Shakespeare s dead paperback

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Pyramus: `Now die, die, die, die, die.' [Dies] A Midsummer Night's Dream 'Shakespeare's Dead' reveals the unique ways in which Shakespeare brings dying, death, and the dead to life. It establishes the cultural, religious and social contexts for thinking about early modern death, with particular reference to the plague which ravaged Britain during his lifetime, and against the divisive background of the Reformation. But it also shows how death on stage is different from death in real life. The dead come to life, ghosts haunt the living, and scenes of mourning are subverted by the fact that the supposed corpse still breathes. Shakespeare scripts his scenes of dying with extraordinary care. Famous final speeches - like Hamlet's `The rest is silence', Mercutio's `A plague o' both your houses', or Richard III's `My kingdom for a horse' - are also giving crucial choices to the actors as to exactly how and when to die. Instead of the blank finality of death, we get a unique entrance into the loneliness or confusion of dying. 'Shakespeare's Dead' tells of death-haunted heroes such as Macbeth and Hamlet, and death-teasing heroines like Juliet, Ophelia, and Cleopatra. It explores the fear of `something after death', and characters' terrifying visions of being dead. But it also uncovers the constant presence of death in Shakespeare's comedies, and how the grinning jester might be a leering skull in disguise. This book celebrates the paradox: the life in death in Shakespeare. Features Summary This books chronicles the ingenious ways of dying in Shakespeare, from suicide to murder, and from workaday dagger to baroque pie recipe. Illustrated with contemporary images... Author Emma Smith (Author), Simon Palfrey (Author) Publisher The Bodleian Library Release date 20160422 Pages 192 ISBN 1-85124-247-3 ISBN 13 978-1-85124-247-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days Features Summary A brilliant way to discover famous characters from Shakespeare's plays, with over 160 reusable stickers to dress them for their performances. There are star-crossed lovers... Author Rachel Firth (Author), Diego Diaz (Illustrator) Publisher Usborne Publishing Ltd Release date 20170119 Pages 34 ISBN 1-4749-2900-1 ISBN 13 978-1-4749-2900-4

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. An active approach to classroom Shakespeare enables students to inhabit Shakespeare's imaginative world in accessible and creative ways. Students are encouraged to share Shakespeare's love of language, interest in character and sense of theatre. Substantially revised and extended in full colour, classroom activities are thematically organised in distinctive 'Stagecraft', 'Write about it', 'Language in the play', 'Characters' and 'Themes' features. Extended glossaries are aligned with the play text for easy reference. Expanded endnotes include extensive essay-writing guidance for 'Hamlet' and Shakespeare. Includes rich, exciting colour photos of performances of 'Hamlet' from around the world. Features Summary An improved, larger-format edition of the Cambridge School Shakespeare plays, extensively rewritten, expanded and produced in an attractive new design. Author William Shakespeare (Author), Richard Andrews (Editor), Rex Gibson (Editor), Richard Andrews (General editor), Vicki Wienand (General editor), Rex Gibson (Founder editor) Publisher Cambridge UniversityPress Release date 20140120 Pages 284 ISBN 1-107-61548-8 ISBN 13 978-1-107-61548-9

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours This manga recreation of Shakespeare's text transfers the action from Ancient Rome to a future Iraq, once again facing dictatorship after its prolonged struggles to establish a democracy. Part of the successful Manga Shakespeare series, a fusion of classic Shakespeare with manga visuals. Features Summary This manga recreation of Shakespeare's text transfers the action from Ancient Rome to a future Iraq, once again facing dictatorship after its prolonged struggles to establish a democracy... Author William Shakespeare (Author), Richard Appignanesi (Adapted by), Mustashrik Mahbub (Illustrator) Publisher Selfmadehero Release date 20080601 Pages 208 ISBN 0-9552856-5-8 ISBN 13 978-0-9552856-5-3

