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Paperback. Condizione: Fair. What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose? It means freeing teachers from the notion that teaching Shakespeare means teaching everything, or teaching ?Western Civilisation? and universal themes. Instead, this invigorating new book equips teachers to enable student-centred discovery of these complex texts. Because Shakespeare?s plays are excellent vehicles for many topics ?history, socio-cultural norms and mores, vocabulary, rhetoric, literary tropes and terminology, performance history, performance strategies ? it is tempting to teach his plays as though they are good for teaching everything. This lens-free approach, however, often centres the classroom on the teacher as the expert and renders Shakespeare?s plays as fixed, determined, and dead. Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose shows teachers how to approach Shakespeare?s works as vehicles for collaborative exploration, to develop intentional frames for discovery, and to release the texts from over-determined interpretations. In other words, this book presents how to teach Shakespeare?s plays as living, breathing, and evolving texts.…

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Paperback. Condizione: Very Good. This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times.Othello is one of Shakespeare?s great tragedies?written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction attends to the play?s different meanings throughout history, while articulating the historical context in which Othello was created, paying particular attention to Shakespeare?s source materials and the evidence about early modern constructions of racial and religious difference. It also explores the life of the play in different historical moments, demonstrating how meanings and performances develop, accrue, and metamorphose over time. The volume provides a rich and current resource, making this best-selling play edition ideal for today's students at advanced school and undergraduate level.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times.Othello is one of Shakespeare?s great tragedies?written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction attends to the play?s different meanings throughout history, while articulating the historical context in which Othello was created, paying particular attention to Shakespeare?s source materials and the evidence about early modern constructions of racial and religious difference. It also explores the life of the play in different historical moments, demonstrating how meanings and performances develop, accrue, and metamorphose over time. The volume provides a rich and current resource, making this best-selling play edition ideal for today's students at advanced school and undergraduate level.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. This second edition of Othello has a new, illustrated introduction by leading American scholar Ayanna Thompson, which addresses such key issues as race, religion and gender, as well as looking at ways in which the play has been adapted in more recent times.Othello is one of Shakespeare?s great tragedies?written in the same five-year period as Hamlet, King Lear, and Macbeth. The new introduction attends to the play?s different meanings throughout history, while articulating the historical context in which Othello was created, paying particular attention to Shakespeare?s source materials and the evidence about early modern constructions of racial and religious difference. It also explores the life of the play in different historical moments, demonstrating how meanings and performances develop, accrue, and metamorphose over time. The volume provides a rich and current resource, making this best-selling play edition ideal for today's students at advanced school and undergraduate level.…

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyA Times Higher Education Book of the Week2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category)Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren?t there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a filthy and vile thread?sometimes it?s tied into a noose?that connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism. Blackface examines that history and provides hope for a future with new performance paradigms. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.…

Condizione: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyA Times Higher Education Book of the Week2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category)Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why aren?t there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a filthy and vile thread?sometimes it?s tied into a noose?that connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism. Blackface examines that history and provides hope for a future with new performance paradigms. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic.…

Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. The bloodiest and brashest of Shakespeares plays, this revenge tragedy begins with war and ends in mutilation and cannibalism. Acts of war and sexual violence across borders and within families highlight the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, alongside the familial and literal blood which characterise early modern and contemporary performance.The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Titus Andronicus provides:- A critical introduction to the textual, cultural and performance history- An edition that is rooted in a Jacobean revival performance of the play- Detailed on-the-page notes explaining language, character and performance- A clear page layout with an easy-to-read font and single-column notes - Images of relevant productions, paintings and textsThe Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series includes a new edition of every Shakespeare play, the poems and sonnets. Each volume is edited afresh by a leading scholar specialising in cutting-edge research on performance, gender, sexuality and race. These editions cover everything you need to know as a student, teacher, researcher, theatre-maker or performer of Shakespeares works today. A major new edition of a challenging play which highlights the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, as well as familial and literal blood in early modern and contemporary performance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

