Post-Colonial Shakespeares (New Accents)

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Unique in its focus, Post-Colonial Shakespeares examines how our assumptions about key ideas such as 'colonization', 'race', and 'nation' derive from early modern English culture and looks at how such terms are themselves embedded in "colonial" forms of knowledge. Featuring original work by some of the leading critics within the field, this impressive volume explores the multiple ways of reading Shakespeare in our postcolonial context. Contributors: Andreas Bertoldi, Jerry Brotton, Jonathan Burton, Jonathan Dollimore, Terence Hawkes, Margo Hendricks, David Johnson, Michael Neill, Avraham Oz, Nicholas Visser.

Discovering Wine Country: Bordeaux: How to Find Great Wines Off the Beaten Track (Discovering Wine Country)

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Discovering Wine Country: Bordeaux: How to Find Great Wines Off the Beaten Track (Discovering Wine Country)
Monty Waldin
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ASIN: 1845330382

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From the Médoc to Sauternes, this invaluable guide to France’s popular Bordeaux region explains the area’s classification system and offers advice on getting around and finding the best hotels and restaurants. It features tours of the wine areas, with suggestions for the best routes to follow and which producers to visit. Plus, there are expert tips on winery etiquette and advice on the fabulous tasting wines at all price levels.

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Supreme knowledge.......2006-10-26

Waldin's knowledge of his subject is immense but conveyed with an ease.

He is clearly no stooge to the grand marques and is forthright in his opinions without being pompous.

Whether you're a wine lover or merely someone that loves the countryside, this book is really all you'll need for a terrific week in Bordeaux.

Foreign Shakespeare: Contemporary Performance

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Foreign Shakespeare: Contemporary Performance

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ASIN: 0521617081

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Shakespeare has long been considered the pre-eminent poet and dramatist of the English-speaking world. But although he is the most frequently performed playwright in the world, little attention has been paid to theatrical production of his plays outside the English language. This is the first collection to offer a considered account of contemporary Shakespeare performance in non-English-speaking theatres. Most of the essays focus on Europe, some on Asia. They investigate text and translation theory, the significance of the visual, acting, directing and audience culture, intercultural performance, political appropriation and dissent. Dennis Kennedy introduces the topic within the context of postwar performance, and his Afterword challenges Anglocentric standards of Shakespeare interpretation.

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Just Perfect........2007-05-26

This book looks like it just came off the printing presses. Immaculate shape and the arrival time was weeks earlier than quoted. I would absolutely use this buyer again.

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Fascinating take on Shakespeare's wife
An addicting historical romance that lives on in your heart long after the last page is turned

Loving Will Shakespeare
Carolyn Meyer
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ASIN: 0152054510

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Poor Anne Hathaway is still living with her callous stepmother, and her prospects for marriage and a home of her own are becoming grim. However, she can’t seem to get charismatic Will Shakespeare out of her mind--even though he is much too young for her. But then one day Will impulsively kisses his childhood friend Anne, changing the course of their lives forever.

Here is the story of the childhoods of and tumultuous romance between the boy who became the world’s most famous playwright and the spirited farmer’s daughter who became his wife. Carolyn Meyer has delivered a riveting historical tale about love, family, the pursuit of one’s dreams--and the price one pays for each.

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Courtesy of Teens Read Too.......2006-11-27

Having been fortunate enough to have read Ms. Meyer's previous release, MARIE, DANCING, I was anxious to read her take on the life and times of William Shakespeare. Although I must admit that I enjoyed Marie, Dancing, based on Marie van Goethem and the role she played in becoming the inspiration for Edgar Degas's sculpture, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, just a tad bit more than LOVING WILL SHAKESPEARE, I did thoroughly enjoy this book.

LOVING WILL SHAKESPEARE is the story of William Shakespeare and his wife, Agnes "Anne" Hathaway. Anne, however, is the main character in this story, and although I wasn't disappointed, per se, I can admit that I was hoping for more of an intimate look into Mr. Shakespeare himself.

