Litteraturvetenskap: dramatik & dramatiker

Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare about a regicide and its aftermath. It is Shakespeare's shortest tragedy and is believed to have been written sometime between 1603 and 1606. This is a classic audiobook recording read by Sir Anthony Qua...

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Another in the great Caedmon Shakespeare series from the 1960s. Though classified as a comedy in the First Folio and sharing certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the play is perhaps most remembered for its dramatic scenes, a...

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A short life of Dickens which celebrates the impact of the theatre on his life and workAcclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow captures the essence of Charles Dickens in a sparkling biography that explores the central importance of the theatre to ...

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Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.In a writing career that spanned over twenty years during the explosion of poetic and theatrical creativity of late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods, William Shakespeare produced a body o...

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'Enlightening, moving' SIR IAN MCKELLENFrom the acclaimed and bestselling biographer Jonathan Bate, a luminous new exploration of Shakespeare and how his themes can untangle comedy and tragedy, learning and loving in our modern lives.'The web of o...

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'A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed'FINANCIAL TIMES'This is Shakespearean scholarship at its best, brilliantly researched yet compulsively readable. It's a book for our tim...

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?Quiara Hudes is in her own league. Her sentences will take your breath away. How lucky we are to have her telling our stories.? ? Lin-Manuel MirandaFrom the Pulitzer-prize winning playwright behind IN THE HEIGHTS comes a spellbinding coming-of-ag...

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A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts.

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He after honor hunts, I after love. He leaves his friends to dignify them more, I leave myself, my friends and all, for love.  Proteus - Act I, Scene I A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in four acts.

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When a young woman is offered the choice ofsaving a man''s life at the price of her own chastity,what should she do? The political and moral corruption of Vienna has driven Duke Vincentio into hiding while his deputy governor, Angelo is left to re...

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We came into the world like brother and brother; And now let''s go hand in hand, not one before another. - Dromio of Ephesus The Comedy of Errors is likely the very first play Shakespeare ever wrote, and for that reason alone it deserves a special...

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Kiss me, Kate, we will be married o''Sunday - Petruchio A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts.

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A classic performance of one of the Bard''s classics. Raised to the heights of power in recognition of his bravery against the Volscian army, Caius Marcius Coriolanus, finds himself betrayed by Brutus and Sicinius. Exiled from Rome and seeking ven...

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A pair of star-cross''d lovers   - Prologue Romeo and Juliet was Shakespeare''s first great tragedy, a richly lyrical love story that has long been one of the author''s most popular plays for performer and audience alike. Romeo and Julie...

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I am a man more sinned against than sinning. A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts.

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A Shakespeare Society Production. The complete play in five acts. Desperately in love with Bertram, the son of a Spanish countess, Helena schemes with the virginal Diana to fulfill Bertram?s stipulations and win his love. As Bertram?s infidel...

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A Shakespeare Society Production. In ancient Britain during the reign of King Cymbeline, Imogen, daughter to the king, dares to fall in love with a talented young nobleman named Posthumus. But when the king discovers that the couple has secretly m...

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This new edition of Shakespeare''s Love''s Labour''s Lost presents a highly readable text of the play based on the first quarto of 1598. A thorough but concise critical commentary and a comprehensive introduction illuminate the significant element...

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This updated edition offers a strongly theatrical perspective on the origins of Shakespeare''s The First Part of King Henry IV and the history of its interpretation. The introduction clarifies the play''s surprising, de-centred dramatic structure,...

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Richard the Second is a poet?s play, full of great speeches and fine writing rather than subtle character drawing and keen insight. Performed by Sir John Gielgud, Jeremy Brett, and a Full Cast.

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This is the perfect study guide to the complete works of Shakespeare, covering everything from the romantic comedy of Romeo and Juliet to the tragedy Macbeth, alongside his Elizabethan history plays, sonnets, and other poems.With detailed plot sum...

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What was life like for Shakespeare's first audiences? In a time of political and religious unrest and economic expansion, how did Elizabethan play-goers make sense of their changing world? What did the plays mean to the public when they were first...

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The CliffsNotes study guide on Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1st Edition supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, critical commentaries, expanded glossaries, and a comprehens...

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Need to swot up on your Shakespeare? If you've always felt a bit embarrassed at your precarious grasp on the plot of Othello, or you haven't a clue what a petard - as in 'hoist with his own petard' - actually is, then fear not, because this, at la...

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Andrew Dickson's startlingly original and joyously entertaining Worlds Elsewhere traverses centuries and continents to reveal Shakespeare and his works in a fantastic array of new guises... 'Extraordinarily exhilarating ... like no other Shakespea...

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Random House presents the audiobook edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Retold by William Shakespeare and James Anthony, with a foreword by Stephen Fry. Read by Stephen Fry, Paapa Essiedu and the author. 'James Anthony has done something I would hav...

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Classic memoirs from the acclaimed English actor, author, playwright, and screenwriter Alan Bennett is one of the country''s most celebrated and best-loved authors. This unmissable collection of diaries and memoirs brings together for the first ti...

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The complete collected edition of the award-winning writer''s unforgettable Untold Stories Over the course of his distinguished entertainment career, Alan Bennett has received multiple awards and honours, including two BAFTAs, four Laurence Olivie...

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This CliffsNotes study guide on Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentaries, expanded...

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This CliffsNotes study guide on William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream supplements the original literary work, giving you background information about the author, an introduction to the work, a graphical character map, critical commentarie...

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