Best Shakespeare Literary Criticism Books
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1. Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)
Author: by William Shakespeare
1586638459
English
304 pages
No Fear Shakespeare gives you the complete text of Romeo and Juliet on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right. Read more Read less Previous page Print length 304 pages Language English Publisher SparkNotes Publication date April 15, 2003 Reading age 13 – 17 years Dimensions 5.28 x 0.78 x 7.
48 inches ISBN-10 9781586638450 ISBN-13 978-1586638450 See all details Next page Inspire a love of reading with Amazon Book Box for Kids Discover delightful children’s books with Amazon Book Box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3 months new Amazon Book Box Prime customers receive 15% off your first box.Learn more.
2. Macbeth (No Fear Shakespeare) (Volume 1)
Author: by William Shakespeare
English
240 pages
1586638467
Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brillianceand understand what every word means! Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains:The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday languageA complete list of characters, with descriptionsPlenty of helpful commentary
3. The Invisible Man
Author: by H.G. Wells
English
135 pages
1512091979
All men, however highly educated, retain some superstitious inklings.H.G. Wells, The Invisible ManThe Invisible Man is a science fiction novella by H.G. Wells published in 1897. Originally serialized in Pearson’s Weekly in 1897, it was published as a novel the same year.
The Invisible Man of the title is Griffin, a scientist who has devoted himself to research into optics and invents a way to change a body’s refractive index to that of air so that it absorbs and reflects no light and thus becomes invisible.
He carries out this procedure on himself and renders himself invisible, but fails in his attempt to reverse it. A practitioner of random and irresponsible violence, Griffin has become an iconic character in horror fiction. While its predecessors, The Time Machine and The Island of Doctor Moreau, were written using first-person narrators, Wells adopts a third-person objective point of view in The Invisible Man.
The novel is considered influential, and helped establish Wells as the “father of science fiction”.A True Classic that Belongs on Every Bookshelf!
4. The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works, 2nd Edition
Author: by William Shakespeare
0199267170
Oxford University Press
English
Hailed by The Washington Post as “a definitive synthesis of the best editions” and by The Times of London as “a monument to Shakespearean scholarship,” The Oxford Shakespeare is the ultimate anthology of the Bard’s work: the most authoritative edition of the plays and poems ever published.
Now, almost two decades after the original volume, Oxford is proud to announce a thoroughly updated second edition, including for the first time the texts of The Reign of Edward III and Sir Thomas More, recognizing these two plays officially as authentic works by Shakespeare.
This beautifulcollection is the product of years of full-time research by a team of British and American scholars and represents the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of Shakespeare’s work. The editors reconsidered every detail of the text in the light of modern scholarship andthey thoroughly re-examined the earliest printed versions of the plays, firmly establishing the canon and chronological order of composition.
5. Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays
Author: by Peter J. Leithart
Canon Press
English
288 pages
Shakespeare was, as Caesar says of Cassius, “a great observer,” able to see and depict patterns of events and character. He understood how politics is shaped by the clash of men with various colorings of self-interest and idealism, how violence breeds violence, how fragile human beings create masks and disguises for protection, how schemers do the same for advancement, how love can grow out of hate and hate out of love.
Dare anyone say that these insights are irrelevant to living in the real world? For many in an older generation, the Bible and the Collected Shakespeare were the two indispensable books, and thus their sense of life and history was shaped by the best and best-told stories.
And they were the wiser for it. This book by theologian Peter Leithart is written for high school students and includes analyses of six of Shakespeare’s plays (Henry V, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, and Much Ado About Nothing), as well as numerous review and discussion questions for anyone who wishes to incorporate them into their high school curriculum.
6. Henry V (No Fear Shakespeare) (Volume 14)
Author: by John C. Crowther
1411401034
English
288 pages
Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brillianceand understand what every word means! Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains:The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday languageA complete list of characters with descriptionsPlenty of helpful commentary
7. Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series)
Author: by Ann Thompson
English
1504 pages
147429636X
This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes the complete plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the ‘apocryphal’ plays, part-written by Shakespeare: Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward III.
The anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of Hamlet from Shakespeare’s time: the first and second Quarto texts of 1603 and 1604-5, and the first Folio text of 1623. With a simple alphabetical arrangement the Complete Works are easy to navigate, and the reader’s understanding and enjoyment are enhanced by the general introduction, short individual introductions to each text, a glossary and a bibliography.
This handsome volume is ideal for readers keen to explore Shakespeare’s work and for anyone building their literary library.
8. Take Arms Against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader’s Mind over a Universe of Death
Author: by Harold Bloom
English
672 pages
0300247281
The great poems, plays, novels, stories teach us how to go on living…. Your own mistakes, accidents, failures at otherness beat you down. Rise up at dawn and read something that matters as soon as you can. So Harold Bloom, the most famous literary critic of his generation, exhorts readers of his last book: one that praises the sustaining power of poetry.”Passionate….
Perhaps Bloom’s most personal work, this is a fitting last testament to one of America’s leading twentieth-century literary minds.”Publishers WeeklyAn extraordinary testimony to a long life spent in the company of poetry and an affecting last declaration of [Bloom’s] passionate and deeply unfashionable faith in the capacity of the imagination to make the world feel habitableSeamus Perry, Literary Review”Reading, this stirring collection testifies, helps in staying alive.’Kirkus Reviews, starred review This dazzling celebration of the power of poetry to sublimate deathcompleted weeks before Harold Bloom diedshows how literature renews life amid what Milton called a universe of death.
9. Twelfth Night (No Fear Shakespeare) (Volume 8)
Author: by William Shakespeare
English
256 pages
1586638513
Read Shakespeare’s plays in all their brillianceand understand what every word means! Don’t be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard’s plays accessible and enjoyable. Each No Fear guide contains:The complete text of the original playA line-by-line translation that puts the words into everyday languageA complete list of characters, with descriptionsPlenty of helpful commentary
10. King Lear (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
Author: by William Shakespeare
The Arden Shakespeare
English
456 pages
‘By far the best edition of King Lear – in respect of both textual and other matters – that we now have.’John Lyon, English Language Notes’This volume is a treasure-trove of precise information and stimulating comments on practically every aspect of the Lear-universe.
I know of no other edition which I would recommend with such confidence: to students, professional colleagues and also the ‘educated public’.’Dieter Mehl, Shakespeare Jahrbuch, vol 134
11. North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work
Author: by Michael Blanding
English
480 pages
0316493244
Winner of the 2021 International Book Award in Narrative Non-Fiction*The true story of a self-taught Shakespeare sleuth’s quest to prove his eye-opening theory about the source of the world’s most famous plays, taking readers inside the vibrant era of Elizabethan England as well as the contemporary scene of Shakespeare scholars and obsessives.
Acclaimed author of The Map Thief, Michael Blanding presents the twinning narratives of renegade scholar Dennis McCarthy, called the Steve Jobs of the Shakespeare community, and Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier whom McCarthy believes to be the undiscovered source for Shakespeare’s plays.
For the last fifteen years, McCarthy has obsessively pursued the true origins of Shakespeare’s works. Using plagiarism software, he has found direct links between Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and other plays and North’s published and unpublished writingsas well as Shakespearean plotlines seemingly lifted straight from North’s colorful life.
12. Of Human Kindness: What Shakespeare Teaches Us About Empathy
Author: by Paula Marantz Cohen
English
176 pages
0300256418
An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare’s greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy”Thoughtful, astute, invitingly readableand uncommonly timely. Especially now that so many younger readers are casting suspicious glances at Shakespeare, Of Human Kindness shows with mind-changing clarity why his work has never been more relevant to our common problems.”Terry Teachout, drama critic, Wall Street Journal While discussing Shakespeare’s plays in her university classroom, Paula Marantz Cohen discovered that they unlocked a surprising sense of compassion in both herself and her students.
