Appalling behaviour

'Appalling Behaviour' is a critically acclaimed contemporary Australian monologue, written by AWGIE Award winning playwright, Stephen House. This production, directed and creatively adapted by Shane Pike, was presented at the Brisbane Powerhouse in February 2016, as part of Queensland's LGBTIQ festival, Melt. This adaptation of the work experimented with notions of gender, taking the original script and manipulating character and scene to investigate expressions of identity beyond the traditional notions of binary gender-norms. To this end, the sole character (and actor) was (re)presented as a homeless bi-sexual queen with the aim of inferring that gender un/ab-normative characters can exist not only as disruptors/comments on/agitators of traditional expectations of performed gender (both onstage and off), but can also exist as accepted characters in and of themselves. Put simply: can a bi-sexual queen just be an actor/character in a play, or do all gender extra-normative characters inherently exist as political, social and cultural challengers? If so, why is this the case and should we be aiming for this kind of character to be an accepted part of the performative fabric, seamless and fitting within any onstage situation and play (why can't Willy Loman, King Lear or Nora be gender non-normative), or should such (re)presentations always exist as 'different'? Is it time for individual expressions of gender to just 'be' and be accepted as givens, or are we not quite there yet?

The Cambridge Introduction to Shakespeare´s Tragedies.

Este libro es una introducción a las tragedias de Shakespeare que son: Titus Andronicus, Romeo y Julieta, Julio Cesar, Hamlet, Otelo, el timón de Atenas, King Lear, Macbeth, Antonio y Cleopatra y Coriolanus. Plantea los problemas que presenta la lectura de Shakespeare, en la actualidad, a los jóvenes lectores y ayuda a los profesores de secundaria a hacer frente a las dificultades lingüísticas de estas obras como el uso de palabras antiguas, la gramática, la retórica y la metáfora. La enseñanza de los textos de Shakespeare se realiza en el marco contextual, interpretativo y lingüístico exigido para el título del General Certificate Secondary Education (GCSE) y del A-level.

Howard Barker’s ‘monstrous assaults’: eroticism, death and the antique text

Howard Barker is a writer who has made several notable excursions into what he calls ‘the charnel house…of European drama.’ David Ian Rabey has observed that a compelling property of these classical works lies in what he calls ‘the incompleteness of [their] prescriptions’, and Barker’s Women Beware Women (1986), Seven Lears (1990) and Gertrude: The Cry (2002), are in turn based around the gaps and interstices found in Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women (c1627), Shakespeare’s King Lear (c1604) and Hamlet (c1601) respectively. This extends from representing the missing queen from King Lear, who Barker observes, ‘is barely quoted even in the depths of rage or pity’, to his new ending for Middleton’s Jacobean tragedy and the erotic revivification of Hamlet’s mother. This paper will argue that each modern reappropriation accentuates a hidden but powerful feature in these Elizabethan and Jacobean plays – namely their clash between obsessive desire, sexual transgression and death against the imposed restitution of a prescribed morality. This contradiction acts as the basis for Barker’s own explorations of eroticism, death and tragedy. The paper will also discuss Barker’s project for these ‘antique texts’, one that goes beyond what he derisively calls ‘relevance’, but attempts instead to recover ‘smothered genius’, whereby the transgressive is ‘concealed within structures that lend an artificial elegance.’ Together with Barker’s own rediscovery of tragedy, the paper will assert that these rewritings of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama expose their hidden, yet unsettling and provocative ideologies concerning the relationship between political corruption / justice through the power of sexuality (notably through the allure and danger of the mature woman), and an erotics of death that produces tragedy for the contemporary age.

Rolfe's Shakespeare /

Another ed. issued simultaneously, with flexible cloth binding (12mo), in series: English classics.

