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Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poemsby Mark Thornton BurnettISBN 0460879952 (0-460-87995-2)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Christopher Marlowe: The Complete Poems'Book summary:Sensuous, passionate, disturbing, this is a collection of poems of love, violence and heroic deeds by arguably Shakspeare's greatest and most fascinating predecessor. [via]
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The Complete Playsby Christopher MarloweISBN 0460879871 (0-460-87987-1)
Softcover, Everyman
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Plays'Book summary:Their texts fully restored by recent scholarship, Marlowe's astonishing works can now be appreciated as originally written. This edition includes all of Marlowe's plays, including two versions of Doctor Faustus. [via]
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The Complete Playsby Robert Lindsey, Christopher Marlowe, Frank RomanyISBN 0140436332 (0-14-043633-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Complete Plays of Christopher Marloweby Christopher Marlowe, Irving RibnerISBN 082900162X (0-8290-0162-X)
Hardcover, Irvington Pub
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Complete Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, Colin BurrowISBN 019281933X (0-19-281933-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Sonnets and Poems'Book summary:Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language unsurpassed in passion, precision, originality, and beauty. This inexpensive Dover edition enables any lover of poetry or fine literature to have this remarkable verse in his or her library. Includes glossary of archaic terms. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.[via] -
Discoursesby Niccolo MachiavelliISBN 0140444289 (0-14-044428-9)
Softcover, Viking Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourses'Book summary:Few figures in intellectual history have proved as notorious and ambiguous as Niccolo Machiavelli. But while his treatise "The Prince" made his name synonymous with autocratic ruthlessness and cynical manipulation, "The Discourses" (c.1517) shows a radically different outlook on the world of politics.In this carefully argued commentary on Livy's history of republican Rome, Machiavelli proposed a system of government that would uphold civic freedom and security by instilling the virtues of active citizenship, and that would also encourage citizens to put the needs of the state above selfish, personal interests. Ambitious in scope, but also clear-eyed and pragmatic, "The Discourses" creates a modern theory of republic politics. Leslie J. Walker's definitive translation has been revised by Brian Richardson and is accompanied by an introduction by Bernard Crick, which illuminates Machiavelli's historical context and his new theories of politics. This edition also includes suggestions for further reading and notes. [via]
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Discourses on Livyby Niccolo Machiavelli, Peter Bondanella, Julia Conaway BondanellaISBN 0192804731 (0-19-280473-1)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Discourses on Livy'Book summary:Discourses on Livy is the founding document of modern republicanism, and Harvey C. Mansfield and Nathan Tarcov have provided the definitive English translation of this classic work. Faithful to the original Italian text, properly attentive to Machiavelli's idiom and subtlety of thought, it is eminently readable. With a substantial introduction, extensive explanatory notes, a glossary of key words, and an annotated index, the Discourses reveals Machiavelli's radical vision of a new science of politics, a vision of "new modes and orders" that continue to shape the modern ethos.[via]
"[Machiavelli] found in Livy the means to inspire scholars for five centuries. Within the Discourses, often hidden and sometimes unintended by their author, lie the seeds of modern political thought. . . . [Mansfield and Tarcov's] translation is careful and idiomatic."Peter Stothard, The Times
"Translated with painstaking accuracybut also great readability."Weekly Standard
"A model of contemporary scholarship and a brave effort at Machiavelli translation that allows the great Florentine to speak in his own voice."ChoiceMore editions of Discourses on Livy:
- Discourses on Livy: ISBN 0226500365 (0-226-50036-5)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr - Discourses on Livy: ISBN 0192829459 (0-19-282945-9)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - Discourses on Livy: ISBN 0226500357 (0-226-50035-7)
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- Discourses on Livy: ISBN 0226500365 (0-226-50036-5)
Doctor Faustus and Other Playsby Christopher Marlowe, David Bevington, Eric Rasmusse NISBN 0192834452 (0-19-283445-2)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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Edmund Spenser's the Faerie Queene and Other Worksby William GraceISBN 067100512X (0-671-00512-X)
Softcover, Monarch Notes
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Edmund Spenser, the Faerie Queeneby Edmund SpenserISBN 0300027060 (0-300-02706-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Edmund Spenser, the Faerie Queene'Book summary:This remarkable poem, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth I, was Spenser's finest achievement: the first epic poem in modern English, "The Faerie Queene" combines dramatic narratives of chivalrous adventure with exquisite and picturesque episodes of pageantry. [via]
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El Mercader De Venecia / The Merchant of Venice: Noche De Reyesby William ShakespeareISBN 9875503053 (987-550-305-3)
Softcover, Longseller S.A.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'El Mercader De Venecia / The Merchant of Venice: Noche De Reyes'Book summary:Readers will take pleasure in discovering the classics through these beautifully packaged and affordably priced editions of famous works of literature from all over the world. A variety of periods, themes, and authors are represented.
