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Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1965
Language
English
Description
Proser examines five Shakespearean tragedies (Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Othello, Coriolanus, and Antony and Cleopatra) in an attempt to show that the tragic issue of each of these plays lies in part in the 'discrepancy between the main character's self-conception'and his 'entire human reality'.......
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An annotated edition of Shakespeare's tragicomedy in which an unjust Viennese deputy offers to lift a death sentence from a young woman's brother in return for sexual favors from her; also includes essays on Shakespeare's theatrical world and his texts, and a scholarly introduction.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
On May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That is the official version. Was his death an elaborate ruse to avoid conviction for heresy, and did he flee to an island in the English Channel and continue to write plays and poetry, hiding behind the man known as William Shakespeare? This is is own story.
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Language
English
Description
"A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found. A killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities. A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive." "On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it to Kate, however, terrifying echoes...