England, Bea has grown up kicking against the conventions of the time, all the while knowing that she will one day have to marry someone her parents choose - someone rich enough to keep the family estate alive. But she longs for so much more - for adventure, excitement, travel, and maybe even romance. When she gets the chance to spend the summer in Italy with her bohemian uncle and his fianc_e, a whole world is opened up to Bea - a world that includes Ben, a cocky young artist who just happens to be infuriatingly handsome too. Sparks fly between the quick-witted pair until one night, under the stars, a challenge is set: can Bea and Ben put aside their teasing and have the perfect summer romance? With their new friends gleefully setting the rules for their fling, Bea and Ben can agree on one thing at least: they absolutely, positively will not, cannot fall in love... A long, hot summer of kisses and mischief unfolds - but storm clouds are gathering across Europe, and home is calling. Every summer has to end - but for Bea, this might be just the beginning.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : WCB/McGraw-Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing written by William Shakespeare and published by WCB/McGraw-Hill. This book was released on 1969 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ranjit Bolt updates Much Ado About Nothing with a merry new translation. In Much Ado About Nothing, a series of miscommunications and misunderstandings spiral out of control, leaving two sets of lovers to untangle their words and their hearts. Ranjit Bolt, an accomplished translator, takes on Shakespeare's well-loved comedy to update much of the obscure language while maintaining the humor, characterization, and wit that audiences know and love. For modern readers, Beatrice, Benedick, Hero, and Claudio are just as enchanting as always--and perhaps funnier than ever before. This translation of Much Ado About Nothing was written as part of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival's Play On! project, which commissioned new translations of thirty-nine Shakespeare plays. These translations present work from "The Bard" in language accessible to modern audiences while never losing the beauty of Shakespeare's verse. Enlisting the talents of a diverse group of contemporary playwrights, screenwriters, and dramaturges from diverse backgrounds, this project reenvisions Shakespeare for the twenty-first century. These volumes make these works available for the first time in print--a new First Folio for a new era.

Author : Irving, Henry, Sir
Publisher : London, Chiswick Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Much Ado about Nothing; a Comedy in Five Acts... as Arranged for the Stage by Henry Irving, and Presented at the Lyceum Theatre on Wednesday, October 11th, 1882 written by Irving, Henry, Sir and published by London, Chiswick Press. This book was released on with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Indira Ghose
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1472580990
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Much Ado About Nothing: Language and Writing written by Indira Ghose and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much Ado About Nothing presents a world of glittering surfaces and exquisite social performances. The language of the play sparkles with a fireworks of wit and dazzling bouts of repartee, most memorably in the "merry war" of words between the reluctant lovers, Benedick and Beatrice. A closer look at the language of the play, however, reveals it to be laced with violence and charged with the desire to humiliate others. Wit is deployed as a weapon to ridicule one's opponent; much of the humour circulates incessantly around the theme of cuckoldry, a major source of male anxiety in the period. The most drastic use of language is to slander Hero by accusing her of a lack of chastity - an accusation that spelt social death for a woman in the early modern age. The death that Hero feigns mirrors accurately the devastating effects of the assassination of her character by the smart set of young noblemen in the play. This study guide focuses on examining the array of the uses of language that the play displays, and probes into the ideas about language that it explores. The book looks at key film versions of the play by Kenneth Branagh and Joss Whedon which are often used on courses, whilst also offering practical questions and tips to help students develop their own critical writing skills and deepen their understanding of the play.