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 24 hours This edition of Twelfth Night is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes, allowing students to master Shakespeare's work. About the Series: Newly redesigned and easier to read, each play in the Oxford School Shakespeare series includes the complete and unabridged text, detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions and activities for work in class, together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays. Features Summary Twelfth Night is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.. Author William Shakespeare Publisher Oxford UniversityPress Release date 20100304 Pages 118 ISBN 0-19-832871-0 ISBN 13 978-0-19-832871-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 9 working days This edition of Twelfth Night is especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes, allowing students to master Shakespeare's work. About the Series: Newly redesigned and easier to read, each play in the Oxford School Shakespeare series includes the complete and unabridged text, detailed and clear explanations of difficult words and passages, a synopsis of the plot, summaries of individual scenes, and notes on the main characters. Also included is a wide range of questions and activities for work in class, together with the historical background to Shakespeare's England, a brief biography of Shakespeare, and a complete list of his plays. Features Summary Twelfth Night is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes.. Author William Shakespeare Publisher Oxford UniversityPress Release date 20100304 Pages 118 ISBN 0-19-832871-0 ISBN 13 978-0-19-832871-1

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 20 - 25 working days Dexter Morgan has burned the candle at both ends for many years. Blood spatter analyst...husband...father...serial killer. And now, for the first time, his world has truly collapsed. Dexter is arrested on charges of murder. He has lost everything - including his wife, his kids, and the loyalty of his sister. Now completely alone, Dexter faces a murder charge (for a crime...ironically...he did not actually commit). His only chance for freedom lies with his brother, Brian, who has a dark plan to prove Dexter's innocence. But the stakes are deadly, and the epic showdown that lies in Dexter's path may lead, once and for all, to his demise. Jeff Lindsay's trademark devilish wit and cutting satire have never been sharper. Dexter Is Dead marks the end of a beloved series, but is also Dexter's most satisfying and suspenseful outing yet. Features Summary New York Times bestselling author Jeff Lindsay bids a thrilling farewell to his uniquely twisted and beloved serial killer, Dexter Morgan. Dexter Is Dead is the definitive conclusion of the character who has become a global icon. Author Jeff Lindsay Publisher Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd) Release date 20160324 Pages 286 ISBN 1-4091-2871-7 ISBN 13 978-1-4091-2871-7

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days `Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The gripping finale to Robin Hobb's classic Farseer Trilogy. With the king no longer living and the heir, Verity, missing and declared dead, Prince Regal has treacherously seized the throne. Regal's torture has left Fitz more dead than alive, and more closely than ever bonded with his wolf. All who once loved him believe him dead: even Molly, now pregnant with his child. But he cannot go to her without placing her in terrible danger. With nothing to lose, Fitz sets out for Tradeford, where Regal has withdrawn, having heartlessly abandoned the north of the kingdom to the Red-Ship Raiders. His quest: to assassinate the man who has destroyed his world. Features Summary `Fantasy as it ought to be written' George R.R. Martin The gripping finale to Robin Hobb's classic Farseer Trilogy. Author Robin Hobb Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Release date 20140327 Pages 838 ISBN 0-00-756227-6 ISBN 13 978-0-00-756227-5

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days A full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play, in which a diplomat's wife finds a body that mustn't be discovered... Following BLACK COFFEE and THE UNEXPECTED GUEST comes the final Agatha Christie play novelisation, bringing her superb storytelling to a new legion of fans. Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. `Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?' she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent. Desperate to dispose of the body before her husband comes home with an important foreign politician, Clarissa persuades her three house guests to become accessories and accomplices. It seems that the murdered man was not unknown to certain members of the house party (but which ones?), and the search begins for the murderer and the motive, while at the same time trying to persuade a police inspector that there has been no murder at all... Features Summary A full-length novel by Charles Osborne adapted from Agatha Christie's stage play, in which a diplomat's wife finds a body that mustn't be discovered... Author Agatha Christie (Author), Charles Osborne (Adapted by) Publisher HarperCollinsPublishers Release date 20170518 Pages 208 ISBN 0-00-819666-4 ISBN 13 978-0-00-819666-0