paperback. Condizione: Good. Illustrated. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. No Jacket. BLACKFACE (Object Lessons series), Ayanna Thompson, softcover, illustrated, 2021. BOOK CONDITION: fine. The text block is in fine condition, with no tears, dogears, or marks. No signature or bookplate of a prior owner. Not a library book or remainder. The wraps are in fine condition. 6 ½ x 4 ¾, 130 pages, 10 ounces XX [From the back cover] BLACKFACE reveals a legacy of performance that is pointed and detrimental, known but purposely forgotten. Thompson's analysis is exquisite and exact. A new entry for the historical record (Ibram X. Kendo, founding director, Boston University Center for Antiracist Research, and author of How To Be An Antiracist and Stamped From The Beginning). xx Essential! This is a lucid, engaging, and long overdue exorcism of American culture's greatest haunt (Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, associate director, Playwriting Mfa Program, Hunter College, Cuny, USA, recipient of the Obie Award for Best New American Play (APPROPRIATE, AN OCTOROON) and Pulitzer Prize finalist (GLORIA, EVERYBODY).…

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: new. Paperback. A New Statesman essential non-fiction book of 2021Featured in Book Riot's 12 best nonfiction books about Black identity and historyA Times Higher Education Book of the Week2022 Finalist for the Prose Awards (Media and Cultural Studies category)Why are there so many examples of public figures, entertainers, and normal, everyday people in blackface? And why arent there as many examples of people of color in whiteface? This book explains what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century. There is a filthy and vile threadsometimes its tied into a noosethat connects the first performances of Blackness on English stages, the birth of blackface minstrelsy, contemporary performances of Blackness, and anti-Black racism. Blackface examines that history and provides hope for a future with new performance paradigms. Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in The Atlantic. "Investigates what blackface is, why it occurred, and what its legacies are in the 21st century"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

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Condizione: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Condizione: New.

Paperback. Condizione: New. The bloodiest and brashest of Shakespeare's plays, this revenge tragedy begins with war and ends in mutilation and cannibalism. Acts of war and sexual violence across borders and within families highlight the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, alongside the familial and literal blood which characterise early modern and contemporary performance.The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Titus Andronicus provides:- A critical introduction to the textual, cultural and performance history- An edition that is rooted in a Jacobean revival performance of the play- Detailed on-the-page notes explaining language, character and performance- A clear page layout with an easy-to-read font and single-column notes - Images of relevant productions, paintings and textsThe Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series includes a new edition of every Shakespeare play, the poems and sonnets. Each volume is edited afresh by a leading scholar specialising in cutting-edge research on performance, gender, sexuality and race. These editions cover everything you need to know as a student, teacher, researcher, theatre-maker or performer of Shakespeare's works today.…

Paperback. Condizione: New. The bloodiest and brashest of Shakespeare's plays, this revenge tragedy begins with war and ends in mutilation and cannibalism. Acts of war and sexual violence across borders and within families highlight the importance of empire, Blackness and gender, alongside the familial and literal blood which characterise early modern and contemporary performance.The Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series Titus Andronicus provides:- A critical introduction to the textual, cultural and performance history- An edition that is rooted in a Jacobean revival performance of the play- Detailed on-the-page notes explaining language, character and performance- A clear page layout with an easy-to-read font and single-column notes - Images of relevant productions, paintings and textsThe Arden Shakespeare Fourth Series includes a new edition of every Shakespeare play, the poems and sonnets. Each volume is edited afresh by a leading scholar specialising in cutting-edge research on performance, gender, sexuality and race. These editions cover everything you need to know as a student, teacher, researcher, theatre-maker or performer of Shakespeare's works today.…

PAP. Condizione: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Condizione: very_good. Gently read. May have name of previous ownership, or ex-library edition. Binding tight; spine straight and smooth, with no creasing; covers clean and crisp. Minimal signs of handling or shelving. 100% GUARANTEE! Shipped with delivery confirmation, if you're not satisfied with purchase please return item! Ships USPS Media Mail.…

Condizione: new.

Paperback. Condizione: Brand New. revised edition. 429 pages. 7.50x5.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.