Michael Dobson

Nicola J. Watson

No monarch is more glamorous or more controversial than Elizabeth I. The stories by which successive generations have sought to extol, explain, or excoriate Elizabeth supply a rich index to the cultural history of English nationalism - whether they represent her as Anne Boleyn's suffering orphan or as the implacable nemesis of Mary, Queen of Scots, as learned stateswoman or as frustrated lover, persecuted princess or triumphant warrior queen. This book examines the many afterlives the Virgin Queen has lived in drama, poetry, fiction, painting, propaganda, and the cinema over the four centuries since her death, from the aspiringly epic to the frankly kitsch. Exploring the Elizabeths of Shakespeare and Spenser, of Sophia Lee and Sir Walter Scott, of Bette Davis and of Glenda Jackson, of Shakespeare in Love and Blackadder II, this is a lively, lavishly-illustrated investigation of England's perennial fascination with a queen who is still engaged in a posthumous progress through the collective pysche of her country.

An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy

England's Elizabeth

A Cultural History

Shakespeare and Amateur Performance

Douglas Niles

Fox on the Rhine

Tracy Hickman

Jeff Grubb

Laura Hickman

Dragons of Winter

A collection of essays by major Shakespearean actors on playing particular roles in Shakespeare's tragedies.

The Actor's Perspective

Performing Shakespeare's Tragedies Today

Stanley Wells

A handy yet authoritative guide to all Shakespeare's extant works (with information about those known to be lost), this volume provides cast lists, scene-by-scene plot synopses, and contextual information for Shakespeare's plays, and thorough entries on his poems. It is a perfect primer for anyone wishing to be better acquainted with Shakespeare.

Shakespeare: a Playgoer's and Reader's Guide

Professor Emeritus University of Birmingham and Chairman Stanley Wells

Teaching Fellow in English Literature Will Sharpe

Lecturer and Fellow at the Shakespeare Institute Erin Sullivan

Professor of Shakespeare Studies and Director of the Shakespeare Institute Michael Dobson

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, this much-loved Companion has been revised and updated, reflecting developments and discoveries made in recent years and to cover the performance, interpretation, and the influence of Shakespeare's works up to the present day. First published in 2001, the online edition was revised in 2011, with updates to over 200 entries plus 16 new entries. These online updates appear in print for the first time in this second edition, along with a further 35,000 new and revised words. These include more than 80 new entries, ranging from important performers, directors, and scholars (such as Lucy Bailey, Samuel West, and Alfredo Michel Modenessi), to topics as diverse as Shakespeare in the digital age and the ubiquity of plants in Shakespeare's works, to the interpretation of Shakespeare globally, from Finland to Iraq. To make information on Shakespeare's major works easier to find, the feature entries have been grouped and placed in a centre section (fully cross-referenced from the A-Z). The thematic listing of entries - described in the press as 'an invaluable panorama of the contents' - has been updated to include all of the new entries. This edition contains a preface written by much-lauded Shakespearian actor Simon Russell Beale. Full of both entertaining trivia and scholarly detail, this authoritative Companion will delight the browser and reward students, academics, as well as anyone wanting to know more about Shakespeare.

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT IS DEDICATED The Story of a Special Day for February 21 On February 21, 1885, President Chester A. Arthur dedicated the Washington Monument., President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the Hoover Dam. Also on February 21, the first working steam locomotive made its maiden run (1804), the first telephone directory was published (1880), World War I's Battle of Verdun began (1916), NASCAR was founded (1948), and Nixon went to China (1972). The Story of a Special Day is a special occasion gift they'll never throw away - a whole book for the price of a premium card! The story of a special day.tells you what happened in history, who was born, and who died. What happened on *your* special day? From celebrations around the world to significant moments in history, birthdays, zodiac signs, and all-month events, this book makes a perfect birthday present or anniversary gift - one that will be kept and remembered long after an ordinary birthday card has been forgotten! February 21 is the birthday of actors Kelsey Grammer and Alan Rickman, the only brothers to visit outer space, and the longest-lived person ever! Malcolm X, Spinoza, Tim Horton, and the guy who played the Creature from the Black Lagoon all died on February 21. This date is also International Mother Language Day, National Biscuits and Gravy Day, and if it's also the third weekend in the month, it's National Margarita Weekend! Each volume of The Story of a Special Day is packed with rare historical photos and fascinating facts. Plus, birthday gems, flowers, and other symbols; horoscope signs; sayings and superstitions; and much, much more! With 82 pages packed with 43 historic photographs and illustrations, this book is a feast for the eyes as well as for the brain. A perfect birthday present or anniversary gift, "The Story of a Special Day" will make anyone feel special on his or her very special occasion. Look for upcoming titles covering each and every day of the year...because every day is a special day for someone you know!

