Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Twel fth NightRandom House Publishing Group, 26. 8. 2009 - Počet stran: 736 The Taming of the Shrew Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and love–with her bridegroom, Petruchio, in a comedy of unmatched theatrical brilliance, filled with visual gags and witty repartee. A Midsummer Night's Dream Fairy magic, love spells, and an enchanted wood turn the mismatched rivalries of four young lovers into a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between dreams and the waking world. The Merchant of Venice This dark comedy of love and money contains one of the truly mythic figures in literature–Shylock, the Jewish moneylender. The “pound of flesh” he demands as payment of Antonio’s debt has become a universal metaphor for vengeance. Here, pathos and farce combine with moral complexity and romantic entanglements, to display the extraordinary power and range of Shakespeare at his best. Twelfth Night Set in a topsy-turvy world like a holiday revel, this comedy juxtaposes a romantic plot involving separated twins and mistaken identity with a more satiric one about the humiliation of a pompous killjoy. The hilarity is touched with melancholy, and the play ends, not with laughter, but with a clown’s plaintive song. Each Edition Includes: • Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English • Completely updated, detailed bibliographies and performance histories • An interpretive essay on film adaptations of the play, along with an extensive filmography |
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... film of a Shakespeare play was made (in 1899, an excerpt from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of King John), the screen has become Shakespeare's proper medium no less than the stage or the printed page. If Shakespeare's works are ...
... film of a Shakespeare play was made (in 1899, an excerpt from Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's production of King John), the screen has become Shakespeare's proper medium no less than the stage or the printed page. If Shakespeare's works are ...
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... film itself has passed from the local Cineplex. And on video we can replay-even interrupt-the performance, allowing it to repeat itself as we attend to details that might otherwise be missed. Filmed Shakespeare is indeed different from ...
... film itself has passed from the local Cineplex. And on video we can replay-even interrupt-the performance, allowing it to repeat itself as we attend to details that might otherwise be missed. Filmed Shakespeare is indeed different from ...
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... film focuses on the contest for supremacy between Pickford, “America's sweetheart” in the silent-film era, and Fairbanks of The Mark of Zorro and The Thief of Bagdad fame. As America's most talked-about married couple, they were ...
... film focuses on the contest for supremacy between Pickford, “America's sweetheart” in the silent-film era, and Fairbanks of The Mark of Zorro and The Thief of Bagdad fame. As America's most talked-about married couple, they were ...
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... film with a comparable fail-safe formula: provide gorgeous scenic interiors, focus on the Petruchio/Kate plot in a fairly straightforward interpretation, and above all hire a celebrity husband-andwife team to play out the famous war of ...
... film with a comparable fail-safe formula: provide gorgeous scenic interiors, focus on the Petruchio/Kate plot in a fairly straightforward interpretation, and above all hire a celebrity husband-andwife team to play out the famous war of ...
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... film, she cannot help being fascinated by Burton even in the midst of her wary mistrust. By the end she knows that she has found a stable identity for herself in marriage, even if she has had to do so by submitting to his male ego ...
... film, she cannot help being fascinated by Burton even in the midst of her wary mistrust. By the end she knows that she has found a stable identity for herself in marriage, even if she has had to do so by submitting to his male ego ...
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Four Comedies: The Taming of the Shrew/a Midsummer Night's Dream/the ... William Shakespeare Náhled není k dispozici. - 1988 |
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