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Mashing it Up

Andrew Tidmarsh

Andrew Tidmarsh is theatre and film director, writer and teacher. He has taught this practical approach to genre to writers, directors and actors at RADA, Goldsmiths, and Drama Centre at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He has directed in UK, Germany, Canada and Philippines, and is the director of an annual new writing festival at the Soho Theatre in London. He regularly teaches in Canada and Dubai. His book An Attitude for Acting will be published by Nick Hern books in 2011. Andrew Tidmarsh is a theatre director, film-maker and teacher. He has taught at leading drama schools and currently runs the Foundation course at RADA. He has directed work at Soho Theatre, Wimbledon Studio, Shakespeare's Globe and Jermyn Street Theatre. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Genre : A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen

Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014

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...The excessive nature of Jacobean Tragedy is what makes it fun. It is always violent, graphic and bloody, and always in some dark way deeply entertaining. The excess exceeds our expectation and often our limits of what is bearable...

‘Most Retrograde to Our Desire’: Translating Recusant Identity in Hamlet

Richard Chamberlain

Richard Chamberlain

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Shakespeare and the Translation of Identity in Early Modern England

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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...[The Earl of Derby] Desires that the course begun may be continued; good has already been wrought, by the men being for the most part conformable. Secret and church Papists, being men of ability, are the only dangerous people; asks...

‘Suppose the singing birds musicians’: Birdsong

Christopher R. Wilson

Christopher R.Wilson is Professor in the Department of Music at the University of Hull, UK. He has published on English music/words topics from the late medieval period to the 20th century. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare’s Musical Imagery

Bloomsbury Academic, 2011

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...Commentators on music in Shakespeare seem reluctant to discuss birdsong, almost without exception. Peggy M. Simonds , Myth, Emblem, and Music...

Antony and Cleopatra: Language and Writing

Virginia Vaughan

Virginia Vaughan

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Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015

Short Guides and Biography

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Introduction: The Life of the Author

William Leahy

William Leahy is Head of the School of Arts at Brunel University, UK. He has published widely on Shakespeare's History plays and Elizabethan Processional literature. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare and His Authors : Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...‘It is not what we don’t know that troubles us’, said Mark Twain, ‘it is what we know but isn’t so’. Although it is unknown whether Twain was thinking of Shakespeare when this was said, with a single sentence he defines the parameters...

No Biography: Shakespeare, Author

Sean Gaston

Sean Gaston

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Shakespeare and His Authors : Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...Shakespeare gave us a Shakespeare.Shakespeare is like God: unparalleled creation, and no biography. Or, perhaps more accurately, he is like Jesus Christ, whose scraps and traces of an unprovable and unproved life sustain the belief...

Malfolio: Foul Papers on the Shakespeare Authorship Question

Willy Maley

Willy Maley

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Shakespeare and His Authors : Critical Perspectives on the Authorship Question

Bloomsbury Academic, 2010

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...The quest for the truth of the self, our own and others’, endlessly fascinating, is precisely endless, since the subject of liberal humanism is a chimera, an effect of language, not its origin. Meanwhile, the social and political are placed...

Her Becomings

Eric S. Mallin

Eric S. Mallin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the author of Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England (Berkeley: U of California P, 1995) Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Godless Shakespeare

Bloomsbury Academic, 2007

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...Cleopatra She stands, or more probably reclines, outside the world’s system of tiers and orders, choosing self-images of her devising. Subject to his-tory only insofar as she manifests there, here she becomes, the ringmaster...

Conclusion

Lukas Erne

Lukas Erne is Professor of English Literature at the University of Geneva. He is author of Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (Cambridge, 2003). He has taught at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, at the University of Neuchâtel and, as Visiting Professor, at Yale University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Shakespeare’s Modern Collaborators

Bloomsbury Academic, 2008

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...How many editions of Shakespeare do we need? A recent study contains a far from exhaustive list of more than 1,700 Shakespeare editions produced between the late sixteenth and the early twenty-first century. Of these editions, almost...

Crackers

Eric S. Mallin

Eric S. Mallin is Associate Professor of English at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is the author of Inscribing the Time: Shakespeare and the End of Elizabethan England (Berkeley: U of California P, 1995) Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Godless Shakespeare

Bloomsbury Academic, 2007

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...Titus SISTER ANNE.. Hello, children. I’m Sister Anne. And I’ll be teaching you so that you can all receive your first communion! STAN (scared).. Are we...