The Story of a Special Day

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MAHATMA GANDHI IS BORN! The Story of a Special Day for October 2 On October 2, 1869, Gandhi was born. Other October 2 birthdays include Groucho Marx, Donna Karan, Richard III, Johnnie Cochran, Sting, Spanky McFarland, Bud Abbott, and Nat Turner. Samuel Adams, Gene Autry, and Rock Hudson died. On October 2, the Texas Revolution began, the first television transmission took place, and Peanuts and the Twilight Zone premiered. The Story of a Special Day is a special occasion gift they'll never throw away - a whole book for the price of a premium card! The story of a special day.tells you what happened in history, who was born, and who died. What happened on *your* special day? From celebrations around the world to significant moments in history, birthdays, zodiac signs, and all-month events, this book makes a perfect birthday present or anniversary gift - one that will be kept and remembered long after an ordinary birthday card has been forgotten! October 2 is Batik Day in Indonesia, National Grandparents' Day in Italy, National Fried Scallops Day in the US, and in honor of Gandhi, the International Day of Non-Violence is celebrated worldwide. Each volume of The Story of a Special Day is packed with rare historical photos and fascinating facts. Plus, birthday gems, flowers, and other symbols; horoscope signs; sayings and superstitions; and much, much more! With 84 pages packed with over 42 historic photographs and illustrations, this book is a feast for the eyes as well as for the brain. A perfect birthday present or anniversary gift, "The Story of a Special Day" will make anyone feel special on his or her very special occasion. Look for upcoming titles covering each and every day of the year...because every day is a special day for someone you know!

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The Story of a Special Day: November 27! The special occasion gift they'll never throw away - a whole book for the price of a premium card! The story of a special day... ...What happened in history? ...Who was born? ...Who died? What happened on *your* special day? From celebrations around the world to significant moments in history, birthdays, zodiac signs, and all-month events, this ebook makes a perfect birthday present or anniversary gift - one that will be kept and remembered long after an ordinary birthday card has been forgotten! November 27 is the day the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade took place! It's also the day: ...the First Crusade was declared ...Custer fought the Battle of Washita River ...the first woman played in a professional basketball league ...the first man-made object reached the surface of Mars ...First openly gay person elected to California public office Harvey Milk was assassinated November 27 is also the birthday of mobster Vito Genovese, first daughter Caroline Kennedy, guitar legend Jimi Hendrix, kung-fu master Bruce Lee, and Bill Nye the Science Guy. On November 27, singer Lotte Lenya, playwright Eugene O'Neill, first programmer Ada Lovelace, and Roman poet Horace died. Plus, the FBI got Baby Face Nelson! Each volume is packed with rare historical photos and fascinating facts. Plus, holidays around the world; birthday gems, flowers, and other symbols; horoscope signs; superstitions; and much, much more! With over 80 pages acked with historic photographs and illustrations, it's a feast for the eyes as well as the brain. A perfect birthday present or anniversary gift, "The Story of a Special Day" will make anyone feel special on his or her very special occasion. Look for upcoming titles covering each and every day of the year...because every day is a special day for someone you know!

November 27

Estelle Rivier-Arnaud

Why have contemporary playwrights been obsessed by Shakespeare’s plays to such an extent that most of the canon has been rewritten by one rising dramatist or another over the last half century? Among other key figures, Edward Bond, Heiner Müller, Carmelo Bene, Arnold Wesker, Tom Stoppard, Howard Barker, Botho Strauss, Tim Crouch, Bernard Marie Koltès, and Normand Chaurette have all put their radical originality into the service of adapting four-century-old classics. The resulting works provide food for thought on issues such as Shakespearean role-playing, narrative and structural re-shuffling. Across the world, new writers have questioned the political implications and cultural stakes of repeating Shakespeare with and without a difference, finding inspiration in their own national experiences and in the different ordeals they have undergone. How have our contemporaries carried out their rewritings, and with what aims? Can we still play Hamlet, for instance, as Dieter Lesage asks in his book bearing this title, or do we have to “kill Shakespeare” as Normand Chaurette implies in a work where his own creative process is detailed? What do these rewritings really share with their sources? Are they meaningful only because of Shakespeare’s shadow haunting them? Where do we draw the lines between “interpretation,” “adaptation” and “rewriting”? The contributors to this collection of essays examine modern rewritings of Shakespeare from both theoretical and pragmatic standpoints. Key questions include: can a rewriting be meaningful without the reader’s or spectator’s already knowing Shakespeare? Do modern rewritings supplant Shakespeare’s texts or curate them? Does the survival of Shakespeare in the theatrical repertory actually depend on the continued dramatization of our difficult encounters with these potentially obsolete scripts represented by rewriting?

