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Click to view full description | 1. | Henry V Shakespeare, William; Brown, John Russell (editor)
New York, NY, U.S.A. N A L 1989 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
Pages excellent. Name inscriptions on first pg. Cover glossy with just a little wear. Spine is creased once. History play in five acts by William Shakespeare, performed in 1598-99 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition. It continues the action of the two-part Henry IV. The action of the play culminates in Henry's campaign in France with a ragtag army to seize the French crown, but the depiction of the character of Henry V (formerly known as Prince Hal) dominates the play. In the first two acts he is shown at peace and war, politic, angry, confident, sarcastic. There is an account of Falstaff's death and of a nervous watch before the Battle of Agincourt when Henry walks disguised among his fearful soldiers and prays for victory. Though almost all the fighting occurs offstage, the recruits, professional soldiers, dukes, and princes are shown preparing for defeat or victory. The king's speech to his troops before battle on St. Crispin's Day is famous for its evocation of a brotherhood in arms, but Shakespeare has placed it in a context full of ironies and challenging contrasts. There is no doubt that Kate, the French princess, marries Henry out of political necessity, but Shakespeare develops the comedy and earnestness of their wooing so that the need for human trust is evident. Shakespeare also hedges the patriotic fantasy of English greatness with hesitations and qualifications about the validity of the myth of glorious nationhood offered by the Agincourt story. In the end the chorus reminds the audience that England was to be plunged into civil war during the reign of Henry V's son.
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 | 2. | King Lear Shakespeare, William
New York, NY, U.S.A. Bantam 1988 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
Book in excellent condition except for tiny tear on bottom of spine. Bookstore stamp on first page. King Lear banishes his favorite daughter when she speaks out against him. Little does he know that the two other daughters who praise him are actually plotting against him.
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| 3. | Taming of the Shrew Shakespeare, William
New York, NY, U.S.A. Simon & Schuster 1983 Mass Market Good
Considered one of Shakespeare's bawdier works, the play describes the volatile courtship between the shrewish Katharina and the canny Petruchio, who is determined to subdue Katharina's legendary temper and win her dowry. The main story is offered as a play within a play; the frame story consists of an initial two-scene "induction": a lord offers the love story as an entertainment for tinker Christopher Sly, recovering from a drunken binge at an alehouse. Although Katharina repeatedly insults Petruchio, he woos, wins, and tames her by insisting that she is actually the soul of gentleness and patience. After their marriage, he makes her forgo food, sleep, and fancy clothing, and he outdoes her mean tongue by abusing the servants. In the final scene, Petruchio wins a bet that his wife is the most obedient after Katharina gives a speech extolling the virtues of wifely subservience. Cover and spine are excellent- close to like new. Pages are fine- they look as though someone with damp finger turned pages (some pages are a little wavy on edges).
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 | 4. | The History of Henry Iv, Part I Shakespeare, William
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. New Amer Library 1987 Mass Market New
BRAND NEW! Signet Classics. This edition presents a new look at Henry IV Part 2 in accordance with the work of the Shakespeare and Schools Project, the national curriculum for English and developments at GCSE and A Level. Cambridge School Shakespeare considers the play as theatre and the text as script, enabling pupils to inhabit the imaginative world of the play in an accessible, meaningful and creative way.
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| 5. | The History of Henry Iv, Part I Shakespeare, William
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. New Amer Library 1987 Mass Market New
BRAND NEW! Signet Classics.
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| 6. | The History of Henry Iv, Part I Shakespeare, William
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. New Amer Library 1987 Mass Market New
BRAND NEW! Signet Classics.
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 | 7. | The Life of Henry V Shakespeare, William; Werstine, Paul; Mowat, Barbara A.
New York, New York, U.S.A. Pocket Classics 1995 Mass Market Very Good
Book has just a bit of shelf and edge wear. Pages crisp and clean, as new. Spine very lightly creased. History play in five acts by William Shakespeare, performed in 1598-99 and published in 1600 in a quarto edition. It continues the action of the two-part Henry IV. The action of the play culminates in Henry's campaign in France with a ragtag army to seize the French crown, but the depiction of the character of Henry V (formerly known as Prince Hal) dominates the play. In the first two acts he is shown at peace and war, politic, angry, confident, sarcastic. There is an account of Falstaff's death and of a nervous watch before the Battle of Agincourt when Henry walks disguised among his fearful soldiers and prays for victory. Though almost all the fighting occurs offstage, the recruits, professional soldiers, dukes, and princes are shown preparing for defeat or victory. The king's speech to his troops before battle on St. Crispin's Day is famous for its evocation of a brotherhood in arms, but Shakespeare has placed it in a context full of ironies and challenging contrasts. There is no doubt that Kate, the French princess, marries Henry out of political necessity, but Shakespeare develops the comedy and earnestness of their wooing so that the need for human trust is evident. Shakespeare also hedges the patriotic fantasy of English greatness with hesitations and qualifications about the validity of the myth of glorious nationhood offered by the Agincourt story. In the end the chorus reminds the audience that England was to be plunged into civil war during the reign of Henry V's son.
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| 8. | The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, William
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. New Amer Library 1991 Mass Market New
BRAND NEW! The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally re-edited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography
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| 9. | The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, William
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. New Amer Library 1991 Mass Market New
BRAND NEW! The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally re-edited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography
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| 10. | The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, William
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. New Amer Library 1991 Mass Market New
BRAND NEW! The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally re-edited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography
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| 11. | The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, William
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. New Amer Library 1991 Mass Market New
BRAND NEW! The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally re-edited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography
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| 12. | The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, William
E Rutherford, New Jersey, U.S.A. New Amer Library 1991 Mass Market New
BRAND NEW! The Arden Shakespeare has long been acclaimed as the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's work. Now being totally re-edited for the third time, Arden editions offer the very best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume provides a clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards; detailed textual notes and commentary on the same page of the text; full contextual, illustrated introduction, including an in-depth survey of critical and performance approaches to the play; and selected bibliography
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 | 13. | The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra Shakespeare, William
New York, NY, U.S.A. Signet 1964 Mass Market Paperback Very Good
Looks almost new! Minor edgewear. Pages like new- not tanned! These popular editions allow the reader and student to look beyond the scholarly reading text to the more sensuous, more collaborative, more malleable performance text which emerges in conjunction with the commentary and notes. Each note, each gloss, each commentary reflects the stage life of the play with constant reference to the challenge of the text in performance. Readers will not only discover an enlivened Shakespeare, they will be empowered to rehearse and direct their own productions of the imagination in the process.
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