Los lectores tomarán un gran placer en descubrir los clásicos por estas bellas y económicas ediciones de literatura famosa y universal. Se representa una variedad de épocas, temas, y autores. [via]
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The Faerie Queeneby A. C. Hamilton, Edmund Spenser, Hiroshi Yamashita, Toshiyuki SuzukiISBN 058209951X (0-582-09951-X)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Faerie Queene'Book summary:Provides full annotation of the text, detailed guidance to critical comment past and present, and a wealth of introductory material setting the poem in its full historical and literary context. [via]
The Faerie Queeneby Edmund SpenserISBN 1840221089 (1-84022-108-9)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Faerie Queene'Book summary:'Great Lady of the greatest Isle, whose light Like Phoebus lampe throughout the world doth shine' The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic to celebrate the glory of the Virgin Queen. Each book of the poem recounts the quest of a knight to achieve a virtue: the Red Crosse Knight of Holinesse, who must slay a dragon and free himself from the witch Duessa; Sir Guyon, Knight of Temperance, who escapes the Cave of Mammon and destroys Acrasia's Bowre of Bliss; and the lady-knight Britomart's search for her Sir Artegall, revealed to her in an enchanted mirror. Although composed as a moral and political allegory, The Faerie Queene's magical atmosphere captivated the imaginations of later poets from Milton to the Victorians. This edition includes the letter to Raleigh, in which Spenser declares his intentions for his poem, the commendatory verses by Spenser's contemporaries and his dedicatory sonnets to the Elizabethan court, and is supplemented by a table of dates and a glossary. [via]
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- The Faerie Queene: ISBN 0140422072 (0-14-042207-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - The Faerie Queene: ISBN 0460014439 (0-460-01443-9)
Softcover, J M Dent & Sons Ltd - Faerie Queene: ISBN 0848811771 (0-8488-1177-1)
Hardcover, Amereon Ltd - The Faerie Queene: ISBN 1840221089 (1-84022-108-9)
Softcover, Lb May & Assoc Inc
- The Faerie Queene: ISBN 0140422072 (0-14-042207-2)
The Faerie Queeneby Douglas Brooks-DaviesISBN 0460154435 (0-460-15443-5)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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The Fairy Queen: A Modernized Selectionby Edmund Spenser, Douglas Brooks-DaviesISBN 0460875728 (0-460-87572-8)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fairy Queen: A Modernized Selection'Book summary:This study edition, published to commemorate the quatercentenary of the six-book 1596 edition, contains a full, modernized selection from modern England's longest epic poem, as well as a commentary upon it. [via]
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Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, M. A. ScreechISBN 0140445501 (0-14-044550-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Traditionby Frances A. YatesISBN 0226950077 (0-226-95007-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition'Book summary:The leading Renaissance scholar of her time, Frances Yates revolutionised the study of the history of art, science and ideas. She demonstrated that ideas and practices once considered marginal such as hermeticism and alchemy were actually at the forefront of the renaissance mind. Yates was a pioneer in her emphasis on visual culture and many of her works are richly illustrated with the iconography of symbolism of occult philosophy. Her magisterial studies address subjects as diverse as: Shakespeares last plays late medieval tapestry Italian renaissance philosophy the Rosicrucians For forty years of her life Frances Yates was associated with the Warburg Institute. Awarded a DBE for services to renaissance studies in 1977, she was a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. This set provides immediate access to the work of this most important of late twentieth century philosophers. Volumes are also available individually. The Valois Tapestries 0415-22044-0 This extensively illustrated volume presents the extravagant tapestries of the Uffizi as documents, subtly woven into the fabric of cultural and political history. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition 0415-22045-9 Giordano Bruno, perhaps the best-known philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, is here, for the first time, placed within the context of the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition. Yates explores how Renaissance Hermeticism stimulated new attitudes towards the cosmos and towards working with cosmic forces. Bruno emerges as a Hermetic Philosopher and magician with an unorthodox religious message. Even his support of Copernicus is associated with solar magic. This revolutionary reinterpretation profoundly affects our understanding of Bruno and of his death at the stake. The Art of Memory 0415-22046-7 Trained memory was of first importance in the ancient world before printing and paper for taking notes or writing down lectures were available. An art rose in response to this need which relied on architecture and could depend on faculties of intense visual memorization. In this volume, Yates traces this art of memory from Simonides through Aquinas to the Renaissance and the growth of scientific method. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment 0415-22047-5 The Rosicrucian Enlightenment is an enthralling reconstruction of an important yet largely forgotten phase in European thought. A stage between the Renaissance and the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the Rosicrucian Enlightenment was a striving for spiritual illumination as well as an attempt to advance scientific and intellectual knowledge. This book is the definitive work on the origins of Rosicrucian thought and its influence on politics and great thinkers in seventeenth-century Europe. Frances Yates focuses on the short-lived reign of Frederick, Elector Palatine, and his wife, the daughter of James I, as Winter King and Queen of Bohemia showing that this brief period was a Hermetic golden age, inspired by the Rosicrucian movement. The reconstruction of this phase of European history takes Rosicruianism beyond occult studies and makes it a concern for serious historical enquiry. The intellectual giants of this era, including Francis Bacon, Descartes and Newton, are seen here in new contexts that provide fresh insight into their thought. Among the many other personages and themes discussed are John Dee, Robert Boyles Invisible College, and the rise of the Royal Society and of Freemasonry. Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century 0415-22048-3 In this volume, Frances Yates attends to the political dimension of Renaissance thought. She examines the images and symbolism of religion and monarchy, especially in relation to the myth of Astraea. As well as being essential reading for historians of the Renaissance period, the book is of fundamental importance for students of the literature of the Elizabethan period. Frances Yates shows how Spensers Fairie Queene E grew out of the Accession Day Tilts and the imagery deployed in them, and demonstrates that Shakespeares preoccupation with Monarchy, with a rule of justice and purity as opposed to the forces of evil, grew out of the contemporary preoccupation with a religious imperial theme. The book as a whole forms a unity - an approach to history through imagery - and includes many illustrations, which are in themselves historical documents. Shakespeares Last Plays: A New Approach 0415-22049-1 Drawing together many years of research on Renaissance symbolism and the Hermetic tradition, Frances Yates tackles Shakespearean problems, with startlingly original results. Her approach makes possible a new interpretation of Cymbeline, relating its imagery to the revival of Tudor mythology the influence of the Tudor imperial reform and religious toleration in Henry VIII the role of magic in the last plays whose magical-mystical atmosphere is compared with that of the Rosicrucian movement in Germany with which it is suggested that Shakespeare was in sympathy Ben Jonsons attitude to Shakespeare. The book connects closely with Astraea and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment and it suggests entirely new and exciting routes into the understanding of Shakespeares attitude to the religious problems of his age. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age 0415-220505 A central theme of this book is the history of Christian Cabala, the Christian interpretation of the Jewish mystical tradition. It was believed that when God gave the Law to Moses, he also gave a revelation of the secret meaning of the Law. This esoteric tradition was interpreted in a Christian sense by Pico della Mirandola, the founder of Christian Cabala, with which he associated Hermeticism. Part I discusses the occult philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation, showing its wide influence and reactions against it as magic. Part II traces the influence of the occult philosophy on major Elizabethan writers such as Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare. A major theme throughout the book is the importance of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 in spreading Cabalist notions among Christians. The presence of Jewish influence in the Elizabethan age is hinted at, and the return of the Jews to England in the reign of Charles II is seen as the culmination of trends linking Albion with Jerusalem, even in the Elizabethan age. This is discussed in Part III. The book uses Frances Yatess other works on the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition, whilst attempting a new presentation of Christian Cabala. In her study of the imagery with which the poets express occult philosophy, she draws on her work Astraea E on the Elizabethan imperial reform. Lull & Bruno (Collected essays) 0415-22051-3 The essays collected here reprint the first sketches, dating from 1939 to 1960, which were to form Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. They contain much material not used in that book, however, and they also look forward to what became The Art of Memory. Renaissance and Reform: The Italian Contribution (Collected essays) 0415-22052-1 This book brings together Frances Yatess research on Italian subjects, drawn from all periods of her long and distinguished career. Beginning with an account of how she first became involved with Italian cultural and intellectual history, the essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, some taking up and adding to themes explored in her books, others breaking new ground. Included are articles on aspects of Giordano Bruno, teachers of Italian in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, Shakespeare and the Platonic tradition, and a fourteenth century treatise on artificial memory, as well as essays on Paolo Sarpi, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and on the Hebrew teachers of Pico della Mirandola and other philosophers of the Italian Renaissance. Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance 0415-22239-7 This volume comprises Yatess papers and reviews on topics concerning England, France, the Netherlands and Germany during the epoch of the Renaissance and Reformation. The essays are drawn from all periods of Yatess long career and cover a wide range of subjects: English allegorical portraiture in the Elizabethan age Yatess early and late contributions on Shakespeare, Jonson, John Dee and Francis Bacon English Protestant attitudes to religious images and to martyrdom French drama Theocratic and apocalyptic politics European influence of printing and of Erasmus, Cornelius Agrippa, Copernicus and Newton. Also included is a selection from Yatess notes on her early publications and first acquaintance with the Warburg Institute as well as a brief autobiographical account of her early life. A full list of her writings completes the book and rounds out the picture of a remarkable historian. [via]
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Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruelby Francois Rabelais, J. M. CohenISBN 014044047X (0-14-044047-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Histories of Gargantua and Pantagruel'Book summary:This text parodies everyone from eminent classical authors and schoolmen to Rabelais's own acquaintances. But the brilliance of the book lies not merely in these learned references, but in the story into which they are woven. [via]
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The History of King Learby William Shakespeare, Stanley WellsISBN 0192839926 (0-19-283992-6)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The History of King Lear'Book summary:King Lear , widely considered Shakespeare's most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play, has almost always been edited from the revised version printed in the First Folio of 1623, with additions from the quarto of 1608. Now for the first time, this new volume presents the full, scholarly edition to be based firmly on the quarto, now recognized as the base text from which all others derive. A thorough, attractively written introduction suggests how the work grew slowly in Shakespeare's imagination, fed by years of reading, thinking, and experience as a practical dramatist. This editition consists of a new, modern-spelling text; a full index to the introduction and commentary; production photographs and related art. The on-page commentary and detailed notes to this edition offer critical help in understanding the language and dramaturgy in relation to the theaters in which King Lear was first performed. Additional sections reprint the early ballad, which was among the play's earliest sources, and provide additional guides to understanding and appreciating one of the greatest masterworks of Western civilization. [via]
