Displaying the top 100 results that match your query. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/rssapi.jsp?Ne=6664&N=3+4004+4294945896 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1685477 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671795 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1127554 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1671794 Contains Shakespeares play involving young Athenian lovers, a boisterous group of local tradesmen, and the monarchs and subjects of the fairy kingdom; and includes textual notes, scene-by-scene analyses, an introduction to Shakespeares theater career, and a chronology of Shakespeares works. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627097 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=649079 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=634966 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=627095 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561122 From the hilarious mischief of Puck to the rough humor of the self-centered Bottom and his fellow players, from the palace of Theseus in Athens to the magic wood where fairies play, Shakespeares lyrical A Midsummer Nights Dream is a play of enchantment and an insightful portrait of the predicaments of love. Now the most extensively annotated edition of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century and a resource for students, teachers, and the general reader. Burton Raffels on-page annotations offer help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. In his introduction, he explores the complexities of A Midsummer Nights Dream. And in a concluding essay, Harold Bloom examines the plays extraordinary melange of characters.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=594893 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=1174999 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=561117 Perhaps no other Shakespearean drama so engulfs its readers in the ruinous journey to evil as does Macbeth. A timeless tragedy about the nature of ambition, conscience, and the human heart, the play holds a profound grip on the Western imagination. Now the most extensively annotated edition of the play to date makes it completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century and a resource for students, teachers, and the general reader. Burton Raffels on-page annotations offer generous help with vocabulary and usage of Elizabethan English, pronunciation, prosody, and alternative readings of phrases and lines. And in his introduction he provides religious and social contexts that increase the readers understanding of the play. In a concluding essay, Harold Bloom argues that Macbeth is the playwrights most internalized drama.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=620910 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=550836 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=550838 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=550840 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=487699 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=484403 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=439102 The classic one-volume Shakespeare compendium, including all the plays and poems of the Bard, is now completely revised and updated. Full linen case. Ribbon marker. Illustrations throughout. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=447202 Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry IV Part 1 and shows how these complicate any easy sense of what kind of play it is. Conventionally regarded as a history play, much of it is in fact conspicuously invented fiction, and Kastan argues that the non-historical, comic plot does not simply parody the historical action but by its existence raises questions about the very nature of history. He discusses the politics of the play in terms of the vital political concerns of Shakespeares England but shows how the drama speaks equally clearly to our own worlds troubled efforts to reconcile political stability and social diversity. Inevitably, how we view the plays politics depends on how much we allow Falstaff, an anarchic comic presence in a focused political world, to undermine the historical drive to unity and order. Kastan argues persuasively that the play addresses family relations as well as political alliances, fathers and sons as well as kingship and rebellion. The introduction devotes extensive discussion to the plays language, indicating how its insistent economic vocabulary provides texture for the social concerns of the play and focuses attention on the central relationship between value and political authority. Kastan demonstrates that, just as Hal uses the idiom of the balance sheet to express his political intelligence, so the commercialization of heroic action by the language of the play contributes to its demystification of politics. Similarly, the evidence that Falstaff was originally given the name of the proto-Protestant martyr Oldcastle is linked both with the characters extensive use of biblical rhetoric and with late sixteenth-century religious practice, serving both to enrich and to complicate our understanding of his disruptive role in the play. In line with standard Arden practice, the introduction offers a full discussion of the plays critical reception and performance history, revealing how vitally the play has continued to live as a favourite of audiences and readers. The text is based on the two earliest printings of the play, the complete 1598 Quarto, Q1, and the earlier edition of that year, which survives only in the fragment known as Q0 and which is reproduced in facsimile in an appendix. The edition does, however, also take full account of the First Folios variant readings. The issues and implications of editorial choice and the issues involved in the texts modernization are fully explored in the introduction and illustrated by a facsimile page of Q1.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=400095 With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century. Each volume features: -- Authoritative, reliable texts-- High quality introductions and notes-- New, more readable trade trim size-- An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeares life and the selection of texts http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=474335 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511985 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=394987 With new editors who have incorporated the most up-to-date scholarship, this revised Pelican Shakespeare series will be the premiere choice for students, professors, and general readers well into the twenty-first century. Each volume features: -- Authoritative, reliable texts-- High quality introductions and notes-- New, more readable trade trim size-- An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeares life and the selection of texts http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=409581 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=334588 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=402786 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=331547 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=539891 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=474334 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=430114 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=433394 Brutus, best friend of the Roman ruler Caesar, reluctantly joins a successful plot to murder Caesar and subsequently destroys himself. Includes notes and an introduction. