Shakespeares Pub

Author : Pete Brown
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125003387X
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Pub written by Pete Brown and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Britain told through the story of one very special pub, from "The Beer Drinker's Bill Bryson" (Times Literary Supplement) Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-paneled, galleried coaching house a few minutes' walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and lean back, resting your head against the wall. And then consider this: who else has rested their head against that wall, over the last six hundred years? Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims almost certainly drank in the George on their way out of London to Canterbury. It's fair to say that Shakespeare popped in from the nearby Globe for a pint, and we know that Dickens certainly did. Mail carriers changed their horses here, before heading to all four corners of Britain—while sailors drank here before visiting all four corners of the world. The pub, as Pete Brown points out, is the 'primordial cell of British life' and in the George he has found the perfect example. All life is here, from murderers, highwaymen, and ladies of the night to gossiping peddlers and hard-working clerks. So sit back with Shakespeare's Pub and watch as buildings rise and fall over the centuries, and 'the beer drinker's Bill Bryson' (UK's Times Literary Supplement) takes us on an entertaining tour through six centuries of history, through the stories of everyone that ever drank in one pub.

Author : Charlaine Harris
Publisher : Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1625675984
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Champion written by Charlaine Harris and published by Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-10 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Charlaine Harris, the #1 New York Times and USA TODAY bestselling author behind HBO’s hit series True Blood and NBC’s Midnight, Texas, the second installment in a mystery series that pulls no punches... When Lily Bard agrees to open the gym for her sometime-boyfriend, it’s a sign of something she’s rejected for years—connection. Trust. The beginnings of being part of a community. And when she finds the corpse of a murdered bodybuilder waiting for her, it’s a sign she doesn’t know nearly as much about the home she’s chosen as she thought. Shakespeare, Arkansas has seen three unsolved, seemingly unconnected murders in two months, and the town is tense with suspicion and rage. Lily’s contact on the police force develops an ulterior agenda. An anonymous white supremacist group is papering cars and threatening worse to come. And there’s a new man in town, someone whose face reminds Lily of the darkest time in her past... Shakespeare needs answers, and Lily can’t rest until she has them. But there’s no telling how deep the rot spreads. And if she can’t trust anyone, she’ll be facing it down alone.

Author : Pete Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1743299737
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Local written by Pete Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the George Inn near London Bridge; a cosy, wood-pannelled, galleried coaching house a few minutes walk from the Thames. Grab yourself a pint, listen to the chatter of the locals and lean back, resting your head against the wall. And then consider this: who else has rested their head against that wall, over the last 600 years? Chaucer and his fellow pilgrims almost certainly drank in the George on their way out of London to Canterbury. It's fair to say that Shakespeare will have popped in from the nearby Globe for a pint, and we know that Dickens certainly did. Mail carriers changed their horses here, before heading to all four corners of Britain - while sailors drank here before visiting all four corners of the world... The pub, as Pete Brown points out, is the "primordial cell of British life" and in the George he has found the perfect case study. All life is here, from murderers, highwaymen and ladies of the night to gossiping pedlars and hard-working clerks. So sit back and watch as buildings rise and fall over the centuries, and "the beer drinker's Bill Bryson" (TLS) takes us on an entertaining tour through six centuries of history, through the stories of everyone that ever drank in one pub.

Author : Pete Brown
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250033888
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Pub written by Pete Brown and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain under the title Shakespeare's local by Macmillan"--T.p. verso.

Author : Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226306682
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Freedom written by Stephen Greenblatt and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes—of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Stephen Greenblatt, author of the best-selling Will in the World, shows that Shakespeare was strikingly averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Again and again, Shakespeare confounds the designs and pretensions of kings, generals, and churchmen. His aversion to absolutes even leads him to probe the exalted and seemingly limitless passions of his lovers. Greenblatt explores this rich theme by addressing four of Shakespeare’s preoccupations across all the genres in which he worked. He first considers the idea of beauty in Shakespeare’s works, specifically his challenge to the cult of featureless perfection and his interest in distinguishing marks. He then turns to Shakespeare’s interest in murderous hatred, most famously embodied in Shylock but seen also in the character Bernardine in Measure for Measure. Next Greenblatt considers the idea of Shakespearean authority—that is, Shakespeare’s deep sense of the ethical ambiguity of power, including his own. Ultimately, Greenblatt takes up Shakespearean autonomy, in particular the freedom of artists, guided by distinctive forms of perception, to live by their own laws and to claim that their creations are singularly unconstrained. A book that could only have been written by Stephen Greenblatt, Shakespeare’s Freedom is a wholly original and eloquent meditation by the most acclaimed and influential Shakespearean of our time.

Author : Allardyce Nicoll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521523547
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare Survey written by Allardyce Nicoll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-11-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first fifty volumes of this yearbook of Shakespeare studies are being reissued in paperback.

Author : R. E Pritchard
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750952822
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's England written by R. E Pritchard and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of the best, wittiest and most unusual excerpts from 16th- and 17th-century writing. "Shakespeare's England" brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a portrait of the age, it includes extracts from a wide variety of writers, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries. These include William Harrison and Fynes Moryson (providing descriptions of England), Nicholas Breton (on country life), Isabella Whitney and Thomas Dekker (on London life), Nashe (on struggling writers), Stubbes (with a Puritan view of Elizabethan enjoyments), Harsnet and Burton (on witches and spirits), John Donne (meditations on prayer and death), King James I (on tobacco) and Shakespeare himself.

Author : Dominic Shellard
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137583169
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Cultural Capital written by Dominic Shellard and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shakespeare is a cultural phenomenon and arguably the most renowned playwright in history. In this edited collection, Shellard and Keenan bring together a collection of essays from international scholars that examine the direct and indirect economic and cultural impact of Shakespeare in the marketplace in the UK and beyond. From the marketing of Shakespeare’s plays on and off stage, to the wider impact of Shakespeare in fields such as education, and the commercial use of Shakespeare as a brand in the advertising and tourist industries, this volume makes an important contribution to our understanding of the Shakespeare industry 400 years after his death. With a foreword from the celebrated cultural economist Bruno Frey and nine essays exploring the cultural and economic impact of Shakespeare in his own day and the present, Shakespeare’s Cultural Capital forms a unique offering to the study of cultural economics and Shakespeare.

Author : Jessica Kerr
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781555662028
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Flowers written by Jessica Kerr and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 1969 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Color illustrations accompany quotations from twenty-four Shakespearean dramas about twenty-seven flowers. Explains what each flower meant in Elizabethan times and Shakespeare's particular use of it in his plays.

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Game written by William Gibson and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1978 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a primer to Shakespeare: not all the plays are discussed in any detail. For the theater department, however, it should be considered indispensable.