Author: Alan PalmerPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312220860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Provides more than seven hundred biographies of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Who's Who in Shakespeare's England
Author: Alan PalmerPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312220860
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Provides more than seven hundred biographies of Shakespeare's contemporaries.
Who's Who in Shakespeare's England
Author: Alan PalmerPublisher:
ISBN: 9780710806055
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Who's Who in Shakespeare
Author: Hamish JohnsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113641360X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
Who's Who in Shakespeare presents a complete and handy guide to the men and women who throng Shakespeare's plays. It provides: * detailed biographical information on each leading figure * analyses of the role and significance of each minor figure * a reliable guide to the huge Shakespearian canon for student and teacher * quotations from famous critics * useful information on some of Shakespeare's sources. From Antonio to Yorick, Macbeth to Mercutio, this book embraces the breadth and depth of the world's most important playwright.
Voices of Shakespeare's England
Author: John A. WagnerPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313357412
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Voices of Shakespeare's England offers students and public library patrons over 50 primary documents that illuminate the character, personalities, and events of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Voices of Shakespeare's England: Contemporary Accounts of Elizabethan Daily Life helps readers explore the era that produced, among other things, the world's greatest playwright. It brings together excerpts from over 50 primary documents written in William Shakespeare's lifetime, including letters, literature, speeches and polemics, official reports, and descriptive narratives. Voices of Shakespeare's England includes the works of Shakespeare himself, as well as other poets and playwrights, but it also expands beyond the literary world to cover politics, religion, economics, social change, and the royal court. By allowing Shakespeare's contemporaries to speak in their own voices, it offers an illuminating look at the breadth of Elizabethan society, including major historic events in England as well as Scotland, Ireland, the European continent, and even the new world of America.
Who's Who in Shakespeare
Author: Francis Griffin StokesPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048612178X
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
DIVAn indispensable dictionary of characters and names with over 3,000 entries, this volume covers all 36 of the Bard's plays, in addition to his poems and sonnets. /div
Shakespeare, His Life, Art, and Characters
Author: Henry Norman HudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English drama
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Shakespeare and Theatrical Patronage in Early Modern England
Author: Paul Whitfield WhitePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521034302
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A wide-ranging 2002 study of patronage, relating to Shakespeare and the culture of his time.
Shakespeare
Author: Henry Norman HudsonWho's Who in Gay and Lesbian History Vol.1
Author: Robert AldrichPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134722168
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 528
Book Description
Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to the Mid-Twentieth Century is a comprehensive and fascinating survey of the key figures in gay and lesbian history from classical times to the mid-twentieth century. Among those included are: * Classical heroes - Achilles; Aeneas; Ganymede * Literary giants - Sappho; Christopher Marlowe; Arthur Rimbaud; Oscar Wilde * Royalty and politicians - Edward II; King James I; Horace Walpole; Michel de Montaigne. Over the course of some 500 entries, expert contributors provide a complete and vivid picture of gay and lesbian life in the Western world throughout the ages.
Historical Dictionary of the Elizabethan World
Author: John A. WagnerPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1579582699
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
Provides clear definitions and descriptions of people, events, institutions, ideas, and terminology relating in some significant way to the Elizabethan period. The first dictionary of history to focus on Elizabeth's reign.