In this short and illuminating book, she shows how Shakespeare’s genius lay in his ability to arouse empathy, even when his characters exist in alien contexts and behave in reprehensible ways. Cohen takes her readers through a selection of Shakespeare’s most famous plays, including Hamlet,Othello,King Lear, and The Merchant of Venice, to demonstrate the ways in which Shakespeare thought deeply and clearly about how we treat the other.
13. The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (37 plays, 160 sonnets and 5 Poetry Books With Active Table of Contents)
Author: by William Shakespeare
B01LVXXQXW
September 9, 2016
English
This collection gathers together the works by William Shakespeare in a single, convenient, high quality, and extremely low priced Kindle volume! The ComediesA Midsummer Night’s DreamAll’s Well That Ends WellAs You Like ItLove’s Labour ‘s LostMeasure for MeasureMuch Ado About NothingThe Comedy of ErrorsThe Merchant of VeniceThe Merry Wives of WindsorThe Taming of the ShrewThe Two Gentlemen of VeronaTwelfth Night; or, What you willThe RomancesCymbelinePericles, Prince of TyreThe TempestThe Winter’s TaleThe TragediesKing LearRomeo and JulietThe History of Troilus and CressidaThe Life and Death of Julius CaesarThe Life of Timon of AthensThe Tragedy of Antony and CleopatraThe Tragedy of CoriolanusThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of DenmarkThe Tragedy of MacbethThe Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of VeniceTitus AndronicusThe HistoriesThe Life and Death of King JohnThe Life and Death of King Richard the SecondThe Tragedy of King Richard the ThirdThe first part of King Henry the FourthThe second part of King Henry the FourthThe Life of King Henry VThe first part of King Henry the SixthThe second part of King Henry the SixthThe third part of King Henry the SixthThe Life of King Henry the EighthThe Poetical WorksThe SonnetsSonnets to Sundry Notes of MusicA Lover’s ComplaintThe Rape of LucreceVenus and AdonisThe Phoenix and the TurtleThe Passionate Pilgrim
14. Romeo and Juliet: No Fear Shakespeare Deluxe Student Edition (Volume 30)
Author: by SparkNotes
English
320 pages
1411479718
Shakespeare everyone can understandnow in this new EXPANDED edition of ROMEO AND JULIET! Why fear Shakespeare? By placing the words of the original play next to line-by-line translations in plain English, this popular guide makes Shakespeare accessible to everyone. And now it features expanded literature guide sections that help students study smarter.
The expanded sections include: Five Key Questions: Five frequently asked questions about major moments and characters in the play. What Does the Ending Mean?: Is the ending sad, celebratory, ironic …Or ambivalent? Plot Analysis: What is the play about? How is the story told, and what are the main themes?
Why do the characters behave as they do? Study Questions: Questions that guide students as they study for a test or write a paper. Quotes by Theme: Quotes organized by Shakespeare’s main themes, such as love, death, tyranny, honor, and fate.
Quotes by Character: Quotes organized by the play’s main characters, along with interpretations of their meaning.
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SHAKESPEARE REVOLUTIONIZED: The First Hundred Years of J. Thomas Looney's "Shakespeare" Identified
Author: by James A. Warren
English
784 pages
1733589430
That “William Shakespeare” was the author of Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet and many other much-loved plays is the greatest deception in literary history. Shakespeare Revolutionized tells the fascinating story of how the identity of the real author-Edward de Vere, the highest ranking earl in Queen Elizabeth’s court-was discovered.
It explains why it matters who the author really was: that knowing Shakespeare’s real identity revolutionizes understandings of the plays, the conditions in which they were written and the Elizabethan era. It explains why the deception was perpetrated and why it lasted for more than 300 years.
And it explains why many Shakespeare scholars today resist examining the evidence supporting the Oxfordian claim even as it has become the unacknowledged nucleus around which much of their work revolves. This book will revolutionize the understanding of all readers willing to approach the Shakespeare authorship question with an open mind.
