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Literature: history & criticism

Paperback. Whilst Shakespeare's genius is universally recognized, there is a hidden, secretive side to his work that is little known: the fact that he made use of a mysterious code that figures widely in the esoteric literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. This title explores and reveals what Shakespeare alluded to as 'a Secret booke'. Num Pages: 256 pages, Numerous half tones. BIC Classification: DSGS; HRQC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 157 x 22. Weight in Grams: 444. Deciphering Magical and Rosicrucian Codes. 256 pages, Numerous half tones. Whilst Shakespeare's genius is universally recognized, there is a hidden, secretive side to his work that is little known: the fact that he made use of a mysterious code that figures widely in the esoteric literature of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. This title explores and reveals what Shakespeare alluded to as 'a Secret booke'. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: DSGS; HRQC. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 22. Weight: 444.
Publisher
Clairview Books
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
SKU
V9781905570263
ISBN
9781905570263
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.02

Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 215 x 139. .
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
First Edition, Enlarged
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226468952
ISBN
9780226468952
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 22.98

Paperback. The Elizabethan age was a tumultuous time, when long-cherished certainties were crumbling and life was exhilaratingly uncertain. From knife crime to belief in witches, religious battles to the horizons of the New World, this title brings the past to life in a fresh, unexpected portrait of a dangerous and dynamic era. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations (chiefly col.), col. maps, ports. (chiefly col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 2AB; 3JB; DSBD; DSGS; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 197 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9780718195700
ISBN
9780718195700
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 16.06

Paperback. Taking the classical view that the political shapes man's consciousness, Allan Bloom considers Shakespeare as a profoundly political Renaissance dramatist. Shakespeare's work is once again seen as a recognized source for the serious study of moral and political problems. Num Pages: 160 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 215 x 138 x 10. Weight in Grams: 198.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
New ed
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226060415
ISBN
9780226060415
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 32.99
€ 26.04

Hardcover. Shakespeare's Political Wisdom offers interpretations of five Shakespearean plays with a view to the enduring guidance those plays can provide to human, political life. The plays have been chosen for their relentless attention to the questions that were once and may sometime become, or be recognized as being, the heart and soul of politics. Series: Recovering Political Philosophy. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; HPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Edition
2nd Revised edition
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137320858
ISBN
9781137320858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.80

Paperback. Editor(s): Woudhuysen, H. R.; Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Series: The Arden Shakespeare. Num Pages: 616 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 132 x 22. Weight in Grams: 650.
Publisher
Arden Shakespeare
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Edition
Third
Condition
New
SKU
V9781903436875
ISBN
9781903436875
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.99
€ 13.37

Paperback. This work explores Shakespeare's deep fascination with dangerous and disorderly forms of speaking - especially rumour, slander, insult, vituperation and curse - and through them offers a vision of the work of words in his plays. Num Pages: 296 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 408.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226309897
ISBN
9780226309897
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 36.99
€ 29.91

paperback. Presents an original reading of Shakespeare's tragedies "Hamlet", "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth". Num Pages: 171 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140. Weight in Grams: 231.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
171
Condition
New
Edition
1993rd Edition
SKU
V9780333579107
ISBN
9780333579107
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.52

Hardcover. Shakespeare's Money explores what archival records can reveal about Shakespeare's economic and social success, shedding light on how he elevated his family from lowly status to minor gentry and how economic concerns were ever present in his daily life. Num Pages: 224 pages, 7 black-and-white halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 138. .
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780198759249
ISBN
9780198759249
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.39

Paperback. A poetic analysis of the great English poetic line, iambic pentameter, as used by Chaucer, Sidney, Milton, and particularly by Shakespeare. It offers a survey of Shakespeare's brilliantly varied metrical keyboard and shows how it augments the expressiveness of his characters' stage language. Num Pages: 368 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 154 x 35. Weight in Grams: 598.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
University of California Press
Edition
Reprint
Number of pages
363
Condition
New
SKU
V9780520076426
ISBN
9780520076426
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.99
€ 28.26