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In the Company of the Courtesanby Sarah DunantISBN 1400063817 (1-4000-6381-7)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Company of the Courtesan: A Novel'Book summary:1527. While the Papal city of Rome burns - brutally sacked by an invading army including Protestant heretics - two of her most interesting and wily citizens slip away, their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed as the enemy breaks down their doors. Though almost as damaged as their beloved city, Fiammetta Bianchini and Bucino Teodoldi - a fabulous courtesan and her dwarf companion - are already planning their future. They head for the shimmering beauty of Venice, a honey pot of wealth and trade where they start to rebuild their business. As a partnership they are invincible: Bucino, clever with a sharp eye and a wicked tongue and Fiammetta, beautiful and shrewd, trained from birth to charm, entertain and satisfy men who have the money to support her. Venice, however, is a city which holds its own temptations. From the admiring Turk in search of human novelties for his Sultan's court, to the searing passion of a young lover who wants more than his allotted nights. But the greatest challenge comes from a young blind woman, a purveyor of health and beauty, who insinuates her way into their lives with devastating consequences for them all. [via]
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- In the Company of the Courtesan: ISBN 0812974042 (0-8129-7404-2)
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- In the Company of the Courtesan: ISBN 0812974042 (0-8129-7404-2)
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King Learby William Shakespeare, Stephen OrgelISBN 0140714766 (0-14-071476-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- King Lear: ISBN 0140714901 (0-14-071490-1)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - King Lear: ISBN 019832054X (0-19-832054-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - King Lear: ISBN 0300122004 (0-300-12200-4)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr - King Lear: ISBN 0486280586 (0-486-28058-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - King Lear: ISBN 0140707247 (0-14-070724-7)
Softcover, Viking Pr - King Lear: ISBN 0140714146 (0-14-071414-6)
Softcover, Penguin USA - King Lear: ISBN 017443460X (0-17-443460-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - King Lear: ISBN 0174434677 (0-17-443467-7)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold - King Lear: ISBN 0198319770 (0-19-831977-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - King Lear: ISBN 0415081254 (0-415-08125-4)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - King Lear: ISBN 0416101704 (0-416-10170-4)
Softcover, Methuen - King Lear: ISBN 0451519388 (0-451-51938-8)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - King Lear: ISBN 0460873334 (0-460-87333-4)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - King Lear: ISBN 048641096X (0-486-41096-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns - King Lear: ISBN 0312085419 (0-312-08541-9)
Hardcover, Palgrave Macmillan - King Lear: ISBN 0333155882 (0-333-15588-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan - King Lear: ISBN 0416761100 (0-416-76110-0)
Hardcover, Methuen - King Lear: ISBN 0140714766 (0-14-071476-6)
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- King Lear: ISBN 0140714901 (0-14-071490-1)
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King Learby ArdenISBN 041502692X (0-415-02692-X)
Softcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:King Lear was written at Shakespeare's most prolific period, a time in which he rapidly composed Hamlest, Othello, and Macbeth. I believe, without a moments hesitation, that King Lear is his greatest work, and probably the greatest play ever written. [via]
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King Learby Claire McEachernISBN 0321107225 (0-321-10722-5)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'King Lear'Book summary:From Longman's new Cultural Editions Series, King Lear, edited by Claire McEachern, presents the play along with a critical introduction and contextual materials from the era of Shakespeare. [via]
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The Merchant of Veniceby William Shakespeare, Cedric WattsISBN 1840224312 (1-84022-431-2)
Softcover, Wordsworth Editions Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:"Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?" Shylock's impassioned plea in the middle of The Merchant of Venice is one of its most dramatic moments. After the Holocaust, the play has become a battleground for those who argue that the play represents Shakespeare's ultimate statement against ignorance and anti-Semitism in favour of a liberal vision of tolerance and multiculturalism. Other critics have pointed out that the play is, after all, a comedy that ultimately pokes fun at a 16th-century Jew. In fact, the bare outline of the plot suggests that the play is far more complex than either of these characterisations. Bassanio, a feckless young Venetian, asks his wealthy friend, the merchant Antonio, for money to finance a trip to woo the beautiful Portia in Belmont. Reluctant to refuse his friend (to whom he professes intense love), Antonio borrows the money from the Jewish moneylender. If he reneges on the deal, Shylock jokingly demands a pound of his flesh. When all Antonio's ships are lost at sea, Shylock calls in his debt, and the love and laughter of the first scenes of the play threaten to give way to death and tragedy. The final climactic courtroom scene, complete with a cross-dressed Portia, a knife-wielding Shylock, and the debate on "the quality of mercy" is one of the great dramatic moments in Shakespeare. The controversial subject matter of the play ensures that it continues to repel, divide but also fascinate its many audiences. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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- The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 1853260606 (1-85326-060-6)
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Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - Merchant of Venice: ISBN 1903436133 (1-903436-13-3)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 1840224312 (1-84022-431-2)
