Shakespeare Revolutionized

Author : Stephen Marche
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062079387
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Shakespeare Changed Everything written by Stephen Marche and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you know the name Jessica was first used in The Merchant of Venice? Or that Freud's idea of a healthy sex life came from Shakespeake? Nearly four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare permeates our everyday lives: from the words we speak to the teenage heartthrobs we worship to the political rhetoric spewed by the twenty-four-hour news cycle. In the pages of this wickedly clever little book, Esquire columnist Stephen Marche uncovers the hidden influence of Shakespeare in our culture, including these fascinating tidbits: Shakespeare coined over 1,700 words, including hobnob, glow, lackluster, and dawn. Paul Robeson's 1943 performance as Othello on Broadway was a seminal moment in black history. Tolstoy wrote an entire book about Shakespeare's failures as a writer. In 1936, the Nazi Party tried to claim Shakespeare as a Germanic writer. Without Shakespeare, the book titles Infinite Jest, The Sound and the Fury, and Brave New World wouldn't exist. Stephen Marche has cherry-picked the sweetest and most savory historical footnotes from Shakespeare's work and life to create this unique celebration of the greatest writer of all time.

Author : James Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733589437
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Revolutionized written by James Warren and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That "William Shakespeare" was the author of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and many other much-loved plays is the greatest deception in literary history. Shakespeare Revolutionized tells the fascinating story of how the identity of the real author--Edward de Vere, the highest ranking earl in Queen Elizabeth's court--was uncovered and explains why it matters who the author really was: knowing Shakespeare's real identity revolutionizes understandings of the plays, the conditions in which they were written and the Elizabethan era.

Author : Jane Sutcliffe
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1580896391
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Will's Words written by Jane Sutcliffe and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jane Sutcliffe sets out to write a book about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, in her own words, she runs into a problem: Will's words keep popping up all over the place! What's an author to do? After all, Will is responsible for such familiar phrases as "what's done is done" and "too much of a good thing." He even helped turn "household words" into household words. But, Jane embraces her dilemma, writing about Shakespeare, his plays, and his famous phrases with glee. After all, what better words are there to use to write about the greatest writer in the English language than his very own? As readers will discover, "the long and the short of it" is this: Will changed the English language forever. Backmatter includes an author’s note, a bibliography, and a timeline.

Author : Various
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598534637
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now (LOA #251) written by Various and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An anthology that traces how Shakespeare has shaped American history and culture—featuring pieces by Founding Fathers, Orson Welles, and other noteworthy figures “The history of Shakespeare in America,” writes James Shapiro in his introduction to this groundbreaking anthology, “is also the history of America itself.” Shakespeare was a central, inescapable part of America’s literary inheritance, and a prism through which crucial American issues—revolution, slavery, war, social justice—were refracted and understood. In tracing the many surprising forms this influence took, Shapiro draws on many genres—poetry, fiction, essays, plays, memoirs, songs, speeches, letters, movie reviews, comedy routines—and on a remarkable range of American writers from Emerson, Melville, Lincoln, and Mark Twain to James Agee, John Berryman, Pauline Kael, and Cynthia Ozick. Americans of the revolutionary era ponder the question “to sign or not to sign;” Othello becomes the focal point of debates on race; the Astor Place riots, set off by a production of Macbeth, attest to the violent energies aroused by theatrical controversies; Jane Addams finds in King Lear a metaphor for American struggles between capital and labor. Orson Welles revolutionizes approaches to Shakespeare with his legendary productions of Macbeth and Julius Caesar; American actors from Charlotte Cushman and Ira Aldridge to John Barrymore, Paul Robeson, and Marlon Brando reimagine Shakespeare for each new era. The rich and tangled story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own is a literary and historical revelation. As a special feature, the book includes a foreword by Bill Clinton, among the latest in a long line of American presidents, including John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Abraham Lincoln, who, as the collection demonstrates, have turned to Shakespeare’s plays for inspiration.

