Truth About William Shakespeare
Title | Truth About William Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | David Ellis |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 208 |
Release | 2013-09-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0748653880 |
A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information
William Shakespeare
Title | William Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Haydn Middleton |
Publisher | |
Pages | 36 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780199104383 |
Presents the life of the famous English playwright and discusses some of his notable works.
The Play's the Thing
Title | The Play's the Thing PDF eBook |
Author | Ruth Turk |
Publisher | Millbrook Press |
Pages | 68 |
Release | 2011-08-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0822537869 |
The year was 1569 and the place was Stratford-on-Avon. A little boy watched a company of traveling actors perform on a makeshift stage. No one could have known that the child, whose name was William Shakespeare, would one day become the most famous playwright in history. This is the story of the man who wrote Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and many other plays that have been performed and enjoyed again and again for more than four hundred years.
William Shakespeare
Title | William Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Ari Berk |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 17 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0763647942 |
Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.
Alias Shakespeare
Title | Alias Shakespeare PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Sobran |
Publisher | |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
This erudite and entertaining work of literary detection sets out to solve the most puzzling mystery in all of literary history: Who wrote Shakespeare's plays? Presenting his case for a swashbuckling Elizabethan courtier, Sobran vindicates a long list of prominent skeptics, among them the great Shakespearean actors, Kenneth Branagh and Sir John Gielgud. of photos & illustrations.
What's So Special About Shakespeare?
Title | What's So Special About Shakespeare? PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Rosen |
Publisher | Candlewick Press |
Pages | 155 |
Release | 2018-03-06 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 0763699950 |
Originally published as: Shakespeare: his work and his world / illustrated by Robert Ingpen. 2001.
William Shakespeare's Star Wars
Title | William Shakespeare's Star Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Ian Doescher |
Publisher | Quirk Books |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2013-07-09 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1594746559 |
The New York Times Best Seller Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2. Return once more to a galaxy far, far away with this sublime retelling of George Lucas’s epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Authentic meter, stage directions, reimagined movie scenes and dialogue, and hidden Easter eggs throughout will entertain and impress fans of Star Wars and Shakespeare alike. Every scene and character from the film appears in the play, along with twenty woodcut-style illustrations that depict an Elizabethan version of the Star Wars galaxy. Zounds! This is the book you’re looking for.