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The Merry Wives of Windsor: Webster's German Thesaurus Edition (Dover Thrift Editions)
by William ShakespeareAccording to legend, Queen Elizabeth I was so delighted with the character of Sir John Falstaff in Henry IV, Parts I and II, that she commanded Shakespeare to create a romantic comedy depicting the jolly old rogue in love. The obedient playwright responded with The Merry Wives of Windsor, a lively and enduring farce that offers a humorous rebuff to lechery and hypocrisy. Falstaff, whose greed and vanity overwhelm his good sense, determines to seduce a pair of well-to-do country housewives. The portly knight meets his match among the gentlewomen of Windsor, however, who counter his every stratagem with witty maneuvers of their own that expose Sir John's tomfoolery to public mirth. Familiar Shakespearean themes and devices -- romance, jealousy, disguises, and mistaken identities -- enrich the plot, along with a sparkling cast of supporting characters, including rival wooers, informers, and witty go-betweens.This madcap romp has been a favorite of readers and playgoers for over 400 years. Students, teachers, and all lovers of literature and drama will appreciate this inexpensive edition of an ageless comic gem.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William ShakespeareIn need of money, the fat and foolish Falstaff devises a scheme to seduce two married women and steal their husbands' wealth. By talking to each other, however, the wives soon discover his plan and begin to plot their own revenge. Relentlessly inventive, this comic humiliation of a foolish would-be seducer is a lively, compelling and ultimately joyous celebration of the all-conquering power of laughter.This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Merry Wives of Windsor, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Modern Library Classics)
by William Shakespeare Jonathan Bate Eric Rasmussen"Why, then the world's mine oyster."--The Merry Wives of Windsor Eminent Shakespearean scholars Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen provide a fresh new edition of this popular comedy of love, laughter, and merriment--along with more than a hundred pages of exclusive features, including * an original Introduction to The Merry Wives of Windsor* incisive scene-by-scene synopsis and analysis with vital facts about the work* commentary on past and current productions based on interviews with leading directors, actors, and designers* photographs of key RSC productions* an overview of Shakespeare's theatrical career and chronology of his plays Ideal for students, theater professionals, and general readers, these modern and accessible editions from the Royal Shakespeare Company set a new standard in Shakespearean literature for the twenty-first century.From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (The Pelican Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare Russ Mcdonald Stephen Orgel A. R. BraunmullerThe acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Each book includes an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare’s time, an introduction to the individual play, and a detailed note on the text used. Updated by general editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller, these easy-to-read editions incorporate over thirty years of Shakespeare scholarship undertaken since the original series, edited by Alfred Harbage, appeared between 1956 and 1967. With definitive texts and illuminating essays, the Pelican Shakespeare will remain a valued resource for students, teachers, and theater professionals for many years to come. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
by William Shakespeare Paul Werstine Dr Barbara MowatShakespeare's "merry wives" are Mistress Ford and Mistress Page of the town of Windsor. The two play practical jokes on Mistress Ford's jealous husband and a visiting knight, Sir John Falstaff. Merry wives, jealous husbands, and predatory knights were common in a kind of play called "citizen comedy" or "city comedy." In such plays, courtiers, gentlemen, or knights use social superiority to seduce citizens' wives. The Windsor wives, though, do not follow that pattern. Instead, Falstaff's offer of himself as lover inspires their torment of him. Falstaff responds with the same linguistic facility that Shakespeare gives him in the history plays in which he appears, making him the "hero" of the play for many audiences. The authoritative edition of The Merry Wives of Windsor from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers, includes: -Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play -Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play -Scene-by-scene plot summaries -A key to the play's famous lines and phrases -An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language -An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play -Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books -An annotated guide to further reading Essay by Natasha Korda The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.
The Merry Wives of Windsor (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series)
by SparkNotesThe Merry Wives of Windsor (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by William Shakespeare Making the reading experience fun! Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis *Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols *A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect for late-night studying and writing papers
Mes cheveux , affreux pour qui ?
by Iris Albuquerque Audrey BroduO que é preciso saber é Laura, une héroïne noire. Nous relatons ici la trajectoire vie, inter, nous nous focalisons sur les traumatismes et les préjugés qu'elle a vécu depuis le jardin d'enfance. Dans ce free a ya aussi un peu de l'histoire de Júlio et Rita, les amis inséparables de Laura. C'est à fois triste e o convidados momentos divertidos. Laura nous raconte, ses rêves, ses drames. Les moments qui marté son enfance, son adolescence et début de sa vie d'adulte. Elle cherche des moyens d'affronter les faits sans pour autant renoncer à tout. E o diretor não pode ser visto como um traumatismo. E peare os cavaleiros, os romances de amor, uma próxima paixão pela história da Laura, apresenta uma palestra à moda apaixonante e cativante. Mais do que isso, você pode curtir mais um hino à liberdade!