Author : Michael Quinn Dudley
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527539369
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy written by Michael Quinn Dudley and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly 200 years, people have questioned the identity of Shakespeare; however, this debate is often dismissed by most scholars as “just a conspiracy theory,” with the life of the poet-playwright being “beyond doubt.” And yet, the documented facts related to the man from Stratford are meagre—where they exist at all—forcing biographers to rely heavily on their own imaginations. What does it mean to say that the traditional stance on Shakespeare’s authorship is a belief as opposed to a search for knowledge? What are the ethical implications of declaring that some history is “beyond doubt,” and that no debate about it may be permitted? What can theories of knowledge, truth and rhetoric tell us about how knowledge of Shakespeare has been constructed and justified? To the extent that this belief has consequences for society, can it then be said to be an ethical one? Finally, what difference does it actually make—from a pragmatic perspective—who the Author was? Highly original in its scope, The Shakespeare Authorship Question and Philosophy sets out the debate’s many profound philosophical dimensions concerning knowledge, historiography, truth and academic freedom—implications that transcend the debate itself.

Author : Laura Bates
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1402273150
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Saved My Life written by Laura Bates and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them both Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never been before—supermax solitary confinement. In this unwelcoming place, surrounded by inmates known as the worst of the worst, is Larry Newton. A convicted murderer with several escape attempts under his belt and a brilliantly agile mind on his shoulders, Larry was trying to break out of prison at the same time Laura was fighting to get her program started behind bars. A testament to the power of literature, Shakespeare Saved My Life is a remarkable memoir. Fans of Orange is the New Black (Piper Kerman), A Place to Stand (Jimmy Baca) and I Couldn't Help Myself (Wally Lamb) will be be inspired by the story of the most unlikely friendship, one bonded by Shakespeare and lasting years—a friendship that would, in the end, save more than one life. What readers are saying about Shakespeare Saved My Life: "I was tremendously moved by both the potential impact of Shakespeare and learning on human beings and the story of this one man." "This is one of the most extraordinary books I've ever read." "I have never read a book that touched me as much as this memoir." "It is a challenging and remarkable story." "I loved this book so much. It changed my life." What reviewers are saying about Shakespeare Saved My Life: "You don't have to be a William Shakespeare fan, a prisoner, or a prison reformer to appreciate this uplifting book. "Shakespeare Saved My Life" also reveals many important truths ... about the meaning of empathy in our dealings with others"—Finger Lake Times "Shakespeare Saved My Life touches on the search for meaning in life, the struggles that complicate the path to triumph and the salvation that can be found in literature's great works ... An inspiring account."—Shelf Awareness "Opening the mind's prison proves enormously gratifying, not to mention effective ... brave, groundbreaking work"—Publishers Weekly "An eye-opening study reiterating the perennial power of books, self-discipline, and the Bard of Avon."—Kirkus "A powerful testament to how Shakespeare continues to speak to contemporary readers in all sorts of circumstances."—Booklist

Author : Elizabeth Winkler
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1982171278
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies written by Elizabeth Winkler and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2024-04-23 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "romp through the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote the plays attributed to him became an act of blasphemy--and who the Bard might really be"--

Author : J. L. Styan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521273282
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Shakespeare Revolution written by J. L. Styan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1983-04-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a succinct and finest history of Shakespeare studies in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Author : ChatStick Team
Publisher : ChatStick Team
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 113 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book William Shakespeare: A Life in Verse and Prose written by ChatStick Team and published by ChatStick Team. This book was released on 2023-11-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 📖 "William Shakespeare: A Life in Verse and Prose" 🖋️ Dive into the captivating world of the Bard like never before! 🎭 From the bustling streets of Stratford-upon-Avon to the illustrious London theater scene, embark on a journey through the life and times of the world’s most celebrated playwright. 🏰✍️ Highlights: 🌟 Explore Shakespeare's early days and the Elizabethan era that shaped his writings. 🌟 Delve deep into the heart of his sonnets and experience the passion of his poetic expression. 💖📜 🌟 Step onto the stage of his dramatic world, filled with tragedies, comedies, and histories. 🎭👑 🌟 Witness the powerful women in his plays and their reflection of Elizabethan society. 💃👸 🌟 Discover his profound impact on literature, theater, and societies across centuries. 🌎📚 Whether you’re a Shakespeare enthusiast or new to his works, this book offers a fresh perspective on the enduring nature of his verse and prose. 🌌 Grab your copy now and immerse yourself in the timeless echo of Shakespeare's genius! 📚❤️

Author : James Shapiro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781461958574
Total Pages : 785 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare in America written by James Shapiro and published by . This book was released on 2014-05-14 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology traces the surprising story of how Americans made Shakespeare their own through a wide range of genres. The writers included range from the 1800s to the present day, and offer testimony to Shakespeare's profound and enduring influence.