Books with title Shakespeare's Theater

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To understand Shakespeare's plays, you need to know about the theaters and the audiences they were written for. Find out about how the plays were performed, and the actors who played in them. Discover what audiences were like when Shakespeare's plays were first performed and if theaters in Tudor England were comfortable places to visit. You will also find out which actors played the female characters in Shakespeare's theater.

Shakespeare did more than any person to shape the English language, coining more than a thousand words and writing a host of poems and plays considered the finest of their genres. Yet the documentary record is of his life is surprisingly scanty; literary historians know more about the lives of ancient Greek tragedians like Aeschylus and Sophocles than they do about Britain’s greatest writer. In this compact, highly readable biography, Jack Hughes separates truth from fiction, history from myth in the life of this enigmatic genius. Was Shakespeare gay or bisexual? Who were the recipients of his celebrated sonnets? Did another author write some or all of his plays? How could a single man’s work so thoroughly reshape our language, our literature, and our world? The answers lie within. "To be, or not to be, that is the question." - William Shakespeare Buy Now to Discover: The scandalous circumstances of Shakespeare’s marriage.How other great men, including Gutenberg, Copernicus, and Erasmus, shaped Shakespeare’s times and made his genius possible.Christopher Marlowe’s espionage activities, and how they may have caused his assassination.How the death of a son led to Shakespeare’s greatest work.What we know about Shakespeare’s mistresses and sexuality.The major themes of the Shakespearean canon, illustrated with examples from the plays.The curse that Shakespeare laid on his own grave. Buy Now and Read The True Story of William Shakespeare... Thank you in advance for buying our book. We know you'll love it!

"A Shakespearean Theatre" is an invaluable guide to an important period in English history. With the use of superb cutaway illustrations, we take a look at the different people involved in the theatre and the way it operated, from the position of the audience to the elaborate stage machinery, providing a vivid and dramatic insight into life in Elizabethan England. Discover the hazards of everyday life in the 16th century, such as fire and plague. Illustrations of artefacts and paintings from the era help to support the main text by explaining how we know what we know. Informative captions, maps, a complete glossary and an index make these titles ideal educational texts.