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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.
5) Macbeth
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Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom, a master of manipulation named Hecate, has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.
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Routledge
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2000.
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English
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Shakespeare continues to be the most studied author in English literature. The way in which his plays are studied has undergone considerable change in recent years. This volume aims to demystify Shakespeare's plays for the beginning reader. Concentrating on language, genre and history, it discusses the plays in the light of contemporary critical thought. It explores issues of racial stereotyping, social justice, the subjugation of women and attitueds...
12) Hamlet
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"One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the most extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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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.
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Interred with their bones volume 1
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Dutton
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English
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"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...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
1965
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English
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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'.......