Having lost her mother to illness, Anne finds herself with a new stepmother, Joan, who is eerily reminiscent at times to the evil stepmother portrayed in the classic story of Cinderella. After the last attempt to fix her up, yet again, with a cruel and intolerant suitor, Anne realizes that she's been looking for love in all the wrong places. But how can she be in love with young Will Shakespeare, though, when she's known him since he was a toddler?

In love with him she is, although it takes her awhile to act on her feelings. Thankfully for Anne, Will returns her love. Not so fortunately, however, is the fact that Will has the desire to write sonnets and poems, to act on the stage, to travel the world and see the sights. All Anne has ever wanted is to be married, to raise children with a man she loves, in a home they can call their own. When they finally do marry, Anne realizes quite quickly that the permanent, loving homestead she so desired will undoubtedly be one without the constant presence of her husband.

LOVING WILL SHAKESPEARE is intriguing, to say the least. It's interesting to see how Anne and Will fall in love through friendship and the course of time. While beautiful, it's also haunting, to know that this couple stayed married for more than twenty years, during which time Will was hardly ever at home with his wife.

This is a great read for lovers of history, or for those interested specifically in the life of William Shakespeare. I can honestly say that I feel like I know Will and Anne Shakespeare--or, at least, know of a young man and a slightly older woman who were, once upon a time, madly in love.

Reviewed by: Jennifer Wardrip, aka "The Genius"

Fascinating take on Shakespeare's wife.......2006-11-23

Carolyn Meyer has done an admirable job in fleshing out Anne Hathaway, the wife of famous playwright William Shakespeare. There is little that is known about Anne or her relationship with Shakespeare, so the author has done her best to make Anne a person that readers can relate to.

Agnes Hathaway (nicknamed "Anne" by William Shakespeare) has known William all his life, as she is seven or eight years his senior. While many men - from first crushes to serious suitors - enter her life, none turn her head and charm her quite as much as Will Shakespeare, who grows from a "younger brother" sort to being the man of her dreams. Her family, in particular her cruel and harsh stephmother, frowns upon her choice, but Agnes decides she must follow her heart and not what society would deem "proper."

"Loving Will Shakespeare" is a misleading title, as this book is more about Anne's life growing up and the many trials she must endure, especially when it comes to getting married. Anne is a likeable person who just seems to not get any breaks, not in her family or romantic life.

While it was a good, quick read, I was disappointed in how flat and unrealistic parts of the story seemed. Anne and Will saw each other so infrequently in the beginning of the book that I wasn't sure how sincere his love for her was. Maybe he was just being nice or was a big flirt? He didn't seem to be that major of a character, despite the fact that he was going to end up being Anne's husband.

Once Anne and Will get married, the book rushes through the rest of their marriage, ending with the return of William to his wife five years before his death. I know this book is geared toward younger readers, but it would have been nice to see their actual marriage fleshed out more. A few more chapters after they married, devoted to how Anne felt with her husband being on the road and their ongoing seperation, would have been nice, especially as he grew in fame and she stayed at home. Instead, the twenty-some years of their marriage are summed up fairly quickly in one short final chapter. Historians believe that, during their marriage, William had many extra-marital affairs while living apart from his wife. Maybe some sort of reconciliation at the end would have made the story sweeter. Instead, I was left feeling that Anne just traded one bad situation (with her family) with another (a somewhat loveless marriage).

An addicting historical romance that lives on in your heart long after the last page is turned.......2006-08-31

Agnes "Anne" Hathaway has never had an easy life. She had a loving mother, and a wonderful family up until the day the sickness came, stealing the life of her beloved mother, and leaving her father a widower. Agnes feels that the family would have been able to survive, with just her, and her siblings; but father thinks differently, and takes an evil wife (Joan) to be Agnes' new stepmother. Joan treats Agnes as if she were lower than rat poison, and, eventually, when Agnes' father passes on, Joan begins to threaten the poor Agnes. Forcing her to become romantically involved with a man whose temper rages at anytime. The only consolation Agnes has in her life, is the affections of young Will Shakespeare. While Agnes is Will's senior by eight years, she finds herself drawn to the boy whom she saw in diapers, and soon finds herself sharing passionate embraces with the young poet. Will makes Agnes (whom he refers to as Anne) feel loved, and cared for. Something that she has not experienced since the death of both of her parents. Together, the two lovers begin sharing secrets, and planning a future. And, soon, when Will returns from his time abroad, Anne realizes that he is the one for her. The only problem is that Will craves a life of travel, and playacting; while Anne wants nothing more than a stable marriage, and a family to spend time with. Now, as the two grow closer and closer, Anne must make her choice...follow her heart, or take into consideration the unbelieving stares and whispers of those who feel that she's making a fool of herself.