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=425808 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=402785 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=323390 This edition of one of Shakespeares most popular and attractive plays adopts a radically new approach to the text. It offers modernized texts not only of the 1599 good quarto, but also of the short, or bad quarto of 1597, regarding each as an independent witness to a mobile text which changed in composition as Shakespeare wrote it. The longer and more familiar text, first printed in 1599, is presented along with a detailed explanatory commentary sensitive to both literary and theatrical issues. The earlier, shorter text is annotated only where it differs significantly from the later. In addition to considering issues of performance, the introduction traces the Romeo and Juliet narrative from its origins in myth through its adaptation in the novella, a form which changed the story in subtle ways as it crossed national boundaries from Italy to France to England. It shows how Shakespeares transmutation of the story reflects contemporary concerns with love, death, adolescence, and patriarchism, and illuminates his artistic experimentations with poetry, style, rhetoric, and dramatic form.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=326432 The general editors of the new series of forty-two volumes -- renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA -- have assembled a team of six eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeares plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original -- and including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used -- the new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals well into the twenty-first century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=425807 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=326796 In the new Pelican Shakespeare series, each title is redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original, including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=334584 The general editors of the new series of forty-two volumes -- renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA -- have assembled a team of six eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeares plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original - -and including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used -- the new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals well into the twenty-first century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=334587 The Winters Tale is Shakespeares most perfectly realized tragi-comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, throughout, for the richness and complexity of its poetry. It concludes, moreover, with the most daring and moving reconciliation scene in all Shakespeares plays. Though the title may suggest an escapist fantasy, recent criticism has seen in the play a profoundly realist psychology and a powerful commentary on the violence implicit in family relationships and deep, long-lasting friendships. Stephen Orgels edition considers the play in relation to Renaissance conceptions of both dramatic genre and the family, traces the changing critical and theatrical attitudes towards it, and places its psychological and dramatic conflicts within the Jacobean cultural and political context. The commentary pays special attention to the plays linguistic complexity, and the edition also includes a complete reprint of Shakespeares source, Pandosto, by Robert Greene.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=688111 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=328789 The general editors of the new series of forty-two volumes -- renowned Shakespeareans Stephen Orgel of Stanford University and A. R. Braunmuller of UCLA -- have assembled a team of six eminent scholars who have, along with the general editors themselves, prepared new introductions and notes to all of Shakespeares plays and poems. Redesigned in an easy-to-read format that preserves the favorite features of the original -- and including an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, an introduction to the individual play, and a note on the text used -- the new Pelican Shakespeare will be an excellent resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals well into the twenty-first century. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=327357 A wide-ranging selection from the most recent criticism of Antony and Cleopatra, beginning with seminal work from the 1950s onwards and culminating in a series of radical reappraisals of the plays content, form and appeal to modern readers. The essays, together with a substantial Introduction, offer a controversial, lively re-reading of one of Shakespeares major tragedies.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=290678 This edition of Shakespeares A Midsummer Nights Dream allows a variety of approaches to Shakespeare, including historical, feminist, and cultural studies. Shakespeares text is accompanied by an intriguing collection of thematically arranged historical and cultural documents and illustrations, including excerpts from such sources as letters, conduct books, legal documents, and literary works that illuminate the themes of the play. The editors intelligent and engaging introductions to the play and to the documents (which are presented in modern spelling with annotations) offer a richly textured understanding of early modern culture and of Shakespeares work within that culture.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=333193 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=283520 Everything old is new again. Rarely has there been as much excitement surrounding Shakespeare as the attention focused last year on the official opening of the London Globe Theatre by Queen Elizabeth II. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=169687 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511347 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511364 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=159013 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=285957 William Shakespeares As You Like It provides face to face text and notes, a chronology of Skakespeares life and times, text derived from the earliest printings, often preserving puns and wordplay otherwise lost, and up-to-date commentary on the structure, atmosphere and content of the play and on its sources and influences. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511363 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=265443 The greatest works of comedy from the Bard, this book features The Taming ofthe Shrew, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night and The Tempest. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=282397 Newly revised, this edition of Hamlet features an extensive overview of Shakespeares life and world; an editors introduction; a note on the sources; dramatic criticism from the past and present; a comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors and productions; and more. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=511361 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=170272 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=259890 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=261218 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=60574 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=229249 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=249764 Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeares life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. This book contains information on the source from which Shakespeare derived Othello--selections from Giraldi Cinthios Hecatommithi. Special introduction by Alvin Kernan, Princeton University. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=126781 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=249759 Great pains have been taken to follow Shakespeares intentions with regard to the act and scene division and the exact form of speech. The editing has been done from the quarto or folio texts, depending on which considered more authoritative, and the ideal has been to reproduce the chosen texts with as few alterations as possible. In order to help the reader and student, the annotations have been arranged on the relevant pages, providing an easily accessible and indispensable source of information. