Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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The Plays of William Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 354
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 354
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On Parchment
Author: Bruce Holsinger
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300260210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history."--Kirkus Reviews For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era's surviving historical record. In a study spanning three millennia and twenty languages, Bruce Holsinger explores this animal archive as it shaped the inheritance of the Euro-Mediterranean world, from the leather rolls of ancient Egypt to the Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Holsinger discusses the making of parchment past and present, the nature of the medium as a biomolecular record of faunal life and environmental history, the knotty question of "uterine vellum," and the imaginative role of parchment in the works of St. Augustine, William Shakespeare, and a range of Jewish rabbinic writers of the medieval era. Closely informed by the handicraft of contemporary makers, painters, and sculptors, the book draws on a vast array of sources--codices and scrolls, documents and ephemera, works of craft and art--that speak to the vitality of parchment across epochs and continents. At the center of On Parchment is the vexed relationship of human beings to the myriad slaughtered beasts whose remains make up this vast record: a relationship of dominion and compassion, of brutality and empathy.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300260210
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
A sweeping exploration of the shaping role of animal skins in written culture and human imagination over three millennia "Richly detailed and illustrated. . . . An engaging exploration of book history."--Kirkus Reviews For centuries, premodern societies recorded and preserved much of their written cultures on parchment: the rendered skins of sheep, cows, goats, camels, deer, gazelles, and other creatures. These remains make up a significant portion of the era's surviving historical record. In a study spanning three millennia and twenty languages, Bruce Holsinger explores this animal archive as it shaped the inheritance of the Euro-Mediterranean world, from the leather rolls of ancient Egypt to the Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom. Holsinger discusses the making of parchment past and present, the nature of the medium as a biomolecular record of faunal life and environmental history, the knotty question of "uterine vellum," and the imaginative role of parchment in the works of St. Augustine, William Shakespeare, and a range of Jewish rabbinic writers of the medieval era. Closely informed by the handicraft of contemporary makers, painters, and sculptors, the book draws on a vast array of sources--codices and scrolls, documents and ephemera, works of craft and art--that speak to the vitality of parchment across epochs and continents. At the center of On Parchment is the vexed relationship of human beings to the myriad slaughtered beasts whose remains make up this vast record: a relationship of dominion and compassion, of brutality and empathy.
Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard II. King Henry IV, part 1
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 504
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The Plays of William Shakspeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Theater
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The Plays of William Shakespeare : Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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The Plays of William Shakespeare, Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copies Left by the Late George Steevens ... and Edmund Malone, with Mr. Malone's Various Readings, a Selection of Explanatory and Historical Notes ... A History of the Stage, a Life of Shakespeare, &c
Author: William Shakespeare
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 506
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Plays
Author: William Shakespeare
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Languages : en
Pages : 696
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Richard II. Henry IV, part I
Author: William Shakespeare
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: Richard II. Henry IV, pt. I
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 458
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The Story of King Richard II. from the Play of Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 102
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