Emma Smith

Our Long Love Affair with Books

Portable Magic

'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer 'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the plays at once' Hilary Mantel A genius and prophet whose timeless works encapsulate the human condition like no others. A writer who surpassed his contemporaries in vision, originality and literary mastery. Who wrote like an angel, putting it all so much better than anyone else. Is this Shakespeare? Well, sort of. But it doesn't really tell us the whole truth. So much of what we say about Shakespeare is either not true, or just not relevant, deflecting us from investigating the challenges of his inconsistencies and flaws. This electrifying new book thrives on revealing, not resolving, the ambiguities of Shakespeare's plays and their changing topicality. It introduces an intellectually, theatrically and ethically exciting writer who engages with intersectionality as much as with Ovid, with economics as much as poetry: who writes in strikingly modern ways about individual agency, privacy, politics, celebrity and sex. It takes us into a world of politicking and copy-catting, as we watch him emulating the blockbusters of Christopher Marlowe and Thomas Kyd, the Spielberg and Tarantino of their day; flirting with and skirting round the cut-throat issues of succession politics, religious upheaval and technological change. The Shakespeare in this book poses awkward questions rather than offering bland answers, always implicating us in working out what it might mean. This is Shakespeare. And he needs your attention.

This Is Shakespeare

Most of what we say about books is really about the words inside them: the rosy nostalgic glow for childhood reading, the lifetime companionship of a much-loved novel. But books are things as well as words, objects in our lives as well as worlds in our heads. And just as we crack their spines, loosen their leaves and write in their margins, so they disrupt and disorder us in turn. All books are, as Stephen King put it, 'a uniquely portable magic'. Here, Emma Smith shows us why. Portable Magic unfurls an exciting and iconoclastic new story of the book in human hands, exploring when, why and how it acquired its particular hold over us. Gathering together a millennium's worth of pivotal encounters with volumes big and small, Smith reveals that, as much as their contents, it is books' physical form - their 'bookhood' - that lends them their distinctive and sometimes dangerous magic. From the Diamond Sutra to Jilly Cooper's Riders, to a book made of wrapped slices of cheese, this composite artisanal object has, for centuries, embodied and extended relationships between readers, nations, ideologies and cultures, in significant and unpredictable ways. Exploring the unexpected and unseen consequences of our love affair with books, Portable Magic hails the rise of the mass-market paperback, and dismantles the myth that print began with Gutenberg; it reveals how our reading habits have been shaped by American soldiers, and proposes new definitions of a 'classic'-and even of the book itself. Ultimately, it illuminates the ways in which our relationship with the written word is more reciprocal - and more turbulent - than we tend to imagine.

A History of Books and their Readers

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'An outstanding book ... lively, curious and passionate' Literary Review Why should you read a book about Shakespeare and his plays? Because he is a timeless genius whose work encapsulates the human condition? Or is it something more unexpected?

How to Read Shakespeare

This lively and innovative introduction to Shakespeare promotes active engagement with the plays, rather than recycling factual information. Covering a range of texts, it is divided into seven subject-based chapters: Character; Performance; Texts; Language; Structure; Sources and History, and it does not assume any prior knowledge. Instead, it develops ways of thinking and provides the reader with resources for independent research through the 'Where next?' sections at the end of each chapter. The book draws on scholarship without being overwhelmed by it, and unlike other introductory guides to Shakespeare it emphasizes that there is space for new and fresh thinking by students and readers, even on the most-studied and familiar plays.

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare

Teresa's elderly, willful father drags her off to India to spare her from the clutches of her mother.

