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  • Shakespeare and a Place Calling Itself Rome

    by Graham Holderness ...
    Series series Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
    This new examination of Shakespeare’s four Roman tragedies (Julius Caesar, Titus Andronicus, Coriolanus and Antony and Cleopatra) revisits Shakespeare’s dramatic recreations of ancient Rome in the light of considerations of place:the places from which Shakespeare initiated his imaginative reconstructions, where plays are written and performedthe places he constructed within the plays, the places ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • The Faith of William Shakespeare

    by Graham Holderness ...
    William Shakespeare stills stands head and shoulders above any other author in the English language, a position that is unlikely ever to change. Yet it is often said that we know very little about him - and that applies as much to what he believed as it does to the rest of his biography. Or does it? In this authoritative new study, Graham Holderness takes us through the context of Shakespeare's ... Read more

    $10.69 USD

  • Nine Lives of William Shakespeare

    by Professor Graham Holderness ...
    Series series Shakespeare Now!
    Acclaimed as the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare needs little introduction. Or does he? Going beyond Shakespeare the writer and actor, Graham Holderness explores the fact and fiction, tradition and myth, surrounding Shakespeare's life.Combining biography and fictional narrative, Holderness takes a fresh critical approach to the problem of piecing together a definitive account ... Read more

    $23.09 USD

  • Shakespeare and Venice

    by Graham Holderness ...
    Series series Anglo-Italian Renaissance Studies
    Shakespeare and Venice is the first book length study to describe and chronicle the mythology of Venice that was formulated in the Middle Ages and has persisted in fiction and film to the present day. Graham Holderness focuses specifically on how that mythology was employed by Shakespeare to explore themes of conversion, change, and metamorphosis. Identifying and outlining the materials having to ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Re-Writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film

    by Professor Graham Holderness ...
    At the heart of Christian theology lies a paradox unintelligible to other religions and to secular humanism: that in the person of Jesus, God became man, and suffered on the cross to effect humanity's salvation. In his dual nature as mortal and divinity, and unlike the impassable God of other monotheisms, Christ thus became accessible to artistic representation. Hence the figure of Jesus has ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Henry V - The Quarto (Sos)

    by William Shakespeare, Graham Holderness, Bryan Loughrey ...
    One of a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Henry V" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. The original text - or First Quarto - of "Henry V", published in 1600, is missing the Chorus, a dramatic device which ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Hamlet - The First Quarto (Sos)

    by William Shakespeare, Graham Holderness, Bryan Loughrey ...
    The first in a series on Shakespeare's original texts, including facsimile pages, this version of "Hamlet" is claimed to be, in some ways, the most authentic version of the play that we have. Included are an introduction, notes, and a theoretical, historical and contextual critique. This text has been rejected by scholars as a "bad Quarto" - corrupt and pirated text printed without the permission ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and the Modern Novel

    Edited by Graham Holderness ...
    Series Book 11 - Shakespeare &
    The Shakespearean novel is undergoing a renaissance as the long prose narrative form becomes reinvigorated through new forms of media such as television, film and the internet. Shakespeare and the Modern Novel explores the history of the novel as a literary form, suggesting that the form can trace its strongest roots beyond the eighteenth-century work of Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding and Samuel ... Read more

    Was $23.99 USD Now $18.99 USD

  • Black and Deep Desires

    William Shakespeare, Vampire Hunter

    by Graham Holderness ...
    Who was the real architect of the Gunpowder Plot? Who was the first person to wear a Guy Fawkes mask? Why was Shakespeare’s Dark Lady dark? These and many other questions are answered in Graham Holderness’s new novel, which combines historical fiction, psychological mystery and supernatural thriller in a highly original and imaginative re-telling of the Gunpowder Plot. It is 1604. The Gunpowder ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Tales from Shakespeare

    Creative Collisions

    by Graham Holderness ...
    In this engaging new book, writer and critic Graham Holderness shows how a classic Shakespeare play can be the source for a modern story, providing a creative 'collision' between the Shakespeare text and contemporary concerns. Using an analogy from particle physics, Holderness tests his methodology through specific examples, structured in four parts: a recreation of performances of Hamlet and ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Shakespeare and Money

    Edited by Graham Holderness ...
    Series Book 7 - Shakespeare &
    Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters by leading scholars on the economic, financial and commercial ramifications of his work, this multifaceted volume connects the Bard to both early modern and contemporary economic conditions, revealing Shakespeare to have been a serious ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Taming of the Shrew

    First Quarto of "Taming of a Shrew"

    by Graham Holderness, Bryan Loughrey ...
    First Published in 1992. This series puts into circulation single annotated editions of early modern play-texts whose literary and theatrical histories have been overshadowed by editorial practices dominant since the eighteenth century. The text contained in this volume is not what we know as Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, modern editions of which play are all derived from the text printed ... Read more

    $54.99 USD