This volume showcases more than 100 illustrations published with the works of the English language`s greatest dramatist. Arranged by play, the full-color images exhibit the rich diversity of artistic styles and treatments applied to each work. Featured artists include Arthur Rackham, Edmund Dulac, Charles Robinson, John Austen, Frank Pape, Charles Folkard, Louis Rhead, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and John William Waterhouse.
This entertaining and fact-packed guide provides all the information you`ll need to travel back in time to Elizabethan London a booming city of courtiers, cutthroats, merchants, beggars, lawyers, dramatists, apprentices and adventurers. It helps you: find out the best way to the capital and where to stay; saunter over London Bridge, with its hundreds of shops and houses; glimpse Her Majesty at Whitehall, Europe`s largest palace; watch the finest plays and players at the Rose Theatre, and marvel at the bustle of business in the Royal Exchange; and, go down to Greenwich to stand on the deck of the Golden Hind, the ship that Sir Francis Drake sailed around the world. This intriguingly addictive guide provides all you need to know to sight...
Peter Ackroyd`s marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare. He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary - meeting Shakespeare afresh on his own ground. Written with an intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, this is a book by a writer about a writer, and a fascinating and detailed depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited. Формат: 13 см x 19,5 см.
ISBN: 978-0-7493-8655-9
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2011
Убийство Анжелы Хэтхолл было тщательно спланировано. Единственная улика - отпечаток пальца со шрамом, похожим на букву L. Детектив Рэг Уэксфорд подозревает в убийстве мужа Анжелы Роберта Хэтхолла. Но один вопрос волнует детектива особенно - кто та таинственная женщина, с которой, как уверен Уэксфорд, Роберт Хэтхолл встречается? Есть ли у нее на пальце шрам в виду буквы L?
ISBN: 978-0-230-73213-1
Издательство:
Macmillan Publishers
Дата выхода: июль 2011
Macbeth is a famously cursed play, fraught with gruesome violence and supernatural evil. Some of Kate Stanley`s friends question her choosing to direct its production for the 400th anniversary of its first performance, but Kate`s expertise in the little-known secrets and obscure mysteries of Shakespeare make her a natural. However, bizarre ritual objects begin to turn up at rehearsals, and it becomes clear someone is using the production to send a message in the form of very dark ancient magic. The cast is unnerved both by the gruesome pranks and the historical creepiness of this play, and consider abandoning the production. But a local young boy, the namesake of the 17th-century actor who first played the role of Lady Macbeth, is...
This exquisitely illustrated and updated edition of Bill Bryson's best-selling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling journey through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. Includes exclusive audio of Shakespeare's sonnets, read by Sir John Gielgud. Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare pairs the most celebrated playwright in history with one of the most popular writers in the English language today. In this exquisitely illustrated new edition, the age of Shakespeare is vividly evoked through full-colour paintings, portraits, documents and photographs. Ever since he took the theatre of Elizabethan London by storm over 400 years ago, Shakespeare has...
ISBN: 978-0-00-732523-8
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: июль 2011
A spectacular and engaging non-fiction Eyewitness guide to one of history`s most iconic writers, William ShakespeareDid you know special effects were used in Shakespeare`s plays? That devils and ghosts came up through trapdoors in the stage? Find out how in Eyewitness Shakespeare and discover the fascinating life and times of one of the world`s greatest playwrights. Travel back in time and follow Shakespeare from his birth in the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon to theatre life in 16th century London.Eyewitness reference books are now more interactive and colourful, with new infographics, statistics, facts and timelines, plus a giant pull-out wall chart; you`ll be an expert on Shakespeare in no time.Great for projects or just for fun,...
World-famous writer Bill Bryson brings us this brilliantly readable biography of our greatest dramatist and poet William Shakespeare. Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson tries to make sense of the man behind the masterpieces. In a journey through the streets of Shakespeare`s time, he brings to life the hubbub of Elizabethan England and a host of characters along the way. Bryson celebrates the glory of Shakespeare`s language - his ceaseless inventiveness gave us hundreds of now indispensable phrases, images and words - and delights in details of his fall-outs and folios, poetry and plays. Stitching together information from a vast array of sources, he has created a unique celebration of one of the...
ISBN: 978-0-00-719790-3
Издательство:
HarperCollins UK
Дата выхода: август 2011
The murder of Angela Hathall was extremely well planned. The only clue left was a single fingerprint with an L-shaped scar. The detective in charge, Reg Wexford, suspects that Angela`s husband Robert Hathall killed his wife. But one question troubles Wexford most of all. Who is the mysterious woman Wexford is sure Hathall is seeing? Does she have an L-shaped scar on her finger?
ISBN: 9780230722637
Издательство:
Macmillan
Дата выхода: сентябрь 2012
A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly killer who stages the Bard`s extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood desperate race to find litarary gold, and just to stay
DK Eyewitness Shakespeare is a spectacular and informative guide to one of history?s most well known playwrights. Amazing colour photographs offer your child a unique ?eyewitness? view of William Shakespeare. Did you know special effects were used in Shakespeare`s plays including devils and ghosts that came up through trapdoors in the stage? Let your child discover the fascinating life and times of one of the world`s greatest playwrights, from Shakespeare`s birth in the small town of Stratford-upon-Avon to theatre life in 16th century London. Then use the giant pull-out wall chart to decorate their room. Great for projects or just for fun, make sure your child learns everything they need to know about Shakespeare. Find out more and...
The man who was known for years as Shalimar the Clown is now a Kashmiri Muslim terrorist named Noman Sher Noman, who brutally murders Max Ophuls, an American diplomat (and counter-terrorism expert), in Los Angeles in 1991 after his wife, Boonyi, has an affair with Ophuls. This killing sets off the chain of events in Salman Rushdie`s ninth novel. SHALIMAR THE CLOWN follows both Noman and the ambassador into their pasts, finds connections between their lives, details the story of Noman`s wife Boonyi and Ophuls`s daughter India, and provides a sprawling portrait of a very troubled Kashmir in the recent 20th century. Salman Rushdie, no stranger to fanaticism and terrorism, has obviously drawn on the dramatic events of his own life for some...
ISBN: 978-0-8129-7698-4
Издательство:
Random House (USA)
Дата выхода: декабрь 2011
Los Angeles, 1991. Maximilian Ophuls, one of the makers of the modern world, is knifed to death in broad daylight on the doorstep of his illegitimate daughter India, slaughtered by his Kashmiri driver, a mysterious figure who calls himself Shalimar the Clown. The dead man is a World War II Resistance hero, a man of formidable intellectual ability and much erotic appeal, a former United States ambassador to India, and subsequently America`s counter-terrorism chief. The murder looks at first like a political assassination but turns out to be passionately personal. This is the story of Max, his killer, and his daughter - and of a fourth character, the woman who links them, whose story explains them all. The story of a deep love gone fatally...
