Anne Barton offers a fresh interpretation of Ben Jonson's plays, highlighting his significance as a dramatist. Through her analysis, she explores the complexities of Jonson's characters and themes, providing insights that challenge traditional views of his work. This reading aims to deepen the understanding of Jonson's contributions to literature and theater, showcasing his unique style and the relevance of his plays in contemporary discussions.
Anne Barton's final book uncovers woodland's persistent imaginative power in renaissance drama. Paying close attention to the practicalities of performance, the collection is representative of Barton's breadth of scholarship: it considers plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, court pageants, treatises on forestry and chronicle history.
Sur les remparts du château d'Elseneur, par une nuit noire et glaciale, le spectre d'Hamlet père, roi du Danemark, vient exhorter son fils Hamlet à le venger. Il révèle au prince que son oncle Claudius l'a empoisonné pour s'emparer de la couronne et épouser sa mère Gertrude. Habité par l'angoisse et le doute face à son destin, Hamlet hésite à venger son père... La pièce la plus célèbre de Shakespeare, vieille de quatre cents ans, est d'une beauté sombre et tragique qui abolit le temps. En s'interrogeant sur le sens de l'existence humaine, son héros magnifique n'en finit pas de nous fasciner et de nous interroger à notre tour.
This collection features diverse essays exploring Shakespeare and his contemporaries, delving into their works, influences, and the cultural context of their time. It offers insights into literary themes, character analysis, and the interplay between different playwrights, enriching the understanding of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras. The essays provide a comprehensive examination of the lasting impact of these writers on literature and drama.
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character
Every few years, someone writes a book about the wonders of living the simple life in the wilderness. For every person who loves that life, there are hundreds-no thousands-of others who can't wait to get away from it, and to enjoy the comforts of civilization. These people need a spokesperson, so Anne Barton, whose family lived for two years when she was a child, in a tent in the mountains, decided to set a mystery novel in an isolated mountain valley. Fourteen-year-old Derek Taylor discovers that the simple life isn't so simple after all when his family settles in a mountain valley, far from civilization. In fact, it's very hard work, even for him and his little sister. His parents want to get their children away from the drugs and street crime of an urban environment. But Derek meets another teen-age boy, who shows him how to catch fish right under the nose of the conservation officer, how to use smokeless tobacco, and where the marijuana is grown. Derek is dragged into a murder investigation when he and the other boy trip an alarm at a marijuana grow-op, and in running away, fall into an open grave. He unwittingly takes his sister into potential danger while looking for clues to the identity of the murderer, and also when he discovers that another, more subtle crime is being worked in the mountain valley. Anne Barton now lives, in comfort, in the beautiful Okanagan Valley of British Columbia.
Exploring the connections between Byron's life experiences and his literary influences, this analysis of Don Juan delves into the themes of love, satire, and societal critique. The author examines how personal events and contemporary literary works shaped Byron's creation, offering insights into the poem's structure and character development. By situating Don Juan within its historical and cultural context, the study reveals the complexities of Byron's character and the innovative nature of his writing.
Christina Rossetti is one of the most significant and enduring poets of the 19th century. Best known as the author of intriguing, haunting and sometimes troubling lyric poetry, she published three collections of verse during her lifetime and contributed poetry to some of the most popular literary journals of the period. Her poetry is important because it reflects and critiques some of the major intellectual, political and cultural trends of Victorian times; but its drastic vision is also one that can speak to us directly, inviting us to participate in its provocations and pleasures.