Authors:William Shakespeare, Michael Neill,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, classics, world, anthony, shakespeare, cleopatra
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0199535787
ISBN-13: 9780199535781

Now available in beautiful World’s Classics editions--with handsome, four-color covers and new low prices--The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and authoritative edions of Shakespeare’s plays. In each volume, an introductory essay provides all relevant background information together with an appraisal of critical views and the play’s performance history. In addition, the detailed commentaries pay particular attention to the language and staging. These editions are perfect for all readers, whether actors needing stage directions, students desiring comprehensive (yet

Authors:William Shakespeare, Michael Neill,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: oxford, shakespeare, venice, othello, moor
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2008-06-15
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0199535876
ISBN-13: 9780199535873

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also the only tragedy to feature a main character, Iago, who truly seems evil, betraying and deceiving those that trust him purely for spite and with no political goal. This edition, the first to give full attention to these themes, includes an extensive introduction stresses the public dimensions of the tragedy, paying particular attention to its treatment of color and social relations. Designed to

Authors:William Shakespeare, Michael Neill,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: shakespeare, oxford, othello
Number of Pages: 504
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0198129203
ISBN-13: 9780198129202

This is the first scholarly edition of Othello to give full attention to the work’s bold treatment of racial themes. Shakespeare’s decision to place a sympathetic black hero at the center of his tragedy was unique in its time; but, as the lively introduction shows, the play’s relationship to the history of racial thinking remains controversial. Designed to meet the needs of theatre professionals, as well as general readers, the edition includes an extensive performance history, a commentary illuminating the complexities of Shakespeare’s language, and an indispensable ap

Authors:Philip Massinger, Michael Neill,
Publisher: Arden Shakespeare
Keywords: drama, modern, arden, renegado
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2010-05-17
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1904271618
ISBN-13: 9781904271611

This Jacobean tragic-comedy by Philip Massinger explores the cultural conflict between Christian Europe and Muslim North Africa experienced when the two began to travel and trade in the early modern period. The play is peopled with merchants and pirates and the somewhat convoluted plot involves conversions between both faiths, disguise, kidnap and clandestine marriage.The play is one of many of the period exploring the tantalizing and sometimes threatening "other" world of other religions and cultures and as such is studied alongside more familiar plays such as Othello and The Merchant of Veni

Authors:William Shakespeare, Michael Neill,
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: classics, world, oxford, othello
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2006-06-15
List price: $10.95
ISBN-10: 0192814516
ISBN-13: 9780192814517

Along with Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth, Othello is one of Shakespeare’s four great tragedies. What distinguishes Othello is its bold treatment of racial and gender themes. It is also the only tragedy to feature a main character, Iago, who truly seems evil, betraying and deceiving those that trust him purely for spite and with no political goal. This edition, the first to give full attention to these themes, includes an extensive introduction stresses the public dimensions of the tragedy, paying particular attention to its treatment of color and social relations. Designed to meet the n

Authors:Thomas Middleton, William Rowley, Michael Neill,
Publisher: Methuen Drama
Keywords: mermaids, new, changeling
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-09-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0713668849
ISBN-13: 9780713668841

The Changeling is a popular Renaissance tragedy in which the relationship between money, sex, and power is explored. Frequently performed and studied in University courses, it is a key text in the New Mermaids series.

Authors:Graham Bradshaw, Michael Neill, Graham Bradshaw, Mich
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Company
Keywords: austerities, coetzee
Number of Pages: 284
Published: 2010-04-01
List price: $99.95
ISBN-10: 0754668037
ISBN-13: 9780754668039

Representing a wide range of critical and theoretical perspectives, this volume examines J.M. Coetzee’s novels from "Dusklands" to "Diary of a Bad Year". The choice of essays reflects three broad goals: aligning the South African dimension of Coetzee’s writing with his ’late modernist’ aesthetic; exploring the relationship between Coetzee’s novels and his essays on linguistics; and, paying particular attention to his more recent fictional experiments. These objectives are realized in essays focusing on, among other matters, the function of names and etymology in C