I have read very few plays by Shakespeare. But those which I have devoured, were adored. Which is the main reason Carolyn Meyer's LOVING WILL SHAKESPEARE appealed to me so greatly. Anne is an amazing character, whose bravery in the face of death, as well as evil, and disgrace, is highly admirable. Her life with Joan, as well as her collection of siblings and half-siblings, is not an easy one, yet she pioneered through, never allowing herself to give up in the face of adversity. Will, on the other hand, is the type of boy every girl deserves to fall in love with. He's kind, romantic, and intelligent. His poems and sonnets are incredible, wrapping the reader inside them; while his wit his appealing, making it easy to understand why Mistress Hathaway was so interested, and drawn to him, so easily. While the ending of LOVING WILL SHAKESPEARE was slightly abrupt, it seemed satisfying, nonetheless, and truly carries a lot of emotion with it; which will most likely leave the reader craving more information about the tumultuous romance between Anne Hathaway and the world's best known playwrite, Will Shakespeare. An addicting historical romance that lives on in your heart long after the last page is turned.

Erika Sorocco
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Waugh Abroad: The Collected Travel Writing (Everyman's Library)

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Waugh Abroad: The Collected Travel Writing (Everyman's Library)
Evelyn Waugh
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ASIN: 1400040760
Release Date: 2003-08-05

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Thirty years’ worth of Evelyn Waugh’s inimitable travel writings have been gathered together for the first time in one volume.

Waugh’s accounts of his travels–spanning the years from 1929 to 1958–describe journeys through the West Indies, Mexico, South America, the Holy Land, and Africa. And just as his travels informed his fiction, his novelist’s sensibility is apparent in each of these pieces. Waugh pioneered the genre of modern travel writing in which the comic predicament of the traveler is as central as the world he encounters. He wrote with as sharp an eye for folly as for foliage, and a delight in the absurd, not least where his own comfort and dignity are concerned.

From his fresh take on the well-traveled and hence already “fully labeled” Mediterranean region in Labels, to a close-up view of Haile Selassie’s coronation in Remote People, from a comically miserable stint in British Guiana.

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Waugh Of The World.......2007-01-20

"Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveler and not a tourist." (Labels, 1930)

Throughout his first full decade as a novelist, Evelyn Waugh kept up a second career as a writer of travel books, getting double-duty from the locales he used to spruce up his fiction. "Waugh Abroad" collects the five travel books he wrote in the 1930s, as well as brief essay on holy places from 1952 and a last travel book published in 1960, six years before his death.

For Waugh aficionados like me, "Waugh Abroad" is required reading, especially since three of the books, "Remote People" (1931), "Ninety-Two Days" (1934), and "Waugh In Abyssinia" (1936) detail travels Waugh used for setting his novels "Black Mischief", "Handful Of Dust", and "Scoop," respectively.

What you get is a vast sampling of Waugh at near his best as a writer as well as at his very worst. That's true from the very first book, "Labels." In his introduction, Nicholas Shakespeare calls it the "best of his travel books," and though I don't agree, it's certainly his most accessible, featuring Waugh aboard a Norwegian passenger ship for an extended Mediterranean jaunt.

Waugh fills the canvas in an entertaining way, from encountering a Naples pimp ("All-a-girls naked. Vair artistic, vair smutty, vair French") to the then-young architecture of Gaudi in Barcelona, which entrances the young conservative to some of his finest descriptive prose. Then you get Waugh the embarrassing snob, sniffing at Muslim art and expressing British superiority with less nuance than he ever did in his fiction.

