DRAMA OF LOVE, LIFE & DEATH IN SHAKESPEARE by Holden, Anthony ISBN 1840002832
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[edit] DRAMA OF LOVE, LIFE & DEATH IN SHAKESPEARE
This title details themes recurrent in Shakespeare's dramas - love and hate, jealousy and revenge, death and retribution amongst others. There is an interpretation of the plays as the author attempts to draw parallels between Shakespeare's intriguing, colourful and hotly disputed life.
Shakespeare is as much a figure of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as he is of the sixteenth and seventeenth, and Shakespeare in Love stands as evidence of our fascination. Written by an acknowledged authority, Soul of the Age addresses two of the most significant factors behind this continuing relevance. Firstly, there is the plays' investigation of the most fundamental and timeless aspects of human nature. Play after play confronts what is immutable in man: our capacity for good and evil, our subservience to emotion. Each chapter examines the themes recurrent in Shakespeare's dramas: Love and Hate and Jealousy and Revenge among others. Secondly, there is the plays' openness to reinterpretation, an openness that has given rise to many films that are now lauded in their own right. Soul of the Age is illustrated with stills from some of the most famous adaptations of the plays: from the Laurence Olivier-starring Hamlet to 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Leonardo di Caprio. Authoritative and accessible text and rarely seen stills - from classic adaptations and modern versions - make this the perfect introduction to the depth and variety of the world's most famous writer. - Explores Shakespeare's treatment of the fundamental human themes - Anthony Holden is an eminent writer and journalist and an acknowledged authority on Shakespeare - Taps into the huge market that Shakespeare in Love created - Accessible and lively approach to a subject where most of what is written is academic and technical - Illustrated with stills from new and classic Shakespeare movies
[edit] Book Details
[edit] Title
DRAMA OF LOVE, LIFE & DEATH IN SHAKESPEARE
[edit] Author
Holden, Anthony
[edit] ISBN
1840002832
[edit] Published
25/05/2000
[edit] Publisher
Mitchell Beazley
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
14.99 (GBP)
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14.99 (GBP)
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