Mesa
by Doug CurtisPaul is asked to drive his wife's 93-year-old Grandpa "Bud" all the way from Calgary to his retirement trailer in Mesa, Arizona. Paul hopes to find strange, roadside diners and sleep out under the stars. Bud wants Denny's and Motel 6. Paul and Bud spend five days together, navigating the predictable turnoffs on the Interstate while discovering their need for each other, sharing their lives and experiences, their hopes and dreams. This will be Bud's final year in Mesa, and Paul is his chauffeur.
Mess and Contemporary Performance: Complexity, Containment, and Collapse (Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies)
by Harriet CurtisThis book identifies and theorises mess in contemporary performance and argues that mess offers a site from which subjects might mobilise and find agency, even as the complexity (and indeed messiness) of everyday life conditions and contains.Using a queer feminist and intersectional critical framework, this book analyses how established and emerging artists mess with and mess up capitalist tendencies towards productivity, usefulness, and efficiency. Whilst the materiality of mess provides a starting point and emerges in many of the works analysed, the implications of mess as related to vulnerability, shame, and resistance occupy a larger space in the book’s chapters. These performances are messy not only in content or style; they reveal critical readings of how perceived-as messy' subjects and practices are shaped and regulated. In attending to the public, personal, and structural uses of mess, and emphasising the critical possibilities of what might otherwise be skipped over or cleared away, this book develops and opens out shared understandings of mess as creative chaos and as a practice of political action or change.This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars incontemporary theatre, art, and performance.
The Messenger Bag
by Jillian Powell Charlotte AlderStacey finds a beautiful old bag. She takes it everywhere. She soon finds a secret hidden in the bag that's meant only for her.
Messiah on the Frigidaire
by John CulbertsonThe small town of Elroy, South Carolina is thrust into the evangelical spotlight when what seems to be the image of Jesus appears on a refrigerator in a trailer park. The discovery by Lou Ann Hightower, her husband Dwayne, and her best friend Betsy, sets into motion a frenzy of conflict, communion and good old fashioned commerce. When the National Investigator turns the appearance into front-page headlines, their trailer park becomes a Mecca for miracle seekers, soul searchers and disciples with a decidedly political agenda. At the urging of the towns business leaders, Betsy pretends to get messages from the appliance-based apparition, and the crowds multiply like loaves and fishes. Through the ordeal, the three undergo an evolution in their relationships with each other, and they are forced to come to grips with their lowly status in the caste system of the rural south. In a region where religion is as much a part of life as grits and cotton fields, God surely moves in mysterious ways.
Messy Connections: Creating Atmospheres of Addiction Recovery Through Performance Practice (ISSN)
by Cathy SloanThis book examines performance practices that involve people in recovery from addiction, theorising such practices as recovery-engaged.Focusing on examples of practice from a growing movement of UK-based recovery arts practitioners and performers, it highlights a unique approach to performance that infuses an understanding of lived experiences of addiction and recovery with creative practice. It offers a philosophy of being in recovery that understands lived experience, and performance practice, as a dynamic system of interrelations with the human and nonhuman elements that make up the societal settings in which recovery communities struggle to exist. It thereby frames the process of recovery, and recovery-engaged performance, as an affective ecology – a system of messy connections. Building upon ideas from posthumanist research on addiction, cultural theory on identity and new materialist interpretations of performance practice, it considers how such contemporary theory might offer additional ways of thinking and doing arts practice with people affected by addiction. The discussion highlights the distinct aesthetics, ethics and politics of this area of performance practice.This study will be of great interest to students and scholars in Applied Theatre and Critical Arts and Mental Health studies.
The Metal Children: A Play
by Adam RappA play about a banned book, a small town, and fiction’s power to both divide and unite, from the “prodigiously talented” Pulitzer Prize finalist (Charles Isherwood, Variety).In small-town America, a young adult novel about teen pregnancy is banned by the local school board, igniting a fierce and violent debate over abortion, religious beliefs, and modern feminism. The decade-old novel’s directionless New York City author arrives in town to defend the book and finds that it has inspired a group of local teens to rebel in strange and unexpected ways. A timely and unforgettable drama about the failure of urban and heartland America to understand each other, The Metal Children explores what happens when fiction becomes a matter of life and death.Acclaim for Adam Rapp“An original . . . a distinctive voice.” —Michael Kuchwara, Associated Press“An oblique and haunting style reminiscent of Haruki Murakami’s best fiction.” —Ed Park, The Village Voice“Rapp is a latter-day incarnation of Sam Shepard.” —John Lahr, The New Yorker
The Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte: Whatever Happened to Harlequin?
by John RudlinThe Metamorphoses of Commedia dell’Arte traces the steps by which Commedia has been transformed by cultural contact outside Italy into popular forms which bear little resemblance to the original. The book follows the Masks of Arlecchino, Pedrolino and Pulcinella as they gradually migrate and mutate into Harlequin, Mr. Punch and seaside Pierrot troupes. What happened to Pantalone, Scaramouche, Colombina and the male Lover is also investigated, though they had no final forms of their own. This study constitutes a history of what happened, notably in France and Great Britain, to a supremely popular theatrical genre as a result of changing fashions in entertainment brought on by societal developments, civil and industrial revolution and dynastic change. It investigates how the genre was exploited by management, and even its own stars, lost its vitality and gradually ended up in ‘sunken’ forms.
