Measure for Measure"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller who understand that these are plays for performance as well as great texts for contemplation." (Patrick Stewart) The distinguished Pelican Shakespeare series, which has sold more than four million copies, is now completely revised and repackaged. Each volume features: |
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... Elizabethan ( or to be strictly accurate , Jacobean ) audience would have had precisely the same reaction . This does not mean for a moment that there was a single uniform ' Elizabethan ' attitude to sexuality to which Shakespeare was ...
... Elizabethan ( or to be strictly accurate , Jacobean ) audience would have had precisely the same reaction . This does not mean for a moment that there was a single uniform ' Elizabethan ' attitude to sexuality to which Shakespeare was ...
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... Elizabethan Fortune Theatre , but it was set behind a conventional proscenium arch and there was no sense of actors coming forward into the centre of the audience . The costumes were Elizabethan in style , but there were no sets or ...
... Elizabethan Fortune Theatre , but it was set behind a conventional proscenium arch and there was no sense of actors coming forward into the centre of the audience . The costumes were Elizabethan in style , but there were no sets or ...
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... Elizabethan writers re- peatedly associate stewed prunes with brothels , as in 2 Henry IV 2.4.142 , and Dekker's 2 ... Elizabethan brothels tended to put a dish of prunes on the table as a snack for customers , and the allusion here ...
... Elizabethan writers re- peatedly associate stewed prunes with brothels , as in 2 Henry IV 2.4.142 , and Dekker's 2 ... Elizabethan brothels tended to put a dish of prunes on the table as a snack for customers , and the allusion here ...
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