"Remote People" is even worse in this respect, and "Waugh In Abyssinia" gasp-inducing. In fact, Waugh's African visits point up the thin line between racialism and racism all-too-well; Waugh writing for pages about the land and the politics while giving short shrift to the people.

At least "Abyssinia" showcases Waugh's misanthropy to far better advantage in discussing the tenuous link between factual accuracy and the press. He used this same focus in his novel "Scoop," but it comes off to better effect here: "We could retail their lies, even when we found them most palpable, with the qualification, 'It is stated in some quarters' or 'I was unofficially informed.'"

Only "Ninety-Two Days," informed by Waugh's new Catholicism and a sense of curiosity for the vast mystery of British Guiana, really holds together well from beginning to end as a record of Waugh engaging himself in a specific locale and its people, investing you in the experience the same way he pulls you into the fictional world of "Brideshead Revisited." Writing of the jungle, "the tartarean plunge on entering the forest and of the bird-like sense of liberation on leaving it," Waugh makes you feel the sweat and mosquito bites.

Too bad it's only part of "Waugh Abroad." You also get Waugh's take on Mexican socialism in 1939, "Robbery Under Law," which manages to transform a perfectly sound argument into a repetitive screed and is much worse than "A Tourist In Africa," a tired though occasionally shimmering final outing for Waugh's travel-writing, nowhere more so than when he writes of the folly of Rhodesian apartheid, "that preposterous frontier," which shows quite a different Waugh than you might imagine from reading the other books here.

Though never dull, Waugh is writing here for a more transitory audience, and it shows.

What Waugh Saw..........2005-09-26

I purchased Waugh Abroad: Collected Travel Writing : The Collected Travel Writing by Evelyn Waugh because I was looking for a copy of ROBBERY UNDER THE LAW by Waugh and that book was contained in this collection. Waugh's travel writing is informative and comical. He tells it as he sees it in that mid-20th century English style. There is a little bit of the "We've got an empire to look after" attitude in Waugh's travel writing. But, that is a small price to pay for Waugh's analysis of world events and how they affected the countries he visited. His writing is insightful and he does a good job of describing travelling, geography, history, and the good and bad folks within and without of the places he visited. When you finish one of Waugh's travel books you feel like you have visited the country or area with him. This book is a good read and should be on the shelf of all those who enjoy good travel writing.

A Welcome Return.......2003-09-16

All of Waugh's travel books have been out of print for years, with the exception of brief excerpts he included in an anthology called "When the Going Was Good." (Which is well worth reading if for nothing other than Waugh's caustic preface.) Even then one of his travelogues, "Robbery Under Law," was not excerpted at all.
"Waugh Abroad" changes that, and God Bless Everyman's Library for bringing all these books back in print in their completeness. For Waugh used his travels as a source for much of his fiction, and much of his private life--particularly his disasterous first marriage--is chronicled pseudononymously as well (see "Labels"). Aficionados of the novel "Scoop" will easily recognize the "real" events portrayed in "Waugh in Abyssinia". "Robbery Under Law" is particularly interesting, not merely for it's prior rarity but because it features Waugh at his most bilious--full of invective and outright hatred for the anti-Catholic Socialist dictatorship then in power in 1940's Mexico. Yet these books feature not only Waugh at his best, they also show him at his worst: long winded and occasionally boring, something he very, very rarely was in fiction, but is more often in these travel books. But great treasures lie within.

