Shakespeare By Any Other Name

Author : Margo Anderson
Publisher : Untreed Reads
ISBN 13 : 1611871786
Total Pages : 667 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare by Another Name written by Margo Anderson and published by Untreed Reads. This book was released on 2011-11-04 with total page 667 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate over the true author of the Shakespeare canon has raged for centuries. Astonishingly little evidence supports the traditional belief that Will Shakespeare, the actor and businessman from Stratford-upon-Avon, was the author. Legendary figures such as Mark Twain, Walt Whitman and Sigmund Freud have all expressed grave doubts that an uneducated man who apparently owned no books and never left England wrote plays and poems that consistently reflect a learned and well-traveled insider's perspective on royal courts and the ancient feudal nobility. Recent scholarship has turned to Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford-an Elizabethan court playwright known to have written in secret and who had ample means, motive and opportunity to in fact have assumed the "Shakespeare" disguise. "Shakespeare" by Another Name is the literary biography of Edward de Vere as "Shakespeare." This groundbreaking book tells the story of de Vere's action-packed life-as Renaissance man, spendthrift, courtier, wit, student, scoundrel, patron, military adventurer, and, above all, prolific ghostwriter-finding in it the background material for all of The Bard's works. Biographer Mark Anderson incorporates a wealth of new evidence, including de Vere's personal copy of the Bible (in which de Vere underlines scores of passages that are also prominent Shakespearean biblical references).

Author : Susan O’Connor
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1491820268
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare by Any Other Name written by Susan O’Connor and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare by Any Other Name is a collection of two-act plays for teenagers. Set in different time periods and places, their plots, nevertheless, mirror the story lines of five favorite plays by Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, Midsummer Nights Dream, The Tempest, As You Like It, and Cymbeline. Circle Dance delivers the zany bewilderment of love that one might see in Shakespeares comedy Twelfth Night. Bob Weaver and the Teen Angel takes its characters and plot from Midsummer Nights Dream. True to the setting of the play, all of its musical numbers are top of the chart songs of the 1960s. The Gentle Art of Reappearing, which parallels Shakespeares last play The Tempest, involves a different kind of storm on the island of Galveston, Texas. Games gives the audience a modern look at Shakespeares As You Like It with a delightful romantic romp through another Forest of Arden, the piney woods of East Texas. As a spin-off of Cymbeline, Imogens War takes place in 1918 in England and France at the end of WW I with the signing of the Armistice and the resolution of a family feud. For adolescent lovers of Shakespeare, these plays offer a twist from the classic versions of his plays. Not to be confused as alternativesthe Bard is inimitableShakespeare by any other name might still seem as sweet.

Author : Renaissance Art Notebooks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781086062458
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare "What's in a Name? That which We Call a Rose By Any Other Name Would Smell as Sweet." written by Renaissance Art Notebooks and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-29 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover features a banner and purple roses and flowers and a quote from Romeo & Juliet by William Shakespeare "What's in a name? That which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet." This compact paperback elegant notebook has 100 lightly lined cream colored pages and is a wonderful addition to your stationery collection. Makes a great personal diary, work or school related journal for writing down your daily thoughts and for jotting down ideas and thoughts, to do lists, record keeping, poetry and more. 6" x 9" 15.2cm wide x 22.9 cm high. Good quality smooth paper that is great for pencils and pens. A great gift for Shakespeare fans, grab one for a birthday or Christmas present, also great for many other special occasions.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The works of William Shakespeare, the text formed from an entirely new collation of the old editions, with notes [&c.] by J.P. Collier. [With] Notes and emendations to the text of Shakespeare's plays written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : MURRAY J. LEVITH
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367682293
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's in Shakespeare's Names written by MURRAY J. LEVITH and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-02-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, beginning with what has been written previously, the author illustrates how Shakespeare used names - not only those he invented in the later comedies, but those names bequeathed to him by history, myth, classical literature, or the Bible.

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393079848
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition) written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2010-05-03 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.

Author : Ian Doescher
Publisher : Quirk Books
ISBN 13 : 1594746559
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare's Star Wars written by Ian Doescher and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2013-07-09 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Best Seller Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2. Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.

Author : Lukas Erne
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107354552
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Book Trade written by Lukas Erne and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-25 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare and the Book Trade follows on from Lukas Erne's groundbreaking Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist to examine the publication, constitution, dissemination and reception of Shakespeare's printed plays and poems in his own time and to argue that their popularity in the book trade has been greatly underestimated. Erne uses evidence from Shakespeare's publishers and the printed works to show that in the final years of the sixteenth century and the early part of the seventeenth century, 'Shakespeare' became a name from which money could be made, a book trade commodity in which publishers had significant investments and an author who was bought, read, excerpted and collected on a surprising scale. Erne argues that Shakespeare, far from indifferent to his popularity in print, was an interested and complicit witness to his rise as a print-published author. Thanks to the book trade, Shakespeare's authorial ambition started to become bibliographic reality during his lifetime.

Author : Jeff McQuain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coined by Shakespeare written by Jeff McQuain and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dictionary of terms that were first coined in William Shakespeare's plays. Each entry explains the source of the word, how the word is used throughout history, and where each word appears in Shakespeare's works.

Author : Murray J. Levith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000350371
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What's in Shakespeare's Names written by Murray J. Levith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other name would smell as sweet.’ So says Juliet in the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet but, originally published in 1978, Murray Levith shows just how wrong Juliet was. Shakespeare was extremely careful in his selection of names. Not only the obvious Hotspur or the descriptive Bottom or Snout, but most names in Shakespeare’s thirty-seven plays had a more than superficial significance. Beginning with what has been written previously, Levith illustrates how Shakespeare used names – not only those he invented in the later comedies, but those names bequeathed to him by history, myth, classical literature, or the Bible. Levith moves from the histories through the tragedies to the comedies, listing each significant name play by play, giving the allusions, references, and suggestions that show how each name enriches interpretations of action, character, and tone. Dr. Levith examines Shakespeare’s own name, and speculates upon the playwright’s identification with his characters and the often whimsical naming games he played or that were played upon him. A separate alphabetical index is provided to facilitate the location of individual names and, in addition, cross references to plays are given so that each name can be considered in the context of all the plays in which it appears.