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days When his son is killed by gangsters' crossfire on his way to school, Neapolitan taxi driver Matteo is consumed by despair. But just when he feels life has lost all meaning, he encounters a man who claims the living can find ways into the afterlife. And legend says that there's an entrance to the underworld beneath Naples. What if Matteo had a chance of bringing Pippo back from the dead? Features Summary What if death was not the end? A thrilling story of love, loss, revenge and redemption in Naples and beyond. Author Laurent Gaude (Author), Emily Boyce (Translator), Jane Aitken (Translator) Publisher Gallic Books Release date 20170323 ISBN 1-910477-32-X ISBN 13 978-1-910477-32-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 11 working days After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death, he begins his own investigation, meeting with Fennan's widow to find out what could have led him to such desperation. But on the very day that Smiley is ordered off the enquiry he receives an urgent letter from the dead man. Do the East Germans - and their agents - know more about this man's death than the Circus previously imagined?Le Carre's debut novel, Call for the Dead, introduced the tenacious and retiring George Smiley in a gripping tale of espionage and deceit. Features Summary After a routine security check by George Smiley, civil servant Samuel Fennan apparently kills himself. When Smiley finds Circus head Maston is trying to blame him for the man's death... Author John Le Carre Publisher Penguin Classics Release date 20111101 Pages 149 ISBN 0-14-119828-1 ISBN 13 978-0-14-119828-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 4 - 8 working days From the critically-acclaimed author of PRINCE OF FOOLS comes the second volume of the brilliant new epic fantasy series, THE RED QUEEN'S WAR. 'If you like dark you will love Mark Lawrence. And when the light breaks through and it all makes sense, the contrast is gorgeous' ROBIN HOBB The Red Queen has set her players on the board... Winter is keeping Prince Jalan Kendeth far from the luxuries of his southern palace. And although the North may be home to his companion, the warrior Snorri ver Snagason, he is just as eager to leave. For the Viking is ready to challenge all of Hel to bring his wife and children back into the living world. He has Loki's key - now all he needs is to find the door. As all wait for the ice to unlock its jaws, the Dead King plots to claim what was so nearly his - the key into the world - so that the dead can rise and rule. Features Summary From the critically-acclaimed author of PRINCE OF FOOLS comes the second volume of the brilliant new epic fantasy series, THE RED QUEEN'S WAR. 'If you like dark you will love Mark Lawrence... Author Mark Lawrence Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Release date 20160515 Pages 653 ISBN 0-00-753160-5 ISBN 13 978-0-00-753160-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Maverick investigator Dominic Queste is on the trail of missing butcher Sam Price. But he soon uncovers links to a killer with a taste for games. What began as a simple favour for his girlfriend quickly descends into a battle for survival against an enemy who has no qualms about turning victims into prime cuts. Amidst a twisted game of cat and mouse, suspicious coppers, vicious crooks and a seemingly random burglary, Queste has to keep his wits about him. Or he might just find himself on the butcher's block. Features Summary Wise-cracking investigator Dominic Queste is on the trail of a serial killer. But this is no mask-wearing, chainsaw-wielding maniac targeting young teens... Author Douglas Skelton Publisher Contraband Release date 20170427 Pages 266 ISBN 1-910192-72-4 ISBN 13 978-1-910192-72-6

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Harry Exton used to be a Button Man - a player in the lethal Killing Game, pitting man against man. The stakes were high - you became either very rich or very dead, very quickly. Then Exton turned against the Voices - the mysterious unseen backers who arranged the games - and quit. But nobody walks away from the Game and lives. Now, it is time for the hunter to become the hunted! Written by John Wagner (A History of Violence) with vivid full-colour artwork by Arthur Ranson (Anderson: Psi Division) this modern classic shows 2000 AD at its very best! Features Summary Harry Exton used to be a Button Man - a player in the lethal Killing Game, pitting man against man. The stakes were high - you became either very rich or very dead... Author John Wagner Publisher 2000 AD Graphic Novels Release date 20090615 Pages 96 ISBN 1-906735-09-3 ISBN 13 978-1-906735-09-8

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 12 working days Detective Darnell died before he closed the case. Can his daughter solve it thirty years later? It was the murder that shocked the nation. Kate Rokesmith, a young mother, went to the river with her three-year-old son. She never came home. For three decades the case file has lain, unsolved, in the corner of an attic. Until the detective's daughter Stella, a cleaner who loves restoring order, starts to clear out her father's house after his death... THE DETECTIVE'S DAUGHTER SERIES: The Detective's Daughter. Ghost Girl. The Detective's Secret. The House With No Rooms. The Dog Walker. Features Summary A tense, evocative thriller set on the freezing banks of the Thames. A woman reconnects with her dead father by solving the murder case that obsessed him in life. Author Lesley Thomson Publisher Head of Zeus Release date 20180405 Pages 496 ISBN 1-78854-298-3 ISBN 13 978-1-78854-298-2