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| ANGLES ON THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD, VOLUME 5 : Charting Shakespearean Waters -- Text & Theatre [Niels B Hansen & Sos Haugaard] This volume contains 11 new papers on Shakespeare written by members of the Department of English at the University of Copenhagen and other Danish universities plus a few international Shakespeare scholars. They fit into an overall theme and are included because they are about Shakespeare -- as text, as theatre, in his age, and through the ages. Beside showing many different ways of thinking and writing about Shakespeare, the eleven articles fall into a pattern if read together in the order they are printed. The papers are varied and wide-ranging: contemporary contexts, tradition, language and style, performance, translation and modern appropriation. { 164pp, 155x230mm, April 2005; PB, £14.00, 8763502615:9788763502610 , Museum Tusculanum Press } |
| FRANCIS BACON TUDOR EQUALS WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [Andrew Stevens Peck] 'The Shakespeare Controversy', otherwise known as 'Who Wrote Shakespeare?', has been a literary problem for generations. Countless attempts have been made to show that someone other than Shakespeare, or some group of people, wrote the Plays and The Sonnets. Peck's method of solving this problem was to look for cipher (secret writing) that might reveal the real author. Rather than searching the thousands of lines of The Plays and The Sonnets for ciphers, he singled out the odd original epitaph on Shakespeare's tombstone as a possible source of a concealed message. The peculiarities of the inscription had coaxed others before him to grapple with its strange context. In this exciting book, the author has demonstrated the importance of mathematical probability in support of ciphers. The math is simplified by interesting explanations. With the ciphers, he then answers the question of authorship while tying Sir Francis Bacon to the Tudor family. { 65pp, 150x225mm, July 2001; PB, £16.99, 1560727349:9781560727347 , Nova Science Publishers } |
| HAMLET : A Prose Translation [Paul Illidge] Shakespeare's major plays are not abridged or summarised in these editions, but are paraphrased line-by-line in modern English to create a prose narrative that also incorporates stage directions and dialogue. The flavour of the original is retained by the use of iambic pentameter and rhyme, but higher flights of symbolism and poetic allusion are omitted and Elizabethan usage is stripped away altogether. Making the plays unfold as if they were novels, the books in this series are carried along by the intensity of Shakespeare's page-turning plots and the rich development of character, mood, and setting. { 128pp, 155x230mm, June 2006; PB, £7.99, 0968634737:9780968634738 , IPG (Creber Monde Entier) } |
| KING LEAR : A Novel [Paul Illidge] Shakespeare's major plays are not abridged or summarised in these editions, but are paraphrased line-by-line in modern English to create a prose narrative that also incorporates stage directions and dialogue. The flavour of the original is retained by the use of iambic pentameter and rhyme, but higher flights of symbolism and poetic allusion are omitted and Elizabethan usage is stripped away altogether. Making the plays unfold as if they were novels, the books in this series are carried along by the intensity of Shakespeare's page-turning plots and the rich development of character, mood, and setting. { 138pp, 155x230mm, August 2006; PB, £7.99, 0968634761:9780968634769 , IPG (Creber Monde Entier) } |
| MACBETH : A Prose Translation [Paul Illidge] Shakespeare's major plays are not abridged or summarised in these editions, but are paraphrased line-by-line in modern English to create a prose narrative that also incorporates stage directions and dialogue. The flavour of the original is retained by the use of iambic pentameter and rhyme, but higher flights of symbolism and poetic allusion are omitted and Elizabethan usage is stripped away altogether. Making the plays unfold as if they were novels, the books in this series are carried along by the intensity of Shakespeare's page-turning plots and the rich development of character, mood, and setting. { 128pp, August 2006; PB, £6.99, 0968634729:9780968634721 , IPG (Creber Monde Entier) } |
| MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM : A Prose Translation [Paul Illidge] Shakespeare's major plays are not abridged or summarised in these editions, but are paraphrased line-by-line in modern English to create a prose narrative that also incorporates stage directions and dialogue. The flavour of the original is retained by the use of iambic pentameter and rhyme, but higher flights of symbolism and poetic allusion are omitted and Elizabethan usage is stripped away altogether. Making the plays unfold as if they were novels, the books in this series are carried along by the intensity of Shakespeare's page-turning plots and the rich development of character, mood, and setting. { 80pp, 150x230mm, August 2006; PB, £7.50, 0968634753:9780968634752 , IPG (Creber Monde Entier) } |
| OPHELIA THINKS HARDER [J Betts & W Shakespeare] These 19 characters can be played with a minimum of 9 actors doubling, if preferred. A riotous reworking of Shakespeare“s Hamlet. Featuring Ophelia, her maid, St Joan and a couple of locals -- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. (7 male, 12 female). { 73pp, 140x215mm, January 1994; PB, £8.00, 0958339325:9780958339322 , Play Press } |
| OTHELLO : A Prose Translation [Paul Illidge] Shakespeare's major plays are not abridged or summarised in these editions, but are paraphrased line-by-line in modern English to create a prose narrative that also incorporates stage directions and dialogue. The flavour of the original is retained by the use of iambic pentameter and rhyme, but higher flights of symbolism and poetic allusion are omitted and Elizabethan usage is stripped away altogether. Making the plays unfold as if they were novels, the books in this series are carried along by the intensity of Shakespeare's page-turning plots and the rich development of character, mood, and setting. { 134pp, 155x230mm, August 2006; PB, £7.99, 096863477X:9780968634776 , IPG (Creber Monde Entier) } |
| OTHELLO'S SACRIFICE : Essays on Shakespeare & Romantic Tradition [John O'Meara] In these essays, John O'Meara re-assesses both the tragic limitations and inherent promise of Romantic tradition in the interpretation of Shakespeare. The philosophical theory of Rudolf Steiner, the founder of Anthroposophy, is brought forward as consummating that tradition. Building on concepts which Anthroposophy supplies O'Meara proceeds to a fresh reading of Shakespeare's work. A wide range of plays is covered from Richard II to The Tempest, with special focus on Othello and King Lear. The endings of these plays, O'Meara sees as pivotal to Shakespeare's evolution into a final phase prophetic of the Romantic experience to come which Steiner fulfils. { 125pp, 115x190mm, August 1996; PB, £7.50, 1550710400:9781550710403 , Guernica Editions } |
| ROMEO & JULIET : A Prose Translation [Paul Illidge] Shakespeare's major plays are not abridged or summarised in these editions, but are paraphrased line-by-line in modern English to create a prose narrative that also incorporates stage directions and dialogue. Inspired by Goethe's idea that Shakespeare's great plays should be read the way novels are read -- for their essence is located within the human mind, not on the auditorium stage -- this series removes the Elizabethan usage and poetic dressing in order to make the plays unfold as if they were novels, carried along by the intensity of Shakespeare's page-turning plots and the rich development of character, mood, and setting { 92pp, 155x230mm, June 2006; PB, £6.99, 0968634710:9780968634714 , IPG (Creber Monde Entier) } |
| ROMEO & JULIET [Adolph Caso, BA, MA (ed)] Adolph Caso reprints the first short stories and novellas written by Italian authors as a basis for Shakespeare supreme work. By reading these stories, the reader can better appreciate the evolvement and the adaptation of Shakespeare's ultimate masterpiece. { 208pp, 155x230mm, April 2008; PB, £12.99, 0937832421:9780937832424 , Branden Publishing Co. } |
