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008429
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2009
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Great Britain, Scholastic, 1998.
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192pPink Spine
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The ten best Shakespeare plays have been re-told in a way you are more familiar with, using modern language and modern styles, from a photo-love story to a newspaper report, with fascinating facts about Shakespeare, his life and the different ways in which his plays have been performed.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream: Nightmare in elm trees
The ten ages of Shakespeare
King Lear: Lear today, gone tomorrow
Shakespeare's theatre
Twelfth Night: Malvolio's madness
Ten best actor's tales
The Tempest: Miranda's diary
The Shakespeare timeline
The Merchant of Venice: Shylock shocker
Shakespeare's blind date
Villians or victims?
Romeo and Juliet: Play dead
Foul word-play
Julius Caesar: The revenge of Caesar's spirit
Who wrote Shakespeare?
The Taming of the Shrew: Shrew shocker
Shakespeare's audiences
Macbeth: The ballad of big Mac
The Macbeth curse
Hamlet: The topped ten
Quick quiz
Epilogue
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1407108190 Pb.
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023264
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East Sussex, Ivy Press, 2015.
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160pBrown spine
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30-Second Shakespeare uses the unique approach of the bestselling 30-Second series to grapple with the work and influence of the world's most famous playwright. This absorbing crash course takes the reader through what we know of his life, then turns to uncoding key concepts, themes and motifs in his plays and other works, and finishes with a succinct look at the Bard's extraordinary literary and linguistic legacy. '30-second Shakespeare' features 50 of the key moments, works and lasting influences of the Bard, all explained clearly and without the clutter. Each entry is summarized in just 3 seconds - using nothing more than two pages, 300 words and one picture. Leading Shakespeare scholars present an expert guide to his life and works.
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9781782402602 Hb.
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013850
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London, BBC World Wide, 2005.
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142 min. approx.Black Spine
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The Shakespeare Collection
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"All's Well That Ends Well" is one of Shakespeare's most poetic and subtle comedies. When the clever and appealing Helena cures the ailing king of France of an illness, she asks for the hand of Bertram (a proper young Englishman) in return. Her efforts to win Bertram's love are rendered with wit and verve.
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1 DVD.
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013845
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London, BBC World Wide, 2005.
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170 min approx.Black Spine
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The Shakespeare Collection
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A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . . between an empire and love. Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare's supreme achievements.
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1 DVD.
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| N00088 | 822.33/ANT | Main | On Shelf | Non Book Material | |
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009788
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Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Editions, 2000.
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160pBlue spine
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Wordsworth Classics
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A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . . between an empire and love. Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare's supreme achievements.
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9781853260759 Pb.
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008336
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Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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128pYellow Spine
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Cambridge Student Guide
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The love story and the political struggle are bound up in each other. It is a tragedy but also a history play, a morality play and other genres as well.
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Commentary
Contexts -
What did Shakespeare write?
What did Shakespeare read?
What was Shakespeare's England like?
Queen Elizabeth I
King James I
King Christian IV
Rome and Egypt
Changing ideas of honour
Shakespeare's own life
Language
Critical approaches
Organising your responses
Resources
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9780521538589 Pb.
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| 008712 | 822.33/SHA | Main | On Shelf | Teacher Resources | Teacher Resource |
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008339
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Great Britain, Cambridge University Press,
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128pYellow Spine
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Cambridge Student Guide
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All kinds of meanings and interpretations are possible in this play Cultural and social contexts are examined in detail as also what was Shakespeare's interpretation.
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What did Shakespeare write?
What did Shakespeare read?
The pastoral romance tradition
What was Shakespeare's England like?
Politics and protest
Younger sons: primogeniture
Women and patriarchy
Religion
The melancholy man: the malcontent
The Fool
Shakespeare's own life
Language
Critical approaches -
Organising your responses
Resources
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9780521008211 Pb.
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| 008702 | 822.33/SHA | Main | On Shelf | Teacher Resources | Teacher Resource |
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009781
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Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Editions, 1992.
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120pBlue Spine
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Wordsworth Classics
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As You Like It follows its heroine Rosalind as she flees persecution in her uncle's court, accompanied by her cousin Celia and Touchstone the court jester, to find safety and eventually love in the Forest of Arden.
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9781853260599 Pb.
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013851
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London, BBC World Wide, 2005.
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150 min. approx.Black Spine
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The Shakespeare Collection
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When forbidden romance enters their lives, a pair of noblewomen assume disguises and flee to the Forest of Arden, where they encounter a magical world of friendly outlaws and wise fools. Both a lighthearted comedy and a deeper exploration of social and literary issues, this play features a memorable cast of characters and incomparable poetry.
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1 DVD.
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| N00094 | 822.33/SHA | Main | On Shelf | Non Book Material | |
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016006
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London, Puffin Books, 2005.
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152pWhite Spine
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Penguin Shakespeare
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Discusses the plot and characters of the Shakespearean comedy.