The Far Cry

Doctors

This New Mermaids anthology brings together four plays which centre around female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster) and The Witch of Edmonton (William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford) with a new introduction by leading scholar Emma Smith. A Woman Killed with Kindness is a domestic tragedy of property and marriage, adultery and revenge, and strips bare two women's lives in one of the first tragedies ever to be written about ordinary people. The Tamer Tamed is a free-wheeling and witty comedy in which the place and status of women, and the nature of marriage, are subjected to sustained attention, demonstrating one way in which early modern writers were able to challenge and invert social convention, and to at least imagine alternative modes of behaviour. The Duchess of Malfi is a classic revenge tragedy and masterpiece of the Jacobean bizarre, featuring a severed hand, a wolf-man, and a poisoned Bible. The Witch of Edmonton is a domestic tragedy in which Elizabeth Sawyer sells her soul to the Devil to revenge her neighbours. These four early modern plays plays upset old certainties about gender ideology: less 'chaste, silent and obedient' and more diverse, eloquent, and complex.

A Woman Killed with Kindness, The Tamer Tamed, The Duchess of Malfi, The Witch of Edmonton

Women on the Early Modern Stage

Lucia Vaughan

Lily St. James wollte den Abend nur mit einem überaus fragwürdig riechenden Quinoasalat und einer kitschigen Liebesschnulze verbringen. Am Ende hängen fremde Lippen an ihr, weil der Typ sich im Zimmer geirrt hat. Niemals hätte sie gedacht, eben diesen Kerl zwei Jahre später nicht mehr missen zu wollen. Shawn Frady ist bekannt dafür, Reißaus zu nehmen, sobald Frauen etwas Ernstes wollen. Nur bei Lily macht er eine Ausnahme. Sie hat Grips, isst ihm die Gurken vom Sandwich und Filmabende mit ihr sind sein Highlight geworden. Er wäre doch ziemlich blöd, diese einzigartige Freundschaft aufs Spiel zu setzen, nur um ein bisschen Spaß im Bett zu haben. Das Problem an der Sache: er fühlt sich immer stärker zu diesem kleinen Sturkopf hingezogen und Lily ist nicht mal bewusst, wie verrückt sie ihn macht.Wenn Gefühle dir Angst machen und Freundschaft nicht mehr ausreicht ... Was würdest du tun?Die Geschichte ist ein Einzelroman. Das Taschenbuch entspricht 225 Seiten.Leserstimmen:Meine Lachmuskeln tun mir schon weh. Lilly und Shawn sind der Hammer! Oh ja, man merkt, wie die Autorinnen beim Schreiben harmonieren.Da habt ihr eine wunderschöne und sehr romantische Geschichte geschrieben. Mich hat sie sehr berührt.Witzig, frech und toll, herzzerreißend schön. Genau mein Geschmack!Eine blau gefärbte ***** ? Scheiße, das ist zu geil! Ihr seid der Hit!

Ein Kuss Ist Eben Kein Kuss

Macho-Quarterback versus Mathe-Genie. Feuer trifft auf Wasser. Blake hasst Amber. Amber hasst Blake. Diese Tatsache ist jedem auf dem Berkeley-College bekannt. Die Diskussionen und Machtkämpfe der beiden sind schon beinahe legendär auf dem Campus. Ihre Sicht- und Lebensweisen sind einfach zu verschieden. Denken Amber und Blake. Denken ihre Freunde. Aber dann passiert es. Bei einer Party hilft ausgerechnet Blake Amber aus der Patsche. Der Student, den Amber seit Beginn ihres Studiums am liebsten als Leiche irgendwo verbuddelt sehen wollte. Und Blake wäre nun mal nicht Blake, wenn er für seine gute Tat nicht entlohnt werden möchte. Amber denkt nicht mal daran und hält ihm vor allen Studenten eine Predigt, die Blake so beeindruckt, dass sich plötzlich etwas in ihm ändert. Blake Michaels, der Typ, der kein Mädchen ein zweites Mal anruft, kämpft plötzlich um eines. Leider hat er sich dafür ausgerechnet die Einzige ausgesucht, die keinerlei Interesse daran hat, überhaupt von ihm angerufen zu werden. Ein Zerrspiel der Gefühle beginnt ... mit überraschendem Ausgang. Das Buch ist in sich abgeschlossen.

I hate you, Honey

A new type of study guide which combines an exploratrion of Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. Emma Smith offers both a lively critical account of Macbeth and practical ideas on how best to engage with and write about this ever popular play.