Metaphor and Shakespearean Drama
by Maria Franziska FaheyMetaphor and Shakespearean Drama explores the fruitful and potentiallydisorderly nature of metaphorical utterances in Shakespearean drama. Borrowing its title from Henry Peacham's 1593 warning that 'there be no uncleane or unchast e] signification contained in the Metaphore, ' it explores the worry expressed in Elizabethan rhetoric books that a metaphor might beget illegitimate meanings. Shakespeare's plays demonstrate that a metaphor can indeed generateunruly meanings which, once uttered, have the power to transform a community. Analyses of Othello, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, King Henry IV Part 1, Hamlet, and The Tempest demonstrate various aspects of metaphoric performance. Theseinclude metaphor's power to import discourses into speech communities; metaphor's sacrificial nature; the relationship between metaphor and equivocation; metaphor's carnivalesque qualities; dead metaphor's ability to haunt living speech; and metaphor'sability to circulate unacknowledged collective fantasies. "
Metatheatrical Dramaturgies of Violence: Staging the Role of Theatre
by Emma WillisThis book examines a series of contemporary plays where writers put theatre itself on stage. The texts examined variously dramatize how theatre falls short in response to the demands of violence, expose its implication in structures of violence—including racism and gender-based violence—and illustrate how it might effectively resist violence through reconfiguring representation. Case studies, which include Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud to Present and Fairview, Ella Hickson’s The Writer and Tim Crouch’s The Author, provide a range of practice-based perspectives on the question of whether theatre is capable of accounting for and expressing the complexities of structural and interpersonal violence as both lived in the body and borne out in society. The book will appeal to scholars and artists working in the areas of violence, theatre and ethics, witnessing, memory and trauma, spectatorship and contemporary dramaturgy, as well as to those interested in both the doubts and dreams we have about the role of theatre in the twenty-first century.
The Method Acting Exercises Handbook
by Lola CohenThe Method Acting Exercises Handbook is a concise and practical guide to the acting exercises originally devised by Lee Strasberg, one of the Method's foremost practitioners. The Method trains the imagination, concentration, senses and emotions to ‘re-create’ – not ‘imitate’ – logical, believable and truthful behavior on stage and in film. Building on nearly 30 years of teaching internationally and at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute in New York and Los Angeles, Lola Cohen details a series of specific exercises in order to provide clear instruction and guidance to this preeminent form of actor training. By integrating Strasberg's voice with her own tried and tested style of teaching, Cohen demonstrates what can be gained from the exercises, how they can inform and inspire your learning, and how they might be applied to your acting and directing practice. As a companion to The Lee Strasberg Notes (Routledge 2010), a transcription of Strasberg's own teaching, The Method Acting Exercises Handbook offers an unparalleled and updated guide to this world renowned technique.
The Methuen Book of Shakespeare Anecdotes
by Ralph BerryFew playwrights have been more slandered, abused or honoured in performance than William Shakespeare. First published in 1992, this collection of 300 stories focuses on Shakespeare’s plays on stage. Organised chronologically, it offers the reader the opportunity to witness the changes in theatrical approaches to Shakespeare from their own time to the present day. This book will be of interest to those studying theatre, but also to those fascinated by the Shakespeare tradition.
Metropolitan Tragedy
by Marissa GreenbergBreaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare, Milton, Massinger, and others rework classical conventions to represent the city as a locus of suffering and loss while they reflect on actual sources of injustice in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London: structural upheaval, imperial ambition, and political tyranny.Drawing on a rich archive of printed and manuscript sources, including numerous images of England's capital, Greenberg reveals the competing ideas about the metropolis that mediated responses to theatrical tragedy. The first study of early modern tragedy as an urban genre, Metropolitan Tragedy advances our understanding of the intersections between genre and history.
México libre
by Francisco Ortega19th century Mexico is marked by the War of Independence, the US invasion the French intervention, and reforms. In this period a pattern emerged between Mexican writers' style and political leanings, as Liberals wrote romantic prose and Conservatives displayed more neoclassical stylings. Ortega belonged to the Liberal Romantics.