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- The Merchant of Venice: ISBN 1853260606 (1-85326-060-6)
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The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Leonardo Da Vinci, Irma A. RichterISBN 0192838970 (0-19-283897-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci'Book summary:[via]Volume 1 of 2-volume set. Total of 1,566 extracts reveal full range of Leonardo's versatile genius: his writings on painting, sculpture, architecture, anatomy, mining, inventions, music. Dual Italian-English texts, with 186 plates and faithful reproductions of more than 500 additional drawings.More editions of The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci:
- The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: ISBN 0486225720 (0-486-22572-0)
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Softcover, Dover Pubns - The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: ISBN 0192815385 (0-19-281538-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr - The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: ISBN 0192838970 (0-19-283897-0)
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- The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci: ISBN 0486225720 (0-486-22572-0)
Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinciby Pamela TaylorISBN 0452258464 (0-452-25846-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Styleby Michael BaxandallISBN 019282144X (0-19-282144-X)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style'Book summary:Serving as both an introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting and as a text on how to interpret social history from the style of pictures in a given historical period, this new edition to Baxandall's pre-eminent scholarly volume examines early Renaissance painting, and explains how the style of painting in any society reflects the visual skills and habits that evolve out of daily life. Renaissance painting, for example, mirrors the experience of such activities as preaching, dancing, and gauging barrels. The volume includes discussions of a wide variety of painters, including Filippo Lippi, Fra Angelico, Stefano di Giovanni, Sandro Botticelli, Masaccio, Luca Signorelli, Boccaccio, and countless others. Baxandall also defines and illustrates sixteen concepts used by a contemporary critic of painting, thereby assembling the basic equipment needed to explore fifteenth-century art.
This new second edition includes an appendix that lists the original Latin and Italian texts referred to throughout the book, providing the reader with all the relevant, authentic sources. It also contains an updated bibliography and a new reproduction of a recently restored painting which replaces the original. [via]More editions of Painting and Experience in Fifteenth Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style:
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Pantagruel Gargantuaby Francois Rabelais, Burton RaffelISBN 0393308065 (0-393-30806-5)
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Rabelais's vigorous examination of the life of his times-from bizarre battles to great drinking bouts, from satire on religion and education to matter-of-fact descriptions of bodily functions and desires-is one of the great comic masterpieces of literature. [via]More editions of Pantagruel Gargantua:
The Plays of Christopher Marloweby Christopher MarloweISBN 0192504789 (0-19-250478-9)
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetryby Adam Phillips, Walter PaterISBN 019281737X (0-19-281737-X)
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The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetryby Walter Pater, Adam PhillipsISBN 019283553X (0-19-283553-X)
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The Renaissance; Studies in Art and Poetry: London, Macmillan, 1910by Walter PaterISBN 0384450814 (0-384-45081-4)
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Selected Works of Frances Yatesby Frances A. YatesISBN 0415220432 (0-415-22043-2)
Hardcover, Taylor & Francis Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Selected Works of Frances Yates'Book summary:The leading Renaissance scholar of her time, Frances Yates revolutionised the study of the history of art, science and ideas. She demonstrated that ideas and practices once considered marginal such as hermeticism and alchemy were actually at the forefront of the renaissance mind. Yates was a pioneer in her emphasis on visual culture and many of her works are richly illustrated with the iconography of symbolism of occult philosophy. Her magisterial studies address subjects as diverse as: Shakespeares last plays late medieval tapestry Italian renaissance philosophy the Rosicrucians For forty years of her life Frances Yates was associated with the Warburg Institute. Awarded a DBE for services to renaissance studies in 1977, she was a Fellow of the British Academy and of the Royal Society of Literature. This set provides immediate access to the work of this most important of late twentieth century philosophers. Volumes are also available individually. The Valois Tapestries 0415-22044-0 This extensively illustrated volume presents the extravagant tapestries of the Uffizi as documents, subtly woven into the fabric of cultural and political history. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition 0415-22045-9 Giordano Bruno, perhaps the best-known philosopher of the Italian Renaissance, is here, for the first time, placed within the context of the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition. Yates explores how Renaissance Hermeticism stimulated new attitudes towards the cosmos and towards working with cosmic forces. Bruno emerges as a Hermetic Philosopher and magician with an unorthodox religious message. Even his support of Copernicus is associated with solar magic. This revolutionary reinterpretation profoundly affects our understanding of Bruno and of his death at the stake. The Art of Memory 0415-22046-7 Trained memory was of first importance in the ancient world before printing and paper for taking notes or writing down lectures were available. An art rose in response to this need which relied on architecture and could depend on faculties of intense visual memorization. In this volume, Yates traces this art of memory from Simonides through Aquinas to the Renaissance and the growth of scientific method. The Rosicrucian Enlightenment 0415-22047-5 The Rosicrucian Enlightenment is an enthralling reconstruction of an important yet largely forgotten phase in European thought. A stage between the Renaissance and the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century, the Rosicrucian Enlightenment was a striving for spiritual illumination as well as an attempt to advance scientific and intellectual knowledge. This book is the definitive work on the origins of Rosicrucian thought and its influence on politics and great thinkers in seventeenth-century Europe. Frances Yates focuses on the short-lived reign of Frederick, Elector Palatine, and his wife, the daughter of James I, as Winter King and Queen of Bohemia showing that this brief period was a Hermetic golden age, inspired by the Rosicrucian movement. The reconstruction of this phase of European history takes Rosicruianism beyond occult studies and makes it a concern for serious historical enquiry. The intellectual giants of this era, including Francis Bacon, Descartes and Newton, are seen here in new contexts that provide fresh insight into their thought. Among the many other personages and themes discussed are John Dee, Robert Boyles Invisible College, and the rise of the Royal Society and of Freemasonry. Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century 0415-22048-3 In this volume, Frances Yates attends to the political dimension of Renaissance thought. She examines the images and symbolism of religion and monarchy, especially in relation to the myth of Astraea. As well as being essential reading for historians of the Renaissance period, the book is of fundamental importance for students of the literature of the Elizabethan period. Frances Yates shows how Spensers Fairie Queene E grew out of the Accession Day Tilts and the imagery deployed in them, and demonstrates that Shakespeares preoccupation with Monarchy, with a rule of justice and purity as opposed to the forces of evil, grew out of the contemporary preoccupation with a religious imperial theme. The book as a whole forms a unity - an approach to history through imagery - and includes many illustrations, which are in themselves historical documents. Shakespeares Last Plays: A New Approach 0415-22049-1 Drawing together many years of research on Renaissance symbolism and the Hermetic tradition, Frances Yates tackles Shakespearean problems, with startlingly original results. Her approach makes possible a new interpretation of Cymbeline, relating its imagery to the revival of Tudor mythology the influence of the Tudor imperial reform and religious toleration in Henry VIII the role of magic in the last plays whose magical-mystical atmosphere is compared with that of the Rosicrucian movement in Germany with which it is suggested that Shakespeare was in sympathy Ben Jonsons attitude to Shakespeare. The book connects closely with Astraea and The Rosicrucian Enlightenment and it suggests entirely new and exciting routes into the understanding of Shakespeares attitude to the religious problems of his age. The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age 0415-220505 A central theme of this book is the history of Christian Cabala, the Christian interpretation of the Jewish mystical tradition. It was believed that when God gave the Law to Moses, he also gave a revelation of the secret meaning of the Law. This esoteric tradition was interpreted in a Christian sense by Pico della Mirandola, the founder of Christian Cabala, with which he associated Hermeticism. Part I discusses the occult philosophy in Renaissance and Reformation, showing its wide influence and reactions against it as magic. Part II traces the influence of the occult philosophy on major Elizabethan writers such as Spenser, Marlowe, Chapman and Shakespeare. A major theme throughout the book is the importance of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain in 1492 in spreading Cabalist notions among Christians. The presence of Jewish influence in the Elizabethan age is hinted at, and the return of the Jews to England in the reign of Charles II is seen as the culmination of trends linking Albion with Jerusalem, even in the Elizabethan age. This is discussed in Part III. The book uses Frances Yatess other works on the Hermetic-Cabalist tradition, whilst attempting a new presentation of Christian Cabala. In her study of the imagery with which the poets express occult philosophy, she draws on her work Astraea E on the Elizabethan imperial reform. Lull & Bruno (Collected essays) 0415-22051-3 The essays collected here reprint the first sketches, dating from 1939 to 1960, which were to form Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition. They contain much material not used in that book, however, and they also look forward to what became The Art of Memory. Renaissance and Reform: The Italian Contribution (Collected essays) 0415-22052-1 This book brings together Frances Yatess research on Italian subjects, drawn from all periods of her long and distinguished career. Beginning with an account of how she first became involved with Italian cultural and intellectual history, the essays collected here cover a wide range of topics, some taking up and adding to themes explored in her books, others breaking new ground. Included are articles on aspects of Giordano Bruno, teachers of Italian in sixteenth and seventeenth-century England, Shakespeare and the Platonic tradition, and a fourteenth century treatise on artificial memory, as well as essays on Paolo Sarpi, Machiavelli, Guicciardini, and on the Hebrew teachers of Pico della Mirandola and other philosophers of the Italian Renaissance. Ideas and Ideals in the North European Renaissance 0415-22239-7 This volume comprises Yatess papers and reviews on topics concerning England, France, the Netherlands and Germany during the epoch of the Renaissance and Reformation. The essays are drawn from all periods of Yatess long career and cover a wide range of subjects: English allegorical portraiture in the Elizabethan age Yatess early and late contributions on Shakespeare, Jonson, John Dee and Francis Bacon English Protestant attitudes to religious images and to martyrdom French drama Theocratic and apocalyptic politics European influence of printing and of Erasmus, Cornelius Agrippa, Copernicus and Newton. Also included is a selection from Yatess notes on her early publications and first acquaintance with the Warburg Institute as well as a brief autobiographical account of her early life. A full list of her writings completes the book and rounds out the picture of a remarkable historian. [via]
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Selections from the Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci. Ed by Irma Richter. a Galaxy Book.by Leonardo Da VinciISBN 0192812149 (0-19-281214-9)
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, Stephen BoothISBN 0300024959 (0-300-02495-9)
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Savor the most celebrated love poems in the English language. Written almost 400 years ago, the sonnets of William Shakespeare are passionate and exalted, rich in imagery and alliteration, and full of mystery and intrigue.