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0141012277 Pb.
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016842
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New York, Spark Publishing, 2004.
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xii, 243pBlack and Blue Spine
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No Fear Shakespeare
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Rosalind, daughter of the deposed Duke Senior, is exiled from the court by her wicked uncle. Disguising herself as a young man and accompanied by her cousin Celia and their loyal fool Touchstone, she takes refuge in the Forest of Arden. In the forest Rosalind meets young Orlando with whom she is in love, but her male disguise complicates matters, expecially when Rosalind finds she has unwittingly attracted the shepherdess Phebe.
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of As You Like It on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
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9781411401044 Pb.
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011219
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New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1998.
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78pGreen Spine
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Dover Thrift Editions
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Offers an eloquent meditation on the ultimately ephemeral nature of existence. Explores social and literary issues, satire, relations between men and women, all in the incomparable language of Shakespeare.
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0486404323 Pb.
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000610
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Great Britain, Walker Books, 2001.
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32pRed Spine
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Seven of Shakespeare's most famous plays , presented in comic-strip form , with both Shakespeare' s original dialogue interwoven with tongue-in-cheek comments of the audience.
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As you like it
Antony and Cleopatra
Richard III
Twelfth night
King Lear
The merchant of Venice
Much ado about nothing
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744582377 Pb.
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011223
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New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 2002.
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53pBrown Spine
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Dover Thrift Editions
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Young Antipholus of Syracuse is searching the world for his identical twin brother, separated from him at birth. With him is his servant Dromio, who lost his twin brother at the same time. The pair arrive in Ephesus where, unbeknownst to them, their twins are living.
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9780486424613 Pb.
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ID:
008333
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Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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128pYellow Spine
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Cambridge Student Guide
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The play is an exploration of mother - son relationships; Coriolanus' emotional attachment to his mother both creates and destroys him.
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What did Shakespeare write?
What did Shakespeare read?
What was Shakespeare's England like?
Enclosures and corn riots
The warrior-heroes of the time
Crown versus Parliament
The influence of Machiavelli
Shakespeare' own life
Language
Critical approaches
Organising your responses
Resources
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0521538599 Pb.
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| 008706 | 822.33/SHA | Main | On Shelf | Teacher Resources | Teacher Resource |
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ID:
009783
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Hamlet
/ Shakespeare, William
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1992
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Hertfordshire, Wordsworth Editions, 1992.
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192pBlue Spine
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Wordsworth Classics
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The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius for murdering the old King Hamlet, Claudius's own brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and marrying Gertrude, the King Hamlet's widow and mother of Prince Hamlet. The play vividly charts the course of real and feigned madness—from overwhelming grief to seething rage - and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
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9781853260094 Pb.
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011214
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Hamlet
/ Shakespeare, William
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1992
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New York, Dover Publications, Inc., 1992.
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122pBrick Red Spine
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Dover Thrift Editions
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Potrays a young prince's halting pursuit of revenge for the murder of his father, unfolding a series of highly charged confrontations.
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9780486272788 Pb.
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ID:
008338
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Hamlet
/ Shakespeare, William
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2002
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2008 (Reprint)
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Great Britain, Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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128pYellow Spine
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Cambridge Student Guide
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Hamlet's openness to all kinds of possible interpretations make it the most theatrical of all plays. Hamlet portrays the inner turmoil of an alienated and melancholy young man, ordered by a ghost to revenge his father's murder.
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Commentary
Contexts -
What did Shakespeare write?
What did Shakespeare read?
What was Shakespeare's England like?
Politics and the court
Revenge
Incest
Religion
The subordination of women
Theatre
Language
Critical approaches
Organising your responses
Resources
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9780521008150 Pb.
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| 008703 | 822.33/SHA | Main | On Shelf | Teacher Resources | Teacher Resource |
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013844
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Hamlet
/ Shakespeare, William
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2005
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London, BBC World Wide, 2005.
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212min approx.Black Spine
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The Shakespeare Collection
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A tragedy by William Shakespeare, set in the Kingdom of Denmark. The play dramatizes the revenge Prince Hamlet exacts on his uncle Claudius for murdering King Hamlet, Claudius's brother and Prince Hamlet's father, and then succeeding to the throne and taking as his wife Gertrude, the old king's widow and Prince Hamlet's mother. The play vividly portrays both true and feigned madness – from overwhelming grief to seething rage – and explores themes of treachery, revenge, incest, and moral corruption.
Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and among the most powerful and influential tragedies in the English language
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1 DVD.
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| N00087 | 822.33/HAM | Main | On Shelf | Non Book Material | |
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016846
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Hamlet
/ Shakespeare, William
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2003
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New York, Spark Publishing, 2003.
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xii, 337pBlack and Blue Spine
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No Fear Shakespeare
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No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Hamlet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
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9781586638443 Pb.
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