Shakespeare's works are now performed for an increasingly
diversified cultural market. At the start of the twenty-first century,
film, video, and live performance have overtaken the printed book as
the main way people are introduced to Shakespeare. Therefore, is there
any reason to read Shakespeare's plays anymore? The essays in this
volume explore the question and the institutional practices that shape
contemporary performances of Shakespeare's plays. The book gathers
together a particularly strong line-up of contributors from across the
literary-performative divide to examine the relationship between
Shakespeare, the "culture industries," modernism, and live performance.
The following book was designed to help students get the utmost of Shakespeare's work.The plots summaryof the plays summary is presented with acts and scenes helping the
student learn the names of the characters. The next section describes
the characters more fully and places them within the scenes. A
discussion of both themes and style is followed by the placement in its
historical context. The critical overview shares what critics have said
about the work; and a collection of essays provide criticism written by
Shakespeare scholars. Each entry ends with a list of sources and
suggested further reading. Inset boxes include information about media
adaptations, suggestions to "compare and contrast," and "Topics for
Further Study." Black and white illustrations, reproductions of
paintings of scenes, and some photographs of present-day actors in
scenes from the plays are also in the text. Each volume ends with the
same two-page glossary and a cumulative index to major themes and
characters. This provides some help especially for those students for
whom reading Shakespeare is a challenge because of their reading
skills. It will help them sort out characters and plot in a more
sophisticated way than a reference written for a younger audience.
How to Give a Speech Like Hamlet, Persuade Like Henry V, and Other Secrets from the World's Greatest Communicator A guide to better communication skills using the trademark persuasion style of famous playright, William Shakespeare. Takes examples from Shakespeare's characters and plays to illustrate the qualities and skills an excellent communicator must have, helping readers empower themselves to be more effective in front of an audience, as part of a team, or one-on-one.
The Oxford Companion To Shakespeare The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work yet produced about Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favourite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, a team of internationally renowned scholars provides a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to the plays, the poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. Bringing its readers up to date not only with the latest in Shakespearian scholarship and controversy but with the plays' most recent incarnations on stage, on film, and in international popular culture, this is the perfect companion to Shakespeare's works, covering everything from Aaron and act divisions to Zeffirelli and Zuccaro, and from Shakespeare in schools to Shakespeare in Love.
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Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays Volume 2
In the quarter of a century since three mathematicians and game theorists collaborated to create Winning Ways for Your Mathematical Plays, the book has become the definitive work on the subject of mathematical games. Now carefully revised and broken down into four volumes to accommodate new developments, the Second Edition retains the original's wealth of wit and wisdom. The authors' insightful strategies, blended with their witty and irreverent style, make reading a profitable pleasure.
In Volume 2, the authors have a Change of Heart, bending the rules established in Volume 1 to apply them to games such as Cut-cake and Loopy Hackenbush.
From the Table of Contents:
If You Can't Beat 'Em, Join 'Em
Hot Bottles Followed by Cold Wars
Games Infinite and Indefinite
Games Eternal--Games Entailed
Survival in the Lost World
