Shakespeare's Sports Canon

Shakespeare's Sports Canon
Author: Chris Coculuzzi
Publisher: Upstart Crow Publishing
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2005
Genre: Sports
ISBN: 0973909307

It took Shakespeare 25 years to create his legacy of 38 plays and five years for Coculuzzi and Toner to destroy it. Shakespeare?s Sports Canon transforms the Complete Works of William Shakespeare into a hilarious hybrid of improvised sporting play and spectacle theatre. Presented as live UCSN (Upstart Crow Sports Network) broadcasts, the Sports Canon includes:Shakespeare?s Rugby Wars: the Wars of the Roses tetralogy presented as a rugby match as Team Lancaster and Team York scrum it out for the British Crown and Rugby Supremacy;Shakespeare?s World Cup: the famous four Tragedies as Team Denmark, England, Scotland, and Italy kick out the blank verse for Top Tragic Cup;Shakespeare?s Gladiator Games: the Roman and Greek plays as a traditional Roman Ludi where Gladiators vie for the coveted wooden Rudis...and with it their freedom;Shakespeare?s Comic Olympics: all of the Comedies and Romances as Olympic events as Athletes strive to overcome comic feats of timing in their quest for Ring Finger Gold;Shakespeare?s NHL (National History League): the leftover Histories as a tribute to Canadian street hockey and homage to the Original Six as hockey's Historical Heroes faceoff for Lord Stanley's impressive Cup.

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey: Volume 58, Writing about Shakespeare
Author: Peter Holland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2005-11-03
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780521850742

Published with academic researchers and graduate students in mind, this volume of the 'Shakespeare Survey' presents a number of contributions on the theme of the play 'Macbeth'.

The Gladiators from Capua

The Gladiators from Capua
Author: Caroline Lawrence
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 220
Release: 2005-10
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781596430747

Suspecting their friend Jonathan is alive, Flavia, Nubia, and Lupus go to Rome for the Colosseum Games, facing wild beasts, criminals, conspirators, and gladiators, and where Nubia is called upon to make a terrible choice.

Troilus and Cressida

Troilus and Cressida
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 545
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1472584767

A revised edition of this intriguing and complex play, updated to cover recent critical thinking and stage history. Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy often labelled a "problem" play because of its apparent blend of genres and its difficult themes. Set in the Trojan Wars it tells a story of doomed love and honour, offering a debased view of human nature in war-time and a stage peopled by generally unsympathetic characters. The revised edition makes an ideal text for study at undergraduate level and above.

Shakespeare's World Cup

Shakespeare's World Cup
Author: Chris Coculuzzi
Publisher: Upstart Crow Publishing
Total Pages: 62
Release: 2005
Genre: World Cup (Soccer)
ISBN: 0973909323

Shakespeare’s Ruins and Myth of Rome

Shakespeare’s Ruins and Myth of Rome
Author: Maria Del Sapio Garbero
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 389
Release: 2021-12-30
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1000531597

Rome was tantamount to its ruins, a dismembered body, to the eyes of those – Italians and foreigners – who visited the city in the years prior to or encompassing the lengthy span of the Renaissance. Drawing on the double movement of archaeological exploration and creative reconstruction entailed in the humanist endeavour to ‘resurrect’ the past, ‘ruins’ are seen as taking precedence over ‘myth’, in Shakespeare’s Rome. They are assigned the role of a heuristic model, and discovered in all their epistemic relevance in Shakespeare’s dramatic vision of history and his negotiation of modernity. This is the first book of its kind to address Shakespeare’s relationship with Rome’s authoritative myth, archaeologically, by taking as a point of departure a chronological reversal, namely the vision of the ‘eternal’ city as a ruinous scenario and hence the ways in which such a layered, ‘silent’, and aporetic scenario allows for an archaeo-anatomical approach to Shakespeare’s Roman works.