| SCREEN SHAKESPEARE [Michael Skovmand (ed)] This issue 24 of Aarhus University Press's arts and humanities journal, "The Dolphin", offers a collection of academic essays on Shakespearean films, with nine contributions by Scandinavian and American scholars. The contributors are Susanne Fabricius, Ib Johansen, Bernice W. Kilman, Michael Mullin, Per Serritslev Petersen, Claus Schatz-Jacobsen, William E. Sheidley, Steven Shelburne and Michael Skovmand. { 148pp, March 1994; PB, £11.25, 8772883758:9788772883755 , Aarhus University Press } |
| SHAKESPEARE'S LADIES [Dick Dotterer (ed)] A valuable collection of speeches for women edited from the works of William Shakespeare. A companion book to Mr. Dotterer's "Shakespeare's Monologues for Women". With a detailed, informative introduction. { 64pp, 140x215mm, November 1992; PB, £6.99, 0940669196:9780940669192 , Dramaline Publications } |
| SHAKESPEARE'S USE OF THE ARTS OF LANGUAGE [Sister Miriam Joseph] Grammar-school students in Shakespeare's time were taught to recognise the two hundred figures of speech that Renaissance scholars had derived from Latin and Greek sources (from amphibologia through onomatopoeia to zeugma). This knowledge was one element in their thorough grounding in the liberal arts of logic, grammar, and rhetoric, known as the trivium. In Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language Sister Miriam Joseph writes: "The extraordinary power, vitality, and richness of Shakespeare's language are due in part to his genius, in part to the fact that the unsettled linguistic forms of his age promoted to an unusual degree the spirit of creativeness, and in part to the theory of composition then prevailing . . . The purpose of this study is to present to the modern reader the general theory of composition current in Shakespeare's England." The author then lays out those figures of speech in simple, understandable patterns and explains each one with examples from Shakespeare. Her analysis of his plays and poems illustrates that the Bard knew more about rhetoric than perhaps anyone else. Originally published in 1947, this book is a classic. { 200pp, 155x230mm, September 2008; PB, £18.99, 158988048X:9781589880481 , Paul Dry Books } |
| TWELFTH NIGHT : A Prose Translation [Paul Illidge] Shakespeare's major plays are not abridged or summarised in these editions, but are paraphrased line-by-line in modern English to create a prose narrative that also incorporates stage directions and dialogue. The flavour of the original is retained by the use of iambic pentameter and rhyme, but higher flights of symbolism and poetic allusion are omitted and Elizabethan usage is stripped away altogether. Making the plays unfold as if they were novels, the books in this series are carried along by the intensity of Shakespeare's page-turning plots and the rich development of character, mood, and setting. { 102pp, 155x230mm, August 2006; PB, £7.50, 0968634745:9780968634745 , IPG (Creber Monde Entier) } |
| UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE : Shakespeare for Young People [William Shakespeare] For ages 9-12. The purpose of the collection is to instil the enjoyment of the poetry for its own sake, unchanged from Shakespeare's working and without reference to play plots or sonnet sequence. Accompanied by glorious full colour paintings. { 79pp, 215x278mm, October 1986; HB, £14.99, 0880450282:9780880450287 / PB, £9.99, 0880450290:9780880450294 , Pathway Book Service (Stemmer House) } |
| WALKING WITH WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE [Anne-Marie Edwards] Walk with William Shakespeare through his world, enjoying his plays, poetry and scenes from his life. Visit his home in Stratford and walk in the surrounding countryside he knew and loved. Roam the Cotswold hills where he probably taught school, and discover how he learned courtly ways as we visit the Earl of Southampton's mansion near Titchfield in Hampshire. Explore London, the scene of his greatest triumphs. Maps and full directions for the walks are included along with fascinating forays into Shakespeare's life for the armchair traveller! REVIEW: "This guide is not too topographical, nor too literary nor too historical, but a nicely balanced tripod of them all. It calls up your warmest, perhaps sometimes most moving, recollections of the Works and...the places. It is a businesslike work, and that is why it works so well." -- Stratford Herald, May 2005. { 224pp, 140x215mm, April 2005; PB, £10.50, 0976353903:9780976353904 , IPG (Jones Books) } |