Rewriting Shakespeare’s Plays For and By the Contemporary Stage

Aftermath

Just as Fox on the Rhine and Fox at the Front showed readers an alternate Europe in which Hitler had been killed, thereby radically changing the course of World War II, Douglas Niles and Michael Dobson bring us the Battle of Midway with a very different outcome. The Allies are wildly out maneuvered and sent home in disgrace. Back in the States things are looking rather grim as the ultra-secret Manhattan Project runs into snafus that greatly delay the final production of the atomic bomb. President Roosevelt's approval ratings drop dramatically. Congress is desperate and the country cries out for a hero. That hero might just be Douglas MacArthur, who vowed that he would return to his beloved Philippines. He plans to do so with the backing of the entire US Armed Forces. MacArthur's plan of action is simple: take the war back to the Japanese, island by bloody island, until standing on the shores of Japan, he can proclaim victory. And possibly gain the leadership of the United States as well. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

A Novel of the Invasion of Japan

MacArthur's War

This is a reference text on Shakespeare's works, times, life and afterlives. It offers stimulating and authoritative coverage of every aspect of Shakespeare and his writings, including their reinterpretation in the theatre, in criticism, and in film.

The Oxford companion to Shakespeare

The first full-length study since the 1920s of the Restoration and eighteenth-century's revisions and revaluations of Shakespeare, and the first to consider the period's much-reviled stage adaptions in the context of the profound cultural changes of their times. Drawing on a wide range of evidence, Dobson examines how and why Shakespeare was retrospectively claimed as both a respectable Enlightenment author and a crucial and contested symbol of British national identity. The book provides thorough analysis, both engaging and informative, the definitive account of the theatre's role in establishing Shakespeare as Britain's National Poet. - ;The century between the Restoration and David Garrick's Stratford Jubilee saw William Shakespeare's promotion from the status of archaic, rustic playwright to that of England's timeless Bard, and with it the complete transformation of the ways in which his plays were staged, published, and read. But why Shakespeare, and what different interests did this process serve? The Making of the National Poet is the first full-length study since the 1920s of the Restoration and eighteenth century's revisions and revaluations of Shakespeare, and the first to consider the period's much-reviled stage adaptations in the context of the profound cultural changes in which they participate. Drawing on a wide range of evidence - including engravings, prompt-books, diaries, statuary, and previously unpublished poems (among them traces of the hitherto mysterious Shakespeare Ladies' Club) - it examines how and why Shakespeare was retrospectively claimed as both a respectable Enlightenment author and a crucial and contested symbol of British national identity. It shows in particular how the deification of Shakespeare co-existed with, and even demanded, the drastic and sometimes bizarre rewriting of his plays for which the period is notorious. The book provides thorough analysis, both engaging and informative, the definitive account of the theatre's role in establishing Shakespeare as Britain's National Poet. -

Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769

The Making of the National Poet : Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, 1660-1769

Andreas Höfele

Martin Procházka

Hanna Scolnicov

Selected contributions to the most prestigious international event in Shakespeare studies, the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress (2011), represent major trends in the field in historical and present-day contexts. Special attention is given to the impact of Shakespeare on diverse cultures, from the Native Americans to China and Japan.

Proceedings of the Ninth World Shakespeare Congress

Renaissance Shakespeare: Shakespeare Renaissances

Stanley W. Wells

"A truly fun, accessible, and contextually rich companion to the vast world and work of Shakespeare. Spanning the historical and contemporary, and the literary and dramatic, this authoritative and illustrative 3,000-entry compendium is well constructed, solidly cross-referenced, and above all, delightful and interesting reading."--"Outstanding Reference Sources," American Libraries, May 2002.

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Creative Project Management

Erin Sullivan

Will Sharpe

In the wake of Hitler's death and Rommel's surrender to General Patton, the former foes join forces to take on a new enemy in the East, Stalin, who is preparing to lead the supposedly neutral Soviet Union in a power grab that will jeopardize all Europe, in a speculative thriller about a World War II that could have been. By the authors of Fox on the Rhine. Reprint.

Michael Dobson

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