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"A captivating novel about two women, centuries apart, fighting to be heard -- one of whom may be the real author of Shakespeare's plays -- from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here. As an undergraduate, Melina Green had a rare opportunity to have one of her first plays judged by famous theater critic Jasper Tolle, only to be publicly humiliated by a harsh and biased critique. Ten years later, her confidence as a playwright...
2) King Lear
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Explore the characters, themes, motifs, and modern interpretations of Shakespeare's "King Lear."
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When the filmmaker Simon Chambers receives a call from his elderly gay uncle "I think I may be dying!" he takes it as a summons. As it turns out, eccentric Uncle David, a retired actor living alone in a cluttered, mouse-infested London house, is being dramatic, sort of: For the next five years, Chambers both cares for and documents him, through all his performative exuberance (constantly acting out passages of King Lear) and anarchic charisma (swinging...
4) King Lear
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Jean-Luc Godard's first English-language narrative feature is a radical anti-adaptation of Shakespeare's masterpiece that finds the visionary filmmaker continuing to reinvent the syntax of cinema. In a post-Chernobyl world where culture has been lost, William Shakespeare Jr. V attempts to reconstruct his ancestor's play, abetted by a cast that includes Molly Ringwald, Burgess Meredith, and Godard himself as a crazed Avant savant. Through a dense layering...
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"Mathematician Rob Eastaway explores how math and numbers illuminate Shakespeare's use of science, games, money, magic, astronomy, and more"--Provided by publisher.
"Shakespeare's era was abuzz with mathematical progress, from the new concept of 'zero' to Galileo's redraft of the heavens. Now, Rob Eastaway uncovers the many surprising ways math shaped Shakespeare's plays - and his world - touring astronomy, code-breaking, color theory, navigation,...
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Holing Hoodhood está en problemas. Acaba de comenzar el séptimo grado con la señora Baker, y presiente que la maestra tiene algo en su contra. ¿Por qué otra razón lo haría leer a Shakespeare fuera del horario de clases? Corre el año 1967 y todo el mundo tiene cosas más importantes de qué preocuparse. Por un lado, está Vietnam, y por otro está el negocio familiar. Según el padre de Holling, nada es más importante que el negocio...