Ebook > Human Sciences > Languages > Literature > Belsey Catherine Belsey: Why Shakespeare? (ePUB)

Belsey Catherine Belsey
Why Shakespeare?

Support

Cover of Belsey Catherine Belsey: Why Shakespeare? (ePUB)

Why is Shakespeare as highly regarded now as he ever has been? This book’s answer to this question counters claims that Shakespeare’s iconic status is no more than an accident of history. The plays, Belsey argues, entice us into a world we recognize by retelling traditional fairy tales with a difference, each chapter providing a detailed reading.

€27.14

Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 208 ● ISBN 9781350316645 ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing ● Published 2007 ● Downloadable 3 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 8166785 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

Requires a DRM capable ebook reader

More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor

Belsey Catherine Belsey Catherine Belsey

65,868 Ebooks in this category

Cover of Anthony Joseph Cunder & Angela Jane (Seton Hall University, USA) Weisl: Medieval Literature: The Basics

Anthony Joseph Cunder & Angela Jane (Seton Hall University, USA) Weisl: Medieval Literature: The Basics

Medieval Literature: The Basics is an engaging introduction to this fascinating body of literature. The volume breaks down the variety of genres used in the corpus of medieval literature and makes th …

Cover of Sukla Chatterjee: Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India

Sukla Chatterjee: Women and Literary Narratives in Colonial India

In the colonial context of South Asia, there is a glaring asymmetry in the written records of the interaction between the Bengali women and their European counterparts, which is indicative of the lar …

Cover of Rhea Ashley (University of Waterloo) Hoskin: Feminizing Theory

Rhea Ashley (University of Waterloo) Hoskin: Feminizing Theory

The term ‘femme’ originates from 1940s Western working-class lesbian bar culture, wherein femme referred to a feminine lesbian who was typically in a relationship with a butch lesbian. Expanding from …

Cover of Lois Chaber & Francesca Saggini: Women''s Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part I Vol 3

Lois Chaber & Francesca Saggini: Women”s Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part I Vol 3

Continuing the series on Women”s Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East. Part I includes three separate volumes that include th …

Cover of Elizabeth H Chang: British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901, Volume 1

Elizabeth H Chang: British Travel Writing from China, 1798-1901, Volume 1

In 1793, Lord Macartney led the first British diplomatic mission to China in over one hundred years. This five-volume reset edition draws together British travel writings about China throughout the …

Cover of Lois Chaber & Francesca Saggini: Women''s Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part I Vol 2

Lois Chaber & Francesca Saggini: Women”s Travel Writings in North Africa and the Middle East, Part I Vol 2

Continuing the series on Women”s Travel Writings, this two-part collection presents some fascinating tales of North Africa and the Middle East. Part I includes three separate volumes that include th …

Cover of Andrew C. Holman & Brian Payne: Scholars, Missionaries, and Counter-Imperialists

Andrew C. Holman & Brian Payne: Scholars, Missionaries, and Counter-Imperialists

For more than half a century, the field of Canadian Studies has attracted North American scholars of the highest caliber to examine Canada: its distinctive social makeup, its fascinating colonial and …

Cover of Katrina Brannon: Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats''s Poetry

Katrina Brannon: Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats”s Poetry

Language, Cognition, and Emotion in Keats’s Poetry applies an innovative cognitive linguistic approach to the poetry of John Keats, the first of its kind to employ a cognitive-based framework to expl …

Cover of Professor Paul (Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA) Allen Miller: Truth in the Late Foucault

Professor Paul (Carolina Distinguished Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina, USA) Allen Miller: Truth in the Late Foucault

Cover of Helena Duffy & Katarina Leppanen: Storying the Ecocatastrophe

Helena Duffy & Katarina Leppanen: Storying the Ecocatastrophe

How do writers and artists represent the climate catastrophe so that their works stir audiences to political action or at least raise their environmental awareness without, however, appearing didacti …