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=217308 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=299024 This Modern Library edition presents all ten histories---each complete and unabridged---in the Shakespearean canon, along with notes and glossary. Here are: King John, Richard II, Henry IV Parts I & II, Henry V, Henry VI Parts I & II & III, Richard III, and Henry VIII. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=323957 Every man finds his mind more strongly seized by the tragedies of Shakespeare than of any other writer. -Samuel Johnson http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=101522 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=126816 Shakespeares superb narrative poems and sonnets give us the most direct connection we possess to the movements of reflection and emotion in our greatest writer. In themselves, they are essential to our legacy as thinking and feeling people; as products of Shakespeares mind, they provide endlessly illuminating evidence about the person who occupies the center of our literary civilization. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=249760 Great pains have been taken to follow Shakespeares intentions with regard to the act and scene division and the exact form of speech. The editing has been done from the quarto or folio texts, depending on which is considered more authoritative, and the ideal has been to reproduce the chosen texts with as few alterations as possible. In order to help the reader and student, the annotations have been arranged on the relevant pages, providing an easily accessible and indispensable source of information. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=394989 Contains Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=103252 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=233390 This edition of Much Ado About Nothing, one of Shakespeares most delightful and theatrically successful comedies, offers, along with a freshly edited text, an exceptionally helpful and critically aware Introduction and commentary. Paying particular attention in his Introduction to analysis of the plays minor characters, Sheldon P. Zitner discusses Shakespeares social transformation of his source material, rethinking the attitudes to gender relations that underlie the comedy and determine its ruefully optimistic view of marriage. Interpretations are advanced less because they are arguable than because they are actable. Allowing for the plays openness to re-interpretation by successive generations of readers and performers, the editor provides a socially analytic stage history. Full notes and commentary continue previous editors work of clarifying textual and performance problems of interest to both readers and actors.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=238740 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=240334 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=168132 As You Like It, Shakespeares most lighthearted comedy and one of the best-loved and most performed of all his plays, was probably written in 1599 or 1600, though it was not printed until the First Folio of 1623. As its witty heroine is Shakespeares longest female role, the plays performance history is marked by notable Rosalinds, from Hannah Pritchard and Margaret Woffington (giving rival performances in 1741), to Helen Faucit, Ada Rehan, Peggy Ashcroft, Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Ronald Pickup (in an all-male production of 1967), Juliet Stevenson, and many others. In his introduction to this new edition Alan Brissenden suggests reasons for its delayed publication and discusses in detail how productions have changed radically over the years. Shakespeares use of his sources, his handling of the themes of love, doubleness, and pastoral are also dealt with, as well as the significance of boys playing womens parts on the Elizabethan stage. Detailed annotations explain allusions, puns, and difficult passages, enabling student, reader, actor, and director to savour the humour and the seriousness of the play to the full. There are illustrations, and appendices on wit and the songs, for which the earliest known music is printed.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=249783 Unique features include an extensive overview of Shakespeares life, world, and theater by the general editor of Signet Classic Shakespeare series, plus a special introduction to the play by the editor Sylvan Barnet, Tufts University. It also contains comprehensive stage and screen history of notable actors, directors, and productions of Macbeth, then and now. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=233394 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=168128 As You Like It, Shakespeares most lighthearted comedy and one of the best-loved and most performed of all his plays, was probably written in 1599 or 1600, though it was not printed until the First Folio of 1623. As its witty heroine is Shakespeares longest female role, the plays performance history is marked by notable Rosalinds, from Hannah Pritchard and Margaret Woffington (giving rival performances in 1741), to Helen Faucit, Ada Rehan, Peggy Ashcroft, Katharine Hepburn, Vanessa Redgrave, Ronald Pickup (in an all-male production of 1967), Juliet Stevenson, and many others. In his introduction to this new edition Alan Brissenden suggests reasons for its delayed publication and discusses in detail how productions have changed radically over the years. Shakespeares use of his sources, his handling of the themes of love, doubleness, and pastoral are also dealt with, as well as the significance of boys playing womens parts on the Elizabethan stage. Detailed annotations explain allusions, puns, and difficult passages, enabling student, reader, actor, and director to savour the humour and the seriousness of the play to the full. There are illustrations, and appendices on wit and the songs, for which the earliest known music is printed.--BOOK JACKET. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=217557 An edition of Shakespeares play, including discussion of its production, language, plot and author. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=171711 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=171816 King Lear banishes his favorite daughter when she speaks out against him. Little does he know that the two other daughters who praise him are actually plotting against him. New ed. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=244475 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=171260 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=244108 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=247848 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=170478 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=171292 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=171304 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=168608 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=170149 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=172212 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=168677 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=135587 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=171665 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=169578 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=170746 http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=170168 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=169582 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=171743 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities. http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/record.jsp?R=170598 Presents the original text of Shakespeares play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.