Shakespeare Our Contemporary
10 best books like Shakespeare Our Contemporary (Jan Kott): Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, Shakespearean Tragedy, A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare, The Age of Shakespeare, The Meaning of Shakespeare, Volume 1, The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World, Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare, Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents
| 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...
"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 | René Girard |
| ISBN | 0195053397 |
In this groundbreaking work, one of our foremost literary and cultural critics turns to the major figure in English literature, William Shakespeare, and proposes a dramatic new reading of nearly all his plays and poems. The key to A Theater of Envy is Rene Girard's novel reinterpretation of "mimesis."...
| Author | Frank Kermode |
| ISBN | 0679642447 |
In The Age of Shakespeare, Frank Kermode uses the history and culture of the Elizabethan era to enlighten us about William Shakespeare and his poetry and plays. Opening with the big picture of the religious and dynastic events that defined England in the age of the Tudors, Kermode takes the reader on...
| 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 | Paul Collins |
| ISBN | 1596911956 |
The first popular narrative history of Shakespeare's First Folio, the world's most obsessively pursued book.
One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries—a book sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, and stored deep...
| 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 | Northrop Frye |
| ISBN | 0300042086 |
One of the greatest literary critics of our time here provides a remarkable introduction to the genius of William Shakespeare through a study of ten of Shakespeare’s most popular plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Richard II, Henry IV, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, King Lear,...
| Author | Colin McGinn |
| ISBN | 0060856157 |
Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of Shakespeare's greatest plays—A Midsummer Night's Dream,...
| Author | Russ McDonald |
| ISBN | 0312248806 |
A Review of The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents byRuss McDonald
Rating: Five Stars
Genre: Nonfiction/Informational
Date Published: 2001
I picked up this book for a Shakespeare class that I took in college. I liked it so much that...
| Author | Marjorie Garber |
| ISBN | 0307377679 |
From one of the world’s premier Shakespeare scholars, author of Shakespeare After All (“the indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer” –Newsweek): a magisterial new study whose premise is that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare.
Shakespeare...
| Author | W.H. Auden |
| ISBN | 0691102821 |
"W. H. Auden, poet and critic, will conduct a course on Shakespeare at the New School for Social Research beginning Wednesday. Mr. Auden has announced that in his course . . . he proposes to read all Shakespeare's plays in chronological order." The New York Times reported this item on September 27, 1946,...
| Author | Sheilah Graham |
| ISBN | 0670229385 |
The story of a unique two-year liberal arts course--the student: Sheilah Graham; the teacher: F. Scott Fitzgerald.
The moving story of how F. Scott Fitzgerald—washed up, alcoholic and ill—dedicated himself to devising a heartfelt course in literature for the woman he loved.
In...
The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition
| Author | Anne Bogart |
| ISBN | 1559362413 |
The Viewpoints is a technique of improvisation that grew out of the postmodern dance world. It was first articulated by choreographer Mary Overlie, who broke down the two dominant issues performers deal with—space and time—into six categories. Since that time, directors Anne Bogart and Tina...
| Author | Tadashi Suzuki |
| ISBN | 0930452569 |
The most influential contemporary theatre director in Japan, Suzuki provides a thorough and accesible formulation of his ideas and beliefs, and insights into his training methods. Features his compelling adaptation of Clytemnestra--finding an astonishing parallel between ancient Greek and...
| Author | Declan Donnellan |
| ISBN | 1559362855 |
“Acting is a reflex, a mechanism for development and survival. . . . It isn’t ‘second nature,’ it is ‘first nature.’”—Declan Donnellan
This immensely popular and ever-practical book on acting takes a scalpel to the heart of actors’ persistent fears, helping them...
| Author | Jerzy Grotowski |
| ISBN | 0878301550 |
In 1950s Poland, Grototwski pioneered the idea of a theatre laboratory as a place where theatre happens through a process of experimentation. This book reveals his experiments as a crux between what we see in contemporary theatre and the rich traditions of theatrical forms from all over the world....
| Author | Gene Sharp |
| ISBN | 0875580688 |
Sharp was born in Ohio, the son of an itinerant Protestant minister. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Social Sciences in 1949 from Ohio State University, where he also received his Master of Arts in Sociology in 1951. In 1953-54, Sharp was jailed for nine months after protesting the conscription of soldiers...
| Author | Harold Clurman |
| ISBN | 0684826224 |
“A straightforward, tasteful, and articulate account of what it is to bring a play to palpitating life upon a stage” (The New York Times Book Review).
In this classic guide to directing, we are taken logically from the choice of the play right through ever aspect of its production to performances...
| Author | Peter Brook |
| ISBN | 1400077877 |
From King Lear to the Tragedy of Carmen, from Marat/Sade to the epic Mahabharata, Peter Brook has reinvented modern theatre, not once but again and again. In The Open Door the visionary director and theorist offers a lucid, comprehensive exposition of the philosophy that underlies his work.
It...
| Author | Robert Edmond Jones |
| ISBN | 0878301844 |
The Dramatic Imagination is one of the few enduring works written about set design.
Robert Edmond Jones's innovations in set design and lighting brought new ideas to the stage, but it is greater understanding of design - its role at the heart of theater - that has continued to inspire theater students....
| Author | Kevin J. Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0691173885 |
A leading neuroscientist explains why your personal traits are more innate than you think
What makes you the way you are--and what makes each of us different from everyone else? In Innate, leading neuroscientist and popular science blogger Kevin Mitchell traces human diversity and individual...
The Art of Reading Poetry
| Author | Harold Bloom |
| ISBN | 0060769661 |
“The work of great poetry is to aid us to become free artists of ourselves.” –Harold Bloom
In The Art of Reading Poetry, Harold Bloom gives us his critical reflections on more than a half century devoted to reading, teaching, and writing about great verse, the literary achievements he...
| Author | Blaise Cendrars |
| ISBN | 0720610974 |
Blaise Cendrars’ last novel is an original and often very funny portrayal of the Parisian criminal underworld of the late 1940s that crackles with the fires of an abundant imagination. Yet To the End of the World is not total invention as, like all Cendrars’ works, it has some basis in real life. The...
The Director’s Craft is a unique and completely indispensable step-by-step guide to directing for the stage.
Written by one of the most adventurous and respected directors working today, this book will be an essential item in every student and practitioner’s kitbag. It provides...
