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Hermia is in love with Lysander, but her father demands she marry Demetrius. When the two young lovers flee into the woods, they are followed by the spurned Helena, who dotes on Demetrius, and a troupe of bumbling workmen rehearsing a play. But they are not alone....
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Cactus
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2026-02-13
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Prospero, the rightful Duke of Milan, has been betrayed. Twelve years ago, his treacherous brother Antonio, aided by the King of Naples, usurped his throne and set him adrift at sea with his infant daughter, Miranda. They were cast upon a lonely island, a place of...
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Cactus
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2026-02-13
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Shakespeare’s longest and most psychologically probing play, Hamlet stands as a landmark of Western literature. The tragedy of the Prince of Denmark, driven to avenge his father’s murder, is at once a thrilling drama of political intrigue and a profound meditation on...
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Cactus
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2026-02-13
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They are the world's most famous lovers. Their names are synonymous with romance. But their story is one of heartbreak.
In a city torn apart by a generations-old feud, two young people from enemy families meet by chance and fall in love at first sight. In the space of...
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Cactus
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2026-02-13
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He is the Moor of Venice: a celebrated general, a foreigner, a man of dignity and power who has won the heart of the gentle Desdemona. Their marriage defies her father, scandalizes society, and promises a future of perfect love.
But in the shadows lurks Iago. Passed...
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Cactus
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2026-02-13
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Blood. Power. Prophecy. Macbeth is Shakespeare's darkest and most blood-soaked tragedy.
Driven by an obsessive love and a shared lust for power, Lord and Lady Macbeth commit the ultimate crime: the murder of their king. But the act that was meant to bring them glory...
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Cactus
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2026-02-13
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Shakespeare and Queer Studies offers an accessible, comprehensive, and non-polemical account of queer approaches to Shakespeare's plays and poems. Addressing the strategies and stakes of different modes of queer critique, it encourages readers to develop their own...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-09-26
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Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity addresses forms of ethical experience on theShakespearean stage. Early modern theater traffics in the vicarious experience of ethics, often ethics in some extreme or impossible circumstance. It does so not by parading concepts across...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-03-05
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Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity addresses forms of ethical experience on theShakespearean stage. Early modern theater traffics in the vicarious experience of ethics, often ethics in some extreme or impossible circumstance. It does so not by parading concepts across...
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OUP Oxford
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2025-02-27
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'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?'
Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has endured as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-05-30
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'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?'
Dark and violent, Macbeth is a restless, haunting exploration of the human costs of violence and power. One of the most theatrically spectacular of Shakespeare's plays, Macbeth has endured as a...
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OUP Oxford
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2024-03-12
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Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. We see him afresh as a poetic innovator in continual flux, and in continual artistic debt: an author shaped by others in a...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-06-16
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Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. We see him afresh as a poetic innovator in continual flux, and in continual artistic debt: an author shaped by others in a...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-31
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The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama. Emily Shortslef makes two main arguments. One is that poetic forms of complaint--expressions of discontent and unhappiness--operate...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-12
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The Drama of Complaint: Ethical Provocations in Shakespeare's Tragedy is the first book-length study of complaint in Shakespearean drama. Emily Shortslef makes two main arguments. One is that poetic forms of complaint--expressions of discontent and unhappiness--operate...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-05-12
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This book surveys English love poetry, primarily, though not exclusively, sonnets and sonnet sequences that show the influence of Petrarch, from the early sixteenth century to the publication of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus in 1621. It incorporates a range of...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-16
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Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare's plays at the Stuart court, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World establishes that the playwright was remarkably attentive to the environmental issues of his era. As a court dramatist, he designed his plays to captivate a patron...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-01-04
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Unpicking the ecopolitics of Shakespeare's plays at the Stuart court, Shakespeare Beyond the Green World establishes that the playwright was remarkably attentive to the environmental issues of his era. As a court dramatist, he designed his plays to captivate a patron...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-12-20
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This book surveys English love poetry, primarily, though not exclusively, sonnets and sonnet sequences that show the influence of Petrarch, from the early sixteenth century to the publication of Mary Wroth's Pamphilia to Amphilanthus in 1621. It incorporates a range of...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-11-03
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Shakespeare and Disability Studies argues that an understanding of disability theory is essential for scholars, teachers, and directors who wish to create more inclusive and accessible theatrical and pedagogical encounters with Shakespeare's plays. Previous work in the...
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OUP Oxford
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2021-04-08
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