Macbeth: Language and Writing

Practice of Place explores the role of social and participatory art practices to consider the contribution of artist and gallery. Proposing present-tense practices including collaboration, commitment, imagination, play, forgiveness, reflexivity and trust, the book looks at the potential for tactics over strategy as a mode of being in place. Texts ask how we might consider this theory in relation to the gallery as a bordered space, both physical and imagined.

Practice of Place

Maiden's Trip

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for Volume 76 is 'Digital and Virtual Shakespeare'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/publications/collections/cambridge-shakespeare. This searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.

Digital and Virtual Shakespeare

Shakespeare Survey 76

Shakespeare Survey is a yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production. Since 1948, Survey has published the best international scholarship in English and many of its essays have become classics of Shakespeare criticism. Each volume is devoted to a theme, or play, or group of plays; each also contains a section of reviews of that year's textual and critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The theme for Volume 75 is 'Othello'. The complete set of Survey volumes is also available online at https://www.cambridge.org/core/what-we-publish/collections/shakespeare-survey This fully searchable resource enables users to browse by author, essay and volume, search by play, theme and topic and save and bookmark their results.

Othello

Shakespeare Survey 75

Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623, is one of the world's most studied books, prompting speculation about everything from proof-reading practices in the early modern publishing industry to the 'true' authorship of Shakespeare's plays. Arguments about the nature of the First Folio are crucial to every modern edition of Shakespeare and thus to every reader or student of the plays. This Companion surveys the critical methods brought to bear on the Folio and equips readers with the tools to understand it and to develop their skills in early modern book culture more generally. A team of international scholars surveys the range of bibliographic, historical and textual material relating to the Folio, its editors, collectors and critical reception. This revealing volume will be of wide interest to scholars of Shakespeare, the history of the book and early modern drama.

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's First Folio

Neil Selwyn

Dominic Wyse

Larry E. Suter

Education has continued to grow in stature and significance as an academic discipline. In addition to world renowned research studies the growth of education has been seen in the methodology and methods underpinning its research. The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research provides a cutting edge account of the research and methodology that is creating new understandings for education research, policy and practice. Over two volumes, the handbook addresses educational research in six essential components: Section 1: Understanding Research Section 2: Planning Research Section 3: Approaches to Research Section 4: Acquiring Data Section 5: Analysing Data Section 6: Reporting, Disseminating and Evaluating Research Featuring contributions from more than 50 of the biggest names in the international field, The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research represents a very significant contribution to the development of education.

The BERA/SAGE Handbook of Educational Research

Secondary data is a powerful tool for providing context to an otherwise small-scale study, as well as being an efficient way of bringing together a large amount of data, particularly where access to the field may be difficult. This comprehensive guide introduces students to the use of secondary data in educational and social research, and provides a practical resource for researchers who are new to the field of secondary data analysis. The author encourages researchers to consider the potential for using secondary data both as their primary research method, but also as a useful strategy in mixed methods designs. The first part of the book explores the role of secondary data analysis in contemporary social research. It considers the arguments for and against its use and addresses its particular benefits in mixed method research designs, especially those in the political arithmetic tradition. The second part introduces worked examples which show the potential for using secondary sources to answer a varied range of research questions. It provides step-by-step guidance on how to manipulate and analyse secondary data. The inclusion of recent national and international datasets as exemplars allows students to place their research in a 'real life' context and to consider current and topical research issues.

Using Secondary Data in Educational and Social Research

Patrick White

Stephen Gorard

Beng Huat See

Issues concerning the supply of teachers are of perennial concern to both policy-makers and researchers in the world of education. This trenchant and wide-ranging study not only provides major new research findings but also a re-interpretation of extant data. Combining qualitative and (very extensive) quantitative research, Teacher Supply provides a rigorous and iconoclastic treatment of issues relating to the recruitment, quality, training, and retention of teachers throughout the developed world and offers important recommendations for the future.

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