Great Stage of Fools

Great Stage of Fools PDF Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 153263854X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book Description
This book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of the plays.

Great Stage of Fools

Great Stage of Fools PDF Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 153263854X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192

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Book Description
This book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of the plays.

Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools

Shakespeare's Great Stage of Fools PDF Author: R. Bell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230337724
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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This lively, lucid book undertakes a detailed and provocative study of Shakespeare's fascination with clowns, fools, and fooling. Through close reading of plays over the whole course of Shakespeare's theatrical career, Bell highlights the fun, wit, insights, and mysteries of some of Shakespeare's most vibrant and often vexing figures.

Great Stage of Fools

Great Stage of Fools PDF Author: Peter J. Leithart
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN: 1532638523
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 218

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Book Description
This book gives close attention to the poetry and plotting of six Shakespeare plays, three tragedies (Coriolanus, Richard III, and King Lear) and three comedies (Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night, The Merchant of Venice), paying particular attention to biblical imagery and theological themes of the plays.

King Lear

King Lear PDF Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152

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The Fool's Girl

The Fool's Girl PDF Author: Celia Rees
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0747597340
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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Nominated for the Carnegie Medal 2011 Shakespeare in Love meets Twelfth Night - A gripping and evocative historical novel by bestselling Celia Rees

Lear

Lear PDF Author: Harold Bloom
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1501164201
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176

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From one of the greatest Shakespeare scholars of our time, a beloved professor who has taught the Bard for over half a century—an intimate, wise, deeply compelling portrait of Lear, arguably Shakespeare’s most tragic and compelling character, the third in a series of five short books hailed as Harold Bloom’s “last love letter to the shaping spirit of his imagination” (The New York Times Book Review). King Lear is one of the most famous and compelling characters in literature. The aged, abused monarch—a man in his eighties, like Bloom himself—is at once the consummate figure of authority and the classic example of the fall from grace and widely agreed to be Shakespeare’s most moving, tragic hero. Award-winning writer and beloved professor Harold Bloom writes about Lear with wisdom, joy, exuberance, and compassion. He also explores his own personal relationship to the character: Just as we encounter one Anna Karenina or Jay Gatsby when we are seventeen and another when we are forty, Bloom writes about his shifting understanding—over the course of his own lifetime—of this endlessly compelling figure, so that the book also becomes an extraordinarily moving argument for literature as a path to and a measure of our humanity. Bloom is mesmerizing in the classroom, wrestling with the often tragic choices Shakespeare’s characters make. Now he brings that insight to his “measured, thoughtful assessment of a key play in the Shakespeare canon” (Kirkus Reviews). “Lear is a “short, superb book that has a depth of observation acquired from a lifetime of study” (Publishers Weekly).

As You Like it

As You Like it PDF Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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The Serpent of Venice

The Serpent of Venice PDF Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062194879
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 367

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Venice, a long time ago. Three prominent Venetians await their most loathsome and foul dinner guest, the erstwhile envoy from the Queen of Britain: the rascal-Fool Pocket. This trio of cunning plotters—the merchant, Antonio; the senator, Montressor Brabantio; and the naval officer, Iago—have lured Pocket to a dark dungeon, promising an evening of sprits and debauchery with a rare Amontillado sherry and Brabantio's beautiful daughter, Portia. But their invitation is, of course, bogus. The wine is drugged. The girl isn't even in the city limits. Desperate to rid themselves once and for all of the man who has consistently foiled their grand quest for power and wealth, they have lured him to his death. (How can such a small man, be such a huge obstacle?). But this Fool is no fool . . . and he's got more than a few tricks (and hand gestures) up his sleeve. Greed, revenge, deception, lust, and a giant (but lovable) sea monster combine to create another hilarious and bawdy tale from modern comic genius, Christopher Moore.

From Shakespeare to Existentialism

From Shakespeare to Existentialism PDF Author: Walter A. Kaufmann
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 9780691013671
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 480

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A companion volume to his Critique of Religion and Philosophy, this book offers Walter Kaufmann's critical interpretations of some of the great minds in Western philosophy, religion, and literature.

Fool

Fool PDF Author: Christopher Moore
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061974773
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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“Hilarious, always inventive, this is a book for all, especially uptight English teachers, bardolaters, and ministerial students.” —Dallas Morning News Fool—the bawdy and outrageous New York Times bestseller from the unstoppable Christopher Moore—is a hilarious new take on William Shakespeare’s King Lear…as seen through the eyes of the foolish liege’s clownish jester, Pocket. A rousing tale of “gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity,” Fool joins Moore’s own Lamb, Fluke, The Stupidest Angel, and You Suck! as modern masterworks of satiric wit and sublimely twisted genius, prompting Carl Hiassen to declare Christopher Moore “a very sick man, in the very best sense of the word.”