"Introduction: Great. Creating. Shakespeare. Paul. Edmondson. and. Peter.
Holbrook. The art itself is nature. THE WINTER'S TALE, 4.4.97 Four hundred
years on from the beginning of one of the strongest of all artistic legacies, we –
artists, writers, performers and readers – continue to create and recreate
Shakespeare. Why? Some explanations are obvious: the sheer unmatched
eloquence of the writing; the cultural prestige of the works ..."
"The Oxfordian message was adapted to a juvenile audience by Lynne Kositsky in
her time-travel fantasy A Question of l/Vill.I3 Like Stratfordian equivalents, such
as Susan Cooper's King of Shadows,14 Kositsky's novel features a modern ...
She then asks her friend John Pyke to ensure that the authorship secret will be
revealed after Oxford's death, and when ... De Vere's name on it: through a well-
known time-travel paradox, Perin has ..."
The Stukeley plays(1st Edition) The Battle of Alcazar' by George Peele and 'The Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley (Revels Plays Companion Library) by Charles Edelman, George Peele, PaulEdmondson, Martin White Paperback, 250 Pages, Published 2011 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-8564-2, ISBN: 0-7190-8564-0
"Sir Thomas Stukeley, the notorious English courtier, pirate, adventurer and soldier, died at the Battle of Alcazar in Morocco in 1578, while serving in the army of King Sebastian of Portugal. This volume comprises the first modern-spelling, annotated edition of two plays in which he is a major character: George Peele's 'The Battle of Alcazar' (c.1588), and the anonymous 'Famous History of the Life and Death of Captain Thomas Stukeley' ( ..."
"This is a ground-breaking edition of three seventeenth-century plays that all engage in diverse and exciting ways with questions of gender and performance. The collection, edited by three pioneering scholars of elite female culture and early modern drama, makes the texts of three much-discussed plays - John Fletcher's The Wild-Goose Chase, James Shirley's The Bird in a Cage and Margaret Cavendish's The Convent of Pleasure - available to ..."
"She has edited Dorothea Tieck'S translation of Shakespeare's sonnets (1992)
and Shakespeare's A Lover's Complaint. ... For Delaware Press she edited
German Shakespeare Studies at the Turn of the Twenty—first Century (2006) ,
and Shakespeare ... edition of Gundolf's and Wenghb'fer's (hitherto unpublished)
translations of Shakespeare's sonnets and narrative poems. ... Between 1982
and 1996 She was Executive Director ofthe Folger Inst ..."
Euphues the Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and His England (Revels Plays Companion Library) (Revels Plays Companion Library MUP) by Leah Scragg, John Lyly, PaulEdmondson, Martin White Paperback, 358 Pages, Published 2009 by Manchester University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-6459-3, ISBN: 0-7190-6459-7
"John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit and Euphues and his England, created a literary sensation in their own age, and had a profound influence on Elizabethan prose. This modern-spelling edition of the two works, the first for nearly a century, is designed to allow the twenty-first century reader access to this culturally significant text and to explore the fascination that it exerted. Attuned to the needs of both students and specia ..."
Beyond the Spanish Tragedy(1st Edition) A Study of the Works of Thomas Kyd (The Revels Plays Companions Library) by Lukas Erne, PaulEdmondson, Martin White Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2009 by Manchester University Press Illustrated ISBN-13: 978-0-7190-7949-8, ISBN: 0-7190-7949-7
"Kyd is arguably Shakespeare's most important tragic predecessor. Brilliantly fusing the drama of the academic and popular traditions, Thomas Kyd's plays are of central importance for understanding how the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries came about. Called 'an extraordinary dramatic . genius' by T.S. Eliot, Thomas Kyd invented the revenge tragedy genre that culminated in Shakespeare's Hamlet some twelve years later. In this s ..."
"In one production at the RSC in 1978, the actress Paola Dionisotti and her
director Barry Kyle disagreed strongly over how Isabella should react to the Duke
at the end of the play. Speaking to Carol Chillington Rutter, Dionisotti complained
that ..."
"This book opens up Twelfth Night as a play to see and hear, provides useful contextual and source material, and considers the critical and theatrical reception over four centuries."
Twelfth Night by PaulEdmondson 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-0-230-20437-9, ISBN: 0-230-20437-6
"rekindled a theory of F. G. Fleay, of 1876, that Shakespeare revised the text in Act
II, scene iv. Viola intends to sing for Orsino (I.ii.54–5) and is called on to do so (II.
iv.2–3). But Feste sings instead. The theory goes that the boy actor who played
Viola could not sing (or not well enough), but that the necessary revision was not
made consistently throughout the text. It is even possible that Shakespeare's first
Viola could si ..."
Turning(1st Edition) by Tim Winton, PaulEdmondson Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2005 by Harper Collins Publishers ISBN-13: 978-0-00-200715-3, ISBN: 0-00-200715-0
"Very good condition."
Twelfth Night by PaulEdmondson 192 Pages, Published 2005 by Palgrave Macmillan ISBN-13: 978-1-137-20562-9, ISBN: 1-137-20562-8
"Fielding, Emma, Twelfth Night, Actors on Shakespeare (London: Faber and
Faber, 2002): a useful account of Viola, and ... Richard Mangan (London:
Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004): an invaluable collection of insights into
Gielgud's life, ... for Actors (London: Shakespeare Society, 1841): a vindication of
the stage and of the professional theatre, first published in 1612. ... Twelfth Night
or What You Will: Texts and Contexts (Boston ..."
"The sonnets are among the most accomplished and fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of Shakespeare's work as a poet and poetic dramatist, and while their autobiographical relevance is uncertain, no account of Shakespeare's life can afford to ignore them. So many myths and superstitions have arisen around these poems, relating for example to their possible addressees, to their coherence as a se ..."
Shakespeare's Sonnets(1st Edition) (Oxford Shakespeare Topics) by PaulEdmondson, Stanley Wells Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2004 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-925611-2, ISBN: 0-19-925611-X
"The sonnets are among the most accomplished and fascinating poems in the English language. They are central to an understanding of Shakespeare's work as a poet and poetic dramatist, and while their autobiographical relevance is uncertain, no account of Shakespeare's life can afford to ignore them. So many myths and superstitions have arisen around these poems, relating for example to their possible addressees, to their coherence as a se ..."