Shakespeare Country and the Cotswolds (Landmark Visitors Guides) (Landmark Visitors Guides)

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Richard Sale
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Shakespeare Country, Vale of Evesham and the Cotswolds: Walks (Pathfinder Guides)

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Jarrold Publishing
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The Shakespeare country;: Shakespeare's Avon from source to Severn, (The pilgrimage series)

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Charles Showell
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Heirs to Shakespeare: Reinventing the Bard in Young Adult Literature

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Heirs to Shakespeare: Reinventing the Bard in Young Adult Literature
Megan Lynn Isaac
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From Hinton to Hamlet: Building Bridges between Young Adult Literature and the Classics Second Edition, Revised and Expanded

ASIN: 086709494X

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One of the best ways for modern readers to develop an appreciation for Shakespeare is by discovering how frequently his works are reinvented by todays young adult authors. Heirs to Shakespeare puts the Bard into conversation with these authors and helps bring Renaissance drama to life. This innovative approach to curriculum design bridges the artificial gap between canonical authors and contemporary writers. At the same time, it demonstrates how reading for personal pleasure and reading Shakespeare can be complementary goals.

Unlike other books that "pair" classic and contemporary books, this one provides readings and specific analysis of the Shakespearean influence underpinning many young adult novels. Important features include:

detailed reading of young adult novels with significant Shakespearean features, including books by Katherine Paterson, Julius Lester, Lois Duncan, and Ann McCaffrey
explicit analysis of Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Hamlet, Othello, A Midsummer Nights Dream, Richard III, The Tempest, and young adult novels that revise and expand upon these plays
detailed readings of historical fiction for young adults with discussion of how these novels relate to Shakespeare and the theatrical world
background material on young adult life in the Renaissance
analysis and suggestions on incorporating adaptations of Shakespeare into the classroom
forthright discussion of the difficulties of teaching controversial plays like Othello and The Merchant of Venice.

Readers will discover the inescapable intertextual connections between many modern young adult novels and Shakespeares plays. They will gain a practical and concrete understanding of how modern authors talk about and respond to classic literature through the processes of revision and reinterpretation. Most of all, they will see why the works of Shakespeare are as relevant today as ever and why young adult novels can be as "significant" as Shakespeare.

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Review from librarian.......2000-07-29

In this interesting and informative book, Isaac explores how today's YA literature is influenced by the classic stories found in Shakespeare's plays. Citing the fact that many of the plays have teenage characters and that they feature universal themes of love, sex, death, humor, and families, Isaac compares several plays side-by-side to modern novels written for teens. Hamlet, for example, is paralleled to Katherine Patterson's Bridge to Terabitha and to Lois Duncan's Killing Mr. Griffin. Such parallels are not always obvious at first, but Isaac presents a carefully thought out and well-written comparison for her selections. The book also takes a brief look at young adult life in that time period, and discusses several YA novels that are set in the Elizabethan era. Intended for English Literature teachers, this book will make entertaining reading for anyone with an interest in Shakespeare or just a love for modern YA fiction. I was familiar with the plays discussed but not with all of the corresponding novels, and I found Isaac's summaries and comparisons remarkably informative and understandable. This is a very interesting look at the common, timeless themes in literature, and Isaac does a marvelous job of presenting and explaining her choices for comparison. Highly recommended, essential for librarians working in schools where Shakespeare is a strong focus in English classes.

Shakespeare and the Language of Translation - Arden Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Language Series (Shakespeare and Language)

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Ton Hoenselaars
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ASIN: 1904271456

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Shakespeare's international status as a literary icon is largely based on his masterful use of the English language, yet beyond Britain his plays and poems are read and performed mainly in translation. Shakespeare and the Language of Translation addresses this apparent contradiction and is the first major survey of its kind. Covering the many ways in which the translation of ShakespeareÂ's works is practised and studied from Bulgaria to Japan, South Africa to Germany, it also discusses the translation of Macbeth into Scots and of Romeo and Juliet into British Sign Language. The collection places renderings of ShakespeareÂ's works aimed at the page and the stage, in their multiple cultural contexts, including gender, race and nation, as well as personal and postcolonial politics. ShakespeareÂ's impact on nations and cultures all around the world is increasingly a focus for study and debate. As a result, the international performance of Shakespeare and Shakespeare in translation have become areas of growing popularity for both under- and postgraduate study, for which this book provides a valuable companion. 'This volume expertly describes the richness and strangeness that literary translation brings to world culture. It should be obligatory reading for Shakespeare scholars and literary-translation scholars alike' - Francis Jones, MLR

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