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31 produkter
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award 2023
Häftad, 2006
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
176 kr
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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' award in 2023How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he saw and who …
1606
Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
Häftad, 2016
4,5 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (2)
190 kr
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1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear.1606 proved to be an especially grim year …
Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
1599
E-bok, 2009
102 kr
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What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." ( Boston Globe ) 1599 was an epochal year for …
The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry
Av Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro
Inbunden, 1995
1415 kr
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A sweeping compendium of British verse from Old and Middle English to the present, including the best work of poets from every corner of the British Isles, The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive single volume available. Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, …
Shakespeare and the Jews
Häftad, 2016
321 kr
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First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's day. From accounts of Christians masquerading as Jews to fantasies of settling foreign Jews in …
Othello
An American Tragedy
Inbunden, 2027
280 kr
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The story of Othello’s American life, showing that the hero’s tragedy is America’s own—from a best-selling writer and expert scholarWhile Shakespeare’s Othello, with a Black man as its tragic hero, was first staged in 1604, over two hundred years would pass before anyone other than a White actor in …
Oberammergau
The Troubling Story of the World''s Most Famous Passion Play
E-bok, 2007
158 kr
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The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has staged the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ nearly every decade since 1634. Each production of the Passion Play attracts hundreds of thousands, many drawn by the spiritual benefits it promises. Yet Hitler called it a convincing portrayal of the …
Mobile Genetic Elements
E-bok, 2012
696 kr
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Mobile Genetic Elements introduces the nonspecialist to the biology and genetics of mobile elements. It attempts to make the biochemistry of DNA rearrangements more accessible to embryologists and evolutionists, and to illuminate the related developmental cycles to the biochemist. The book also …
Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play
Häftad, 2001
250 kr
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Shakespeare in a Divided America
What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
Häftad, 2021
276 kr
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One of the New York Times 10 Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land. “In this sprightly and enthralling book . . . Shapiro amply demonstrates [that] for …
Contested Will
Who Wrote Shakespeare ?
Häftad, 2011
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
190 kr
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For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays.Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will …
Contested Will
Who Wrote Shakespeare ?
E-bok, 2011
148 kr
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For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will …
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award 2023
E-bok, 2011
145 kr
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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' award in 2023How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what …
1606
William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
E-bok, 2015
115 kr
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1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear. 1606 proved to be an especially grim year …
Shakespeare in a Divided America
Häftad, 2021
151 kr
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A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Excellent.' New Statesman'Outstanding.' Irish Times'Enthralling.' Guardian'Shapiro at his best.' Daily Telegraph From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the history of the United States - and a timely reminder of Shakespeare's indelible influence.Shakespeare's …
Shakespeare in a Divided America
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
E-bok, 2020
148 kr
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2020Shakespeare's position as England's national poet is established and unquestionable.But as James Shapiro illuminates in this revelatory new history, Shakespeare has long held an essential place in American culture. Why, though, would a proudly independent …
Playbook
A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War
Inbunden, 2024
225 kr
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'GRIPPING AND FIERCELY URGENT.' - FINTAN O'TOOLE'FASCINATING, TIMELY, AND DEEPLY RESEARCHED.' - THE SPECTATOR'AN ABSORBING, NECESSARY BOOK.' - AYAD AKHTARFrom the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving …
Playbook
A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War
Häftad, 2025
149 kr
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'Tremendous.' DAVID HARE'An absorbing, necessary book.' AHAD AKHTAR'Fascinating and energising.' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall.In …
The Playbook
A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War
Inbunden, 2024
270 kr
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One of The Smithsonian 's Ten Best History Books of the Year A brilliant and daring account of a culture war over the place of theater in American democracy in the 1930s, one that anticipates our current divide, by the acclaimed Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro From 1935 to 1939, the Federal …
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Häftad, 2011
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
274 kr
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Contested Will
Who Wrote Shakespeare?
E-bok, 2010
199 kr
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In this remarkable book, Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America , explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays. For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare’s death, no one doubted that he had written …
Year of Lear
Shakespeare in 1606
E-bok, 2015
80 kr
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Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America , shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year— King Lear , Macbeth , and Antony and Cleopatra. “ The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of …
Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now (LOA #251)
Library of America #251
Av James Shapiro, Various
E-bok, 2014
401 kr
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“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, …
