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King Lear

Easy Reading Shakespeare Series

By: William Shakespeare

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King Lear

Easy Reading Shakespeare Series

By: William Shakespeare

This Easy Reading Shakespeare work text will introduce the famous literary accomplishments of William Shakespeare. Easy reading adaptations ignite interest of reluctant and enthusiastic readers. This play has been condensed and reformulated into a novel type book with 10 short chapters and language arts activities after each reading selection. Key words are defined and used in context. Multiple-choice questions require the recall of specific details, sequence of events, the drawing of inferences, developing a new story name, choosing the main idea and more. This 8.5 x11 book includes illustrations; preview words and improves fluency, vocabulary and comprehension. Excellent for English Language Learners, adults and students reading below grade level. Also a great way to introduce the works of William Shakespeare!

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1555763383

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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9 vols.]

Volume 8

By: William George Clark

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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9 vols.]

Volume 8

By: William George Clark

Reproduction of the original: The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9 vols.] by William George Clark

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375243077X

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9783752430776

Student's Guide to Shakespeare

By: William McKenzie

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Student's Guide to Shakespeare

By: William McKenzie

This book is a 'one-stop-shop' for the busy undergraduate studying Shakespeare. Offering detailed guidance to the plays most often taught on undergraduate courses, the volume targets the topics tutors choose for essay questions and is organised to help students find the information they need quickly. Each text discussion contains sections on sources, characters, performance, themes, language, and critical history, helping students identify the different ways of approaching a text. The book's unique play-based structure and character-centre approach allows students to easily navigate the material. The flexibility of the design allows students to either read cover-to-cover, target a specific play, or explore elements of a narrative unit such as imagery or characterisation. The reader will gain quickly a full grasp of the kind of dramatist William Shakespeare was - and is.

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Edinburgh University Press

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1474413528

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9781474413527

Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare

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Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare

This revised edition of the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works includes the full text of Double Falsehood, which was published in the Arden Third series to critical acclaim in 2010. The play is an eighteenth century rewrite of Shakespeare's "lost" play Cardenio and as such is a fascinating testament to the original. A short introduction outlines its complex textual history and the arguments for including it within the Shakespeare canon. The Complete Works contains the texts of all Shakespeare's plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading Shakespeare scholars for the renowned Arden series. A general introduction gives the reader an overall view of how and why Shakespeare has become such an influential cultural icon, and how perceptions of his work have changed in the intervening four centuries. The introduction summarises the known facts about the dramatist's life, his reading and use of sources, and the nature of theatrical performance during his lifetime. Brief introductions to each play, written specially for this volume by the Arden General Editors, discuss the date and contemporary context of the play, its position within Shakespeare's oeuvre, and its subsequent performance history. An extensive glossary explains vocabulary which may be unfamiliar to modern readers.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1408198789

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9781408198780

The Complete Pelican Shakespeare

By: William Shakespeare

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The Complete Pelican Shakespeare

By: William Shakespeare

This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at textual and literary-historical issues. The texts themselves have been scrupulously edited and are accompanied by same-page notes and glossaries. Particular attention has been paid to the design of the book to ensure that this first new edition of the twenty-first century is both attractive and approachable.

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Penguin

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0141000589

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King Lear: Arden Performance Editions

By: William Shakespeare

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King Lear: Arden Performance Editions

By: William Shakespeare

King Lear has ruled for many years. As age overtakes him, he divides his kingdom amongst his children. Misjudging their loyalty, he soon finds himself stripped of all the trappings of state, wealth and power that had defined him. Arden Performance Editions are ideal for anyone engaging with a Shakespeare play in performance. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, easily accessible information about key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students. Designed to be used and to be useful, each edition has plenty of space for personal annotations and the well-spaced text is easy to read and to navigate. Each edition offers: - Short, clear definitions of words - Information about key textual variants - Notes on pronunciation of difficult names and unfamiliar words - An easy to read layout with space to write your own notes - A short introduction to the play

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350243639

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9781350243637

The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

By: William Shakespeare

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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

