Dick Riley, Pam McAllister

Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Shakespeare

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In the same winning formula as The New Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Agatha Christie (more than 300,000 copies sold) and The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Sherlock Holmes (1999), this all-new companion to Shakespeare will present The Bard in a new and exciting way in a new century. For students, scholars, theater lovers, and scholars - nearly everyone! - this book wraps some 400 years of Bardology into a lively and often unexpected package.In their witty and inimitable way, Dick Riley and Pam McAllister examine the whole dramatic canon, play by play, including dramas of disputed authorship. (The long poems and sonnets are also covered.) Included are inside stories on theater and film productions, "alternate" interpretations of the plays, Shakespeare's status around the world, the clubs and societies, the mysterious life - and even the question that has plagued critics almost from the day he put down his quill: whether Shakespeare even wrote the works attributed to him.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berg Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9780826412508
• ISBN-10: 0826412505
• Artikelnr.: 21917766

Autorenporträt

Dick Riley's novels and plays include collaboration on the best-selling Black Sunday (with Thomas Harris), Rite of Expiation, and the drama Middleman Out. He lives in White Plains, New York.

Inhaltsangabe

The Glover's Boy from Stratford: The Unremarkable Life of William Shakespeare
Renaissance England: The Cult of Elizabeth
The ups and downs of Everyday Life in Shakespeare's London
When "Gooseturd Green" Was All the Rage: Elizabethan Fashions
Maps of Shakespeare's England and London
Fools, Clowns, and Jesters
All the World's a Stage: The Wooden "O" of the Elizabethan Theater
The Elizabethan Oscars
Ten Words Any Shakespeare Reader Needs to Know
Was Shakespeare Really Shakespeare?
Bardolatry and Its Enemies: The History of the "Shakespearean Industry"
The First Folio
and What Isn't in It
The Shakespearean Moons of Uranus
Women in Elizabeth's England
The Music Ho! Renaissance Rhythms, Highbrow and Low
The Creativity of the Shakespearean Insult
The Fair Youth, a Rival Poet, and the Dark Lady: The Sonnets as Soap Opera
Great Lines He Didn't Write
"Our Two Hours' Traffic on the Stage"
The Big Personalities
So Near and Yet so Far: The Language of the Plays
Artists and the Bard: Paintings of His Plays and Life
The Secret of Psalm 46
"Sad Stories of the Deaths of Kings"
The English History Plays
The Ten Best Movies of Shakespeare's Plays
Summer Camps and Shakespearean Festivals
Shakespeare in the Garden