Mi hermano
by Daniel PennacLa obra más íntima de Pennac, una memoria que convierte al Bartleby de Melville en un espejo para comprender y recordar a su hermano. En su libro más personal hasta la fecha, Daniel Pennac recuerda de la manera más emotiva y original a su hermano fallecido: a través de la figura de Bartleby, el célebre escribiente de Herman Melville. Así, Pennac amplía las costuras de la literatura de duelo y se sirve de su amor por las letras para crear unas memorias preciosas. El autor parte de una certeza compartida por todos: nunca llegamos a conocer en su totalidad a nuestros seres más queridos. Con el objetivo de comprender mejor a su hermano, Pennac revisita al escribiente procrastinador de Melville, un personaje muy querido por los dos, y le convierte en una suerte de espejo en el que observar y recordar a Bernard. Así Pennac firma un libro de una ternura infinita que se convierte a la vez en una oda a la literatura. La crítica ha dicho...«Un texto de una gran belleza.»Le Figaro «El escritor rinde un bello homenaje a quien le transmitió el amor por la literatura, su hermano mayor Bernard, tan parecido al personaje de Melville.»Le Monde «Magnífica historia, un grito sobrecogedor de amor al hermano desaparecido.»L'Express «El escritor francés da voz a una dimensión íntima»Eleonora Groppetti, Corriere di Novara «La fragilidad de los supervivientes.»Nadia Terranova, Il Foglio «Pennac [...] no necesita ganarse el corazón de sus lectores. Ya está en sus corazones.»Eleonora Groppetti, Corriere di Novara «Un homenaje al hermano amado y perdido.»La Repubblica «Refinado.»Corriere di Novara «Una novela que describe la figura del hermano perdido, entre los recuerdos personales y la literatura.»La Stampa «Esta historia de construcción admirable está impregnada tanto por la ternura hacia un hermano como por el amor hacia la literatura. Jamás se ha encontrado nada mejor para prolongar la vida de los desaparecidos. Daniel Pennac lo logra con una naturalidad abrumadora.»Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle France «Con una ternura infinita, Daniel Pennac habla de la distancia y el humor de su hermano, el placer de su compañía, su presencia atenta y discreta.»Michel Abescat, Télérama «Un libro de una gran belleza melancólica donde Daniel Pennac -el seductor, el profesor que agrada a su público- abandona el centro de atención para revelar la originalidad herida, la renuncia de su hermano soñador.»Patrick Grainville, Le Figaro Littéraire
Mi nombre es William
by Carlos Espejo¿Qué pasaría si el dramaturgo más famoso de todos los tiempos se quedara sin imaginación? <P><P>En un Londres actual, un joven dramaturgo frustrado por su trabajo, llamado William Shakespeare, entra en su pequeño estudio. No tiene ni con qué comer, la inspiración parece que le ha abandonado desde hacía mucho tiempo. Su editor le pide el manuscrito de su obra La venganza de las familias y tiene menos de cuarenta y ocho horas para terminarlo. William les ruega desesperadamente, sin esperanza, ayuda a las musas del teatro. Su llamada recibe respuesta... <P>Esa será la última noche que dormirá plácidamente nuestro protagonista.
Mi última chance
by Vanessa Sueroz Carlos OliveiraIgor está en el primer año de la facultad, pero en vez de concentrarse totalmente en los estudios, él no piensa en otra cosa que no sea una morena. Entre peleas y desencuentros su mejor amigo le propone una puesta que puede cambiar totalmente a su vida. ¿Será que él irá conquistar a su chica o la perderá para todo el siempre?
Michael Chekhov (Routledge Performance Practitioners)
by Franc ChamberlainFollowing in the footsteps of his renowned teacher Konstantin Stanislavsky, Michael Chekhov’s work as an actor, author and theatre practitioner gave great insight into how to access the creative self. This revised and updated edition of Michael Chekhov includes: • A biographical introduction to Chekhov’s life • A clear explanation of his key writings • An analysis of his work as a director • A practical guide to Chekhov’s unique actor-training exercises. As a first step towards critical understanding, and as an initial exploration before going on to further, primary research, Routledge Performance Practitioners offer unbeatable value for today’s student.
Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training
by Anjalee Deshpande HutchinsonMichael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training offers a comprehensive analysis of the Sanford Meisner Acting Technique in comparison to the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique. This compilation reveals the connections as well as the contradictions between these two very different approaches, while highlighting meaningful bridges and offering in-depth essays from a variety of sources, including master teachers with years of experience and new and rising stars in the field. The authors provide philosophical arguments on actor training, innovative approaches to methodology, and explorations into integration, as well as practical methods of application for the classroom or rehearsal room, or scaffolded into a curriculum. Michael Chekhov and Sanford Meisner: Collisions and Convergence in Actor Training is an excellent resource for professors teaching Introductory, Intermediate or Advanced Acting Technique as well as acting program directors and department chairs seeking new, impactful research on actor training.