By: William Shakespeare

The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers - a new, modern-spelling text, based on the Quarto text of 1608 - on-page commentary and notes explain meaning, staging, allusions and much else - detailed introduction considers composition, sources, performances and changing critical attitudes to the play - illustrated with production photographs and related art - includes 'The Ballad of King Lear' and related offshoots - full index to introduction and commentary - durable sewn binding for lasting use 'not simply a better text but a new conception of Shakespeare. This is a major achievement of twentieth-century scholarship.' Times Literary Supplement ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

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OUP Oxford

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0191609048

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9780191609046

Fat King, Lean Beggar

Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare

By: William C. Carroll

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Fat King, Lean Beggar

Representations of Poverty in the Age of Shakespeare

By: William C. Carroll

Investigating representations of poverty in Tudor-Stuart England, Fat King, Lean Beggar reveals the gaps and outright contradictions in what poets, pamphleteers, government functionaries, and dramatists of the period said about beggars and vagabonds. William C. Carroll analyzes these conflicting "truths" and reveals the various aesthetic, political, and socio-economic purposes Renaissance constructions of beggary were made to serve.Carroll begins with a broad survey of both the official images and explanations of poverty and also their unsettling unofficial counterparts. This discourse defines and contains the beggar by continually linking him with his hierarchical inversion, the king. Carroll then turns his attention to the exemplary case of Nicholas Genings, perhaps the single most famous beggar of the period, whose machinations as fraudulent parasite and histrionic genius were chronicled by Thomas Harman. Carroll next assesses institutional responses to poverty by considering two hospitals for the destitute, Bridewell and Bedlam, and their role as real and symbolic places in Elizabethan drama.Fat King, Lean Beggar then focuses on dramatic inscriptions of poverty, primarily in Shakespeare's plays. Carroll's analysis of The Taming of the Shrew and The Winter's Tale links the tradition of the merry beggar to the socioeconomic forces of the day; and his reading of King Lear makes a case for the uniqueness of Edgar, the Bedlam beggar, in the history of drama. Carroll also considers later plays such as Fletcher and Massinger's Beggars' Bush and Richard Brome's Jovial Crew to show how idealizations of the beggar ironically equate him with a monarch in his supposed freedom.

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Cornell University Press

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1501722484

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9781501722486

The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America

From the Nazis to the New Millennium

By: William J. Birnes,Joel Martin

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The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America

From the Nazis to the New Millennium

By: William J. Birnes,Joel Martin

In this sequel to The Haunting of America, national bestselling authors Joel Martin and William J. Birnes bring up to the present the story of how paranormal events influenced and sometimes even drove political events. In unearthing the roots of America's fascination with the ghosts, goblins, and demons that possess our imaginations and nightmares, Martin and Birnes show how the paranormal has driven America's political, public, and militarypolicies. The authors examine the social history of the United States through the lens of the paranormal and investigate the spiritual events that inspired momentous national decisions: UFOs that frightened the nation's military into launching nuclear bomber squadrons toward the Soviet Union, out-of-body experiences used to gather sensitive intelligence on other countries, and even spirits summoned to communicate with living politicians. The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America is a thrilling evidencebased exploration of the often unexpected influences of the paranormal on science, medicine, law, the government, the military, psychology, theology, death and dying, spirituality, and pop culture. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

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Forge Books

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1429997370

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9781429997379

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare

The second Oxford edition of Shakespeare's Complete Works reconsiders every detail of their text and presentation in the light of modern scholarship. The nature and authority of the early documents are re-examined, and the canon and chronological order of composition freshly established. Spelling and punctuation are modernized, and there is a brief introduction to each work, as well as an illuminating and informative General Introduction. Included here for the first time is the play The Reign of King Edward the Third as well as the full text of Sir Thomas More. This new edition also features an essay on Shakespeare's language by David Crystal, and a bibliography of foundational works.

