Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Vols. 1-2
10 best books like Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Vols. 1-2 (Isaac Asimov): Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, Shakespeare After All, Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story, Shakespearean Tragedy, The Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard, Playing Shakespeare: An Actor's Guide, The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama, Shakespeare's Bawdy, Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard
| Author | James Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1416541624 |
For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable...
| Author | Marjorie Garber |
| ISBN | 0385722141 |
A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country's foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and Harvard over the past thirty years, Marjorie...
| Author | Stanley Wells |
| ISBN | 0375424946 |
From one of our most distinguished Shakespeare scholars, here is a fascinating, lively, anecdotal work of forensic biography that firmly places Shakespeare within the hectic, exhilarating world in which he lived and wrote.
Theater in Shakespeare's day was a burgeoning “growth industry."...
"A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become 'real' at all" writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
Approaching...
| Author | Norrie Epstein |
| ISBN | 0140138862 |
I had just finished Epstein’s The Friendly Dickens and enjoyed it very much. After reading that book I thought ‘Shakespeare too, well, why not?’ I’m glad I did.
In this book Epstein takes a look at the person, plays and history of Shakespeare. She then stirs in wonderful interviews,...
| Author | John Barton |
| ISBN | 0385720858 |
Now in its first American edition, Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the world’s greatest playwright.
Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian McKellen, Ben Kingsley, and...
| Author | Harold Clarke Goddard |
| ISBN | 0226300412 |
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Shakespeare Downheartedness:"The Meaning of Shakespeare" by Harold C. Goddard (2 volumes)
"Shakespeare led a life of allegory: his works are the comments on it.”
In "The Meaning...
| Author | Peter Saccio |
| ISBN | 0195123190 |
Far more than any professional historian, Shakespeare is responsible for whatever notions most of us possess about English medieval history. Anyone who appreciates the dramatic action of Shakespeare's history plays but is confused by much of the historical detail will welcome this guide to the...
| Author | Eric Partridge |
| ISBN | 0415254000 |
This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all...
| Author | Jack Lynch |
| ISBN | 0802715664 |
Becoming Shakespeare begins where most Shakespeare stories end—with his death in 1616—and relates the fascinating story of his unlikely transformation from provincial playwright to universal Bard. Unlike later literary giants, Shakespeare created no stir when he died. Though he'd once...
| Author | Charles Boyce |
| ISBN | 0385313616 |
-What famous essayist insisted that Shakespeare's play were unfit for performance?-Which two plays center on the Hundred Years' War?
-In which scene of "Romeo and Juliet" does the nurse report--falsely--that Juliet is dead and thus seal Romeo's tragic fate?
The answers are easily found...
| Author | Dennis Okholm |
| ISBN | 1587431858 |
In their zeal for reform, early Protestant leaders tended to throw out Saint Benedict with the holy water. That is a mistake, writes Dennis Okholm, in Monk Habits for Everyday People. While on retreat in a Benedictine abbey, the author, a professor who was raised as a Pentecostal and a Baptist, observed...
| Author | John Doyle |
| ISBN | 0764551353 |
"Shakespeare For Dummies is exquisite."
--from the Foreword by Dame Judi Dench, star of "Mrs. Brown" and "Shakespeare in Love" "What the film Shakespeare in Love has done to make Shakespeare the man accessible to a general audience, this book will do to make Shakespeare the writer enjoyable."
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| Author | Rosalie De Rosset |
| ISBN | 0802405649 |
You can’t afford to live casually, haphazardly.
No matter your age, you were born into a plethora of expectations of what it means to be a woman. How easily we assume impoverished views of womanhood as we hoist beauty and desirability above the more enduring traits of self-possession and...
| Author | Vejas Gabriel Liulevicius |
This is a well-presented and insightful introductory course.
I was quite disappointed, however, that, despite spending time on post-war (inter-war) developments in the most important countries that chose a "third way" between representative governments with free or freeish markets and...
| Author | J. Rufus Fears |
| ISBN | 1598030264 |
Professor Fears presents his choices from some of the most essential writings in history, ranging in time from the 3rd millennium B.C. to the 20th century, and in locale from Mesopotamia and China to Europe and America. He focuses on intellectual history and ethics, taking underlying ideas of each...
Course Lecture Titles 1. Introduction 2. The Sources 3. Pre-Roman Italy and the Etruscans 4. The Foundation of Rome 5. The Kings of Rome 6. Regal Society 7. The Beginnings of the Republic 8. The Struggle of the Orders 9. Roman Expansion in Italy 10. The Roman Confederation in Italy 11. The International...
| Author | Winston S. Churchill |
| ISBN | 0792776283 |
Churchill's six volume history of the Second World War sat on my parents' bookshelves for decades and now sit on mine, unopened. I was therefore grateful to see that BBC Audio has produced Churchill's abridged history (four volumes rather than six) on CD, narrated by an actor with a passable immitation...
| Author | Erica Komisar |
| ISBN | 1681685043 |
Compassionate and balanced, and focusing on the emotional health and well-being of children as well as that of the mothers who care for them, this book shows mothers and fathers how to give their children the best chance for developing into healthy and loving adults. Based on more than two decades of...
Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays
| Author | Peter J. Leithart |
| ISBN | 1885767234 |
Shakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, "a great observer," able to see and depict patterns of events and character. He understood how politics is shaped by the clash of men with various colorings of self-interest and idealism, how violence breeds violence, how fragile human beings create masks...
How to Listen to and Understand Great Music
| Author | Robert Greenberg |
| ISBN | 1565853717 |
Great music is a language unto its own, a means of communication of unmatched beauty and genius. And it has an undeniable power to move us in ways that enrich our lives - provided it is understood.
If you have ever longed to appreciate great concert music, to learn its glorious language and share in...
| Author | Kenneth W. Harl |
| ISBN | 1598030671 |
I love Audible's The Great Courses collection of books. They're informative, educational and, sometimes, even exciting.
I chose to listen to this lecture because I love Viking fiction and thought it'd be fun to get the real scoop on these sexy men. Well... so they aren't all as sexy as my...
This is a series of 48 half-hour lectures by Professor Grant L Voth, professor emeritus of English and Interdisciplinary Studies at Monterey Peninsula College. The course as a whole is the evolution of story telling; it explores cross-cultural themes, techniques, and modes of representation over...
| Author | J. Budziszewski |
| ISBN | 1576835103 |
This book was ridiculous. The author took a ton of really terrible arguments (especially when concerning science) to make it seem like Christians' faith is constantly torn down. The arguments were so crafted that they were absolutely unrealistic. All of his science arguments were just wrong to begin...
Dorothy L. Sayers: Her Life and Soul
| Author | Barbara Reynolds |
| ISBN | 0312153538 |
Mystery writer Dorothy Sayers is loved and remembered, most notably, for the creation of sleuths Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane. As this biography attests, Sayers was also one of the first women to be awarded a degree from Oxford, a playwright, and an essayist--but also a woman with personal joys...
