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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “robert ormsby”
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  • Coriolanus

    by Robert Ormsby ...
    Series series Shakespeare Performed
    This book is a study of twenty stage productions, adaptations and screen versions of Shakespeare’s final Roman play. It makes available for the first time sustained discussions of major productions of the play in four languages and five countries, and explores how Shakespeare’s most political drama has been shaped to circumstances radically different from its original early modern staging.The book ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • The Shakespearean World

    Edited by Jill L Levenson, Robert Ormsby ...
    Series series Routledge Worlds
    The Shakespearean World takes a global view of Shakespeare and his works, especially their afterlives. Constantly changing, the Shakespeare central to this volume has acquired an array of meanings over the past four centuries. "Shakespeare" signifies the historical person, as well as the plays and verse attributed to him. It also signifies the attitudes towards both author and works determined by ... Read more

    $69.99 USD

  • Shakespeare and Tourism

    Edited by Robert Ormsby, Valerie Clayman Pye ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
    Shakespeare and Tourism provides a dialogical mapping of Shakespeare studies and touristic theory through a collection of essays by scholars on a wide range of material.This volume examines how Shakespeare tourism has evolved since its inception, and how the phenomenon has been influenced and redefined by performance studies, the prevalence of the World Wide Web, developments in technology, and ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • From Africa to Zen

    An Invitation to World Philosophy

    by Roger T. Ames, J Baird Callicott, David L. Hall, Peter D. Hershock, Oliver Leaman, Janet McCracken, Robert A. McDermott, Eric Ormsby, Thomas W. Overholt, Graham Parkes, Roy Perrett, Stephen H. Phillips, Homayoon Sepasi-Tehrani, Jacqueline Trimier, Jorge Valadez ...
    In the second edition of this groundbreaking text in non-Western philosophy, fifteen experts introduce some of the great philosophical traditions in the world. The dozen essays collected here unveil exciting, sophisticated philosophical traditions that are too often neglected in the western world. The contributors include the leading scholars in their fields, but they write for students coming to ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Fish Viruses and Bacteria

    Pathobiology and Protection

    by Associate Professor Arun Dhar, Andrew Orry, F C Thomas Allnutt, Dr Scott LaPatra, Richard Whittington, Dr Jo-Ann Leong, Dr Gael Kurath, Dr John S Lumsden, Dr Paul Hick, Dr Ellen Ariel, Dr Mamoru Yoshimizu, Dr Hisae Kasai, Dr Yoshihiro Sakoda, Dr Nanako Sano, Dr Motohiko Sano, Dr Knut Falk, Dr Maria Aamelfot, Dr Peter Dixon, Dr David Stone, Dr Lester H. Khoo, Dr Rodman G. Getchell, Dr Geoffrey H. Groocock, Dr Keith Way, Dr Anna Toffan, Dr Yasuhiko Kawato, Dr Kuttichantran Subramaniam, Dr Kazuhiro Nakajima, Dr Thomas Waltzek, Dr Marius Karlsen, Dr Renate Johansen, Dr Bjarnheidur K. Gudmundsdottir, Dr Bryndis Bjornsdottir, Dr Larry A. Hanson, Dr Matt J. Griffin, Terence Greenway, David J. Wise, Thomas P. Loch, Mohamed Faisal, Esteban M. Soto, David T. Gauthier, Martha W. Rhodes, John P. Hawke, Jerri Bartholomew, Kristen D. Arkush, Diane G. Elliott, Craig A. Shoemaker, De-Hai Xu, Alicia E. Toranzo, Beatriz Magariños, Ruben Avendaño-Herrera, Timothy J. Welch, David P. Marancik, Christopher M. Good, Michael Ormsby, Robert Davies ...
    Taking a disease-based approach, Fish Viruses and Bacteria: Pathobiology and Protection focuses on the pathobiology of and protective strategies against the most common, major microbial pathogens of economically important marine and freshwater fish. The book covers well-studied, notifiable piscine viruses and bacteria, including new and emerging diseases which can become huge threats to local fish ... Read more

    $149.49 USD

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  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    by Elizabeth Winkler ...
    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Shakespeare and Modern Culture

    by Marjorie Garber ...
    From one of the world's premier Shakespeare scholars comes a magisterial new study whose premise is "that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare."Shakespeare has determined many of the ideas that we think of as "naturally" true: ideas about human character, individuality and selfhood, government, leadership, love and jealousy, men and women, youth and age. ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Quest for Meaning

    Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism

    by Tariq Ramadan ...
    In The Quest for Meaning: Developing a Philosophy of Pluralism, Tariq Ramadan embarks on a journey to uncover the profound truths that bind us together.In a world so full of different beliefs and viewpoints, how can we find peace in our shared humanity?Acclaimed thinker and philosopher Tariq Ramadan explores universal ideas such as love, respect, truth and tolerance, and examines questions such as ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • William Shakespeare

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Anti-Natalism

    Rejectionist Philosophy from Buddhism to Benatar

    by Ken Coates ...
    Every birth brings with it pain, suffering and death. Are life's joys and pleasures worth its costs? This book examines a set of perspectives - religious, philosophical, and literary - which find human existence deeply flawed and unacceptable. Its modern expression by philosophers Benatar and Zapffe as anti-natalism needs to be taken seriously in our choice whether to procreate or not. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, Will Sharpe, Erin Sullivan ...
    The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th ... Read more

    $44.09 USD