Category: Shakespeare

By William Shakespeare

ISBN-10: 0764120891

ISBN-13: 9780764120893

Marc Antony comes "to bury Caesar, to not compliment him," and his funeral oration unleashes an influence fight one of the Roman Empire's mightiest generals and statesmen. Books during this new, illustrated sequence current whole texts of Shakespeare's performs. even if, the traces are manage so scholars can see the bard's unique poetic words published side-by-side and line-by-line with a contemporary "translation" at the dealing with web page. beginning within the overdue 1580s and for a number of a long time that undefined, Shakespeare's performs have been well known leisure for London's theatergoers. His Globe Theatre was once the an identical of a Broadway theater in modern day manhattan. The performs have continued, yet over the process four hundred+ years, the English language has replaced in lots of ways—which is why trendy scholars usually locate Shakespeare's idiom tricky to realize. easily Shakespeare bargains a very good technique to their challenge. Introducing every one play is a normal essay masking Shakespeare's existence and instances. firstly of every of the 5 acts in each play, a two-page unfold describes what's approximately to happen. The story's historical past is defined, by way of short descriptions of key those who will look within the act, info scholars may still look ahead to because the tale unfolds, dialogue of the play's old context, how the play used to be staged in Shakespeare's day, and clarification of puns and performs on phrases that happen in characters' dialogues. determining icons previous each one of those research issues are revealed in a moment colour, then can be found back as cross-references within the play's unique textual content. for example, the place phrases spoken through an individual within the play provide insights into his or one other character's character, the "Characters" icon will seem as a cross-reference in either the introductory unfold and the play right. Following each one act, a final unfold offers questions and dialogue issues to be used as lecturers' aids. Guided by means of the inspiring layout of this advantageous new sequence, either academics and scholars will come to appreciate and take pleasure in the genius of Shakespeare as by no means ahead of.

By Alan C. Dessen

ISBN-10: 0521470803

ISBN-13: 9780521470803

Alan Dessen attracts on degree instructions from thousands of performs (from 1425 to 1642) to enquire what a playgoer may very well have obvious whilst staring at the unique creation of Hamlet or Macbeth. He argues for the presence of a shared vocabulary between playwrights, avid gamers and playgoers geared to a feeling of theater that's simply obscured or eclipsed this day. Chapters are dedicated to things like early entrances, the unwell chair, vanish results, tomb scenes, and to the staging of locations equivalent to a wooded area, a store, a learn or a home.

By Anthony D. Nuttall

ISBN-10: 0805787143

ISBN-13: 9780805787146

ISBN-10: 0805787151

ISBN-13: 9780805787153

By A. L. Rowse

ISBN-10: 0517665557

ISBN-13: 9780517665558

By Christian Koziol

ISBN-10: 3322820165

ISBN-13: 9783322820167

ISBN-10: 382449132X

ISBN-13: 9783824491322

Convertible bonds are curiosity bearing securities that may be switched over into shares. accordingly, the traders' method is a primary pricing issue. it really is quite vital no matter if a company has debt remarkable as well as convertible bonds and shares, as the conversion determination ends up in a wealth move among debt and inventory holders.

Christian Koziol analyzes conversion concepts and the comparable values of shares and convertible bonds whilst organizations have extra debt impressive. For this function, he applies a multi interval framework within the presence of either company worth and rate of interest uncertainty. He indicates that quite a few conversion ideas could be optimum, which bring about various values for shares and convertible bonds, reckoning on the underlying conversion version, i.e. monopolistic conversion, excellent festival, or block conversion. A comparative static research examines the diversities among the homes of the optimum conversion thoughts and among the asset values for the 3 conversion editions. one of many - partially fantastic - effects is that the convertible bond price is maximum lower than monopolist conversion and that the price less than block conversion is under below ideal competition.

By Stephen O'Neill

ISBN-10: 1441153985

ISBN-13: 9781441153982

The video-sharing platform YouTube signs interesting possibilities and demanding situations for Shakespeare reviews. As buyer, distributor and archive, YouTube events new varieties of user-generated Shakespeares, but a discounted Bard too, topic to the distractions of the modern networked mediascape.

This ebook identifies the genres of YouTube Shakespeare, analyzing them via theories of remediation and media convergence and as indices of Shakespeare's transferring cultural meanings. Exploring the intersection of YouTube's participatory tradition - its invitation to 'Broadcast Yourself' - with its company good judgment, the e-book argues that YouTube Shakespeare is a website of effective pressure among new varieties of self-expression and the homogenizing results of mass culture.

Stephen O'Neill unfolds the variety of YouTube's Bardic productions to intricate on their capability as educating and studying assets. The ebook importantly argues for a serious media literacy, one who attends to identification structures and to the politics of race and gender as they emerge via Shakespeare's new media forms.

Shakespeare and YouTube could be of curiosity to scholars and students of Shakespearean drama, poetry and variations, in addition to to new media reviews.

By E. Tribble

ISBN-10: 0230110851

ISBN-13: 9780230110854

Shakespeare’s corporation coped with a big mnemonic load, appearing as much as six various performs every week. How did they do it? Cognition within the Globe addresses this question during the lens of dispensed Cognition. it is a dynamic version that attends to the artwork of ‘playing’ at more than a few degrees. those contain the fabric stipulations of enjoying house; artifacts comparable to components, plots, and playbooks; the social constructions of the corporations, together with equipment of educating and coordination; inner cognitive mechanisms akin to consciousness, notion, and reminiscence; and actor-audience dynamics, between many others. this can be the 1st publication to provide such an method of theatrical heritage and function reviews.

By Robert Weimann

ISBN-10: 0511013086

ISBN-13: 9780511013089

ISBN-10: 0521781302

ISBN-13: 9780521781305

Robert Weimann redefines the connection among writing and function, or "playing," in Shakespeare's theater. via shut studying and cautious research Weimann bargains a reconsideration and redefinition of Elizabethan functionality and construction practices. The learn studies the newest methodologies of textual scholarship, the hot heritage of the Elizabethan theater, functionality idea, and picture and video interpretation, and provides a brand new method of knowing Shakespeare. Weimann examines quite a number performs in addition to different modern works. a huge a part of the examine explores the duality among enjoying and writing.

By Brian Vickers

ISBN-10: 0415134064

ISBN-13: 9780415134064

The severe Heritage gathers jointly a wide physique of severe assets on significant figures in literature. every one quantity provides modern responses to a writer's paintings, permitting pupil and researcher to learn the cloth themselves.

By Roberta C. Nacif

ISBN-10: 3322815811

ISBN-13: 9783322815811

ISBN-10: 3824479109

ISBN-13: 9783824479108

Technology is altering the way in which clients and firms have interaction. How purchaser procuring habit is tormented by using applied sciences which allow them to buy independently of direct provider worker touch - i.e., by way of buying through a technological interface instead of in a brick-and-mortar store - is of significant curiosity to corporations.

Roberta C. Nacif investigates the behavioral outcomes of self-service purchases while shoppers store through the net. She explores the consequences that buyers' checks of carrier encounters stories (attitudes) and transactional heritage (prior habit) have on their next buy habit. She analyzes facets of repurchase habit: buyers' selection of even if to repurchase from a similar store and consumers' selection approximately what quantity of money to spend. the writer develops a framework describing the motivations of shoppers to have interaction in relational industry habit and checks this framework with individualized patron info bought from a huge eu on-line retailer.