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OUP Oxford

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0191608394

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The New Oxford Shakespeare

The Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare

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The New Oxford Shakespeare

The Complete Works

By: William Shakespeare

The Complete Works: Modern Critical Edition is part of the landmark New Oxford Shakespeare--an entirely new consideration of all of Shakespeare's works, edited afresh from all the surviving original versions of his work, and drawing on the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship.This single illustrated volume is expertly edited to frame the surviving original versions of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and early musical scores around the latest literary, textual, and theatrical scholarship to date.

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Oxford University Press

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0199591156

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9780199591152

The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear: The 1608 Quarto

By: William Shakespeare

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The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear: The 1608 Quarto

By: William Shakespeare

King Lear, widely considered Shakespeare's most deeply moving, passionately expressed, and intellectually ambitious play, has almost always been edited from the revised version printed in the First Folio of 1623, with additions from the quarto of 1608. Acting on recent discoveries, this volume presents the first full, scholarly edition to be based firmly on the quarto, now recognized as the base text from which all others derive. A thorough, attractively written introduction suggests how the work grew slowly in Shakespeare's imagination, fed by years of reading, thinking, and experience as a practical dramatist. Analysis of the great range of literary and other sources from which he shaped the tragedy, and of its critical and theatrical history, indicates that the play felt as shocking and original to early audiences as it does now. Its challenges have often been evaded, notably in Nahum Tate's notorious adaptation. During the twentieth century, however, deeper understanding of the conventions of Shakespeare's theatre restored confidence in the theatrical viability of his original text, while the play has also generated a remarkable range of offshoots in film, television, the visual arts, music, and literature. The commentary to this edition offers detailed help in understanding the language and dramaturgy in relation to the theatres in which King Lear was first performed. Additional sections reprint the early ballad, ignored by all modern editors, which was among its earliest derivatives, and provide additional guides to understanding and appreciating one of the greatest masterworks of Western civilization.

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OUP Oxford

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0191606766

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9780191606762

Sermons on the Second Readings

Cycle A

By: James L. Killen,Richard W Ferris,William G Carter

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Sermons on the Second Readings

Cycle A

By: James L. Killen,Richard W Ferris,William G Carter

This superb collection of biblically sound sermons based on the Second Readings from Cycle A of the Revised Common Lectionary covers every Sunday and major celebration of the church year. Five outstanding preachers from diverse denominations combine imaginative insights into the New Testament epistle texts with fresh, inspiring illustrations that enlighten the mind and warm the heart. By reliving the journey of Jesus through the prism of the early church's practical and moral concerns, these messages offer valuable lessons for Christian living in the modern world. This essential resource is useful for: * Fresh homiletical approaches to the lectionary texts * Preaching illustrations * Understanding scripture passages * Adult study and discussion groups * Personal devotions and Bible study Thoughtful, insightful, and sprinkled with good humor, these sermons from Rich Ferris will warm your heart and give you fresh ideas. Most importantly, they clearly communicate the good news of Christ! Brian Cowan Pastor, Barberton Evangelical Friends Church Barberton, Ohio William Carter's sermons are an eruption of ingenious images, powerful experiences, and inventive connections. The result of interplay between creativity and fidelity, they are a splash of wildflowers growing in rich and loamy soil. Thomas G. Long Bandy Professor of Preaching Candler School of Theology, Emory University

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CSS Publishing

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0788023241

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Book's by William Edgar

King Lear

King Lear

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9 vols.]

The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 8 of 9 vols.]

Student's Guide to Shakespeare

Student's Guide to Shakespeare

Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

Arden Shakespeare Complete Works

The Complete Pelican Shakespeare

The Complete Pelican Shakespeare

King Lear: Arden Performance Editions

King Lear: Arden Performance Editions

The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear

Fat King, Lean Beggar

Fat King, Lean Beggar

The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America

The Haunting of Twentieth-Century America

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

William Shakespeare: The Complete Works

The New Oxford Shakespeare

The New Oxford Shakespeare

The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear: The 1608 Quarto

The Oxford Shakespeare: The History of King Lear: The 1608 Quarto

Sermons on the Second Readings

Sermons on the Second Readings

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