This selection presents all 154 sonnets composed from 1593-1601. In words and rhyme, he reveals his infatuation with the "Dark Lady," his relationship with a rival poet, and his private thoughts on love, death, beauty, and truth: timeless themes that span the centuries to touch our hearts today. [via]
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Katherine Duncan-JonesISBN 017443474X (0-17-443474-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets'Book summary:This Arden edition of Shakespeare's sonnets is closely based on the 1609 Quarto. As Katherine Duncan-Jones demonstrates, this text was authorized by Shakespeare himself, and may be based on an authorial manuscript. The whole carefully-ordered sequence, including "A Lover's Complaint", is read in the context of Shakespeare's career and of the poems' historical setting within early Jacobean culture. A clear-eyed analysis of homoerotic elements in the sonnets puts an end to the century of homophobic readings initiated by Sir Sidney Lee in 1897. Succinct and accessible notes guide the reader through complex vocabulary and syntax, as well as the poems' literary and cultural background. For ease of reference, these are printed on the same page-opening as the text. [via]
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Martin Seymour-SmithISBN 0435150375 (0-435-15037-5)
Softcover, Heinemann
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Shakespeare's Sonnetsby Stephen BoothISBN 0300085060 (0-300-08506-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Shakespeare's Sonnets - the Problems Solved: A Modern Edition with Prose Versions, Introduction and Notesby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0333147332 (0-333-14733-2)
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaintby Stanley WellsISBN 0192820265 (0-19-282026-5)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint'Book summary:The most famous collection of love poems in the English language, Shakespeare's Sonnets have spoken to generations of readers who have turned to them again and again when searching for supreme examples of expressions of love. Covering the whole range of emotions from joy to anguish, these sonnets reveal the beauty, power, inventiveness, and originality of Shakespeare's verse.
The collection depicts in beautiful, poignant, and intriguing language the poet's celebration of his passionate friendship with a young man, his grief over a friend's seduction by his own mistress, his chagrin at the friend's relationship with a rival poet, and, in the final group of poems, his own humiliating infatuation with "a woman colored ill"--the Dark Lady who has tempted his "better angel" from him.
Lyrically beautiful and psychologically fascinating, the sonnets both appeal as individual poems, and as an intricately related sequence. This volume presents all the sonnets in a freshly edited text, along with Shakespeare's wry, touching portrait of a forsaken maiden in A Lover's Complaint, a poem first printed with the sonnets in 1609. It also includes little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets. [via]More editions of Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint:
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Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaintby William Shakespeare, Stanley WellsISBN 0198129467 (0-19-812946-7)
Hardcover, Oxford Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare's Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint'Book summary:Shakespeare's sonnets are the most famous collection of love poems in the English language. Here Shakespeare celebrated his passionate friendship with a young man, deplored his friend's seduction by Shakespeare's own mistress, expressed his chagrin at the friend's relationship with a rival poet, and in the final group of poems explored his own humiliated infatuation with "a woman colored ill"--the Dark Lady who has tempted his "better angel" from him.
Lyrically beautiful and psychologically fascinating, the sonnets exert a double appeal: as individual poems, and as a complexly interrelated sequence. All 154 poems are presented here in a freshly edited text, along with Shakespeare's wry, touching portrait of a forsaken maiden in A Lover's Complaint, a poem first printed with the sonnets in 1609. This volume also includes little-known alternative versions of four of the sonnets.
The text of this edition is that prepared for the forthcoming Complete Oxford Shakespeare.
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The Sonnetsby William Shakespeare, Douglas Bush, Alfred HarbageISBN 0140714235 (0-14-071423-5)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sonnets'Book summary:"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart)[via]
The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged.
