The Story Of English Kings According To Shakespeare Classic Reprint

Author : J. J. Burns
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780365268383
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of English Kings, According to Shakespeare (Classic Reprint) written by J. J. Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-22 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of English Kings, According to Shakespeare IT is the aim of the writer to put into one handy volume a goodly portion of Shakespeare's English history. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Thomas Carter
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330511176
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Stories of the English Kings (Classic Reprint) written by Thomas Carter and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-30 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare's Stories of the English Kings It is inevitable, in retelling the stories of Shakespeare's English Kings, that we should recall the names of Charles and Mary Lamb. These gifted authors are associated immortally with Shakespeare, and their Tales must remain a classic for youthful readers, to whom a simple prose rendering is of great value as an introduction to the genius of our greatest poet. The Histories, however, were not included in the Tales, hence there is opportunity for an endeavour to provide a prose version of this attractive section of the great plays. Beginning with the period before the Roman invader came to our shores, and passing through the times of Plantagenet and Tudor to the opening days of Elizabeth, Shakespeare has presented in his wonderful series an almost complete view of the great figures of English history, indicating with a sure touch the movements, crises, and turning-points of our national development. The canvas is a crowded one, but there is no superfluous figure, and from the king to the peasant he holds the mirror of genius up to Nature and reflects life. The inner significance has been well indicated by Walter Pater. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : J. J. Burns
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330076927
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of English Kings, According to Shakespeare written by J. J. Burns and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Story of English Kings, According to Shakespeare A little sketch leads up to the story of the second Richard; a glance at his famed ancestor, the Black Prince, in the act of winning his spurs; a look toward the English people of those days as they appeared to the clear vision of Chaucer, of the author of Piers the Plowman, of that rare old chronicler Sir John Froissart. Thereafter each story is a prelude to the one that follows; as, for instance, in telling the tale of Richard II much more than a beginning is made upon that of his successor. At the opening of each story there is a looking back to get the leading string well in hand. The world believes Shakespeare is its greatest dramatist, and, as possessing the profoundest insight, its best teacher of the science of human nature. If teaching by example is history, he is also one of the ablest of historians. These English plays, at least so much of them as are contained in this book, may well be a part of any coarse of general reading. Its perusal by the young, at odd times and at even times, regularly and as a "stop-gap," will hold open the doors into two great empires of thought - English history and Shakespeare. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Peter Saccio
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019988076X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's English Kings written by Peter Saccio and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to the Richards, Edwards, Henrys, Warwicks and Norfolks who ruled and fought across Shakespeare's page and stage. Not only theater-goers and students, but today's film-goers who want to enrich their understanding of film adaptations of plays such as Richard III and Henry V will find this revised edition of Shakespeare's English Kings to be an essential companion. Saccio's engaging narrative weaves together three threads: medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material, that history as understood by modern scholars, and the action of the plays themselves. Including a new preface, a revised further reading list, genealogical charts, an appendix of names and titles, and an index, the second edition of Shakespeare's English Kings offers excellent background reading for all of the ten history plays.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780282302283
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plays of Shakespeare written by William Shakespeare and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-16 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Plays of Shakespeare: King Henry Vi, Second PartShakespeare was not the only dramatist in Eliza beth's reign who could write vigorous lines of dramatic poetry: It does not at all follow that in an Old play to which Shakespeare may have contributed, all the best lines were of his writing. It was not by the mere writing of good verses that Shakespeare grew to be the master-poet of the world; and when he revised these plays on the most desolating Of our English civil wars, he had not reached the fulness of his power. He was simply helping to lay stress upon the miseries of civil war, at a time when many Englishmen began to dread that there might be civil war again, arising out of rival claims to the throne after the death Of Queen Elizabeth.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Alice I. Perry Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330547281
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third (Classic Reprint) written by Alice I. Perry Wood and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Stage History of Shakespeare's King Richard the Third In the following pages it is my purpose to trace the fortune upon the stage of one of the most popular of Shakespeare's plays, "The Tragedy of King Richard the Third." In such a history, the consideration of the play as literature must be entirely subordinated to the exhibition of its capacity for stage effectiveness, and its success, deserved or not, with the public. For this reason, discussions of text, date and authorship, are deemed out of the province of this enquiry. While the materials for such a study, especially in the earlier history of the, play, are scant, it has been my aim to give such records of performances as are extant, with the conditions of staging, the use of scenery, properties, and costume, the methods of actors, especially of those who have taken the principal part, and the attitude of the audience in successive periods and under varying conditions. Since there is little direct information concerning the play during the Elizabethan period, I have attempted to supply this lack in some measure, by an examination of the typical plays of the time, with a view to discovering the stage conditions which affected the original presentation. Having established the prevailing methods of staging by careful reference to the directions in contemporary plays, and by noting the favorite devices, and the management of situations similar to those occurring in this play, I have thought it possible, by a comparative method, to reconstruct the presentation of "Richard the Third" in Shakespeare's time. The work naturally falls into well-marked divisions. First, the history of the play from its earliest performance to the closing of the theatres. The next period extends from the opening of the theatres to 1700, a time of general rather than particular importance to our subject. With the beginning of the eighteenth century, the Gibber version of "Richard the Third," the best known of all the adaptations of Shakespeare, appeared, and this constitutes the main feature of the history of the play during the century. Garrick initiates a new era-4 in the history of acting in the mid-eighteenth century and I have therefore made his age the beginning of a fourth period. This extends through the career of Sir Henry Irving. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : William Lowes Rushton
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260774859
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare and the Arte of English Poesie (Classic Reprint) written by William Lowes Rushton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Shakespeare and the Arte of English Poesie Chorus. Linger your patience on; and well digest Th' abuse of distance, while we force a play. The sum is paid; the traitors are agreed; The king is set from London; and the scene IS now transported, gentles, to Southampton. King Henry V., Act ii. Prologue. The Chorus, after wresting the word digest from his own right signification, uses the words abuse and transported. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : J. Rawson Lumby
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780332028972
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book More's History of King Richard III (Classic Reprint) written by J. Rawson Lumby and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from More's History of King Richard III The text here printed, from p. I to p. 91, is from the folio edition of Sir Thomas More's Works, London, 1557. The continuation is from the edition of Hardyng's Ckrom'c/e, printed by Richard Grafton, 1543, while the additions given in the notes, from Hal/6's Cfimm'c/e, are taken from The Unyon of the twoo noble and illustre famelies of Lancastre and Yorke, ' printed also by Grafton in 1550. Thus the language of the volume is all of one period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : Scribner Book Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Kings written by John Julius Norwich and published by Scribner Book Company. This book was released on 1999 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compares the historical kings with their portrayal in Shakespeare's plays.

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781528468800
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third Part of Henry the Sixth (Classic Reprint) written by William Shakespeare and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Third Part of Henry the Sixth War. Neither the king, nor he that loves him best, The proudest he that holds up Lancaster, Dares stir a wing if Warwick shake his bells. I'll plant Plantagenet, root him up who dares. Resolve thee, Richard; Claim the English crown. [warwick leads York to the throne, who seats himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.