Paperback. Shakespeare's Little Book of Wisdom offers more than 300 bite-size nuggets of inspiration and wisdom from the greatest writer in the English language and the most popular playwright across the globe. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS; VS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 110 x 127 x 29. Weight in Grams: 284.
Publisher
William Collins
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
SKU
KSG0015266
ISBN
9780007954858
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 4.99

Paperback. Series: Contemporary interpretations of Shakespeare. Num Pages: 122 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 178.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
122
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349196838
ISBN
9781349196838
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 48.50

Hardcover. 'Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his audience by frustrating their expectations. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBD; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 137 x 16. Weight in Grams: 350.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230277618
ISBN
9780230277618
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.41

Paperback. Problem Plays' has been an awkward category for those Shakespeare plays that don't fit the conventional groupings. Expanding from the traditional three plays to six, the book argues that they share dramatic structures designed intentionally by Shakespeare to disturb his audience by frustrating their expectations. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSB; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349325559
ISBN
9781349325559
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.60

Paperback. Num Pages: 149 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 214.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1983
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
149
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333367087
ISBN
9780333367087
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 66.95

Hardback. Challenging ideas about psychology in Shakespeare's time, this text proposes characters should be perceived as imagined persons. Drawing on analyses of earlier and modern psychology, it goes on to reveal the dynamics of Shakespeare's characterizations of Hamlet, Prince Hal and Rosalind. Num Pages: 264 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; AN; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 490.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1996
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
264
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333634486
ISBN
9780333634486
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 128.00

Hardcover. This book throws new light on the issue of the dramatist's religious orientation by dismissing sectarian and one-sided theories, tackling the problem from the angle of the variegated Elizabethan context recently uncovered by modern historians and theatre scholars. It is argued that faith was a quest rather than a quiet certainty for the playwright. Series: Early Modern Literature in History. Num Pages: 244 pages, biography. BIC Classification: DSGS; HRA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College); (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 17. Weight in Grams: 465.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230005259
ISBN
9780230005259
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.04

Hardcover. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight in Grams: 516. Rethinking Historicism. 256 pages. This important intervention in the critical and theoretical discourse of Shakespeare studies summarises, evaluates and ultimately calls time on the mode of criticism that has prevailed in Shakespeare studies over the past thirty years. It heralds a new, more dynamic way of reading Shakespeare. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: 2AB; DDS; DSGS. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 19. Weight: 520.
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Number of pages
256
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
SKU
V9780748646135
ISBN
9780748646135
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 145.38

Hardback. This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 145 x 222 x 17. Weight in Grams: 354.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230115118
ISBN
9780230115118
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.48

Paperback. This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures. Num Pages: 197 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 144 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
197
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137346759
ISBN
9781137346759
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 65.69

Hardcover. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes-of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. Greenblatt shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 223 x 142 x 14. Weight in Grams: 328.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226306667
ISBN
9780226306667
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 27.99
€ 23.23

Paperback. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children, men over women. This book shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolute claims and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. Num Pages: 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 216 x 10. Weight in Grams: 202. Series: The Rice University Campbell Lectures. 164 pages, 4 colour plates, 10 halftones. Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes - the absolute authority claimed for God over the world, for the holy scriptures over the faithful, monarchs over subjects, fathers over wives and children, men over women. This book shows that Shakespeare was averse to such absolute claims and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Dimension: 148 x 216 x 10. Weight: 202.
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Number of pages
164
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226306674
ISBN
9780226306674
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.00

Hardcover. Num Pages: 278 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Palgrave USA United States
Edition
First Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9781403942678
ISBN
9781403942678
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.93

Paperback. A guide to the historical detail of Shakespeare's ten history plays. This text examines medieval English history according to the Tudor chroniclers who provided Shakespeare with his material; that history as understood by modern scholars; and the action of the plays themselves. Num Pages: 304 pages, 8 halftones, 6 line drawings. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSGS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 204 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 370.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Edition
2 Rev ed
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
SKU
V9780195123197
ISBN
9780195123197
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 38.49

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