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What Happens in Hamlet(3rd Edition)
by John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 1951 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-09109-1, ISBN: 0-521-09109-8

"John Dover Wilson's What Happens in Hamlet is a classic of Shakespeare criticism. First published in 1935, it is still being read throughout the English-speaking world and has been widely translated. Hamlet has excited more curiosity and aroused more debate than any other play ever written. Is Hamlet really mad? Does he really see his father's ghost, or is it an illusion? Is the ghost good or bad? What does it all mean? Dover Wilson bri ..."






Fortunes of Falstaff(Updated)
by John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 1979 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-521-09246-3, ISBN: 0-521-09246-9

"Dr Dover Wilson examines Falstaff's role in the two parts of Henry IV and his relationship to the Prince. Like most other Shakespearean scholars he had accepted, Bradley's portrait as shown in The Rejection of Falstaff, until (as he writes) he 'began checking it with yet another portrait - that which I found in the pages of Shakespeare himself. As the result of much recent work on the two parts of Henry IV, a new Falstaff stands before ..."






Life in Shakespeare's England
A Book of Elizabethan Prose (Classic Reprint) (Hardback)
by John Dover Wilson
Hardcover, Published 2018 by Forgotten Books, United States
ISBN-13: 978-0-266-65447-6, ISBN: 0-266-65447-9






Life in Shakespeare's England
A Book of Elizabethan Prose (Classic Reprint)
by John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 332 Pages, Published 2017 by Forgotten Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-331-45822-7, ISBN: 1-331-45822-6

"Excerpt from Life in Shakespeare's England: A Book of Elizabethan ProseUnder full contribution, while most of the earlier pamphleteers are continually dropping into the 'character' vein and are full of such admirable little vignettes as the portrait of the bookseller from Nashe on p. 152. This, however, is not always the case, and that more use has not been made, for instance, of the work of Greene is to be set down to the fact that int ..."






Life in Shakespeare's England(2nd Edition)
A Book of Elizabethan Prose (Cambridge Library Collection - Literary Studies)
by John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-00261-5, ISBN: 1-108-00261-7

"Entertaining and informative, this 1956 anthology paints a vivid picture of the world in which Shakespeare lived. Using the playwright's life as the framework - his birth, his education, his move to London, his life in theatre, his death - the book uses selected extracts from key Elizabethan publications to embody the atmosphere of this period. From sport to superstition, from festival to fashion, from the plague to playhouses, the sign ..."






The Resurrection Of Our Lord
(1912)
by John Dover Wilson, Bertram Dobell
Paperback, 56 Pages, Published 2010 by Kessinger Publishing, Llc
ISBN-13: 978-1-164-05570-9, ISBN: 1-164-05570-4

"This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work."






Shakespeare's Happy Comedies(Updated)
by John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1969 by Faber And Faber
Import
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-09023-5, ISBN: 0-571-09023-0






Hamlet(Reprint)
The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare (Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama)
by William Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 420 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-00579-1, ISBN: 1-108-00579-9

"John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended wi ..."






Macbeth
The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare (Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama)
by William Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 276 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-00591-3, ISBN: 1-108-00591-8

"John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended wi ..."






The Tragedy of Coriolanus(Reprint)
The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare (Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama)
by William Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-00576-0, ISBN: 1-108-00576-4

"John Dover Wilson's New Shakespeare, published between 1921 and 1966, became the classic Cambridge edition of Shakespeare's plays and poems until the 1980s. The series, long since out-of-print, is now reissued. Each work is available both individually and as a set, and each contains a lengthy and lively introduction, main text, and substantial notes and glossary printed at the back. The edition, which began with The Tempest and ended wi ..."






The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Containing the Plays and poems with glossary
by William Shakespeare, John Dover: Wilson
Hardcover, 1,184 Pages, Published 1984 by Octopus
ISBN-13: 978-0-86273-105-2, ISBN: 0-86273-105-4






John Lyly
by John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 128 Pages, Published 2009 by Dodo Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-4099-6086-7, ISBN: 1-4099-6086-2

"John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie) (c. 1553 or 1554 - November 1606) was an English writer, best known for his books Euphues, The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England."






The Resurrection of Our Lord Classic Reprint
by John Dover Wilson
Hardcover, Published by Forgotten Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-267-72630-1, ISBN: 0-267-72630-9






Much Ado about Nothing
The Cambridge Dover Wilson Shakespeare (Cambridge Library Collection - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama)
by William Shakespeare, John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 212 Pages, Published 2009 by Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-108-00596-8, ISBN: 1-108-00596-9

"Like Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado about Nothing shows Shakespeare moving into a more complex and darker terrain through his exploration of an apparently harmless comical romance. The play revolves around the adventures of the two gallants Claudio and Benedick at the court of Sicily. Claudio falls in love with the governor's daughter Hero, and is eager for his more misanthropic friend Benedick to also find love. Benedick is introduced ..."






Milestones on the Dover Road(1st Edition)
by John Dover Wilson
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1969 by Faber & Faber
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-08775-4, ISBN: 0-571-08775-2

"Memoirs of Wilson, best known as editor of Shakespeare's work, but also includes aspects of a varied academic career. Frontispiece, black and white plates, table of contents, list of illustrations, genealogical chart, bibliography of Wilson's publications, index. Dust jacket chipped at edges and faded. 320 pages. cloth, dust jacket. 8vo.."






The Wounds of Civil War
by Thomas Lodge, John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2018 by Sagwan Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-376-79073-3, ISBN: 1-376-79073-4

"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work ..."






Life in Shakespeare's England; A Book of Elizabethan Prose
by John Dover Wilson
Hardcover, 330 Pages, Published 2016 by Palala Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-359-72854-8, ISBN: 1-359-72854-6

"This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work ..."






The wounds of civil war - War College Series
by John Dover Wilson, Professor Thomas Lodge
Paperback, 100 Pages, Published 2015 by War College Series
ISBN-13: 978-1-296-48466-8, ISBN: 1-296-48466-1

"This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are repr ..."






The Wounds of Civil War - War College Series
(Paperback)
by John Dover Wilson, Professor Thomas Lodge
Paperback, 116 Pages, Published 2015 by War College Series
ISBN-13: 978-1-298-48787-2, ISBN: 1-298-48787-0

"This is a curated and comprehensive collection of the most important works covering matters related to national security, diplomacy, defense, war, strategy, and tactics. The collection spans centuries of thought and experience, and includes the latest analysis of international threats, both conventional and asymmetric. It also includes riveting first person accounts of historic battles and wars.Some of the books in this Series are repr ..."






Life in Shakespeare s England; A Book of Elizabethan Prose
(Paperback)
by John Dover Wilson
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2013 by Hardpress Publishing
ISBN-13: 978-1-313-13466-8, ISBN: 1-313-13466-X

"Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they d ..."



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