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Winter S Tale: Language And Writing

by Mario Digangi

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 Through expert guidance on understanding, interpreting, and writing about Shakespeare''s language, this book makes The Winter''s Tale accessible and exciting for students. It demonstrates that careful attention to Shakespeare''s complex dramatic language can clarify the structure and concerns of the play, as well as provide deep and satisfying engagement with the social, political and ethical questions Shakespeare raises. Each chapter features a ''Writing Matters'' section designed to connect analysis of Shakespeare''s language to students'' development of their own writing strategies. The book examines topics in the play such as tragicomic genre; women''s assertion of social and political agency; obedience and resistance to rulers; the virtues and risks of following festivity, and disputes over the proper forms of religious devotion.
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Winter S Tale: Language And Writing

by Mario Digangi

35,76€ + 10% CARD

 Through expert guidance on understanding, interpreting, and writing about Shakespeare''s language, this book makes The Winter''s Tale accessible and exciting for students. It demonstrates that careful attention to Shakespeare''s complex dramatic language can clarify the structure and concerns of the play, as well as provide deep and satisfying engagement with the social, political and ethical questions Shakespeare raises. Each chapter features a ''Writing Matters'' section designed to connect analysis of Shakespeare''s language to students'' development of their own writing strategies. The book examines topics in the play such as tragicomic genre; women''s assertion of social and political agency; obedience and resistance to rulers; the virtues and risks of following festivity, and disputes over the proper forms of religious devotion.
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King Lear: Language And Writing

by Jean E. Howard

22,64€ + 10% CARD

 Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare''s texts. The books'' core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare''s complex dramatic language and expanding your own critical vocabulary as you respond to his plays. Each guide in the series will empower you to read and write about Shakespeare with increased confidence and enthusiasm. King Lear: Language and Writing reveals how the play''s elemental power springs from its language, which is at once simple, relentless and resonant, as well as from its full-blown double plot that multiplies unbearably both the follies and the pain of its protagonists. Chapters explore the play''s status as a tragedy, its stagecraft, primary source material and both its textual and theatre history. The ''Writing Matters'' section at the end of each chapter provides suggestions for activities that can further enhance your understanding of the play. This is an indispensable guide to Shakespeare''s rich and complex dramatic language and will improve and develop your critical writing skills.
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King Lear: Language And Writing

by Jean E. Howard

22,64€ + 10% CARD

 Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare''s texts. The books'' core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare''s complex dramatic language and expanding your own critical vocabulary as you respond to his plays. Each guide in the series will empower you to read and write about Shakespeare with increased confidence and enthusiasm. King Lear: Language and Writing reveals how the play''s elemental power springs from its language, which is at once simple, relentless and resonant, as well as from its full-blown double plot that multiplies unbearably both the follies and the pain of its protagonists. Chapters explore the play''s status as a tragedy, its stagecraft, primary source material and both its textual and theatre history. The ''Writing Matters'' section at the end of each chapter provides suggestions for activities that can further enhance your understanding of the play. This is an indispensable guide to Shakespeare''s rich and complex dramatic language and will improve and develop your critical writing skills.
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As You Like It: Language And Writing

by Abigail Rokison-Woodall

22,64€ + 10% CARD

 As You Like It: Language and Writing explores one of Shakespeare''s best-known comedies. It considers the literary and theatrical contexts in which Shakespeare was writing; examines, in detail, the different forms of language used in the play and considers ways in which language and meaning have changed over time, and are affected by performance. Each chapter contains a ''Writing matters'' section which provides suggestions for activities that can further enhance a student''s understanding of the play. This informative guide to Shakespeare''s popular comedy equips students with the critical skills to analyze its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich their own responses to the play.
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As You Like It: Language And Writing

by Abigail Rokison-Woodall

22,64€ + 10% CARD

 As You Like It: Language and Writing explores one of Shakespeare''s best-known comedies. It considers the literary and theatrical contexts in which Shakespeare was writing; examines, in detail, the different forms of language used in the play and considers ways in which language and meaning have changed over time, and are affected by performance. Each chapter contains a ''Writing matters'' section which provides suggestions for activities that can further enhance a student''s understanding of the play. This informative guide to Shakespeare''s popular comedy equips students with the critical skills to analyze its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich their own responses to the play.
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Midsummer Night S Dream: Language And Writing

by R.S. White

28,61€ + 10% CARD

 This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare''s popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night''s Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare''s diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and ''warbling'' notes'' and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom''s comic malapropisms. An introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created A Midsummer Night''s Dream, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play''s performance history and its critical reception completes the volume. Each chapter offers a ''Writing matters'' section, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare''s language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.
ENGLISH

