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Verdi's Shakespeare
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Garry Wills |
This book is a dazzling study of the operas Verdi adapted from Shakespeare -- and a spellbinding account of their creation. In Verdi's Shakespeare, Pulitzer Prize winner and lifelong opera devotee Ga… |
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Shakespeare and the modern poet
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Neil Corcoran |
"Shakespeare is a major influence on poets writing in English, but the dynamics of that influence in the twentieth century have never been as closely analysed as they are in this important study. Mor… |
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Lincoln and Shakespeare
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Michael A. Anderegg |
It was the measure of Shakespeare's poetic greatness, an early commentator remarked, that he thoroughly blended the ideal with the practical or realistic. If this be so, Walt Whitman wrote, "I should… |
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Black male fiction and the legacy of Caliban
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Coleman, James W. |
"Black Male Fiction and the Legacy of Caliban is the first book to analyze a substantial body of black male fiction from a central perspective. Coleman analyzes the modern and postmodern novels of Jo… |
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