Shakspere quarto facsimiles /

--v. 25 Romeo and Juliet; the 1st quarto, 1597.--v. 26 Romeo and Juliet; the 2nd quarto, 1599.--v. 27 King Henry V; the 1st quarto, 1600.--v. 28 King Henry V; the 3rd quarto, 1608.--v. 29 Titus Andronicus; the 1st quarto, 1600.--v. 30 Sonnets; the 1st quarto, 1609.--v. 31 Othello; the 1st quarto, 1622.--v. 32 Othello, the 2nd quarto, 1630.--v. 33 King Lear; the 1st quarto, 1608.--v. 34 King Lear; the 2nd quarto, 1608.--v. 35 Lucrece; the 1st quarto, 1594.--v. 36 Romeo and Juliet; the undated quarto.--v. 37 First part of the Contention; the 1st quarto, 1594.--v. 38 True tragedy; the 1st quarto, 1595.--v. 39 Famous victories of Henry the fifth; the earliest known quarto, 1598.--v. 40-41 The troublesome raigne of John, king of England; the 1st quarto, 1591.--v. 42 Richard the third; the 3rd quarto 1602.--v. 43 Richard the third; the 6th quarto, 1622.

The century Shakespeare.

T.p. in green and black; illustrated lining papers.

The complete works of William Shakespeare in ten volumes /

v. 5. First part of King Henry VI. Second part of King Henry VI. Third part of King Henry VI. King Richard III. King Henry VIII.--v. 6. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Titus Andronicus. Romeo and Juliet.--v. 7. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Macbeth. Hamlet.--v. 8. King Lear. Othello. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline.--v. 9. Pericles. The two noble kinsmen. Venus and Adonis. Lucrece. Sonnets. A lover's complaint. The passionate pilgrim. The phoenix and turtle.--v. 10. Glossary to Shakespeare.

The plays of William Shakspeare : in miniature.

v. l. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor. Twelfth night.--v. 2. Measure for measure. Much ado about nothing. Midsummer night's dream. Love's labour's lost.--v. 3. The merchant of Venice. As you like it. All's well that ends well. The taming of the shrew.--v. 4. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. Timon of Athens. King John.--v. 5. King Richard II. King Henry IV, parts 1-2. King Henry V.--v. 6. King Henry VI, parts 1-3. King Richard III.--v. 7. King Henry VIII. Troilus and Cressida. Coriolanus. Hamlet.--v. 8. Julius Cæsar. Antony and Cleopatra. Cymbeline. Romeo and Juliet.--v. 9. Titus Andronicus. Pericles. King Lear. Othello. Glossary.

The works of Iván Turgénieff /

V. 1 The diary of a superfluous man and other stories. Fathers and children. -- v. 2. Virgin soil. A reckless character and other stories. -- v. 3. The brigadier and other stories. On the eve. -- v. 4. Spring freshets and other stories. Smoke. -- v. 6. Memoirs of a sportsman. Nobleman's nest. -- v. 6. First love and other stories. The Jew and other stories. -- v. 7. Rudin: a romance. A king lear of the steppes. Phantoms and other stories.

Shakespeare-vorträge,

Includes complete German translations of Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, King Lear, and Richard III, partial translations of the other plays.

The works of Shakespeare ...

Vols. 5, 18, 30 are 1st ed.; vols. 3, 8, 9, 21, 27, 29, 39 are 2d ed.; v. 17 is 3d ed.; v. 7 is 5th ed.

The works of William Shakespeare : the plays edited from the folio of MDCXXIII, with various readings from all the editions and all the commentators, notes, introductory remarks, a historical sketch of the text, an account of the rise and progress of the English drama, a memoir of the poet, and an essay upon his genius /

Publisher's advertisement (12 p.) at beginning of v. 2.

The plays of William Shakspeare : From the corrected text of Johnson and Steevens /

The plates were also issued without text in "A series of engravings, by Heath and Bartolozzi, from paintings by Stothard to illustrate the works of Shakspeare and Milton ... London, 1818."

The Caxton edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare /

Imprint dates from: BLC, v. 299.

Dramatic works of William Shakspeare, with a life of the poet and notes, original and selected.

v.2. Midsummer-night's dream. Love's labor's lost. Merchant of Venice. As y@u like it. All's well that ends well. Taming of the shrew.--v.3. Winter's tale. Comedy of errors. Macbeth. King John. King Richard the second. King Henry the fourth, pt. 1st.--v.4. King Henry the fourth, pt. 2d. King Henry the fifth. King Henry the sixth, pt. 1st - 3d.--v.5. King Richard the third. King Henry the eighth. Troilus and Cressida. Timon of Athens. Coriolanus.--v.7. King Lear. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet, prince of Denmark. Othello, the Moor of Venice.