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* An essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare and essays on Shakespeare's life and the selection of textsMore editions of The Sonnets:
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Hardcover, St Martins Pr - The Sonnets: ISBN 0174434731 (0-17-443473-1)
Softcover, Arden Shakespeare - The Sonnets: ISBN 0451517954 (0-451-51795-4)
Softcover, New Amer Library - The Sonnets: ISBN 0451522621 (0-451-52262-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics - The Sonnets: ISBN 0460873296 (0-460-87329-6)
Softcover, Tuttle Pub - The Sonnets: ISBN 006015988X (0-06-015988-X)
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The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaintby William Shakespeare, John KerriganISBN 0140707328 (0-14-070732-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint'Book summary:When a volume of poetry entitled Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted appeared in 1609, Shakespeare was forty-five and most of his greatest plays had seen several performances. Some of the sonnets, speaking of the begetting of children, mortality and memory, art, desire and jealousy, are addressed to a beloved youth; others are addressed to a treacherous mistress, a "dark lady." Appended to the sonnets is "A Lover's Complaint, " a beautiful poem in rhyme-royal in which a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.
While Shakespeare's biographers continue their investigations, readers may find the "secret" of the sonnets in the poetry itself. In this spirit John Kerrigan provides an illuminating Introduction to the volume as a whole, together with 258 pages of commentaries on the poems, a textual history, and suggestions for further reading. [via]
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Spenser: The Faerie Qveeneby Edmund Spenser, A. C. Hamilton, Hiroshi Yamashita, Toshiyuki SuzukiISBN 1405832819 (1-4058-3281-9)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
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Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward IIby Christopher Marlowe, David M. Bevington, Eric Rasmusse NISBN 0192827375 (0-19-282737-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward II'Book summary:Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), a man of extreme passions and a playwright of immense talent, is the most important of Shakespeare's contemporaries. This edition offers his five major plays, which show the radicalism and vitality of his writing in the few years before his violent death.
Tamburlaine Part One and Part Two deal with the rise to world prominence of the great Scythian shepherd-robber; The Jew of Malta is a drama of villainy and revenge; Edward II was to influence Shakespeare's Richard II. Doctor Faustus, perhaps the first drama taken from the medieval legend of a man who sells his soul to the devil, is here in both its A- and its B- text, showing the enormous and fascinating differences between the two.
Under the General Editorship of Dr. Michael Cordner of the University of York, the texts of the plays have been newly edited and are presented with modernized spelling and punctuation. In addition, there is a scholarly introduction and detailed annotation. [via]More editions of Tamburlaine, Parts I and Ii/Doctor Faustus, A- And B- Texts/the Few of Malta/Edward II:
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The Tragedy of King Learby Russell A. Fraser, William ShakspeareISBN 0451526937 (0-451-52693-7)
Softcover, Signet Classic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tragedy of King Lear'Book summary:King Lear stands alongside Hamlet as one of the most profound expressions of tragic drama in literature. Written between 1604 and 1605, it represents Shakespeare at the height of his dramatic power. Drawing on ancient British history, Shakespeare constructs a plot that reads like a fable in its clear-sighted but terrifying simplicity. The ageing King Lear calls his daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia to witness that he wishes "to shake all cares and business from our age" and divide his kingdom between his three children. When Cordelia refuses to flatter her father with sycophantic words of love, her banishment leads to chaos and civil war as Lear's disastrous "division of the kingdom" gives free reign to the greed and ambition of his two remaining daughters.
As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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The Tragedy of King Learby William Shakspeare, Russell FraserISBN 0451524101 (0-451-52410-1)
Softcover, New Amer Library Classics
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As Lear sinks into rage and madness he is deserted by everyone except his "bitter" Fool, the loyal Kent and the exiled Cordelia. The play descends into a nighmarish theatre of cruelty and absurdity as Lear realises he has "ta'en / Too little care" of the poverty and corruption of his kingdom, and his loyal but foolish friend Gloucester has his eyes gouged out. Metaphors of monstrosity and perversions of nature structure the dramatic action, and the play's ending remains one of the most harrowing in all of Shakespeare. Many see a profound despair and nihilism in King Lear, and would agree with Kent's conclusion that "All's cheerless, dark and deadly". Other writers have identified a radical but pessimistic critique of contemporary conceptions of kingship and absolutist authority, yet it remains a remarkable tragedy of public misjudgement and intensely private grief and anguish. --Jerry Brotton [via]
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William Shakespeareby Martin DodsworthISBN 0460878158 (0-460-87815-8)
Softcover, Dent & Sons (Canada), Limited, J. M.
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William Shakespeareby Susan BruceISBN 0231115296 (0-231-11529-6)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare'Book summary:Nearly three centuries of Lear criticism provide insight into the play's merit and its place within Shakespeare's work and the canon of English literature. Highlights include excerpts from the neoclassical and Romantic receptions of King Lear -- material from John Dryden, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Victor Hugo -- and a discussion of recent trends in criticism of the play.
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