Midsummer Night S Dream: Language And Writing

by R.S. White

28,61€ + 10% CARD

 This lively and informative guide to Shakespeare''s popular comedy equips you with the critical skills to analyse its language, structure and themes and to expand and enrich your own response to the play. A Midsummer Night''s Dream is a perfect play for exploring Shakespeare''s diverse uses of language to reveal character and themes, from formal iambics and rhyming couplets of courtiers and lovers, and ''warbling'' notes'' and nursery rhythms of fairies, to stocky prose by the artisan players including Bottom''s comic malapropisms. An introduction considers when and how the play was written, and addresses the language with which Shakespeare created A Midsummer Night''s Dream, as well as the generic, literary and theatrical conventions at his disposal. It then moves to a detailed examination and analysis of the play, focusing on its literary, technical and historical intricacies; an account of the play''s performance history and its critical reception completes the volume. Each chapter offers a ''Writing matters'' section, clearly linking the analysis of Shakespeare''s language to your own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.
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Merchant Of Venice: Language And Writing

by Douglas M. Lanier

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare''s texts. The books'' core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare''s complex dramatic language, and expanding your own critical vocabulary, as you respond to his plays. Each guide in the series will empower you to read and write about Shakespeare with increased confidence and enthusiasm. A notoriously disturbing play, The Merchant of Venice explores how the discourses of racial and religious prejudice and of business intertwine and shape how characters understand themselves and their relationships with one another. The intersections between religious, racial and economic language in The Merchant of Venice can be challenging to grasp, but in this guide Douglas Lanier showcases a range of approaches to understanding its language, all based on close reading and attention to Shakespeare''s style. The volume will equip you to analyze Shakespeare''s troubling portrayal of anti-Semitism for yourself and to articulate your views on The Merchant of Venice with greater insight and confidence.
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Merchant Of Venice: Language And Writing

by Douglas M. Lanier

23,84€ + 10% CARD

 Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing volumes offer a new type of study aid that combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare''s texts. The books'' core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare''s complex dramatic language, and expanding your own critical vocabulary, as you respond to his plays. Each guide in the series will empower you to read and write about Shakespeare with increased confidence and enthusiasm. A notoriously disturbing play, The Merchant of Venice explores how the discourses of racial and religious prejudice and of business intertwine and shape how characters understand themselves and their relationships with one another. The intersections between religious, racial and economic language in The Merchant of Venice can be challenging to grasp, but in this guide Douglas Lanier showcases a range of approaches to understanding its language, all based on close reading and attention to Shakespeare''s style. The volume will equip you to analyze Shakespeare''s troubling portrayal of anti-Semitism for yourself and to articulate your views on The Merchant of Venice with greater insight and confidence.
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King Richard Iii: Language And Writing

by Rebecca Lemon

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 A new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writings skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare''s texts. The book''s core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare''s complex dramatic language, and expanding the student''s own critical vocabulary as they respond to the play. The book explores several different approaches to Shakespeare''s language. It looks at how the subtleties of Shakespeare''s language reveal the thought processes and motivations of his characters, often in ways those characters themselves don''t recognise; it analyses how Shakespeare''s language works within or sometimes against various historical contexts, the contexts of stage performance, of genre and of discourses of his day (of religion, law, commerce, and friendship); and it explores how the peculiarities of Shakespeare''s language often point to broad issues, themes, or ways of thinking that transcend any one character or line of action. Each chapter includes a "Writing Matters" section, giving students ideas and guidance for building their own critical response to the play and the skills to articulate it with confidence.
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King Richard Iii: Language And Writing

by Rebecca Lemon

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 A new type of study aid which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writings skills students need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare''s texts. The book''s core focus is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare''s complex dramatic language, and expanding the student''s own critical vocabulary as they respond to the play. The book explores several different approaches to Shakespeare''s language. It looks at how the subtleties of Shakespeare''s language reveal the thought processes and motivations of his characters, often in ways those characters themselves don''t recognise; it analyses how Shakespeare''s language works within or sometimes against various historical contexts, the contexts of stage performance, of genre and of discourses of his day (of religion, law, commerce, and friendship); and it explores how the peculiarities of Shakespeare''s language often point to broad issues, themes, or ways of thinking that transcend any one character or line of action. Each chapter includes a "Writing Matters" section, giving students ideas and guidance for building their own critical response to the play and the skills to articulate it with confidence.
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Much Ado About Nothing: Language And Writing

by Indira Ghose

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 Much Ado About Nothing presents a world of glittering surfaces and exquisite social performances. The language of the play sparkles with a fireworks of wit and dazzling bouts of repartee, most memorably in the "merry war" of words between the reluctant lovers, Benedick and Beatrice. A closer look at the language of the play, however, reveals it to be laced with violence and charged with the desire to humiliate others. Wit is deployed as a weapon to ridicule one''s opponent; much of the humour circulates incessantly around the theme of cuckoldry, a major source of male anxiety in the period. The most drastic use of language is to slander Hero by accusing her of a lack of chastity - an accusation that spelt social death for a woman in the early modern age. The death that Hero feigns mirrors accurately the devastating effects of the assassination of her character by the smart set of young noblemen in the play. This study guide focuses on examining the array of the uses of language that the play displays, and probes into the ideas about language that it explores. The book looks at key film versions of the play by Kenneth Branagh and Joss Whedon which are often used on courses, whilst also offering practical questions and tips to help students develop their own critical writing skills and deepen their understanding of the play.
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Much Ado About Nothing: Language And Writing

