The Bard and the Bible

The Bard and the Bible
Author: Bob Hostetler
Publisher: Worthy Inspired
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1617958425

365 Devotions pairing Scripture from the King James Bible and lines from Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. Includes little known history, curiosities, and facts about words introduced or used in new ways by Shakespeare.

Shakespeare on Page & Stage

Shakespeare on Page & Stage
Author: Stanley Wells
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2016
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0198786549

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in the world. Its chapters are divided into themed sections, on Shakespearian influences, particular works, theatre, and text.

Venus and Adonis

Venus and Adonis
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 254
Release: 1870
Genre: English poetry
ISBN:

William Shakespeare's Star Wars

William Shakespeare's Star Wars
Author: Ian Doescher
Publisher: Quirk Books
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2013-07-09
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1594746559

The New York Times Best Seller Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2. Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.

Shakespeare's Blank Verse

Shakespeare's Blank Verse
Author: Robert Stagg
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2022-09-08
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0192677993

Shakespeare's Blank Verse: An Alternative History is a study both of Shakespeare's versification and of its place in the history of early modern blank verse (unrhymed iambic pentameter). It ranges from the continental precursors of English blank verse in the early sixteenth century through the drama and poetry of Shakespeare's contemporaries to the editing of blank verse in the eighteenth century and beyond. Alternative in its argumentation as well as its arguments, Shakespeare's Blank Verse tries out fresh ways of thinking about meter—by shunning doctrinaire methods of apprehending a writer's versification, and by reconnecting meter to the fundamental literary, dramatic, historical, and social questions that animate Shakespeare's drama.

The Bible in Shakespeare

The Bible in Shakespeare
Author: Hannibal Hamlin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2013-08-29
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 0199677611

The Bible in Shakespeare is a critical study of the links between the two great pillars of English culture, the Bible and the works of Shakespeare.

Tales for Shakespeare

Tales for Shakespeare
Author: Thomas G. Olsen
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 431
Release: 2020-03-10
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1527548368

Suitable for students, researchers, thespians, and general readers, Tales for Shakespeare is an anthology of source stories behind seven of Shakespeare’s most beloved, frequently studied, and regularly performed plays. It begins with a general introduction examining Shakespeare’s creative process and the assumptions about creativity shared by writers and readers of his age. It asks whether or not Shakespeare was a plagiarist, before showing how even posing this question requires extensive historical and critical framing. The full texts of seven primary source stories are then presented, all in modern spelling and punctuation, with glosses and notes. Each story is preceded by a concise introduction which, like the general introduction, is written for students and a range of other readers. The volume includes questions for each text, a general glossary, and a list of recommended further reading. A new translation of a source story for The Merchant of Venice is also included.

Shakespeare and the Making of America

Shakespeare and the Making of America
Author: Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
Total Pages: 394
Release: 2020-08-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1445688077

Utilising new and original research, Kevin J. Hayes looks at the role and influence of Shakespeare in eighteenth century America. Hayes, winner of the 2018 George Washington Book Prize, offers an exciting new perspective on the history of both Shakespeare scholarship and the United States.