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The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Arden Shakespeare Third Series)

Written by

William Shakespeare

and

William Carroll

Edited by

William Carroll

~playauthor~Written by~ William Shakespeare , William Carroll ~playauthor~Edited by~ William Carroll

The Arden Shakespeare, 2004

The Arden Shakespeare Third Series

Playtext

Acts: 5, Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (15), Female (4), Male (11), Unassigned (0)

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... of idealised male friendship, explores metamorphosis, constancy and the boundaries of gender identity – and features the only animal role in Shakespeare, the scapegrace dog Crab. The play was written no later than 1594....

Hamlet

Written by

William Shakespeare

,

Mark Norfolk

,

David Linton

,

Mark Norfolk

and

William Shakespeare

Adapted by

Mark Norfolk

From an original work by

William Shakespeare

~playauthor~Written by~ William Shakespeare , Mark Norfolk , David Linton , Mark Norfolk , William Shakespeare ~playauthor~Adapted by~ Mark Norfolk ~playauthor~From an original work by~ William Shakespeare

Aurora Metro Books, 2016

Aurora Metro Books

Playtext

Acts: 2, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

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... moral challenge: to kill or not to kill. Adapted with Shakespeare's text by award-winning playwright Mark Norfolk, this fast-moving version gets straight to the heart of a young man's dilemma. Contains interviews...

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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... there is nothing that ‘we don’t know’. In this sense, there is nothing to trouble us because everything that needs to be known in attributing all the plays and poems written by ‘William Shakespeare’ to the man who was born and bred...

The Tempest

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama : An Introduction with Primary Sources

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017

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...First performed in 1611 before King James and first printed in Shakespeare’s 1623 Folio where it is the opening play, The Tempest is often regarded as William Shakespeare’s last play. A couple of years after the play’s first...

William Shakespeare

William Baker

William Baker is Trustee Professor, Distinguished Research Professor, Department of English and University Libraries, at Northern Illinois University, USA. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Academic, 2009

Short Guides and Biography

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... and consensus on key textual, critical and theatrical issues. William Baker offers a comprehensive but accessible introduction to Shakespeare's work and places it in the contexts of what is known of his life and activities. Avoiding...

Shakinomics; or, the Shakespeare Authorship Question and the Undermining of Traditional Authority

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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... deniers. In response to an article in the New York Times on the Shakespeare authorship question, Greenblatt wrote a letter to the editor:The idea that William Shakespeare’s authorship of his plays and poems is a matter of conjecture...

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama : An Introduction with Primary Sources

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017

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4

... as a rough draft of the play though many scholars now maintain that it was the version staged by Shakespeare’s playing company), the second quarto (Q2) printed in 1604 (which is the longest of the three versions and claims to be ‘the true...

Mark Rylance (Former Artistic Director, Globe Theatre, London)

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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...This interview took place at the Globe Theatre, London on 1 November 2007. William Leahy: Where do you stand in terms of the Shakespeare authorship question and how did you reach this view? Mark Rylance: Well, of course I...

Henry V

William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

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The Arden Guide to Renaissance Drama : An Introduction with Primary Sources

Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2017

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4

...As discussed in Chapters One and Seven, the ‘ history play’ was a popular Renaissance genre. These plays combined history and fiction to narrate the stories of past English kings. Even before Shakespeare’s play King Henry V...

Dominic Dromgoole (Artistic Director, Globe Theatre, London)

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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...This interview took place at the Globe Theatre, London on 26 November 2008. William Leahy: In your book Will & Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life (Dromgoole 2007), you are quite damming about Stratford-upon-Avon, about what...