by Indira Ghose

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 Much Ado About Nothing presents a world of glittering surfaces and exquisite social performances. The language of the play sparkles with a fireworks of wit and dazzling bouts of repartee, most memorably in the "merry war" of words between the reluctant lovers, Benedick and Beatrice. A closer look at the language of the play, however, reveals it to be laced with violence and charged with the desire to humiliate others. Wit is deployed as a weapon to ridicule one''s opponent; much of the humour circulates incessantly around the theme of cuckoldry, a major source of male anxiety in the period. The most drastic use of language is to slander Hero by accusing her of a lack of chastity - an accusation that spelt social death for a woman in the early modern age. The death that Hero feigns mirrors accurately the devastating effects of the assassination of her character by the smart set of young noblemen in the play. This study guide focuses on examining the array of the uses of language that the play displays, and probes into the ideas about language that it explores. The book looks at key film versions of the play by Kenneth Branagh and Joss Whedon which are often used on courses, whilst also offering practical questions and tips to help students develop their own critical writing skills and deepen their understanding of the play.
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Antony And Cleopatra: Language And Writing

by Virginia Mason Vaughan

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 Reading Antony and Cleopatra is particularly challenging because of Shakespeare''s masterful embodiment of Rome and Egypt''s contrasting worlds in language, structure, and characterization. Instead of seeing the interaction of Roman and Egyptian perspectives in Antony and Cleopatra as a type of double image of reality that changes as one moves from one location to another, students often find themselves compelled to pick sides. The more romantic opt for Cleopatra as the most sympathetic character, while the pragmatists dismiss her lifestyle as self-indulgent. The central challenge in reading this play, in other words, is to resist the compulsion to take sides and, instead, to adopt a ''both-and'' point of view rather than an ''either-or'' choice. The play''s central binary - Rome vs. Egypt - is deeply embedded in its language and structure, yet the play consistently complicates our view of either side. The book encourages students to think outside the binary box, to understand, and to celebrate, Shakespeare''s exploitation of the multivalent nature of language. As well as helping students to analyse the intricacy of Shakespeare''s language in Antony and Cleopatra, each chapter''s ''Writing matters'' section enables students to develop their own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.
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Antony And Cleopatra: Language And Writing

by Virginia Mason Vaughan

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 Reading Antony and Cleopatra is particularly challenging because of Shakespeare''s masterful embodiment of Rome and Egypt''s contrasting worlds in language, structure, and characterization. Instead of seeing the interaction of Roman and Egyptian perspectives in Antony and Cleopatra as a type of double image of reality that changes as one moves from one location to another, students often find themselves compelled to pick sides. The more romantic opt for Cleopatra as the most sympathetic character, while the pragmatists dismiss her lifestyle as self-indulgent. The central challenge in reading this play, in other words, is to resist the compulsion to take sides and, instead, to adopt a ''both-and'' point of view rather than an ''either-or'' choice. The play''s central binary - Rome vs. Egypt - is deeply embedded in its language and structure, yet the play consistently complicates our view of either side. The book encourages students to think outside the binary box, to understand, and to celebrate, Shakespeare''s exploitation of the multivalent nature of language. As well as helping students to analyse the intricacy of Shakespeare''s language in Antony and Cleopatra, each chapter''s ''Writing matters'' section enables students to develop their own writing strategies in coursework and examinations.
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Hamlet: Language And Writing

by Dympna Callaghan

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Â Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. Hamlet remains the most studied of Shakespeare's tragedies and this guide examines it as a turning point in his writing career.
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Romeo And Juliet: Language And Writing

by Catherine Belsey

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Â Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. Hamlet remains the most studied of Shakespeare's tragedies and this guide examines it as a turning point in his writing career.
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Twelfth Night: Language And Writing

by Frances E. Dolan

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Â Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. Hamlet remains the most studied of Shakespeare's tragedies and this guide examines it as a turning point in his writing career.
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Twelfth Night: Language And Writing

by Frances E. Dolan

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Â Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. Hamlet remains the most studied of Shakespeare's tragedies and this guide examines it as a turning point in his writing career.
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Othello: Language And Writing

by Laurie Maguire

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Â Shakespeare's language with specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills.Â Laurie MaguireÂ offers a lively critical account ofÂ Othello and practical ideas on how best to engage with and write about this ever popular play.
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Othello: Language And Writing

by Laurie Maguire

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Â Shakespeare's language with specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills.Â Laurie MaguireÂ offers a lively critical account ofÂ Othello and practical ideas on how best to engage with and write about this ever popular play.
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Romeo And Juliet: Language And Writing

by Catherine Belsey

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 A new type of study guide which combines an exploration of Â Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. Hamlet remains the most studied of Shakespeare's tragedies and this guide examines it as a turning point in his writing career.
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Macbeth: Language And Writing

by Emma Smith

25,03€ + 10% CARD

 A new type of study guide which combines an exploratrion of Â Shakespeare's language with. specific help for students looking to develop their own critical responses and skills. EmmaÂ SmithÂ offers both a lively critical account of Macbeth and practical ideas on how best to engage with and write about this ever popular play.
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