Art of Love: The Most Elequent Love Passages in Shakespear's Plays a
by Michael Best
The beauty and meaning behind his poetry and prose has meant that Shakespeare's work has lived on throughout history long after his death. We still fall in love and become passionate, or jealous, or dim-witted, or melancholy, or dreamy, or vengeful, or courageous on behalf of a loved one. We still use language with outlandish imagery or moving simplicity of expression to attempt the impossible - that is, distil the essence of love into words. Shakespeare achieved this alchemy of the imagination...
Few writers have a deeper understanding of the foibles of human nature and life's absurdities and tragedies than William Shakespeare. This makes him a fascinating companion for the season of Lent, a traditional time for a spot of self-examination. This engaging, wise and often amusing Lent book sets quotations from Shakespeare's characters and poems alongside biblical passages and reflects on the resonance between them - one reflection for each day of the season. It starts with dust on Ash Wed...
William Shakespeare's The Force Doth Awaken (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #7)
by Ian Doescher
As the noble Resistance clashes with the vile First Order, Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Kylo Ren, and BB-8 are pulled into a galaxy-wide drama in iambic pentameter. Star Wars fans and Shakespeare enthusiasts alike will enjoy the authentic meter, the reimagined movie scenes and dialog, woodcut-style illustrations, and hidden Easter eggs throughout. Chewbacca speaks! Supreme Leader Snoke gives a soliloquy! And the romance of Han Solo and Leia Organa takes a tragic turn that Shakespeare would approve of...
William's Shakespeare's Jedi the Last (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #8)
by Ian Doescher
The Star Wars saga continues with Bard of Avon providing some of the biggest shocks yet! Alack, the valiant Resistance must flee from the scoundrels of the First Order, and it falls to Rey, Finn, Poe, Rose, and BB-8 to take up arms against sea of troubles. Can they bring Snoke's schemes to woe, destruction, ruin, and decay? Will Luke Skywalker take the stage once more, and aid Princess Leia in the winter of her discontent? Experience the latest chapter in the George Lucas series in an all-new...
Eisaku Sato, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72 (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia)
by Ryuji Hattori
This book is a biography of Eisaku Satō (1901-75), who served as prime minister of Japan from 1964 to 1972, before Prime Minister Abe the longest uninterrupted premiership in Japanese history. The book focuses on Satō’s management of Japan’s relations with the United States and Japan’s neighbours in East Asia, where Satō worked to normalize relations with South Korea and China. It also covers domestic Japanese politics, particularly factional politics within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (...
William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Clueless (Pop Shakespeare, #3)
by Ian Doescher
Clueless gets a makeover that Cher Horowitz and the Bard would approve of in this charming and witty retelling of the 90s teen comedy, presented as an authentic Shakespearean play written in iambic pentameter. Cher, the fairest maiden of Beverly Hills, takes center stage in this comedy of errors in which matchmaking, makeovers, and mall-hopping leads to plenty of merry-making until Cher realizes her good intentions are creating mischief for her friends and family, including her new best friend...
Assemble, Ye Avengers! All four Avengers films presented as Shakespearean plays in this ultimate treasury for Marvel fans. What if the most epic cinematic franchise of all time had been penned by the greatest playwright of all time? Wonder no more! William Shakespeare s Avengers: The Complete Works reimagines all four films as plays by the Bard of Avon, complete with authentic meter and verse, stage directions, and entertaining Easter eggs. Fans will experience their favorite scenes, characters...
Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
by William Shakespeare and Raymond Macdonald Alden
With their devastating depiction of lust and jealousy, love tangled with hate, hetrosexual and homosexual desire, Shakespeare's sonnets are among the most breathtaking-and mysterious-love poems yet written. The complete sequence is published here.
The Tragedie of Coriolanus (Tragedie of Coriolanus, #20)
by William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare's Star Wars (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #4)
by Ian Doescher
May the verse be with you! Inspired by one of the greatest creative minds in the English language - and William Shakespeare - here is an officially licensed retelling of George Lucas' epic Star Wars in the style of the immortal Bard of Avon. The saga of a wise (Jedi) knight and an evil (Sith) lord, of a beautiful princess held captive and a young hero coming of age, Star Wars abounds with all the valor and villainy of Shakespeare's greatest plays. Reimagined in glorious iambic pentameter, Willia...
Love's Labour's Lost (Top100 Drama - William Shakespeare) (Festival Shakespeare S.)
by William Shakespeare
A hole in one that pokes fun at the high and mighty duffer, this book showcases 35 color masterpieces--from Buckingham Palace and the Leaning Tower of Pisa to the New York Stock Exchange and Stonehenge--with funny captions complementing the incredibly realistic photos. A must-have for the the golfer who aspires to be part of history.
William Shakespeare's the Empire Striketh Back (William Shakespeare's Star Wars, #5)
by Ian Doescher
The New York Times Best Seller Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Yoda to a hungry wampa. Many a fortnight have passed since the destruction of the Death Star. Young Luke Skywalker and his friends have taken refuge on the ice planet of Hoth, where the evil Darth Vader has hatched a cold-blooded plan to capture them. Only with the...
A Midsommar Night's Dreame (Jabberwoke Pocket Occult)
by William Shakespeare
The Brightest Heaven of Invention
by Peter Leithart and Canon Press
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Arden Shakespeare Library) (Mockingbird Classics Deluxe Edition - The Complete Works of Shakespeare, #1)
by William Shakespeare
This new edition focuses on the Sonnets as poetry - sometimes strikingly individual poems, but often subtly interlinked in thematic, imagistic and other groupings. Gwynne Evans and Anthony Hecht also address the many questions that cast a veil of mystery over the genesis of the Sonnets: to what extent are they autobiographical? What is the nature of the 'love', strongly expressed, between the 'poet', the 'youth' and the 'Dark Lady'? Can they, apart from the poet, be identified? Who is the 'rival...
The Sonnets Audio Cassette Set (3 Cassettes) (New Cambridge Shakespeare Audio)
by William Shakespeare
Using the complete, unabridged texts established in the New Cambridge Shakespeare edition, Naxos are making audio versions of Shakespeare's plays and the Sonnets. Titles, many of are available, both as audio cassettes and as compact discs, sold jointly by Cambridge University Press and Naxos. Each recording has a full cast of well-known professional actors, accompanied by appropriate music from the Naxos catalogue. A set of two, three or four cassettes/cds is accompanied by notes and a play syno...